The telecommunications regulator,
Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has licensed 38 Internet Service Providers to
sell internet services but only 12 ISPs are currently active. The following are some of
the major ISPs in the country:
LinkServe provides
a wide range of quality services available from dial-up Internet service to
corporate connectivity to web site hosting and design.
Cyberspace Limited was licensed by the
Nigerian Communications Commission to provide high quality networking solutions. The
company services include Internet and Intranet solutions, custom network solutions, web
design and implementation, and consultancy services.
Hyperia, Internet trade name for International Network Communication, is Nigeria's Internet backbone and a major Internet and on-line
Service Provider. It offers a range of cost-effective Internet services to large private
organisations, public organisations, and Internet Service Providers.
Microcom
Systems Ltd. specializes
in Intranets, local and wide area networks, web page design and authoring, software
development, and provision of e-mail services.
Nova is an Internet Service Provider and web service integrator that
has been operating in the local Lagos, Nigeria, community since July 1998.
MegaFortunes Business Network is a web designer and the publisher of DATELINE NIGERIA, Nigeria’s first fully Internet-based
news-magazine, a marriage of Internet's multimedia, global-reach world and the power of
Journalism. It is aimed at promoting the Internet culture in Nigeria and affording
Nigerians, at home and abroad, and others interested in the country, an opportunity to get
fresh authoritative and multi-faceted news about the country at all times.
The Nigerian Government is
being supported by UNDP/IIA in a US$ 1 million project to assist NITEL to establish the
Internet backbone. UNDP/IIA is also strengthening NITEL's telecommunication training
school to become a regional Internet training centre.
Nigeria Internet Group
was conceived as a non-Governmental organisation
with the mission statement of promoting and facilitating full access to the Internet in
Nigeria . The Nigeria Internet Group was formed in 1995 after the first Internet Workshop
organized by Yaba College of Technology in collaboration with a number of organisations
including the Nigerian Communications Commission, National Data Bank, Literacy Training
and Development Program for Africa (University of Ibadan) and Administrative Staff college
of Nigeria (ASCON), with the direct assistance of the United States Information Service
(USIS), Regional Information Network for Africa (RINAF) and the British Council. The
Workshop was put together in order to raise the level of awareness of the benefits of
Internet in Nigeria and provide a forum for discussing the future of networking.
The Nigerian
Communications Commission (NCC) in collaboration with the Nigeria Internet Group (NIG),
organised an Africa Internet Summit (AFRINET 99), hosted by the Federal Ministry of
Communications (MOC). The Summit, which took place at ECOWAS Secretariat from 11-13 May,
1999, focused on the sustainable development and utilization of the Internet in Africa,
and sought to create a common forum where African Internet practitioners can come together
and discuss policy issues peculiar to Africa.
Internet host sites:
81 (2000)
Internet subscribers
(1999)
- Total: 3,000
- Internet subscribers per 10,000
inhabitants: 0.25
Internet Users (1999): 100,000
Users per 10,000
inhabitants: 9.18
Internet use by categories:
- Commercial:
- Academic:
- Research:
- NGO/UN/International:
- Government:
- Others:
Internet bandwidth
(Kbps): 1,152
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