Lifteller launches in Nigeria, fuses social media with digital giving
NCC offers students free 100MB daily for online learning
‘E-learning equips graduates with 21st century skills’
Microsoft announces 2014 worldwide imagine cup winners
BBM app now available on Windows 8 phone platform
Imagine Cup:125 tech students gather for global showcase
Over 25m payment cards in Nigeria at risk
Boko Haram kills 8 in Damaturu, Yobe
Synapse recounts how new tech helps laboratory services
NIM ‘ll check fraud in financial sector – Onyemenam
Telecom governance code may be mandatory in 2016
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SubscribeMicrosoft Gears-up mobile devices for users
In a committed effort to boost mobile phone users’ experience, Nokia, now Microsoft Devices Group, has introduced portable mobile communication accessories tagged Gear Up.
MNP: Porting figure rises to 197,000
The Nigerian CommunicationsCommission, NCC, says about 197, 000 subscribers have so far ported from one network to another since the introduction of the mobile number portability in the country.
BlackBerry restructures, battles mobile phone ecosystem with Z3
To regain its lead position in the smart phone ecosystem, the Canadian mobile phone maker is restructuring for growth and profitability.
FG says no going back on Women in ICT training
The Federal Government says there is no going back on its determination to empower Nigerian women and girls through ICT gender empowerment initiatives.
MSS flags off national competition for malaria destruction
Mobile Software Solution, the leading African Mobile Games company and platform, yesterday in Lagos flagged off a national competition which revolves around using technology to fight malaria .
80 CEOs to attend Google’s executive breakfast forum
Google will be hosting Eighty Chief Executive Officers and top business executives at its Executive breakfast forum to be held in Lagos on the 24 July 2014.
Tech startups: Inability to access domestic, foreign markets still challenging — Okeremi
Although start-ups in Nigeria and the rest of the African sub-region are developing real-world solutions expected to address local challenges, infrastructural challenges like inability in accessing domestic and foreign market, funding, mentor-ship, among others are still challenging to the growth of startups in the region.
Towards digital economy
NITDA takes Nigeria at Gitex Roadshow to Enugu
All is set for the Nigeria at Gitex Roadshow to hold in coal city Enugu this week which is also hosting the annual Conference of the Nigeria Computer Society (NCS).
Chukwuedu Nwokolo (1921-2014)
One of Nigeria’s greatest, and most eminent medical scientists of the 20th century, Professor Nathaniel Chukwuedu Nwokolo died in New York City on May 18, 2014. Professor Nwokolo lived a long and distinguished life. He was not only an eminent grise of medicine; he was a distinguished scholar and teacher of scholars in the human sciences. He was honored for his work with the Nigerian National Merit Award (NNMA) – the Nigerian equivalent of the Nobel Prize – in 1982. The Nigerian National Merit Award was established by decree in 1978, and thus Nwokolo was among the early league, joining Chinua Achebe, Ben Enwonwu, Pius Okigbo, Adeoye Babalola, Muhammadu Junaidu, Akin Mabogunje, Ben Nwabueze, Ladi Kwali, Taslim Elias, TSB Aribisala, Adeoye Lambo, Abubakar Imam, and such others.
The Type writer: Germany’s tool against espionage
With the world cup under its belt, Germany seems to be leading the world in sports. But its anti-high-tech spy technology isn’t what many other countries would copy in a hurry.
Cybersecurity bill not do or die affair — ATCON President
President of Association of Telecoms Company of Nigeria, ATCON,, Mr. Lanre Ajayi, recently said that fastening the cybersecurity bill into law at the National Assembly should never be seen as a do or die affair.
Huawei to Africa: Build mobile broadband networks for digital economy
Barely three weeks after the launch of its latest flagship, Huawei P7 Ascend Smartphone, the President of Huawei, West African Region, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, Mr. Peng Song organized strategic engagement with its vendors and partners. While outlining the company’s strategies for West Africa in an exclusive interview with […]
Telecom sector:Behold non compulsory corporate governance code
Telecom sector; the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has made us a new law.
NgREN to provide internet access to tertiary institutions
The recently commissioning of first Nigerian Research and Education Network (NgREN), by the Federal Ministry of Communication Technology in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) will provide fast Internet to tertiary institutions to facilitate learning, teaching, research and connectivity to the global academic world.
LG recounts how R&D plays part in OLED TV manufacture
In the early vestiges of the display industry, technology paths were fairly evident. The move from black and white TVs to color TVs was a no-brainer.
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