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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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Etisalat LagosPhoto Festival Launches 2nd Phase

Etisalat LagosPhoto Festival Launches 2nd Phase

Etisalat Nigeria has reiterated its support for innovation and creativity in the country as the 5th edition of Nigeria’s only international arts festival of photography, LagosPhoto Festival announces its second phase.

WSA 2014: MSS becomes best African mobile solution

WSA 2014: MSS becomes best African mobile solution

After competing with no fewer than 400 other solutions from Africa in the 2014 World Summit Award , Mobile Software Solutions limited, a Nigerian solution with a focus on e-health was celebrated with an award for the Best African Mobile Solutions in mobile content, Health, Entertainment/Lifestyle category.

Galileo boards technology will boost students’ ability to code applications — Intel

Galileo boards technology will boost students’ ability to code applications — Intel

Recently, eight Nigerian universities received Galileo boards from Intel Corporation as part of the chip maker’s strategy to encourage research and developments in Information and Communications Technology in the Nigerian educational system. The Corporate Affairs Group Director, Intel Africa, Mr. Moise Adams Leye, in this interview with Vanguard explained why Nigerian Universities should embrace the technology as enabler for innovations while strengthening student’s ability to code applications. He said that the idea is to encourage learning and creating things that solve challenges.

Jonathan, Uwaje, honoured at ICT Centenary conference

Jonathan, Uwaje, honoured at ICT Centenary conference

President Goodluck Jonathan has been conferred with the ‘Grand Commander of ICT Promoters in Nigeria,’ for being Nigeria’s first digital President, at the just concluded 2014 Nigeria Information and Communication Technology, ICT, Centenary awards held recently.

AFRICAST 2014: Stakeholders converge in Abuja to brainstorm on digital switchover

AFRICAST 2014: Stakeholders converge in Abuja to brainstorm on digital switchover

African Broadcast professional organisations, engineers, intellectuals, broadcast equipment manufacturers, content providers, the academia ,broadcast marketing professionals and strategic industry stakeholders and broadcast partners across the globe will on Tuesday 21st to Thursday the 23rdOctober, 2014 converge in Abuja to brainstorm on the Digital Switchover, DSO.

NCC to announce new Infracos, auction 2.6GHz license soon

NCC to announce new Infracos, auction 2.6GHz license soon

The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has said that it is ready to announce the successful bidders for the two Infrastructure Companies to manage Lagos and North Central region of the country in few weeks time.

Micro Station improves customer services

Micro Station improves customer services

Information Technology devices retailing company, Micro Station Limited, has restructured its customer services with the creation of a full-fledged department, devoted to the provision of effective after-sales services to its customers.

Telecom operators to experience low cable cuts

Telecom operators to experience low cable cuts

If everything Open Access Metropolitan Fiber Network Operator, Broadbased Communications Ltd, says it is capable of doing pans out correctly, telecom operators who have been complaining of multiple cuts on their fibre cables and other infrastructure, has a reprieve already in their hands.

Jonathan, ITU scribe,  CT Minister, others  for  ICT  centenary award

Jonathan, ITU scribe,  CT Minister, others  for  ICT  centenary award

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, the Secretary General of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), Dr.HammadounToure, the Minister of Communications Technology, Dr Omobola Johnson and among other distinguished Nigerians and international personalities will be honored today in Abuja at the commemoration of the ICT evolution as a development and growth tool in the transformation of Nigeria in the last 100 years.

Nigeria has 48m active internet users – NITDA

Nigeria has 48m active internet users – NITDA

Nigeria’s active internet users currently stands at over 48 million, Dr Peter Jack, the Director-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), has said.

S.O.S for Apple’s iOS 8

S.O.S for Apple’s iOS 8

These are not the best of times for Apple. Just days after the initial launch of iOS 8, the tech giant released iOS 8.0.1 in a bid to fix bugs and add functionality. It then had to pull the software after 24 hours and show users how to roll back to the earlier version, after a series of critical flaws were revealed.