Calvo Mawela, Chief Executive Officer of pay-television giants, MultiChoice, has explained that the wish of subscribers across Africa to pick only the channels each wants to watch from the packages offered will attract considerably higher costs if the model is adopted.

The proposed acquisition of Visafone operating licence by MTN, to enable it have authorised access to the defunct Code Division Multiple Access, CDMA operator’s 800MHz spectrum band is not going down well with other telcos in the country.The issue which resulted in a legal battle between MTN and another operator 9mobile,  has been a time bomb since 2015 when the regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, announced it has authorised MTN to acquire 100 percent equity in Visafone.However, the explosion let off, Monday, when in apparent search for  clear direction, the NCC gathered the telcos and select stakeholders to a public hearing meant to resolve the impasse.

Inspired by the need to address Nigeria’s perennial electricity shortfalls, Russia’s state-owned nuclear energy corporation, ROSATOM, is proposing off-grid technologies – such as mini hydro power stations as an effective solution to ensure access to electricity for Nigeria’s increasing population.The corporation said its prescriptions are underscored by the fact that minor water streams are practically omnipresent in Nigeria.

Inlaks Computers Limited has been awarded the ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 20000:2011 certifications by the Professional Examination Certification Board (PECB), a leading Canadian organisation in audit management systems and processes.

To drive Nigerian economy to desired and total transformation, the Executive Vice Chairman of Nigerian Communications Commission, Professor Umar Danbatta, has expressed hope in young men and women within the Nigerian university system. He stated that their talents can be deployed in order to drive the economy in the desired growth direction as well as to engender social transformation.