Underscores Basis For His Support Cyber Era NG Special Correspondent The 46th President of the United States (POTUS) Joe Biden is solidly behind the candidature of Doreen Bogdan-Martin for the office of the scribe of the International Telecommunications Union(ITU), Cyber Era NG has learnt. Stated the POTUS: “I strongly support...

By Angeline Mgbele, Senior Correspondent, Abuja The Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer(EVC/CEO) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Professor Umar Garba Danbatta, has hailed the conferment of the Fellowship of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations, (fnipr) on two management staff of the Commission, as meritorious and a...

Ghana’s telecommunications system faces a shutdown as telecom workers are set to embark on an indefinite nationwide strike from Monday, September 5, 2022. The strike, declared by the executive of the Telecom and IT Professionals Union (TIP), whose members are mostly outsourced engineers, technicians, IT professionals and other allied workers...

By Angeline Mgbele, Senior Correspondent, Abuja Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, has applauded consistent growth in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) contributions to the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which hit 17.92 per cent in the last quarter of 2020, and in the first...

The coup regime is set to approve the sale of Telenor Myanmar to a firm owned by a military-linked conglomerate within days, an industry source has told Myanmar Now, in a move widely expected to strengthen the junta’s surveillance powers. Telenor has refused to confirm who the final owner of...

By Jonathan Easton Workers at BT are set for a further two days of strikes at the end of the month. More than 40,000 BT workers held a two-day national strike on July 29 and August 1 after the operator refused to meet with union leaders who turned down an...

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) said on Friday it had served notice on BT Group and Openreach that its members would take further strike action on Aug. 30 and 31 in a dispute over pay. More than 40,000 of BT's staff walked out on July 29 and Aug. 1, the...

By Angeline Mgbele, Senior Correspondent, Abuja The Federal Government has directed the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Galaxy Backbone Limited and Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) to collaborate with the seven champions of the World Summit on the Information Society Forum (WSIS) which includes the winner of WSIS 2022 to...

By Kingsley I. Ilechukwu, Senior Correspondent, Lagos The Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria(ALTON) has felicitated with the Minister of Communications & Digital Economy(MoCDE), Professor Isa Ali Pantami on the conferment on him of the fellowship of the Chartered Institute of Information  Security(CIISec).  This is contained in a statement...

By Angeline Mgbele, Senior Correspondent, Abuja The Nigerian Federal Government has commended the leadership of the Nigerian Communications Commission for the remarkable strides of the agency that have earned spectacular international reputation for Nigeria and placed the telecom regulator in the forefront of the nation’s quest for forward looking national...