Ghana is set to deepen its economic and tourism relations with Nigeria as the Ghana Tourism Authority, in partnership with trade and industry stakeholders, rolls out the Ghana International Expo and Investment Forum in Lagos. Scheduled for September 24–27, 2025, at the Eko FM Auditorium, Agidingbi, Ikeja, the landmark event is designed to position Ghana as a prime hub for business, tourism, and cross-border investment. With the theme, “Unlocking Investment Potential Through Intra-African Trade and Tourism,” the Expo will assemble Ghanaian entrepreneurs, investors, government officials, and global business leaders to explore fresh opportunities. It will spotlight Ghana’s value propositions across…
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By Vaughan O’Grady There has been a flurry of announcements from Nigerian operator T2 Mobile in recent weeks. If that name doesn’t seem familiar, which may well be because until August the operator had been known as 9mobile. Here are a few brief updates. The most recent announcement from T2 Mobile has involved what is describes as a multi-million-dollar partnership with India’s Knot Solutions , a company that helps global business majors leverage digital readiness for all their B2C, B2B, and B2B2X revenue stream needs. Knot Solutions is to overhaul T2’s business and operations support systems (BSS/OSS), a move the…
At the just-concluded GITEX 2025 in Lagos, conversations on Africa’s digital future took centre stage, with PalmPay spotlighting its role in shaping trusted financial ecosystems across the continent. On Day 2 of the premier technology and AI summit, held September 3–4 at Landmark Centre, Chibuzor Melah, Vice President of Partnerships at PalmPay, featured on a high-level panel titled “From Idea to Infrastructure – The African Tech Executive & Founders’ Playbook.” The session convened top industry leaders to examine how bold ideas are being turned into scalable systems powering Africa’s fast-expanding digital economy. Speaking on the panel, Melah outlined the key…
After weeks of a tense standoff with regulators, MultiChoice Ghana has bowed to government pressure and agreed to reduce subscription fees, following threats of heavy sanctions and possible license suspension. The breakthrough came after Ghana’s Minister of Communications, Sam George, in August issued a stern ultimatum giving the pay-TV giant 30 days to cut its charges by 30% or face daily fines of GHC 10,000 and a suspension of its operating license. Authorities had argued that Ghanaians were paying disproportionately high rates compared to other African markets, despite the cedi appreciating by about 40% this year, one of the strongest…
The Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) have distanced themselves from the planned nationwide strike declared by the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), describing it as a reckless action that would plunge the economy into deeper hardship. PTD leaders urged tanker drivers across the country’s four zones to ignore the strike call scheduled to begin Monday, September 8, 2025, warning that such an “insensitive move” would cripple economic activities, impoverish citizens, and worsen the suffering of the masses. Beyond rejecting the strike, the tanker drivers took a swipe at NUPENG, ridiculing the union’s handling of its ongoing leadership…
Subscribers of MTN Nigeria in parts of Enugu and Benue States have been grappling with a major service disruption that has left them disconnected from voice and data services since Saturday, September 6, 2025. The outage, traced to a fibre cut affecting the company’s backbone infrastructure, has sparked outrage among customers who flooded social media with complaints over their inability to make calls or browse the internet. MTN, in a message to affected users, acknowledged the disruption: “Dear Customer, we’re experiencing network challenges in some parts of Benue and Enugu States due to fibre cut, and our services may be…
The Director General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Kashifu Inuwa, has called for stronger collaboration among African nations to build shared Artificial Intelligence (AI) infrastructure, warning that the continent cannot afford to remain a bystander in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Speaking at the opening of the Gulf Information Technology Exhibition (GITEX) Nigeria Conference 2025 in Abuja, Inuwa said Africa must avoid repeating the mistakes of previous industrial revolutions where it played a marginal role. He argued that the AI era offers a rare chance for the continent to shift from being a consumer of technology to becoming…
Zinox Technologies, Nigeria’s pioneering integrated ICT solutions provider and Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), in partnership with KongaCares, is set to roll out an ambitious interest-free “Computerize Nigeria” initiative. This landmark Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme is designed to align with the government’s vision of producing world-class human capital from the nation’s higher institutions. The initiative will be formally unveiled on Thursday, September 4, at the prestigious GITEX Nigeria event, a development that signals a major milestone in the country’s digital transformation journey. At the heart of the programme is Zinox’s bold target to empower at least one million Nigerians with…
By Chukwuemeka Fred Agbata, CFA Across Nigeria, one of the biggest hurdles to broadband expansion has been the prohibitive cost of Right of Way charges: the fees telecom operators must pay to lay fibre-optic cables across state-owned land, which drastically slows down digital infrastructure rollout. In 2022, one of the earliest and boldest steps taken by Prof. Charles Chukwuma Soludo, CFR, was the removal of the Right of Way (RoW) charges for laying broadband fibre across Anambra State. At the time, it may have seemed like a quiet policy move, but in reality, it laid the foundation for the state’s…
By Ruth Kadiri When people ask me what the secret is to making films, my answer is simple: the trick is always in the story. But of course, it is never only that simple. A good script is a given, as are strong casts and the right team behind the camera. Those are the foundations. Yet over time, I have come to realize that filmmaking today requires us to think beyond the script and the set. We must also think about the screen, the audience, and the journey of the story once it leaves our hands. As a filmmaker, I…