The U.S. Commercial Service in Nigeria in collaboration with U.S. cyber-security company, McAfee Incorporated, have urged cyber security experts and corporate end-users to drop old methods of fighting cybercrime and embrace new ideas.

If the claims by the National Space Research and Development Agency, NASRDA, are anything to go by, Nigeria may have become the centre of satellite businesses in the world. It is even more interesting considering that the feat is achieved with locally designed nano Satellite, which appears now to be the technology other countries would have to rely on, should their planes go missing.

To kick-start its smart city project, Ogun State has given free Right of Way, RoW, to Communications Service and Network Solutions Company, MainOne, for laying a 250km length of broadband cable in the state.

The best of Nigerian ICT practitioners would have the opportunity to deliberate on how   best Nigeria can tap into the golden opportunity in the 4th industrial revolution for digital economy, as the Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria, ISPON, holds its annual President’s Dinner in Lagos, next month.

Twitter has said it is going to place a ban on most cryptocurrency adverts on its platform. Twitter’s new resolve means it has joined other social media platforms like Facebook and Google in a clampdown on the nascent industry.