Eko Hot Blog reports that MTN Nigeria, one of Nigeria’s largest telecommunications companies, has explained why its subscribers are experiencing poor internet speed. The company gave the explanation in a statement on Thursday evening. Several MTN subscribers had taken to social media on Thursday to complain about their poor internet connectivity. MTN blamed the bad … Read more
Eko Hot Blog reports that Yemi Kale, former Statistician-General of the Federation, has faulted the new methodology used in computing Nigeria’s unemployment data. Kale spoke on Arise Television’s Global Business Report on Monday. Recall that the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), on August 24, released a new report that pegged the unemployment rate at 4.1 … Read more
Facebook owner Meta has been fined €265m (£230m) by Irish regulators. Eko Hot Blog reports that the Data Protection Commission opened an inquiry into Meta in April 2021, after data from 533 million people in 106 countries was published on a hacking forum having been “scraped” from Facebook years earlier. EDITOR’S PICKS Belarus: Foreign Minister … Read more
When you take into account, how much you pay for data subscriptions in a month, you would then realise that mobile data is expensive. According to Datareportal, there were 109.2 million internet users in Nigeria in January 2022 alone. An analysis by Kepios also showed that internet users in Nigeria increased by 4.8 million … Read more
Nigeria has been ranked as the country with the least affordable internet service in the world, According to a new global study on digital quality of life, the times Nigerians spent working is not commensurate with amount of data they earning power affords them. Surfshark, a virtual private network provider disclosed in its 2020 DQL … Read more
Data The Nigerian Film Corporation (NFC) says the new data tariff policy by the Federal government, will give way for monetisation of content by creative in the country. According to the Federal Government, the price of data has been reduced by more than 50 percent with a directive that the Nigerian Communications commission, NCC, should … Read more
The Federal government on Thursday said that the price of data has been reduced by more than 50 percent following a directive that the Nigerian Communications commission, (NCC) should put in place measures to that effect. Accordingly, the price of data of 1GB has been reduced from 1000 naira to 487 naira beginning from last … Read more
Facebook said Tuesday a new tool allowing users of the social network to view and delete data it collects from third parties is rolling out to the estimated two billion members of the leading social network worldwide. The new feature, part of a stepped- up effort to improve privacy practices , allows users to see … Read more
South African telecoms group, MTN, has vowed to vigorously oppose recommendations of the Competition Commission after the regulator instructed MTN and other telecommunication firms to lower data prices. “We respectfully disagree with the analysis and recommendations contained in the summary report and, as we study the full report, (we) will continue to engage constructively and … Read more