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With the National Policy for the Promotion of Indigenous Content in the Nigerian Telecommunications Sector now in place, Nigerian start-ups will have the benefits of handling more government contracts. It is in line with the eighth pillar in the National Digital Economy Policy and Strategy Document, which President Muhammadu Buhari unveiled in November 2019. That was just three months into the tenure of Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami as the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy.

The organization also urged him “to instruct Mr Pantami and Mr Abubakar to take concrete measures to promptly ensure that the NIMC is able to faithfully and effectively discharge its statutory functions to harmonize and integrate existing identification databases in government agencies into the National Identity Database, and to use the information to update SIM card registration.”

Forward looking telecoms firm, Globacom, has brought out another first: This time to the teeming traders and customers in the bubbly Alaba international market in Ojo area of Lagos State, and which services the whole of the West African sub region.