The Federal Government has disclosed that telecommunications subscribers would pay a five percent tax on calls, SMS, and data services. Meanwhile, stakeholders in the industry have expressed dissatisfaction over the government’s resolve to implement a five percent excise duty on all telecommunications services in Nigeria.

On the side-lines of First Bank of Nigeria's (FBN) joint seminar for financial and telecom regulators in Sub-Saharan Africa. Bashirat Odunewu, Group Executive for the International Banking Group at First Bank joined CNBC Africa's Christy Cole for more.

First Bank of Nigeria (FBN) met with banking and telecom regulators from sub-Saharan to explore opportunities for collaboration and ways to drive Financial Inclusion in Africa. The bank’s MD and CEO, Adesola Adeduntan joins CNBC Africa for more.

Telecom titan Patrick Drahi is buying Sotheby’s for $2.7 billion, taking it private after more than three decades as a public company.

Operators have often cited lack of infrastructure as one of the banes of Nigeria’s telecom sector. So how can the government scale up revenue from the sector? Lami Adekola, Co-Founder and Director of Hamilton and George join CNBC Africa to discuss this.

Mohamad Al Hajj, an equities strategist at the research arm of EFG-Hermes in Dubai, talks about Saudi Arabia's economy, which grew 1.15% in the first quarter from an year earlier, and the nation's stocks.

Unstable electricity supply affecting quality of telecom service in Nigeria - NCC