Lagos State Deputy Governor, Dr Kadri Hamzat, has restated the present administration’s commitment to making Lagos a Smart City. The deputy governor said this at the 2019 Nigeria Computer Society (NSC) Lagos Information Technology Conference and Annual General Meeting with the theme:’Information Technology: The enabler for a Sustainable Lagos Economy”. Represented by the state Commissioner […]

The end-to-end encrypted messaging platform, Whatsapp has filed a lawsuit against an Israeli technology firm, NSO Group with claims it sent malicious software to its users. The affected users were estimated to be around 1,400. WhatsApp. It alleged the firm did it for the purposes of surveillance. Among the affected users are journalists, human rights […]

The microblogging and social networking service, Twitter which popularised the word “tweet” has announced it will ban political adverts on its platform worldwide. This is coming after its main social media rival, Facebook ruled out any move to ban political ads, Speaking on why it concluded on such decision, Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey tweeted: “While […]

The National Communications Commission (NCC) says it targets 100 million  Nigerians for rapid Digital Local Entrepreneurs Development. Mr Ephraim Nwokonneya,  Director, Research and Development of the commission, disclosed this during a two-day forum organised by the commission for the  North-East region which kicked off on Wednesday in Yola. Nwokonneya said that the forum was designed to […]

A report launched at the annual meetings of the World Bank Group recently, revealed that Africa requires an investment of $100 billion to be able to achieve universal, affordable, and quality internet access by 2030.