ObosiLandlord: NCC licenses Elon Musk’s Starlink to provide internet service in Nigeria
Nigeria has approved Elon Musk’s Starlink, a satellite internet constellation operated by SpaceX, providing satellite Internet access coverage to 32 countries where its use has been licensed.
This was tweeted by the World’s richest man, Elon Must via his Twitter handle. Nairametrics has also confirmed this with the Nigerian Communication Commission, NCC.
Starlink provides high-speed, low-latency broadband internet across the globe. Within each coverage area, orders are fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis.
NCC Confirms
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) confirmed to Nairametrics that it has licensed Starlink, a satellite internet constellation operated by SpaceX, providing satellite Internet access coverage to 32 countries. This licensing followed a visit to Nigeria by the company’s team in May last year.
“The company received two licenses, which include the International Gateway license and Internet Service Provider (ISP) license, and will be trading as Starlink Internet Services Nigeria Ltd. According to NCC, the International Gateway license has a 10-year tenure while the ISP license is to last for five years. Both licenses take effect from May 2022 and may be renewed after the expiration.” NCC Elated Elon Musk took to his Twitter handle to announce this development, which Nairametrics also confirmed from the NCC. With high speeds and latency as low as 20 minutes in most locations, Starlink enables video calls, online gaming, streaming, and other high data rate activities that historically have not been possible with satellite internet. Users also have the option to take Starlink with them via the Portability feature or Starlink.
Starlink’s visit to Nigeria
In May last year, Starlink’s Market Access Director for Africa, Ryan Goodnight along with SpaceX consultant, Levin Born had paid a visit to the NCC where they expressed interest to obtain a license to operate the satellite internet in the country.
Prior to the visit, the regulator and the space company have been discussing the issue virtually before approval for a physical meeting was granted by the NCC. What NCC told the team After SpaceX representatives provided an overview of its plans, expectations, licensing requests, and deployment phases, the Executive Vice-Chairman, NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta, represented by the Executive Commissioner, Technical Services, NCC, Ubale Maska, promised them that the NCC would work on necessary modalities to ensure that it balances the need for healthy competition vis-a-vis the entry of new technologies, in order to protect all industry stakeholders.
Maska had said: “As the regulator of a highly dynamic sector in Nigeria, the Commission is conscious of the need to ensure that our regulatory actions are anchored on national interest. We have listened to your presentation and we will review it vis-à-vis our regulatory direction of ensuring effective and a sustainable telecoms ecosystem where a licensee’s operational model does not dampen healthy competition among other licensees.” Maska further stated that the Commission was interested in making necessary regulatory efforts to drive the coverage of rural, unserved, and underserved areas of the country through the accomplishments of the targets contained in the Nigerian National Broadband Plan, NNBP, 2020-2025.
felixawe: Leading rights group, International Society for Civil Liberties & Rule of Law, popularly known as Intersociety, has unmasked the alleged killers of a pregnant woman, Harira Jibril, and her four children in Anambra State.
Recall that Jibril, her four children and 16 others were killed by gunmen in Anambra State on May 22, 2022.
Intersociety, in a statement, has identified the gang behind the killing to that led by a notorious killer from Nneni, Anaocha Local Government Area of the state.
In a statement by Emeka Umeagbalasi, Obianuju Joy Igboeli and Chidimma Evangeline Udegbunam on Thursday in Onitsha, Anambra State, the body said the notorious gang leader “was recently trailed by an experienced undercover to a liquor joint at Nnobi where his phone number was discreetly obtained and later inserted into intelligence tracking machine and other useful information including his movements, locations and nefarious activities obtained. His trailing followed a lead that he and his gang members masterminded the recent killing of two soldiers and a newly married female computer typist at Awgbu Junction. “The notorious street criminal gang leader’s conversation regarding his gang’s planned attacks on security personnel blocking their routes to criminality was also intercepted. He and his gang members have been linked to various violent crimes in and around Umuoji, Abatete, Orakwu, Agulu, Nnobi, Nnewi, Igboukwu, Ezinifite, Uga and Ekwulobia axis. Their high profile crimes include attacking and killing soldiers and police personnel blocking their criminality routes, snatching exotic cars and forceful collection of millions of naira ransoms through forced wireless transfers or cash drops as well as ritual activities, abductions, armed robberies, etc. The group also occasionally resorts to ‘counterfeiting’ the activities of the violent agitators for purpose of falsely blaming same on them and diverting the attention of the public and security agencies. Part of the gang’s counterfeiting activities is launching attacks on security personnel or Northerners to portray same as ‘handiwork of ESN’.
