Business

MTN drives Africa’s digital transformation with 5G, fintech innovation

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BY MOTOLANI OSENI MTN Nigeria reaffirmed its leadership in Africa’s digital revolution at the Omniverse Summit 2025, where it showcased groundbreaking advancements in 5G technology, fintech, and digital connectivity. Themed, “Unified by Vision & Empowered by Collaboration,” the

ICT

MTN Nigeria revamps MoMo PSB strategy as active wallets drop 47%

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MTN Nigeria has reported a sharp 47 per cent decline in active wallets for its mobile money subsidiary, MoMo PSB, with the total number of users falling to 2.8 million at the end of 2024 from 5.3 million the previous year. The drop, disclosed in the company’s audited financial results for 2024, comes amid a […]

Business

MTN mPulse Spelling Bee champion urges youth to harness tech for growth

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BY MOTOLANI OSENI The 2024 MTN mPulse Spelling Bee winner, Ikenna Ikechukwu, has called on young Nigerians to embrace technology and digital resources for academic excellence and personal development. Speaking in Lagos on Wednesday while serving as MTN Nigeria’s CEO for a day, Ikechukwu shared his journey of resilience and hard work, highlighting the role […]

Headlines

MTN launches ‘Go M.A.D’ campaign to empower Nigerian youth

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MTN Nigeria is inspiring Nigerian youths through its new campaign tagged ‘Go Make A Difference (Go M.A.D)’. This initiative, according to MTN, serves as a rallying cry for Nigerians to take strategic actions that inspire change and foster community development. Tunde Onakoya, a Nigerian chess grandmaster and founder of Chess in Slums Africa is the […]

Business

MTN Foundation marks 20 years of community impact, unveils new vision for Nigeria

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BY MOTOLANI OSENI The MTN Foundation celebrated its 20th anniversary with a stakeholder conference in Abuja, highlighting two decades of significant contributions to communities across Nigeria. This event provided a platform to reflect on the Foundation’s accomplishments, unveil a new logo, vision, and mission statement, and launch its Y’ello Impact Report,

Commerce and Industry

Forex Crisis: MTN Nigeria renegotiates tower lease agreement with IHS to cut costs

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BY MOTOLANI OSENI MTN Nigeria has decided to renegotiate its lease agreements with IHS, in its effort to support the recovery of its capital position. Recall that, MTN Nigeria said, it had awarded about 2.5k network sites that were initially under IHS portfolio to ATC Nigeria. Further to the Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) held on […]

Commerce and Industry

MTN Nigeria unveils first digitalised retail store in Africa

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BY TEMITOPE ADEBAYO MTN Nigeria has set a new benchmark in the retail sector with the unveiling of sub-Saharan Africa’s first fully digitised retail store in Lagos. This milestone underscores MTN’s commitment to enhancing customer service experience. Leveraging modern technology, the new store features a seamless and intuitive shopping environment where

Headlines

MTN to build W’Africa’s largest data centre

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MTN Nigeria on Saturday announced the construction of its West African largest data centre, a facility with a 1,500-rack and Tier 4 data centre within the country. The Tier 4 data centre is built to be completely fault-tolerant, has redundancy for every component and an expected uptime of 99.995 per cent. This means it can […]

ICT

MTN Nigeria reiterates commitment to bridging educational divide with Y’ello Care

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BY MOTOLANI OSENI MTN Nigeria has announced the 17th edition of its flagship employee volunteer initiative, Y’ello Care, offering MTNers the unique opportunity to contribute their resources—time, money, and more—towards worthy causes. This year’s theme, “Learn Today, Lead Tomorrow,” aligns with the 30th anniversary of the MTN Group and aims to

News

MTN Nigeria thrills teens with engaging celebrations in the Y’elloVerse

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MTN Nigeria marked this year’s Children’s Day with a spectacular celebration in the Y’elloVerse, an immersive digital platform designed to engage and entertain kids and teens. The four-day engagement, held from May 24th to 27th, 2024, brought together thousands of young participants nationwide, offering fun, education, and interactive activities. Children’s Day in the

