Tag: Nigeria
Nigeria Twitter ban was unlawful – ECOWAS rules
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has declared the Nigeria Twitter ban unlawful and has warned against another occurrence.
Nigeria banned Twitter in...
Airtel launches banking services in Nigeria
Airtel Africa has added banking services to its portfolio of Smartcash Payment Service Bank services in Nigeria, building on a domestic remittance-based set-up launched...
Nigeria set to launch online Intellectual Property Marketplace
The Nigerian government has signed a 3-year intellectual property rights (IPR) deal to create an online marketplace where Nigerians can sell their intellectual property...
Nigeria: 3 banks fined for flouting CRYPTO trading restrictions
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has fined 3 of the country's commercial banks for flouting a cryptocurrency trading restriction levied a year ago,...
SIM Registration: 75 million phone lines to be disconnected in Nigeria
Nigeria has ordered the nation’s wireless companies to bar outgoing calls from phone numbers not linked to the national identity number in a bid...
Vaccinated travelers arriving in Nigeria no longer required to take Covid-19...
The Federal government of Nigeria has announced that fully vaccinated travelers coming into Nigeria will no longer be required to take a pre-departure PCR...
eNaira records 694,000 downloads, 95 days after its launch
eNaira, the digital currency issued by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has had 694,000 downloads in the 95 days since it was launched.
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Binance restricts 281 Nigerian crypto accounts
Binance Holdings, one of the world’s biggest crypto exchanges, has restricted the personal accounts of some 281 Nigerian users to comply with anti-money laundering...
Twitter ban in Nigeria lifted after seven months
Nigeria has lifted a ban on Twitter after the social media giant agreed to open a local office, appoint a country head and pay...
Jack Dorsey appoints three Nigerians to head Bitcoin Trust fund
Twitter founder, Jack Dorsey, has appointed three Nigerians and one South African to act as the board of his Bitcoin Trust (BTrust) fund which...