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TYPE APPROVAL ENFORCEMENT: Why your phone may stop working soon

TYPE APPROVAL ENFORCEMENT: Why your phone may stop working soon

By Prince Osuagwu, Hi-Tech Editor That fairly cheap smartphone you bought from an unfamiliar dealer, the one that came without much paperwork, may soon have a date with the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC. Not because the Commission is interested in what is inside your phone, but because it wants to know whether the device itself […]
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Nigeria loses 72% internet revenue to US

Nigeria loses 72% internet revenue to US

IDEALLY, hosting domain names locally will curb capital flight and bring greater economic value. Sadly, as it stands, majority of .ng and .com.ng websites in Nigeria are hosted in the United States, making Nigeria lose about 72 percent of the revenue local web hosting would have generated,  a new report has shown.

Deploy IT in Judiciary to address cybercrime, AfICTA tells govts

Deploy IT in Judiciary to address cybercrime, AfICTA tells govts

FOR the participants at the just concluded 5th edition of the Africa Information and Communication Technologies Alliance, AfICTA, summit held in Abuja, unless Nigeria and the rest of the Africa’s governments promote and use technology in the judiciary to empower law enforcement officers, the fight against cybercrime may not yield the expected results.

Industry stakeholders make case for mobile economy

Industry stakeholders make case for mobile economy

STAKEHOLDERS in the Information Communication Technology sector, have come together to evaluate how Nigeria,  businesses and innovations are responding to what many people have tagged Mobile Economy, where the number of active mobile phone users in the country stands at 137 million as at September 2017.