Tag Archives: Internet users

As of January 2024, there were 5.35 billion internet users worldwide, which amounted to 66.2 percent of the global population. Of this total, 5.04 billion, or 62.3 percent of the world’s population, were social media users, statista studies shows. Global Internet Usage Connecting billions of people worldwide, the internet is …

Active internet users in Nigeria increased to 156.99 million in February 2023, the Nigerian Communications Commission Statistics revealed. The NCC Stats shows that the telecommunication companies  (telcos) reported a total of 156.42 million active subscribers to data services in  February leaving 567 million subscribers to Fixed Wired, ISP (Wired/Wireless), and …

The Nigerian Communications Commission’s Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) has discovered Xenomorph, a newly-hatched malicious software that steals users’ banking app login credentials on Android devices. According to a security advisory from the NCC CSIRT, the malicious software called “Xenomorph”, found to target 56 financial institutions from Europe, has …

The Federal Government has said it plans to increase the contribution of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector to Gross Domestic Product from 14 per cent to 30 per cent by 2025. The government disclosed this in its ‘Nigeria Medium-Term National Development Plan 2021-2025: Volume II.’ It said it …

An estimated 37 per cent of the world’s population – or 2.9 billion people – still lacks Internet access according to new data from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies (ICTs). The report also reveals strong global growth in Internet use, with the …

The House of Representatives has urged the Nigerian Communications Commission to ensure that all mobile network operators in Nigeria have an application that allows parents to track the online activities of their children whenever they are online.   The House also urged the NCC to ensure that all MNOs in …

With over 900 million internet users and the largest digital economy in the world, China planned introduction of an official digital currency is the latest step in its digital transformation move. China’s Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DCEP) is a digital currency that is based on cryptographic technology. Generally speaking, it …

…as data traffic rose by 126.5% MTN Nigeria has announced its telecommunications company generated N332.37 billion revenue from data in the year 2020. The telco, in its audited results for the financial year ended 31 December 2020 made available to Business Remarks noted that its data revenue increased by 51.2% …

The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof Umar Danbatta has disclosed Nigerians now consumed 80 Terabytes of data monthly. The NCC Boss stated that the commission have noticed this trend, an increase in data usage which is commonly associated with an increase in online activities in …

The number of internet users worldwide continue to increase as new study disclosed that global internet users inched closer to 5 billion as at December 2020, Business Remarks reports. Connecting billions of people worldwide, the internet has become a core pillar of the modern information society. The report published by …