With about 36 per cent internet penetration rate in Nigeria, online shopping has become a term no more alien to a typical Nigerian. However, many internet users in the nation are still skeptical of the authenticity of the products on these platforms; thus the popular phrase “What I Ordered Vs What I got”. This phrase […]

Following the indefinite suspension of Twitter by Federal Government of Nigeria, the micro-blogging platform on Friday said it had opened communication channels with the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday received the first made in Nigeria cell phone, known as ITF Mobile. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Minister of Industry, trade and Investment, Adeniyi Adebayo, presented the phone to the president, before the commencement of Wednesday’s Federal Executive Council meeting in Abuja. According to Adebayo, the […]

The statement read: “The PDP urges the countries to bar President Buhari, Lai Mohammed, Abubakar Malami and their family members from entering their territories for any private purposes whatsoever.

Major Websites around the world were briefly taken offline on Tuesday, apparently due to an outage at a U.S.-based cloud computing provider. Leading media organisation such as the New York Times, the Financial Times, Bloomberg, the Guardian, BBC, CNN and Le Monde were affected, with users often receiving “Error 503 Service Unavailable’’ messages. The British […]

Major media websites across the world are currently down. Some of the sites identified so far include: New York Times, CNN, Bloomberg, Guardian UK, BBC, Financial Times. Some of the sites are however back with some serving their cache page. The reason for the downtime is currently unknown but could be connected to the fact […]

The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has directed all broadcast stations in Nigeria to suspend the patronage of Twitter immediately. This directive is contained in a Statement signed by the Director General of the Agency, Prof. Armstrong Idachaba on Monday in Abuja. Idachaba noted that it would be unpatriotic for any broadcaster in Nigeria to continue […]

Following the suspension of Twitter operations in Nigeria by the Federal Government, the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), has directed all broadcasting stations in Nigeria to suspend the patronage of Twitter immediately.  The Commission asked all broadcast stations to deinstall their Twitter handles and desist from using it as a source of information gathering for News […]

By Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi Beneath the obvious national contradictions and challenges we face, there is a deep revolution brewing that is “innovation at the speed of thought”. One of the biggest perks of the Office of the Director General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) is the privilege of meeting the smartest people […]

The Association of Licensed Telecommunication Operators of Nigeria (ALTON), an industry group, says it had received directives from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the industry regulator, to suspend access to Twitter. The President of ALTON, Mr Gbenga Adebayo, made this known in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos, […]

Zagus Power Systems Limited, Lagos based power solutions provider has introduced Zektron, a Turkish manufactured brand of Automatic Voltage Regulators (AVR), Smart-UPS, and renewable energy systems to provide power solutions geared toward eliminating the gap of the epileptic power situation in the Nigerian market. The Zektron according to Zagus Power Systems, is aimed at providing […]

By Emmanuel Okogba The Federal Government has followed through with its decision to ban the operations of microblogging site, Twitter in Nigeria after citing the persistent use of the platform for activities that are capable of undermining the nation’s corporate existence as its reason for the action. A directive was, Friday night, given to telecommunication […]

The Federal Government has suspended indefinitely, the operations of the microblogging and social networking service, Twitter in Nigeria. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, announced the suspension in a statement in Abuja on Friday. The minister cited the persistent use of the platform for activities capable of undermining Nigeria’s corporate existence. ALSO […]

In his reaction, Lai Mohammed, accused Twitter of double standard, saying Twitter had deliberately ignored inciting tweets by the leader of…

By Prince Osuagwu The issue of data governance has been a global discourse since data was discovered to be the new oil to power world economy. In Nigeria, it is growing concern  going by the huge population and fast growing tech ecosystem, as there is a thin line between good management and mismanagement of the […]