Kidnap: The ugly side of internet penetration
Last week, the incident of kidnapping involving the Orekoya children at Surulere area of Lagos, brought into focus the issue of regulation of online classifieds.The children were reported to have been kidnapped by a maid, (Funmilayo Adeyemi) who was hired through a classified advertisement placed on an online classified platform, OLX.com.ng.
Sale of pre-registered SIM cards: Matters arising
LAST week, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), announced that it had apprehended three agencies “using computers allocated them by the dealers to fraudulently register SIM Cards which are offered for sale to unsuspecting subscribers.”
Adenuga: The grand commander of telcos
IT is no surprise at all that Otunba Mike Adenuga, Jnr, supremo of Globacom got a national award, the second highest in the land.
Adenuga: The grand commander of telcos
IT is no surprise at all that Otunba Mike Adenuga, Jnr, supremo of Globacom got a national award, the second highest in the land. The real surprise is that it has taken so long for the GCON to be conferred on Nigeria’s biggest indigenous investor in the telecommunications sector, a sector whose phenomenal growth in just ten years has radically and permanently changed the way Nigerians live and interact with each other.
Amadi: A lifetime in a profession
IF not for the enabler called information and communication technology (ICT), the tears would long have dried before I even know anything had happened. Wednesday 29 August, as I was boarding a flight to South Africa, little did I know that the ranks of the editorial staff in the Vanguard environment was already depleted one, albeit a big one.
Police BCMR: Good idea, but….
FOR some time now, commercials have been running in the media announcing another innovation from the Nigeria Police, called Police BCMR, or Police Biometric Central Motor Registry.
