Capacity building, critical to Africa’s energy future
By Stephen Bolu Contrary to the new normal where technology leads business reformations, growth conversations in Africa’s business landscape, particularly in Nigeria energy sector, often begin with capital. Investment, infrastructure, and asset acquisition are frequently treated as the clearest indicators of progress. While important, they do not tell the full story of what is required […]
Omatek, other OEMs are doing wonders, says Tapgun
The Minister of State for Commerce and Industry, Ms Josephine Tapgun has described the efforts of Nigerian indigenous manufacturers in meeting the production needs of the country as magical. She said the hardworking spirit of many Nigerians has improved the quality of locally produced goods.
How youths can benefit from operators’ 90b monthly revenue , Ajibade Oke
An indigenous manufacturer who produced recharge cards printing machine, Everlasting E_Pay Worldwide has said that the machine would financially empower many unemployed Nigerians particularly, the youths who were facing so many financial challenges by giving them something to do thereby reducing poverty and crimes in the country.
There is money in domain name business, NIRA Boss
The newly elected president of Nigerian Internet Registration Association, NIRA, Mrs Mary Uduma has described as lucrative, the domain name business.
Intercontinental bank opens moneybox
Intercontinental bank Plc in collaboration with Moneybox Africa limited last week launched a new technology for electronic banking tagged Moneybox.The product comes in three categories which include:
HiTV slashes entry platform rates
AS Nigeria’s golden jubilee anniversary celebrations draw nearer, Pay TV Company, HiTV, has announced a slash in the prices of acquiring its decoder systems.
Glo rounds off promo, empowers 1,755 more Nigerians
Second National Operator, Globacom, last week rounded off its recharge and win consumer reward package tagged 30 cars in 30 days promo and ended up empowering another batch of 1,755 lucky subscribers on its network.
Broadband availability’ll greatly reduce poverty in Nigeria, DADA, Omo-ETTU
A little over a fortnight ago, a stakeholders’ forum on Broadband for Nigeria (BB4NG) was held in Abuja. It was an event in which almost all the identified stakeholder groups were represented, specifically the consumer advocacy groups; telephone operators; academia; consultants; international agencies and the Federal Government.
CTO forum adopts measures to bridge digital divide
Stakeholders in the Ghanaian ICT industry gathered recently at the 5th annual Connecting Rural Communities 2010 conference in Accra, Ghana discussing among other things how best to explore potential solutions for bridging the digital divide in Africa.
Digital watermarks can be used against piracy, says US researcher
An American researcher and fellow at the Berkman Centre for Internet and Society, Harvard University, Ethan Zuckerman has suggested to an assembly of ICT professionals and film makers in Lagos that digital watermarks written into their films and other digital media materials may be the final solution to kicking piracy out of the country.
Inspire-Soft to launch Nigeria’s indigenous mail
Inspire soft limited; a leading email servicing company in the country will soon launch an indigenous email site called 9jamail.com Vangaurd cyberLIFE has learnt.
