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The Federal Government and the International Telecommunication Union, located in Geneva, have started discussions aimed at coordinating regional and global efforts to protect submarine cables and other important digital infrastructure. The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Bosun Tijani, disclosed this on X on Wednesday. ITU is a specialised agency of the United Nations responsible…

Following disruptions to subsea cables on Thursday, Bayobab Group, a subsidiary of MTN Group, has announced the successful restoration of its operations. The telecom operator shared this in a statement on Tuesday. MTN mentioned that despite the challenges posed by the cable disruptions, its subsidiary swiftly recovered over 3 Terabits per second […]

Telecommunication companies, banks, and other financial institutions have rerouted their traffic to alternative service providers following cuts to the undersea cable supplying broadband Internet connectivity to Nigeria and countries in the West African sub-region. The damage to critical submarine cables, on Thursday, led to significant network outages, preventing banks and telcos from providing seamless communication […]

Digital infrastructure company, MainOne, has announced the successful restoration of services for a portion of its customers. The company said it is making moves to restore services for others by utilizing capacity obtained from available cable systems. The company disclosed this in an update shared with PUNCH Online on Saturday. “We have restored services to […]