Telecom operators seek stronger infrastructure protection to sustain Nigeria’s digital growth
By Juliet Umeh & Islamiyyah Adekanbi For more than two dec-ades, Nigeria’s telecommunications operators have powered one of the country’s biggest economic success stories, connecting millions of people, driving financial inclusion and providing the digital infrastructure that supports banking, education, healthcare, commerce and governance. However, they have come out to demand stronger government support, policy […]
Rancard announces second institutional investment round
Rancard today announced that it has concluded its second institutional investment round led by Peninsula Capital, a private investment management company, based in Menlo Park, California.
Nigeria, Ghana… others to benefit from Microsoft student advantage
About seventeen African countries including Senegal, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, Kenya, Angola, Zimbabwe, Cape Verde, Rwanda, Mauritius, South Africa, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya and Morocco are to benefit from Student Advantage programme just launched by the software giant Microsoft.
BlackBerry enterprise service 10 hits market
BlackBerry has announced enhancements to its award-winning multi-OS enterprise mobility management (EMM) solution with the release of BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 (BES10) version 10.2 globally.
‘Nigerian subscribers lose N1bn daily on call drops’
It was revealed last week that Nigerian telecom subscribers put together are unknowingly losing about N1bn on daily basis to call drops due to poor telecommunications services in the country.
Revoke spectrum licence of dormant CDMA operators, GSMA tells NCC
For efficient spectrum management in the Nigerian growing telecoms industry, the Chief Regulatory Officer of GSMA, Tom Phillips, has urged the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, to revoke spectrum license of dormant Code Divisional Multiple Access, CDMA, operators in the country.
Phone Doctors repair Nokia phones free at Gloworld
Globacom has redefined customer service delivery in the telecommunications industry by providing a rare opportunity for all telephone subscribers, irrespective of their network of choice, to repair their smartphones free at the various Gloworld shops in the country.
NCC on collision course with operators over QoS, MNP
Baring any positive improvements, telecom operators in Nigeria may head into a collision course with their regulator, the Nigerian communications Commission, NCC, early next year.
‘Biotech’ll unlock Nigeria’s agric potentials’
Biotechnology has the capacity to unlock the agricultural potentials of Nigerians and indeed, the government could embrace the reinvented agric model in its present effort to actualize food sufficiency by 2015.
NIG commends N75.2b NPSCS fund for e-policing project
By EMEKA MAMAH The President of the Nigeria Internet Group, NIG, Adebayo Banjo, has hailed the establishment of the N75.2 billion Public Security Communications System, NPSCS, project for the enhancement of e-policing and public safety in the country. Banjo said that the project was cheering because ‘’major foreign Original Equipment Manufacturers, OEM,’’ had ‘’consistently shunned […]
Traders recount pains, gains of Computer Village relocation
The United States might have Silicon Valley. But when anything technology is mentioned in Nigeria, the first thing that comes to mind is Computer Village in Ikeja, Lagos. Noted for the sale of all models of mobile phones, computers, accessories and other allied products, this villa has reigned as the capital of hitech in the country. However, this is about to change. The Lagos state government has concluded arrangements to relocate the settlers to Katangowa internet city which is just about fifteen hectares of land, in Oke-Odo area of the state, by the first quarter of 2014.
