By Rasheed Sobowale Many users of the popular instant messaging platform, WhatsApp, woke up to a surprising status update on their phone. The Facebook-owned company in its bid to promote its commitment to privacy updated every users’ status. It started the update notifying its users; “WhatsApp is now on status! We’ll let you know about […]

Professor Umar Danbatta, Executive Vice-Chairman, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has said that forensic audit was ongoing on data price deflation in the country. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that reduction in data price was made in 2019. He said that the commission needed to get to the root why consumers were experiencing data […]

*How NCC’s strategic plans will help By Prince Osuagwu The Nigerian telecommunications sector is in dire need of stability. Several incursions of the ministry of communications and Digital Economy, into the functions and activities of the otherwise independent regulator of the sector, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, have not only dimmed the vibrancy of the […]

By Emmanuel Elebeke The  National Information Technology Development Agency, (NITDA) says it has made no less than N12.6 million from companies filling the    Nigerian Data Protection Regulations (NDPR) audit report forms. The money, according to NITDA Director-General,  Mallam Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, was remitted into the government coffers. Abdullahi who made the disclosure while on a […]

By Prince Osuagwu With the Advent of Coronavirus pandemic, both Small and Medium Enterprises, SMEs and many corporate organisation have been forced to work remotely. This has also provided unfettered access to cybercriminals to attack the most vulnerable organisations. While most of them incur huge losses, others go out of business as a result. But […]