The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has licensed Paga to launch its unique mobile money service in Nigeria.
Having received the go ahead from the apex bank, Paga is set to launch in early 2011 with four products directly targeted at resolving pain points that Nigerians have to contend with today when it comes to cash: money transfer, bill payments, mobile phone airtime top-up, and merchant payments.

A Portharcourt based Journalist, Mr Celestine Ogolo, an Umuahia based business man, Chief Godwin Adiele, and four others, Malam Y. A. Rufai from Katsina state, Daniel Olawunmi, from Kano, Kola Lesaodo from Jos and Yaya Musibau; a hotelier from Ikare, Ondo State, moved up the ladder and became millionaires last week as Second National Operator, Globacom presented first cheques to first batch of winners in the season 2 of its Text4millions promotion.

The current wind of broadband revolution in Nigeria is set to move to the next level as Galaxy Backbone is partnering with other ICT operators to deliver superior Data and Voice services to its customers.

Governor Peter Obi has flagged off the training of the two hundred ICT teachers recently recruited by the State Government. The three week programme which is taking place at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Library Awka in the evening of Monday, is in collaboration with the Microsoft and New Horizon Computer Learning Centre.

CHIEF Executive of the Teledom Group, Dr. Emmanuel Ekuwem has thrown his weight behind the clamour for SIM card registration in the country, saying it will greatly enhance the use of ICT tools by law enforcement agents to check crimes in the society.

Information in those dashboards and reports can be shared with business heads and line managers across the organisation. The information contained in those reports can be filtered using the facilities in our system so that branch mangers for example may see data that is specific to them and their branch, and not the equivalent data that is ‘owned’ by other branches.

The Chief Executive Officer of Victory World Info-communication café, Engr. Ifeanyi Okoli has attributed dwindling fortunes of Cybercafes across the country to power even as he appealed to the federal government for timely intervention.

ONE of the nation’s top ICT firms,Computer Warehouse Group, recently attained a prestigious status with Oracle Corporation as a Platinum Partner. With this elevation , CWG has been placed in a preferred position to provide a more enhanced solution to its growing customers in Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda and the other African countries where they play […]

To make ICT relevant in the nation’s educational sector, the Ministry of Education is to flag off the review of IT Education Curricullum at all levels of education in Nigeria.This is part of the implementation of National IT education frame (NITEF) and ICT in education plocy

TOP mobile operator, Airtel Nigeria has concluded plans with the world’s largest mobile phone supplier, Nokia to introduce an exclusive data bundle package to StepUP Platinum customers on the new smart phone, the Nokia N8.

Intel Corporation has unveiled several new initiatives under its “Cloud 2015” vision aimed at making cloud_based Internet computing more interoperable, secure and simplified.

Second National Operator Globacom has announced the commencement of part two of its popular Text4 millions customer reward promotion. In this edition, about 200 subscribers would emerge millionaires in 100 days, even as other prizes like 3 Toyota Venza SUVs, 100 laptops, 100 motorbikes, free airtime would also be won by lucky Glomobile subscribers.

Barely two months after Nigeria migrated to EMV chip based cards from the magstripe based cards, ATM related frauds seems to have drastically reduced.

The Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Arch. Namadi Sambo, GCON, at the jus concluded first West Africa Cybercrime summit held in Nigeria last week addressed how the public and private sector must work together to eliminate cybercrime and foster legitimate economic opportunity for West Africans.

The proposed ban on refurbished phones and computers by the the National Information Development Agency (NITDA), has attracted mixed reactions among ICT vendors in the Nigerian market.