South African telecoms provider, MTN announced on Friday, 16 August 2019, that a subsidiary MTN Nigeria Communications PLC has been granted permission to offer financial services by Nigeria’s central bank. The announcement comes after the Nigerian...
On Thursday, 8 August 2019, mobile network operator, MTN announced its results for the six months ended 30 June 2019. The company saw growth of 12 per cent in earnings per share and service revenue grew to just below 10 per cent. Commenting on the...
Network provider, MTN Nigeria, announced on Thursday, 25 July 2019, that Ernest Ndukwe has been appointed Chairman of the board. Ndukwe, a former Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has since been called ‘Mr....
MTN Nigeria announced that it’s 4G+ service has been launched and is immediately available in Lagos, Abuja, and Port-Harcourt. According to an article published by Telecompaper, ‘MTN 4G+ runs on LTE advanced technology using a combination of the...
MTN Nigeria has announced announce that it has received approval to list on the Premium Board of The Nigerian Stock Exchange (“NSE”). The listing is set to proceed on 16 May 2019 and will be done by way of an introductory listing. This means that...
MTN has started to roll out its new Smart S 3G phone across all of its African markets. The telco launched MTN Smart, a smart feature phone running on Kai Operating System (KaiOS) in Nigeria. MTN Smart comes with two cameras, a 2-day battery life with...
The Nigerian Communications Commission has fined four major network operators in the country a total of $205 394,40 for various infractions. The NCC had in 2018 highlighted some non-compliance by the network providers ‘such as the routing of a minimum...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) will this week meet with Kogi State top officials to resolve the MTN’s base transmitting station (BTS) shutdown issue. Executive Commissioner of NCC, Sunday Dare, is expected to lead the NCC officials to Lugard...
Governor Godwin Emefiele has on Tuesday revealed that MTN has paid $53 million to settle a money transfer dispute with Nigeria’s central bank and the matter has been withdrawn from court. The central bank had ordered MTN and its lenders to bring back a...
PayJoy, a Silicon Valley technology company, has partnered with pan-African mobile network operator, MTN, TD Mobile, and financial institution, Sterling Bank, to offer a technology-driven financing solution that enables Nigerians to buy mobile devices on...
MTN Nigeria and Premier League club Arsenal have been vigorously identifying and coaching some of the best young football talents in Nigeria. MTN and Arsenal held a 3-day coaching clinic for 128 young players and 30 coaches from October 26-28, 2018 at the...
Plans to list MTN Nigeria on the local bourse could be threatened by the latest regulatory crisis the operator is facing. Nigeria’s telecoms player MTN is at loggerheads with regulators over allegations of flouting regulatory procedures in foreign...
MTN Nigeria has announced the appointment of Mazen Mroue as its new Chief Operating Officer (COO). With over 22 years of experience in telecoms and information communications technology (ICT), Mroue joins MTN Nigeria from MTN Irancell, where he had served as...
The Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement Systems together with MTN Nigeria, sixteen banks and major mobile telcos have partnered to relaunch mCash. First launched in 2016, mCASH is a mobile payment platform for making low-value retail payments designed to extend...
MTN Nigeria in partnership with Nokia has launched the first phase of its Customer Experience Management (CEM) platform which uses a cognitive analytical tool based on generated data about the customer, it will allow MTN to monitor its network as well as...
The management of MTN Nigeria has announced the introduction of a new 17-digit recharge card Personal Identification Number (PIN), one additional digit from the previous 16. What this means is that when purchasing a scratch card of any denomination, the...
