• Hausa Edition
  • Podcast
  • Conferences
  • LeVogue Magazine
  • Business News
  • Print Advert Rates
  • Online Advert Rates
  • Contact Us
Saturday, August 30, 2025
Leadership Newspapers
Read in Hausa
  • Home
  • News
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Sport
  • Health
  • Entertainment
  • Opinion
    • Editorial
  • Columns
  • Football
  • Others
    • LeVogue Magazine
    • Conferences
    • National Economy
  • Contact Us
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Sport
  • Health
  • Entertainment
  • Opinion
    • Editorial
  • Columns
  • Football
  • Others
    • LeVogue Magazine
    • Conferences
    • National Economy
  • Contact Us
No Result
View All Result
Leadership Newspapers
No Result
View All Result

Drop In Telecom’s FDI To $80.78m Threatens Nigeria’s Digital Goals

by Olamide Ojiokaiye
3 weeks ago
in Business
Drop In Telecom's FDI To $80.78m Threatens Nigeria's Digital Goals
Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on XTelegram

The nation’s digital goals are currently threatened. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) Capital Importation Report revealed that the telecommunications sector’s capital importation  plummeted by a whopping 58 per cent year-on-year to just $80.78 million in Q1 2025.

Advertisement

This alarming decline contrasts with the national trend, where total capital importation rose to $5.6 billion. More concerningly, it marks a steep 41 per cent drop from the $136.86 million secured in the previous quarter (Q4 2024), signalling rapidly deteriorating investor confidence in a sector fundamental to national development, financial inclusion, and productivity.

Meanwhile, Industry leaders and analysts point squarely to persistent leadership and policy failures as the core drivers of this capital flight. Despite repeated warnings and advocacy, structural and regulatory hurdles, including rampant infrastructure vandalism, crippling insecurity, suffocating multiple taxation, and exorbitant Right of Way (RoW) charges that remain largely unaddressed.

Analysts have opined that the Q1 figures are a stark indictment of our inability to resolve known, sector-specific barriers.

“While the broader economy attracts investment, the telecom sector, which enables virtually all other sectors, is being choked by policy inertia and a hostile operating environment, ” analysts said.

RELATED

GTCO Declares Pre-tax Profits Of N300.4bn In Q1

GTCO Crosses N500bn Capital Base With Fresh Fund Injection

4 hours ago
JUST-IN: Federal Gov’t Increases Mining Fees, Royalties To Be Paid Operators

Scholarship Beneficiaries Seek Minister’s Intervention Over Mining In Community

5 hours ago
ADVERTISEMENT

The experts expressed grave concern, emphasising the direct link between unresolved challenges and dwindling investment. Issues of right-of-way charges amidst multiple taxation have continued to discourage investors, which may hamper the steady growth in telecom investments.

While Investors are voting with their capital, stakeholders express their concerns over sustained growth or significant new investment for 4G/5G expansion and infrastructure security until decisive government action tackles the root causes, which are uncoordinated taxation, prohibitive RoW, and the existential threat of vandalism and insecurity faced by the telecom players.

According to experts, the collapse in telecom FDI raises urgent questions about Nigeria’s ability to meet its ambitious digital transformation goals.

ADVERTISEMENT

Hence, experts stressed that, Nigeria’s digital ambitions hinge on robust telecom infrastructure, as this investment crash is a five-alarm fire which demands immediate, coordinated action from the highest levels of government with calls for the federal, state, and local authorities to harmonise regulations, guarantee infrastructure security, and create a genuinely attractive investment climate.

Meanwhile, the Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria (ALTON) echoed this grave concern, emphasising the direct link between unresolved challenges and dwindling investment.

Alton said: “We may not see a steady growth in investments until the industry challenges are addressed. Issues of Right of Way charges are still there, likewise multiple taxation, which continue to discourage investors”

While investors are voting with their capital. stakeholders express their concerns over sustained growth or significant new investment for 4G/5G expansion and infrastructure security until decisive government action tackles the root causes which are uncoordinated taxation, prohibitive RoW, and the existential threat of vandalism and insecurity faced by the telecom players.


Join Our WhatsApp Channel

Nigerians can now earn US Dollars monthly by acquiring domains cheaply and reselling for profits up to $18,000 (nearly ₦30Million). Beneficiaries include professionals, entrepreneurs, civil servants and more. Click here to start.


Tags: National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)
SendShare10171Tweet6357Share
ADVERTISEMENT
Previous Post

Shrinking Industrial Base, Dominant Informal Sector Undermine Economic Growth, NESG Warns

Next Post

Waterlight Save Initiative Unveils I-HEAL Framework Ahead Of Global Event

Olamide Ojiokaiye

Olamide Ojiokaiye

You May Like

GTCO Declares Pre-tax Profits Of N300.4bn In Q1
Business

GTCO Crosses N500bn Capital Base With Fresh Fund Injection

2025/08/30
JUST-IN: Federal Gov’t Increases Mining Fees, Royalties To Be Paid Operators
Business

Scholarship Beneficiaries Seek Minister’s Intervention Over Mining In Community

2025/08/30
Business

Budget Office Explains Delay In Budget Implementation Reports

2025/08/30
T2, Huawei Ink Multi-Million Dollar Deal For Core Network Overhaul
Business

T2, Huawei Ink Multi-Million Dollar Deal For Core Network Overhaul

2025/08/30
Maltina Rolls Out New PET Bottles
Business

Maltina Rolls Out New PET Bottles

2025/08/30
Abia Think Tank Calls For Govt Accountability, Inclusivity
Business

Abia Govt To Revive Moribund Industries In Aba

2025/08/30
Leadership Conference advertisement

LATEST

1 Dies, 5 Injured As Car Rams Into Crowd In Northern France

Low Voter Turnout, Late Arrival Of Materials Mar Rivers LG Polls

Court Blocks Trump’s Use Of Emergency Powers For Tariffs

Police Arrest Lady Who Faked Own Kidnap In Anambra

‘Rivers LG Polls Peaceful, Coast Clear For Lifting Emergency Rule,’ Says Wike After Voting

UK Moves To Cut Migration, Bans 100 Occupations From Foreign Recruitment

Adamawa Politician Ardo Accuses Primate Ayodele Of Bigotry Against Fulani

Kogi Gov Directs Appointees To Mobilise Communities For CVR

American Gets Life Imprisonment Over Murder Of Nigerian Boxer

Gov Eno Receives ‘Unity Torch’, Flags Off Akwa Ibom Sports Festival

© 2025 Leadership Media Group - All Rights Reserved.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Sport
  • Health
  • Entertainment
  • Opinion
    • Editorial
  • Columns
  • Football
  • Others
    • LeVogue Magazine
    • Conferences
    • National Economy
  • Contact Us

© 2025 Leadership Media Group - All Rights Reserved.