Technology

NIGCOMSAT-2A, 2B: $2bn satellites may trigger broadcast, broadband boom in 2028

By Prince Osuagwu, Hi-Tech EditorIf the timeline set by the Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited, NIGCOMSAT, for the deployment of its two new communications satellites remains on course, Nigeria’s broadcast and broadband sectors could be heading for a major capacity boom by 2028. That prospect received a major boost at the weekend after the Federal Executive […]
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‘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.

ALTON engages LASG, FMCT, on constraints of telecom infrastructure roll out

Constraints to the installation, rollout and deployment of base stations and fibre optic cable in Lagos state have been brokered between the Federal Ministry of Communication Technology, the Association of Licensed Telecoms Operators of Nigeria, ALTON , and the Lagos state government.

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