“It was as a result of the above that a combined team of intelligence and navy personnel laid ambush last weekend (Friday) and arrested the gang leader in his comfort hideout and his arrest two days later on Sunday, 22nd May 2022 sparked off series of violent attacks by his followers including chase-after killing of the Northern Muslim mother and her children at Ajali in Orumba North Local Government Area. The gang members also wreaked havoc at Agulu where they set ablaze a Pick-up Van belonging to a local Vigilante Group as well as in Abatete, Umuoji, Nkpor and Adazi-Nnukwu before escaping to unknown location after their attack at Ajali. In the attacks by the gang members, scores of defenseless citizens were killed and motorcycles numbering over six and a Vigilante Group Pick-up Van set ablaze. The notorious street criminal gang leader is presently cooling his head in the hands of the intelligence establishment.”
While strongly condemning “in totality the killing of the Northern Muslim mother and her children”, Intersociety said it “finds it pertinent to make this detailed clarification on the real group identity of those that masterminded the dastardly act so as not only to set the record straight but also to register its displeasure over the deliberate reportorial misrepresentation of facts occasioned by state censorship on media and stifling of democratic civil space which have robbed many of state and independently owned media organizations of their investigative competence and verification capacity. These have also provided a field day for alarmist and divisive social groups to rush to the media with unguarded, provocative, inciting, threatening and vengeful statements. This is more so when the same alarmist social groups keep mum and turn blind eyes when members of other ethnic nationalities and religions especially Igbo Christians and non Igbo Christians and their properties are subjected to wanton destruction by Muslin fanatics-thereby making it to look as if Muslim lives are sacred and worth preservation while lives of others especially the Igbo citizens are worth being spilled or destroyed.”
Intersociety in the statement described the recent abduction and beheading of Hon. Okey Okoye as being “likely the handiwork of hired counterfeiters”.
It said: “The Anambra House of Assembly member was trailed from Awka and chased after until his car was blocked. He was abducted along with his Campaign Officer (Cyril); leaving behind the third person. His official car was also abandoned on the spot. That was on 15th May 2022 and he was later tracked and traced to an Unubi communal forest located in Nnewi South Local Government Area from where he was beheaded afterwards with his body decapitated and dumped in different locations. It must be recalled that it was mentioned in Intersociety’s report in March 2022 about the tracking by an undercover agent of a group of fiercely looking armed men in a brown new Coaster Bus branded ‘Izzi Youth Vanguard’ along Obeledu-Oraeri-Igboukwu Road heading to an Anambra Forest Camp.
“Further circumstantial investigative findings indicated that the group may most likely be among the imported ‘fifth columnist armed counterfeiters’ who are likely to have settled in one of the communal bushes/forests at Unubi. The counterfeiters are likely to have been politically hired to abduct and slay the lawmaker. This is more so when the lawmaker was independently disclosed to have been under intense pressure not to go for second tenure as a legislator representing his area which he bluntly refused. This was said to be from the point of view of zoning. His beheading, slaying and decapitation took place even after his family was said to have paid millions in ransom. Intersociety hereby condemns in strongest term his abduction, disappearance and beheading. The ordeal that befell him was most likely to be politically conceived and ill-motivated.”
Intersociety gave kudos to Enoch Pawa, the new Anambra State Director of the Department of State Services. It said: “Investigations into the killing of the Northern Muslim mother and her children and beheading of the lawmaker and circumstances of the attacks on them (collaterally reprisal) have yielded some commendable results. Pieces of intelligence gathered so far concerning their killers or slayers are true reflection of professionalism and in line with our persistent insistence on application or use of credible intelligence in place of bias and false intelligence. While the new Anambra DSS Boss deserves our commendation for feats recorded so far in the two cited dastardly acts, Intersociety strongly cautions his Directorate not to adulterate or counterfeit the gathered intelligence and findings especially when being publicly disclosed or administratively archived. DSS under him must also diversify their intelligence gathering network and stop focusing their violent criminality hunts wholly on “ESN/IPOB”. Our special commendation also goes to friendly proactive civilian undercover agents for special job well done. It must be remembered that similar state of insecurity as being witnessed today in the State was the case in 2006 when various street criminal gangs perpetrated sundry violent crimes ranging from abduction and ransom to armed robbery using the name of “MASSOB”. It took then Gov Peter Obi and security agencies and their high commands to apply or use effective and uncorrupted intelligence and law enforcement to deal with the situation.
