This paper examines the roles that access to ICT and
improved social infrastructure play on the performance levels
of informal micro and small business enterprises in Nigerian.
For formal sector organisations, studies have been conducted
to verify this, but not much is known with respect to micro and
small informal sector businesses. This study therefore intends
to bridge this yawning gap by carrying out an analysis of the
impact of the access to telephone (a major component of ICTs
that is fast finding common usage among informal sector
enterprise-owners) among informal micro and small businesses
in Nigeria. The study relies on primary data on the informal
sector enterprises collected by the Nigerian Institute for Social
and Economic Research (NISER) in 2014. Basic descriptive
statistics in addition to the Ordinary Least Squares Regression
model is used in the analyses of the data. Policy measures that
will enhance further diffusion of ICT infrastructure among
micro and small business to enhance their growth and
contributions to income and employment generation are
recommended at the end of the paper
