All posts by Ifreke Inyang

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  Airtel lowers data tariff with Magic Box offer

  As the upsurge for data services by telecoms consumers increasingly competes with voice, leading telecommunications service provider, Airtel Nigeria has introduced a special data offer for its customers to surf the net without burning holes in their...

  • Posted March 25, 2013
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  Ijeoma Nwogwugwu: As sale of power assets enters home stretch

  I heaved a small sigh of relief when the Bureau of Public Enterprises confirmed last Thursday that all 14 bidders had met the deadline given them to pay 25 per cent of their bids for 15 generation...

  • Posted March 25, 2013
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  SEC probe may damage investor confidence say analysts

  The ongoing probe of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) by the House of Representatives Committee on Capital Market could damage investor confidence if not properly handled, analysts, including US based professor, Abiola Awosika, have said. Controversy...

  • Posted March 25, 2013
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  Fresh pressure on FG to hands off refinery ownership

  Industry watchers say that the best way to make the nation’s four comatose refineries begin to function properly would be for the government to get out of the business of owning refineries. They say that if alternatively,...

  • Posted March 25, 2013
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  NEITI hopeful of speedy passage of PIB

  The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) on Sunday in Abuja called for the speedy passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) currently before the National Assembly. A statement issued by NEITI’s Director of Communications, Mr Ogbonnaya...

  • Posted March 25, 2013
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  NCC arrests 3 agents for allegedly flouting SIM card registration guidelines

  The Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC), in collaboration with security agencies, has arrested three agents of service providers in Awka for allegedly flouting SIM card registration guidelines. NCC’s Head of Enforcement, Efosa Idehen, who gave the names of the suspects to newsmen...

  • Posted March 25, 2013
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  “Why we are sanctioning telecoms operators” – NCC

  Sanctions are to help telecoms operators in becoming more productive, former NCC board chairman Mr Oluwale Ige has said. He said sanctions and fines in the industry will help telecoms operators to be more responsive and pro-active...

  • Posted March 24, 2013
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  NCC registers over 100million telecom lines in Nigeria

  Nigeria is the fastest communication growing country in Africa with the National Communication Commission (NCC) registering over 100million communication lines and subscribers. The development amounts to 81 percent telecommunication density which is also the largest in the...

  • Posted March 24, 2013
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  FG to register 20million farmers by 2015

  The on-going nationwide registration of farmers is targeted at capturing some 20 million farmers across the country, an official has said. The exercise is part of the Federal Government Agriculture Transformation Agenda, according to Mr Yahaya Owoyale,...

  • Posted March 24, 2013
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  Oando Marketing changes retail strategy, moves into mega station business

  Oando Marketing, Nigeria’s leading fuel marketing retailer, has added a mega station to its rapidly expanding service station outlets with the opening of another mega station at Berger, along the Lagos Ibadan Expressway. Similar stations owned by...

  • Posted March 23, 2013
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