“Further, there is need for DSS and other security agencies to gather and work with correct intelligence and avoid misinformation and mistaken identity such as the last week’s Monday (16TH May 2022) late night (2am) invasion of a three-bedroom flat apartment along Onumonu Street in Awada, near Onitsha during which an innocent man and his infant children escaped being shot dead at sleep. A combined team of navy and DSS personnel numbering dozens with four machine gun carrying Vans, computers, climbing ladders and so on had invaded the place and pulled down all the entrance and exit doors and met the innocent father cuddling his infant children ready to be killed. The security personnel after ransacking his abode and mobile phones discovered that they had acted on wrong information and mistaken identity; claiming that ‘they are looking for an ESN Commander’. The victim later turned out to be a printing press operator; forcing the invading security operatives to apologize to him and jump down and leave the scene.
“Therefore, having elaborated the true picture of what led to killing of the defenseless Northerners and group identity of those that killed them, it is also pertinent to disclose that the intelligence community or State DSS Directorate has made useful inroads regarding the location and group identity of the abductors and slayers of the Isuofia born lawmaker. Apart from tracking and locating the Unubi communal forest hideout of the abductors of the lawmaker, legitimate ‘soft targets’ are also in the custody of the State DSS. The activities of community vigilante groups and their key members must also be thoroughly checkmated. Apart from some of them engaging in high profile violent crimes above highlighted, in collaboration with counterfeiters and street criminal gangs, those criminal vigilantes have also been reported to be involved in identifying fresh communal locations including bushes and forests for the counterfeiters and their financiers.”
The person brain you're seeing below is among the three innocent people killed by the Blackaxe members in Abeokuta.
Two were friends to their Rivals one was a blood relative. As the Eiye members are swearing to also kill friends of Blackaxe members to equalize their score.
Taking a life you cannot create!! Chaii foolishness eh
Dawn91: Paddy... All tinz aside... Eiye are just wasting their time , u see NBM Wen it does to HIT play... Second to none. It's just terrible... U no go understand.
When it comes to savage brutality of the most gory level ,Omo leave am to nbm.
This is why I always pray more.members can become neutral .
See if you can penetrate nbm with reorientation, half of the African cultism problem is gone.
99% of cult wars are versus nbm.. some cults are just trying to stay alive...
I am not telling you dem say... I dey scratch you live experience feedback .
For every nbm member you reorientate you are saving numerous lives from different confra .
foryourmind: After embezzling Rivers State money in the tune of billions of dollars, and inviting Nigerian Army to massacre Igbo civillians in Obigbo in a bid to impress the North, Governor Nyesom Wike couldn't win Atiku in the PDP primaries.
tiger28: I dont need to step in Afghaneastern to know that from the abuse that this woman just received in her OWN home state and the comments by her FELLOW Ibos, you guys will never allow a non-easterner to vie for any position[Imagine that she is even FULL ibo that is married to Yoruba o, what will happen to a non-easterner] Meanwhile, Easterners are contesting everywhere as if its their Birthright. What am I even talking about? it is ONLY in SE that you will know that an ebonyi man is different from an anambra man. In fact, it is only in SE that their State Civil Services are sacking OTHER Easterners.
Like I said before, your knowledge is second hand. I have many Yoruba guys like you in my church and office place. They used to feed on second hand information till they came and saw things for themselves. Try and and get out of your zone and visit other regions.... Don't believe every insult you see been thrown around here..
Buddha3: Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo state is a die hard supporter of Bola Tinubu for the 2023 presidency, which solely defies the code of political fairness and equity cause Tinubu's greed is a slight to the Igbos in entirety.
Then as intelligent as he is, he decides to let his wife contest for a Senate seat in Imo state, the same South East that his principal Tinubu has refused to acknowledge as being ripe for the presidency cause of his selfish ambition.
