Professor Umar Danbatta, the new chief of Nigeria’s telecoms industry watchdog, has approved punitive sanctions totaling one trillion and forty billion naira (N1.04 trillion) against MTN Nigeria, over alleged breach of SIM registration rules by the mobile phone company, Technology Times has authoritatively confirmed. Technology Times checks reveal exclusively that the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) […]
Analysis: Nigeria Cybercrimes Act 2015: What are the issues?
TOYIN OGUNSEINDE, Nigeria technology industry analyst attended the Technology Times Outlook Review of Nigeria Cybercrimes Act 2015, and recaps the salient issues across stakeholders at the technology thought leadership series. hat exactly constitute a cybercrime? Who manages the “alternate taxation” running into millions of naira aggregated by the Cybercrime Security Fund established under the Nigeria […]
Frost & Sullivan’s recognition for MainOne unit
MainOne’s data centre business unit, MDX-I, has been recognised with the 2015 Nigerian Frost & Sullivan Award for Customer Value Leadership. Frost & Sullivan says the MainOne unit is being recognised for offering superior customer value to drive the growth of a digital economy across West Africa. MainOne commenced operations in 2010 with an undersea […]
EFCC: Nigeria no longer safe haven for cybercrimes
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says Nigeria is no longer be a safe haven for cybercriminals with the coming into force of the new Nigeria Cybercrimes Act 2015, a series of new laws against Internet crimes. EFCC, the nation’s anti-graft agency, says it is giving full backing to the new momentum the law has […]
