L-R: Elhadj Mamman Laminou, outgoing Executive Secretary (ES), West Africa Telecommunications Regulators Asembly (WATRA); Aliu Yusuf Aboki, new ES, WATRA and Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, Executive...
Breaking: Telcos withdraw USSD banking services over banks’ refusal to pay debt Telecoms service providers responsible for the usage of Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) for...
Danbatta to spotlight NCC’s initiatives on e-waste Mgt The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has concluded plans to organise a special world press conference to mark...
Nigeria charges West African states on ICT development Nigerian government has called for increased regional collaboration for the development of Information and Communication Technology (ICT)...
Facebook launches Instagram Lite in 170 countries After nearly three years in the planning, Facebook is taking the plunge today and officially launching Instagram Lite,...
Zoom Founder, Eric Yuan, transfers stock worth over $6bn Video-conferencing platform Zoom Video Communications Inc founder Eric Yuan transferred about 18 million shares worth over $6...
Pantami, Danbatta to attend WATRA 2021 AGM Isa Pantami, the minister of communications and digital economy, and Umar Danbatta, the executive vice chairman of the Nigerian...
APPLY: Google opens $25m GIC grant for women and girls Google.org’s open call on International Women’s Day today, for applications for grant funding from its...
Closing Nigeria’s digital divide through strategic dialogue As Nigeria records upticks in digital transformation from time to time, the need to bring onboard the rest...
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey auctions first ever tweet, bidding at $2.5m “just setting up my twttr” – the first ever tweet on the platform is...
UK, Nigerian govts, Greenfields Law collaborate to bridge digital divide in Nigeria The UK Government’s Prosperity Fund’s Digital Access Programme and Greenfields Law, in collaboration...
FG approves establishment of SIM swap centres by MNOs Extends enrolment licence tenure As the Ministerial Task Force on the NIN-SIM registration held its...
Google.org has joined hands with a consortium of COVID-19 researchers to announce the launch of Global.health. Global.health is an open-access epidemiological data platform that enables experts...
What to expect from new book on telecoms law, by Nnamani Ikechukwu Nnanmani, president of Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) has listed expected...
Danbatta, other stakeholders endorse book on Telecoms Law, Regulations Umar Danbatta, the executive vice chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) was among eminent personalities...
Telcos incur billions running 44,000 generators to power base stations As the electric power provision is inadequate and insufficient to satisfy the requirements of...
NITDA to work with space engineers on Nigeria’s digital transformation The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has promised to work with space engineers to...
Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, today announced its plans to provide Sophos Intercept X endpoint protection for 5G PCs powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon compute...
Google today announced the second Google News Initiative Innovation Challenge in Africa, the Middle East and Turkey with an open call for projects that increase reader...
Google resumes accepting political ads but with strict policies Alphabet Inc’s Google will resume accepting political advertisements in the United States from Feb. 24, according to an...