It's like these Yorubas get orgasms from trying to make nonsense of an entire ethnic region. Cause I see absolutely no basis as to why Akeredolu's wife should even find the impetus to be seeking an elective position in the East.
Na wa o! Finally na see finish make Igbo people dey suffer all these insults sha. Here in the South South, na for hospital him for go collect him wife.
Calm down. Do you know she is from Imo state? She is Igbo hope you know? So, don't get it twisted..
DitariDisciple2: Alison Madueke is Ijaw. Can Igbos give property to women? But Ijaw will give women properties and leave men at times.
Quit feeding on that nonsense. It's an open secret that Ijaw men are irresponsible and are usually drunks. Their women are more valued cos they are more useful than their men
Cotonou12: All these politicians sef ! Sometimes I wonder if they have sense at all?
Wife of a governor in Yoruba land want to be senator in imo state �
She has paid her dues in Imo state through her Betty Anyanwu foundation and other charities.. Again, she is a Nigerian. So that's not a problem if you ask me.
tiger28: Iboman rant AS USUAL! THEY can NEVER see her as their own.............Though she is an ibo that married a Yoruba man. BUT you see them contesting for seats ALL over the WEST and NORTH as if it is their father'sland. Stella Oduah became minister of Aviation and she hired ALMOST all Ibos........Imagine if these fools get to the Presidency T They will not taste the Presidency till 2099!!!
The problem I have with folks like you is that you have never stepped your foot on Igbo soil. You just vituperate on endless and baseless assumptions. Those who have been to Igbo land don speak like you do..
mightyokwy: Igdbos don't value women. Ekwulife and Stella is from where. Tell us any elected political position occupied by ijaw woman. Idiot
No mind the sorry fellow. He forgot that the first female governor was Virgy Etiaba from Anambra State. The first women riot was in Aba too. In Igbo culture, Umu ada (daughters born in the land but married away, just like Betty Anyanwu are authority on their own. They have so many rights. When they make a decision in their maiden land, they usually have their way. They're valued...
DitariDisciple2: Igbos don't value women. In my Ijaw, women are valued more than men. In Nembe and Brass all the children belong to the wife family. Other Ijaws always bring the corpse of women back home. You can bury man outside but never women. My mother took more of her father's inheritance more than her two elder brothers and only brothers.
All Ijaw main Gods are females. Known as OUR MOTHER in our different Ijaw dialects.
Same with all Ijaws unjustly balkanized into Ondo, Edo, Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers and Akwa-Ibom States. When Ijaws are not even scattered by God.
OUR MOTHER.
No wonder women dey control una. I now understand why Patience Jonathan was calling the shots when GEJ was the president and he couldn't call her to order. Hang your head in shame joor.
It's an open secret that Ijaw men are irresponsible and are usually drunks. Their women are more valued cos they are more useful than their men
Even God Almighty made man to be the head. Tueh...
Still on, you remember Virgy Etiaba from Anambra State? She is an Igbo woman and the first female governor in Nigeria. The first women riot was in Aba too. In Igbo culture, Umu ada (daughters born in the land but married away, just like Betty Anyanwu are authority on their own. They have so many rights. When they make a decision in their maiden land, they usually have their way. They're valued... Ijaw and Igbo are not the same. So our ways varies.
Who told you? Is she not Igbo? She has paid her dues in her constituency even though she married to Ondo. Do you know how many charitable work she has done in Imo state I may not vote for her but she is well qualified both as a worthy Imo daughter and a Nigerian...
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I'm currently running my MBA Marketing, and I posses BSc. International Studies.
I'm a Member of the Nigerian Institute of Management Chartered and planning to take my Certification from the National Institute of Marketing Nigeria next year.
Also, I posses Health Safety & Environmental Management certifications from the British International Safety Organisation.
Diploma in French Language from the Ministry of Education - France.
What other qualifications do I require to enable me secure a job Marketing job in the Oil and Gas industry?
Obi Cubana's brother has just been declared the winner of APGA ticket for the house of Representatives. Obi Cubana is right now in Awka celebrating the win.
And they said Igbos don't live themselves. Kaii, this lie be comforting haters of Igbos for eons...
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