LAGOS: Militants from the Boko Haram Islamist group have told Bikyanews.com that they are in the midst of planning a new round of attacks on "special targets" in the country that they say will be a "major return" to the political scene after months (...)
LAGOS: According to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), a number of poachers have entered one of Africa's most unique and exclusive elephant habitats. The wildlife organization raised the concern that more elephants could be murdered in Cameroon's Bouba (...)
LAGOS: Namibia's telecommunications operator MTC announced on Monday that it was launching its SmartShare promotion, aimed at boosting customers' Internet and mobile packages for their phones.
According to the company, users will now have the (...)
LAGOS: In a continued effort to help spur mobile phone and telecommunications growth in Namibia, the government announced that it was to budget a large portion to host the 8th International Conference on ICT for Development, Education and (...)
LAGOS: A company that had threatened to destroy MTN Nigeria's infrastructure along the Niger Delta is now being reported to be working with the leading telecom operator. However, MTN Nigeria said it has never had any direct working relationship with (...)
LAGOS: Vodafone Ghana is continuing to boost its profile in the country and offer users the most up-to-date technology. The company has announced that its new offering, the BlackBerry Z10 smartphone, is now available for customer's to purchase.
The (...)
LAGOS: Mali's militants, who have claimed to be fighting in the name of Islam for the past few months, are not representative of the faith, said the country's Religious Affairs Minister Yacouba Traore, who was speaking at an international conference (...)
LAGOS: Nigerians abroad are being sought after by a Nigerian company aimed to give them access to unlimited calls back home for only 10 British pounds. Multi-Links Nigeria believes that new service will give friends and family a way of staying in (...)
LAGOS: Mobile phone developer and manufacturer Itel has announced it was looking to be a leader in tackling mobile phone counterfeiting in Nigeria this year. The move is part of the company's efforts to ensure that all users have a phone and that it (...)
LAGOS: Soon to be third mobile phone operator in Cameroon, Vietnam's Viettel announced this past week that it will connect all schools in the country. It also added in a statement that it would cover at least 81 percent of the population in its (...)
LAGOS: Nigeria's leading telecom operator, MTN Nigeria, announced this week that it was prepared to begin implementation of Mobile Number Portability (MNP) as part of requests made by the telecom regulator in the country, the Nigerian Communications (...)
LAGOS: Despite an ongoing French military intervention in Mali, a recently formed Wimax operator in Mali has launched its services in Bamako aimed at boosting Internet and telecom services in the struggling country.
Dogon Telecom announced it has (...)
LAGOS: Nigeria is getting another boost in the telecom sector aimed at increasing the number of smartphones available on the market. Chinese telecom and mobile device maker, Huawei, announced this week that it was to launch a number of new (...)
LAGOS: In a move seen as pushing regulation forward in Gabon, the country's regulator has fined Airtel Gabon for failing to report all international calls made on their network.
According to telecommunications regulator Arcep, Airtel Gabon was fined (...)
LAGOS: Citizens in Mali can receive international remittances via Orange Money Transfer International (OMTI). The move comes as violence continues to wrack the African country and the economy and financial institutions remain sorely affected by the (...)
LAGOS: Last year, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) cracked down on mobile phone operators in the country over their poor services, banning them from using promotions to entice new customers. According to the NCC on Monday, this could be (...)
LAGOS: Nigeria is wasting no time in pushing forward in the new year toward ambitious information, communications and technology (ICT) action, with the ICT ministry saying it announced its priorities and goals through 2015 on Monday as part of the (...)
LAGOS: Nigeria is starting 2013 in telecommunications controversy after a case against Telkom's former Nigeria subsidiary Mutli-Links by South Africa's Blue Label Telecoms for $481 million in arbitration was delayed again, local media in Nigeria (...)
LAGOS: The Cameroon government has announced it has received a number of bids from leading international telecom operators for the country's third mobile phone license.
According to local reports, India's Bharti Airtel, Korea Telecom, Maroc Telecom (...)
LAGOS: Vodacom in Nigeria has announced it launched new M2M services aimed at boosting the financial and retail sectors in the West African country.
The move hopes to bolster corporations and retail companies using the business services from the (...)
LAGOS: Nigeria's National Association of Telecommunication Subscribers (NATCOMS) has thrown its support behind the Nigerian Communications Commission's (NCC) decision to bar telecom operators from using sales promotions on its GSM networks until (...)
LAGOS: Ghana is to get an Internet boost with Alvarion announcing that the country's Internet Service Provider BusyInternet has deployed its 4Motion platform in the capital, Accra this week.
The wireless equipment will replace the existing system in (...)
LAGOS: Nigeria arrested 6 people who reportedly were fraudulently registering and selling pre-registered SIM cards to residents in the country, in violation of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) requirements for new SIM cards in the (...)
LAGOS: MTN Ghana is continuing with their promises of boosting the rural telecom market by joining together with rural banks to make mobile money transfer services easier for users. The move is being seen as a positive step in developing the rural (...)
LAGOS: Specialist developer of intelligent power management systems and modular data centers for the telecom sector Flexenclosure announced on Tuesday that it was opening a new office in Lagos.
The office aims at developing the “rapidly growing" (...)