Black Friday: Outdated online listings may undermine retailers — Google
By Juliet Umeh Nigerian retailers preparing for Black Friday may lose ready-to-buy customers if their Google listings carry outdated opening hours, unanswered phone numbers or old product photographs. Google’s Director for East and West Africa, Olumide Balogun, gave the warning as Nigeria prepare for Black Friday and December festive shopping season. Black Friday falls on […]
ICT to contribute 15% to GDP by 2015 – Juwah
Smarting from his exploits at the recently concluded Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, the Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, Dr Eugene Juwah, has declared that Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product, GDP, would enjoy up to 15 percent increase from ICT contributions in 2015.
Govt must subsidize computers for students
THE Federal Government has been called upon, as a matter of urgent national importance, to initiate a policy of subsidy of computer ownership for students at various levels of education in the country.
NIMC: Nigeria ready to capture citizens’ accurate identity data
THE National Identity Management Commission NIMC is gearing up to kick start a data collection exercise which would put the country among the top information managers in the world.
MTN gives 238 less privileged students N47.6bn worth of scholarship
About 238 Nigerian students in public tertiary institutions in the Northern zone, were recently presented with N200,000 scholarship awards, each, by the MTN foundation.
Do more on e-Learning, Angaye tasks FG
…says it will unlock youth IT potentials
Director – General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) Professor Cleopas Angaye, has commended the various e-learning initiatives of government and the private sector across the country, saying that among other things, they will provide the breeding ground for the eventual increase in Information Technology potentials of Nigerian youths.
