By Prince Osuagwu Foremost data and analytics company, Terragon, will tomorrow host a webinar aimed at preparing digital advertisers against future without third-party cookies. The webinar is in collaboration with social media giant, Facebook and PricewaterhouseCoopers, PwC. The webinar which holds tomorrow, is themed: Online Advertising in a Post-Cooking World: Delivering personalised Ads with the […]

By Juliet Umeh An American firm based in Nigeria, Coven Works, has entered into a partnership with a leading French School for Artificial Intelligence, Aivancity, to give Nigerians opportunity to study artificial intelligence, AI skill sets abroad. The school, according to the partners, is built around three cores of the 21st Century: Artificial Intelligence, Business […]

LG Electronics, South Korea’s second-largest appliance firm after Samsung, is closing down its mobile phone business, the company said Monday, after the division lost billions in recent years. The firm was once considered a pioneer of the Android operating system, collaborating with Google on the Nexus series in the early 2010s. But it has long struggled to […]

–Total SIM registration hits 189m —Says those without NIN risk 7 or 14-yrs imprisonment —1,700 centers spread across Nigeria By Johnbosco Agbakwuru THE Federal Government on Thursday said about fifty one (51) million Nigerians have so far completed their enrollment in the ongoing National Identity Number, NIN. The Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Dr […]

The Federal Government says it has so far enrolled 51million citizens for the National Identification Number (NIN) as at March 31, 2021. Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami, made this known at the weekly Presidential Media briefing organized by the Presidential Communication Media Team in Abuja on Thursday. He also revealed that […]

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, says over one billion dollars would accrue to government from the sale of spectrum after completion of the Digital Switch Over (DSO). The minister stated this on Thursday in Abuja when he featured on the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) flagship interview programme, NANForum. NAN reports […]

By Prince Osuagwu Nigeria’s present disposition on cryptocurrency may not stand for too long. This is as almost all world economies are adjusting their trade activities to accommodate crypto transactions. The means of payment is also attracting new investors and appreciable use cases. Cryptocurrency, sometimes, simply called crypto, is a digital currency that can be […]

By Cynthia Alo WORRIED by the non -avail ability of structured platforms to enable millions of Africans at home and in diaspora, have personal and group funding platforms, a Lagos-based technology firm, Xerde Limited has launched MyTudo, a social financial platform to provide solutions to social funding. The app also drives digital transformation. The app […]

By Prince Osuagwu AHEAD of 5G deployments in Nigeria and other African countries, network backbone provider, Ericsson has launched a new network programmability tool, called 5G Core Policy Studio, to enable communications service providers, CSPs to capture 5G revenue easily. The tool handles the central management of all core network policies and is fully integrated […]

By Prince Osuagwu A recent McKinsey Global Institute report said that in a ‘full potential’ scenario in which women play a similar role in labour markets with men, no less than $28 trillion, could be added to the global annual GDP. The report says that women’s entrepreneurship is a key driver of their economic participation. […]

When Nigerian office worker Chigoziri Okeke bought cryptocurrency for the first time in 2016, he was only looking to make an online payment. But the 10 percent gain on his wallet’s balance after a few days fired up the 27-year-old’s interest. Now, the Lagos resident has more than $50,000 worth of different cryptocurrencies. “After my initial […]

When Nigerian office worker Chigoziri Okeke bought cryptocurrency for the first time in 2016, he was only looking to make an online payment. But the 10 percent gain on his wallet’s balance after a few days fired up the 27-year-old’s interest. Now, the Lagos resident has more than $50,000 worth of different cryptocurrencies. “After my […]

By Juliet Umeh Samsung Nigeria says it is impressed with the opportunity sales outlet, Tech Experience Centre has afforded customers to experience the latest technological transformational devices on display in the Tech Experience Centre, which was opened by TD Africa last October. The commendation coincides with the company’s decision to give its customers discounts on […]

By Juliet Umeh CEO of Data Services Protection Limited, DSPL, Mr. Tunde Balogun has advised Nigerians to protect their personal data from falling into wrong hands else they could be used to commit crimes and other online atrocities. Balogun, who is also the convener of the Association of Licensed Data Protection Compliance Organisations of Nigeria, […]

…Hails StarTimes’ roles towards feat By Prince Osuagwu, Hi-Tech Editor Lagos State is exiting the analogue broadcasting April 29. From that day, broadcast signals will switch to digital and the nation will have successfully put the right steps to the second phase of the national digital switch over project. It is expected to terminate sometime […]