News

Updates regarding disconnected service from MTN

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Bayobab Group, an affiliate of the telecommunications giant MTN Group, has successfully reinstated its operational capabilities. The telecom firm announced on Tuesday that it had navigated the challenges posed by the incident, restoring more than 3 Terabits per second (Tbps) of its network capacity. The disruption, which had threatened to significantly impact connectivity

Headlines

NIN-SIM Linkage: MTN Nigeria disconnects 4.2m subscribers in 48 hours

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By Motolani Oseni MTN Nigeria said it has disconnected 4.2 million lines from its network, as the deadline for integrating National Identity Numbers (NIN) with mobile SIMs expired on February 28. Recall that the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) issued a directive, giving the nod to all telecommunications operators in Nigeria, to implement full network barring […]

Headlines

MTN Nigeria, ESET partner to provide cybersecurity solutions to MSMEs

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By Motolani Oseni MTN Nigeria, and ESET, a global leader in cybersecurity, have formed a strategic partnership to launch ‘MTN ESET’ to provide cybersecurity solutions to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). The cybersecurity solution is specifically tailored to meet the unique needs of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The collaboration aims to

Money

MTN, CardinalStone, VFD Group recognised at NGX Made of Africa Awards

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By Motolani Oseni MTN Nigeria Communications Plc, VFD Group Plc, CardinalStone Securities and Chapel Hill Denham were big winners at the just concluded Made of Africa Awards organized by Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX). The Chief Executive Officer of Nigerian Exchange Limited, Temi Popoola, noted at the event that the annual Made of Africa Awards is […]

Business

MoMo PSB targets 20m SMEs to boost financial inclusion

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By Temitope Adebayo MoMo PSB, the payment unit of MTN, has targeted 20 million Nano and Small Medium Enterprise (SMEs), in an effort to further boost financial inclusion in Nigeria. The chief commercial officer, Ella Muzzolini, disclosed this while speaking to the newsmen on the sideline of a two-day MoMo and Nigeria Association of Small […]

Brands and Marketing

NASS reassures MTN on partnership in human capital development

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By Tunde Opalana President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has assured the Management of the MTN Nigeria, of the readiness of the Federal Government under the leadership of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to continue to partner with the telecommunications outfit, in the area of job creation, manpower development through training and retraining of Nigerian youths. […]

Business

MTN Foundation, EDCunveil Y’ellopreneur programme for female entrepreneurs

Ihesiulo Grace 8 November 2022 0

The MTN Foundation in partnership with the Bank of Industry and the Enterprise Development Centre (EDC) has officially launched the first phase of the Y’ellopreneur programme for female entrepreneurs in Nigeria. The announcement was made on Tuesday, 8 November 2022, at a media event hosted by the Foundation, at the MTN Nigeria Head Office, Falomo, […]

Business

MTN Nigeria prepares future CEOs through the mPulse spelling bee competition

Ihesiulo Grace 6 November 2022 0

By Motolani Oseni MTN mPulse Spelling Bee Competition has progressed to round two with 1000 shortlisted participants between the ages of 9 and 15 from various prestigious primary and secondary schools around Nigeria. The opportunities are endless in this edition as the brand is giving the overall winner the chance to become its CEO for […]

Business

Nigerian companies should invest in startups, says CCSO MTN Nigeria

Ihesiulo Grace 29 October 2022 0

By Temitope Adebayo The Chief Corporate Services Officer (CCSO), MTN Nigeria, Tobechukwu Okigbo, has stated that investment by major Nigerian companies in startups will enable the growth of the ecosystem. Speaking on the current state of the tech ecosystem at the Technology Breakout Session Panel at the recently held Lagos Economic Summit, Okigbo, said that […]

News

MTN Nigeria kicks off Blow My Hustle Campaign, targets young entrepreneurs

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By Joy Obakeye MTN Nigeria has commenced it’s entrepreneurship program tagged ‘MTN Pulse Blow My Hustle campaign. The initiative is aimed at empowering young Nigerians with viable businesses through capacity building and grants. Speaking about the campaign, Chief Marketing Officer, MTN Nigeria, Adia Sowho, was quoted as saying: “The ‘hustle spirit’ amongst