Category: Mobile & Telecoms

Accra, Ghana//-The intended exercise to block all unregistered SIM cards effective Saturday, October 1, 2022 has been put on hold.

Accra, Ghana//-Deputy Minority Chief Whip, Ahmed Ibrahim says President Akufo-Addo has been cautioned by the National Security Minister that any attempt to deactivate SIM cards could destabilize the peace in the country.

New York, US//- The MTN Group President and CEO, Ralph Mupita, Senior Vice President for Markets, Ebenezer Asante, and Chief Sustainability and Corporate Affairs Officer, Nompilo Morafo, paid a courtesy visit to the President of Ghana, President Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo at the sidelines of the UN General Assembly set of meetings.

Inexpensive mobile devices have allowed Africans to transition straight into a mobile-first economy. Africa is forecast to have 120 million new mobile subscribers by 2025, taking the total number of subscribers to 615 million (50 per cent of the region’s population).

Rome, Italy//– The UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), announced partnerships on Tuesday to slash the cost of migrant remittances to Ghana with financial services providers Ecobank Ghana and Fidelity Bank and pan-African fintech MFS Africa, aiming to boost a vital source of income for a country grappling with the economic impact of the COVID […]

MTN Ghana has deepened its customer sensitisation campaigns to enable its canvass thousands of its customers to register their SIM cards with the Ghana cards before the 30th September deadline.

Lagos, Nigeria//- Flutterwave, Africa’s leading payments technology company, today announced  that merchants can now accept eNaira payments from their customers on their platform.

New York, US//– At the eve of the 77th Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), Janngo Capital Startup Fund (JCSF) has announced its first close at EUR34 million ($36 million) in capital commitments.

Accra, Ghana//-A pressure group, The People’s Project (TPP), has sued the National Communications Authority (NCA) and the Attorney-General (A-G) over the ongoing SIM card re-registration exercise.

Johannesburg, South Africa//-MTN Group, Africa’s largest network operator, has signed a partnership agreement with Dooka, a new African Business-to-Business (B2B) marketplace.