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By Adedapo Adesanya The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) changed the numbering format for fixed lines from January 1 next year. The agency said the fixed-lines numbering format will no longer be eight digits but would be 10 digits, with the addition of the 02 prefix before the existing fixed number. This change is totally different to the existing mobile numbering format. The decision is in keeping with its responsibilities under the enabling law, the Nigerian Communications Act (NCA) 2003, to manage Nigeria’s numbering resources, according to Mr Reuben Muoka, the Director of Public Affairs at the NCC, in a statement.

By Adedapo Adesanya The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said Nigeria now ranks seventh in terms of mobile phone usage globally while it takes the 11th spot in terms of internet penetration. The NCC Executive Vice Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, Mr Umar Danbatta, disclosed this while speaking at the opening ceremony of a two-day workshop on emerging technology forum for the telecommunications industry in Abuja on Thursday. Mr Danbatta, who was represented by Mr Abraham Osahadami, the NCC’s Head of Spectrum Database Management, said 82 per cent of the country’s 200 million+ population are telecom subscribers while just 29 per cent

By Adedapo Adesanya Website hosting infrastructure company, WhoGoHost, has acquired SendChamp, a Nigerian cloud communications startup that powers online messaging for African businesses to deepen its value offering for its customer base. The deal sum was not announced, but the acquisition is part of WhoGoHost’s strategic plans to evolve from domain-hosting to serve businesses and institutions in the African market. According to a statement, SendChamp will continue to operate as an independent product as it transitions to new ownership. However, in the near future, its products and services will become accessible via the WhoGoHost integrated platform. The reason for this

By Dipo Olowookere Intending tenants have been advised to always ensure they request from landlords or caretakers of outstanding bills of the apartments they want to pay for. This appeal was made by Ikeja Electric. Explaining the reason for the advice, the company it followed the high spate of customers “inheriting” accumulated electricity bills when they rent/lease apartments and offices spaces. It then advised its customers to make all necessary enquiries before signing tenancy agreements with landlords or caretakers, for any apartment, building or facility. Ikeja Electric said it has become worrisome to it the increasing cases where customers have

By Kester Kenn Klomegah After several negotiations, Russia has finally become a full-fledged member of the International Organization for Migration (IOM). It means that Russia has adopted, as a mandatory condition for obtaining membership, the constitution of the organization. It simply implies that joining this international organization, has given the country an additional status. After the collapse of the Soviet, Russia has been interacting with the IOM since 1992 only as an observer. In the past years, Russia has shown interest in expanding this cooperation. The decision to admit Russia to the organization was approved at a council’s meeting by

By Modupe Gbadeyanka A new business model that can provide reliable and clean electricity supply to large customers has been identified by the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) and RMI. The two organisations conducted research, and they discovered that large commercial and industrial customers (C&I) customers could get regular power supply from distribution companies (DisCos) and distributed energy resource (DER) developers through collaborations. The report, Improving Electricity Supply for Large Customers in Nigeria, showed that the model could quickly improve electricity supply and sectoral viability for the C&I sector, which is crucial to Nigeria’s economy, enabling financial savings, reducing risk

By Modupe Gbadeyanka Chairman of the Finance Correspondents Association of Nigeria (FICAN) Abuja, Mr Simeon Ogoegbulem, has called for the support of partner organization to build its befitting secretariat. Speaking recently at the 20th anniversary celebrations of FICAN held at Top Rank Hotel Galaxy in Abuja, Mr Ogoegbulem pointed out that the support was imperative to achieve the objective. He said the association has been operating from the premises of the Central Bank of Nigeria in the last two decades, when the apex bank moved its headquarters to Abuja. Giving a brief history of FICAN, the association boss explained that

By Dipo Olowookere Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State at the weekend expressed the readiness of his administration to upgrade the Songhai Model Farm in Avia-Igborosun, Badagry, with a pledge to transform the project and use it to boost the Agro Tourism and food security drive of the state government. The project, which is sitting on a massive 167 hectares of land with additional available land for other projects, was copied from Songhai in Republic of Benin under the Agric-Yes initiative of the Lagos State Ministry of Agriculture. Speaking during inspection of the project alongside top government officials, Mr Ambode

By Adedapo Adesanya The Naira bounced back on Thursday after shedding at the previous session, at the Investors and Exporters (I&E) segment of the foreign exchange market. At the session, the local currency gained 30 kobo equivalent to 0.08 percent on the US Dollar to close at N365.22/$1 compared with N365.52/$1 it traded on Wednesday. This was manly buoyed by reduction in the demand for forex as the value of transactions significantly reduced by 73 percent or $1.02 billion. According to data from FMDQ, trades worth $377.72 million were recorded yesterday compared with $1.4 billion quoted previously. At another market

Sixty-three groups have written the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, asking him to effect the arrest of a prime suspect, Paul Chukwujekwu Ezeugo, presently at large, over his alleged role in the disappearance of an Abuja-based business woman, Charity Aiyedogbon. The groups, under the aegis of Coalition against Crime in Nigeria, wrote a petition dated August 22, 2016, to the IG captioned ‘Re-Missing Charity Aiyedogbon: pertinent issues; our demands’. The petition was signed by the group’s National Coordinator, Harrison Pepple and made available to newsmen. They called on the police to conduct a DNA test on a body

By Dipo Olowookere Treasury bills worth N90.94 billion are expected to be auctioned on Wednesday, June 10, 2020 (today) by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The exercise, to be conducted by the apex bank in the land through a Dutch auction system, will take place at the primary market. Details of the proposed sales showed that the bills would be offered across the usual three maturities; 91-day, 182-day and 364-day bills. Business Post reports that the total of N90.9 billion T-bills to be auctioned at the PMA today are all maturing. According to the CBN, it will offer for