Twenty-five years ago, the arrival of GSM completely transformed Nigeria. It turned a country where people waited in line for hours just to make a phone call into Africa’s largest telecommunications market. Active subscriptions have jumped from fewer than 400,000 connected telephone lines in 2001
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Royal Ibeh
Royal Ibeh is a senior journalist with years of experience reporting on Nigeria’s technology and health sectors. She currently covers the Technology and Health beats for BusinessDay newspaper, where she writes in-depth stories on digital innovation, telecom infrastructure, healthcare systems, and public health policies.
