Some residents of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, have applauded Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) over the introduction of telecommunications harmonised short codes.
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The total number of mobile subscriptions in Nigeria dropped by 1.01 million to 225.82 million in March 2023, indicating a 0.45 percent decrease.
The rejection was conveyed via a letter to the Director-General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Dr. Yemisi Bamgbose, Executive Secretary of BON.
The reaction came from its Director, Public Affairs, Dr. Reuben Muoka, in a statement he issued on Tuesday in Abuja.
This was revealed during a visit of the National Civil Society Council of Nigeria, led by its Executive Secretary, Blessing Akinsolotu.
NCC’s Director of Public Affairs, Dr Reuben Muoka Tuesday in a statement said this was to avoid falling victims to account takeover by hackers.
NCC’s Director of Public Affairs, Dr Reuben Muoka, disclosed this in a statement issued Tuesday in Abuja.
The Commission has already set a deadline of May 17, 2023, for all mobile networks to fully migrate from hitherto diverse short codes to the harmonised codes.
Reports had it that telecommunications services would be shut down from February 23 until February 26, 2023.
The Commission’s Executive Vice Chairman, Umar Danbatta, on Tuesday announced the development in a statement.
The Chief Executive Officer of the commission, Prof. Umar Garba-Danbatta made the disclosure during the NCC special day at the 44th Kaduna International Trade Fair.
NCC Director, Public Affairs, Reuben Muoka gave the warning in a press statement signed by him.
An NCC-CSIRT advisory said threat actors have taken advantage of a viral TikTok challenge, known as the Invisible Challenge, to disseminate an information-stealing malware known as the WASP (or W4SP) stealer.
The warning came following the commission’s enforcement activities in Kano where it arrested representatives of three companies responsible for the sale of counterfeit as well as non-type-approved devices and has handed them over to the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) for investigation and further necessary action.
The Executive Vice Chairman/Chief Executive Officer (EVC/CEO) of NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta, stated this in Lagos over the weekend while speaking at the 10th Annual Brands and Marketing Conference of the Brand Journalists Association of Nigeria (BJAN) where the NCC was conferred with the “Regulator of the Decade” Award.
Bawa presented the badge to Danbatta on Thursday in Abuja when the latter paid a courtesy visit to his office to deepen the synergy between the two agencies.
The Director of Public Affairs of the NCC, Dr. Reuben Muoka, revealed this in a statement he issued on Wednesday.
The announcement was contained in a statement issued on Friday in Abuja by the Management of the NCC.
Danbatta told the gathering of the cream of Nigerian editors at the 18th All-Nigeria Editors Conference, organised by the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) at the Concord Hotels in Owerri, Imo State, with the Governor of Imo State, Senator Hope Uzodinma in attendance, where he reiterated the importance of the roles of the journalists, before, during and after the 2023 elections.
NCC-CSIRT’s advisory on the incident disclosed that “The Nigeria Computer Emergency Response Team (ngCERT) has continued to observe and monitor the constant introduction of malicious mobile applications into Google Play Store.