MTN Nigeria Communications Plc on Thursday showcased the fifth generation network technology 5G in Calabar to its customers ahead of its inauguration. The MTN Chief Technical Officer, Mr Mohammed Rufai, said the exercise was in continuation of the company’s effort toward educating Nigerians about the new technology, pending its approval by the Nigerian Communications Commission […]

Ukraine has lashed out at Apple for showing the annexed Crimea peninsula as part of Russia, saying the US tech giant did not “give a damn” about the pain of the Ukrainian people. Russian lawmakers said on Wednesday that Apple had complied with a demand from Moscow for Crimea to appear as Russian territory on […]

Tesla enthusiasts have placed 250,000 early orders for the futuristic Cybertruck in less than a week, CEO Elon Musk claimed. Musk revealed the latest figure in a tweet Tuesday night, two days after he indicated the automaker had received 200,000 orders for the “Blade Runner”-inspired electric pickup. But it’s not certain Tesla will build so […]

By Prince Okafor The board of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved the Transmission Company of Nigeria’s, TCN’s, NTEP -1 projects in a board resolution in Abidjan. The NTEP is one of the projects under TREP financed by AfDB that is targeted at rehabilitating and expanding parts of the transmission grid in the North […]

By Prince Osuagwu The telecommunications companies, telcos in Nigeria have threatened to shut down the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data, USSD platform which banks use for mobile money transfer if CBN fails to compel banks to pay the N2 share due to them. The telcos, through their umbrella body, the Association of Licensed Telecom Operators in […]