{"id":61881,"date":"2025-02-28T03:04:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T03:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=61881"},"modified":"2025-02-28T03:04:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T03:04:16","slug":"tinubu-to-revamp-telecom-regulations-for-global-competitiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/28\/tinubu-to-revamp-telecom-regulations-for-global-competitiveness\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu to Revamp Telecom Regulations for Global Competitiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ade Iyamoye\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu has unveiled plans to overhaul Nigeria\u2019s telecommunications regulatory framework, aiming to align with global best practices, protect critical infrastructure, and foster a more investment-friendly environment.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Abuja during a meeting with an Airtel delegation led by Chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal, Tinubu reaffirmed his pro-business stance, emphasizing that Nigeria must embrace revolutionary ideas that drive economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not ashamed to adopt what works elsewhere. Nigeria is critically important, and we must create an environment where businesses thrive,\u201d the President stated.<\/p>\n<p>He assured investors that ongoing tax reforms would further enhance the nation\u2019s business climate, as the government collaborates with tax administrators to spur economic growth and job creation.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Communications, Innovation, and Digital Economy, Bosun Tijani, commended Tinubu for classifying fibre optic and undersea cables as critical national assets, a move expected to catalyze growth in Nigeria\u2019s telecom sector.<\/p>\n<p>Airtel Chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal lauded Tinubu\u2019s economic reforms, comparing them to India\u2019s transformative policies of 1991, which propelled the nation into one of the world\u2019s largest economies.<\/p>\n<p>He described the floating of the naira and fuel subsidy removal as bold steps that have renewed investor confidence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNigeria is at a turning point. These reforms will shape its future, and once investors start moving, they will move fast,\u201d Mittal remarked.<\/p>\n<p>With these sweeping reforms, Nigeria\u2019s telecom industry is set for a new era of expansion and global competitiveness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ade Iyamoye\u00a0 President Bola Tinubu has unveiled plans to overhaul Nigeria\u2019s telecommunications regulatory framework, aiming to align with global best practices, protect critical infrastructure, and foster a more investment-friendly environment. Speaking in Abuja during a meeting with an Airtel delegation led by Chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal, Tinubu reaffirmed his pro-business stance, emphasizing that Nigeria [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":61882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-61881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61883,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61881\/revisions\/61883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}