By Juliet Umeh As Nigeria literally gropes in the dark due to poor electricity supply, the Lagos State government may have taken a step to affordable electricity. This begins with its partnership with  Eko Innovation centre on smart meter initiative. The state, through its ministry of Energy and mineral resources, recently collaborated Eko Innovation Centre […]

By Emmanuel Elebeke The National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA, is planning to team up with Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority, NSIA, to help start-ups create more jobs and wealth in Nigeria. This was disclosed by the Director-General of NITDA, Mallam  Inuwa Abdullahi when he paid a courtesy visit to the NSIA management with his management […]

By Juliet Umeh Key players in Nigeria’s information and communications technology, ICT, are gathering to discuss how to entrench digital technology and how to use it to achieve national development. The discussion will practically commence at the 2020 virtual Nigeria Internet Governance Forum, vNIGF. The two-day event will x-ray the importance of digital technologies in […]

US President Donald Trump told Oracle chairman Larry Ellison and Walmart CEO Doug McMillon on Friday that he still wants the government to receive a payment as part of a deal for the US operations of the TikTok video-sharing app. Trump spoke to the two men by phone as he weighed whether to approve the […]

A US judge on Sunday blocked the Trump administration from requiring Apple and Google to remove the Chinese-owned messaging app WeChat for downloads. Magistrate Laurel Beeler in San Francisco said in an order that WeChat users who filed a lawsuit “have shown serious questions going to the merits of the first amendment claim, the balance […]