Africa’s leading integrated digital payment and e-commerce company, Interswitch Group, has unveiled its whitepaper on blockchain technology titled “Blockchain Technology: The Future of Africa’s Digital Economy” to help drive the growth of African businesses. The white paper document contains details on how businesses can leverage blockchain technology to transform their businesses and the prospects it […]

“Our technical teams have traced the cause of the problem to an error that shifted all our 4G customers onto the 3G band. This overloaded the 3G band, causing a domino effect that impacted the whole network.”

By Juliet Umeh From records, in the last one year, the cyber security threat landscape has evolved rapidly, and attacks have increased in number and sophistication. Experts who attended Cyber Security Experts Association of Nigeria, CSEAN conference in Lagos recently believe that most data breaches in Nigeria go unreported. In fact, Cybersecurity Ventures estimated that […]

By Emmanuel Elebeke The Nigerian Communications Commission’s (NCC’s) on Thursday confirmed its 97% readiness to begin full implementation of 5G deployment in the country. The Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, Professor Umar Garba Danbatta, confirmed the readiness  status of the Commission for 5G technology deployment at the annual African Tech Alliance Forum (AfriTech 2021) held in […]

By Emmanuel Elebeke Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Ibrahim Pantami last week in Athens, stoutly claimed that the gains of Nigeria’s foray into digital economy has yielded fast return on investments. The minister spoke at the just- concluded 14th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, ICEGOV 2021 in Greece. The […]

By Prince Osuagwu, Hi-Tech Editor The man who liberalised the telecom sector, former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the former Executive Vice-Chairman of the NCC, who auctioned the first set of Global System for Mobile Communications, GSM Networks licences in Nigeria, Engr. Ernest Ndukwe would lead other prominent delegates to the GSM@20 Telecom summit in Lagos […]

By Prince Osuagwu The Federal Government has been advised to constantly engage telecom service providers in a meaningful dialogue, to take away experiences necessary to boost e-governance of the country. Participants at a recent Nigeria e-Government Summit that held in Lagos, including the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, the National […]

By Juliet Umeh About 23 students of Start-Rite Schools, Abuja, recently sat for and passed Microsoft Office Specialist International Certification examination. The programme is powered by Information Technology Training Company, New Horizons, the school’s Information and Communication Technology, ICT, partner. Being certified as a Microsoft Office Specialist demonstrates that these students have the skills needed […]

Evangelist Michael Ikoku the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Havana Hospitality Services Limited recently launched a Commercial broadcasting station, Boss Radio 98.9fm which hit the airwaves a few months ago, currently gaining popularity for having a wide range of audience has announced yet another giant step towards ensuring it’s listeners stay glued to the station. […]

Logitech, a computer pheripherals manufacturing has unveiled a range of products designed to assist with working remotely and improvong efficiency. Remote working became prominent in a bid to observe COVID-19 safety protocols which include social distancing to help check the spread. Over a year into the pandemic, it is safe to assume that remote workingis […]

Search Engine giant, Google Wednesday announced it would inject up to $1billion into the African technology ecosystem.

By Arogbonlo Israel The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has said Nigerian citizens below the age of 18 would not be allowed to own a Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) card. The commission revealed this in a recent publication on its official website. The draft copy of the modified registration of Telephone Subscribers Regulations as seen by […]

A Nigerian Teacher, Dr Peter Ogudoro, has won an award by Facebook as one of the world’s amazing virtual community managers for developing a “most helpful and engaged educators’ platform called Nigerian Teachers’’. This is contained in a media release made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) by the platform, Nigerian Teachers. The […]

By Prince Osuagwu, Hi-Tech Editor & Juliet Umeh Nigeria’s bourgeoning Information and Communications Technology, ICT sector will be on the spotlight again, when the Expo 2020 Dubai kicks off this month. This time around, all the promising innovations and creativities which form part of the fertile ground that attracts prospective foreign investors will be showcased […]

By Juliet Umeh The latest report from the next-generation cybersecurity company, Sophos on the state of Ransomware in the Financial Sector has revealed that mid-sized financial services organisations worldwide spent over $2 million on average in recovering from a ransomware attack. According to the firm, the figure exceeds the global average of $1.85 million, even […]