FG commissions first of 3,700 rural telecom towers in Abia: what it means for you
The first NUCAP tower is up in Bende, Abia. The FG says 3,700 towers will connect about 20 million people with no signal. Here is who pays, what it means and how the targets have moved.
The Federal Government has commissioned the first tower of its 3,700-tower rural telecoms project, the Nigeria Universal Communication Access Project (NUCAP), in Bende Local Government Area of Abia State on Friday, 16 October 2026. The Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Bosun Tijani, says the project will bring phone and internet signal to nearly 20 million Nigerians who now…