By Rasheed Sobowale Online retail giant, Amazon, has greenlighted South Africa, as the home to its African Headquarters. This was indicated by South African media in their reportage of the approval of a R4 billion (N114 billion) River Club mixed-use development project. The project according to a local media intends to create a 150,000 square […]

By Prince Osuagwu CEO of Trade technology company, Webb Fontaine, Mr Alioune Ciss, is a tech professional with cognate experience in Trade and Customs field. His job entails strategically bringing together new technologies and ideas to  implement and change mindsets. He has worked in different international fronts including the United Nations Conference on Trade and […]

By Juliet Umeh As the online advertising industry counts down to the total extinction of third-party cookies, online advertisers and digital marketers have been urged to test new solutions now rather than later. This was a consensus call at a recent webinar organized by Terragon Limited in conjunction with Facebook. The Webinar titled: Online Advertising […]

By Juliet Umeh Telephone search engine and caller identification, ID service provider,  Truecaller, has introduced a new identity solution, Truecaller Business Identity, for businesses to reinforce safety and eliminate fraud. The enterprise solution makes business calls tamper-proof and increases consumer safety by preventing fraud and scam calls. It allows businesses to verify their identities using […]

China has made initial achievements in building the world’s largest 5G mobile network. Liu Liehong, vice minister, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) on Monday said in a briefing that the country has built a total of 792,000 5G base stations at the end of February. Liehong said this made the number of mobile […]

By Emmanuel Elebeke The federal government has approved the activation of new SIM card registration with mandatory NIN. The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Ali Pantami, who issued the directive on Thursday said the approval was in line with the Revised National Digital Identity Policy for SIM Card Registration. A statement by […]

By Prince Osuagwu & Emmanuel Elebeke The Federal Government yesterday lifted the ban on new Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card registration, giving Nigerians who desire to get new lines a reprieve. However, this time around, only those who have registered and obtained their National Identity Number (NIN), will be able to do so as the […]

…Apologises to Nigerians By Chris Ochayi The Minister of Power Engr. Sale Mamman has tendered an apology to all Nigerians affected by the power outage currently being experienced across the country. Engr. Mamman who described the situation as unfortunate in a statement issued by Aaron Arrtmas, his media aide in Abuja, however, attributed the situation […]

By Juliet Umeh TO equip journalists with the requisite skills and knowledge needed to boost reportage and adapt effectively to the dynamic media landscape, telecommunication service provider, 9mobile, held a capacity-building session for them recently. The training session was facilitated by the Regional Editor (West Africa), The Conversation Africa, Adejuwon Soyinka. Speaking on the theme […]

Alibaba Group, the world’s biggest e-commerce company, was fined 18.3 billion yuan ($2.8 billion) by Chinese regulators on Saturday for anti-competitive tactics, as the ruling Communist Party tightens control over fast-growing tech industries. Party leaders worry about the dominance of China’s biggest internet companies, which are expanding into finance, health services and other sensitive areas. […]

Some Nigerians on Wednesday expressed divergent views on the extension of the National Identification Number (NIN) and Subscribers Identification Module (SIM) linkage by the Federal government. The subscribers and vendors reacted in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. NAN reports that April 6, was supposed to be the deadline for […]

By Prince Osuagwu As African countries continue to blaze the trail in world mobile money growth, Sub-Saharan Africa, however has the largest number of mobile money users, the largest transaction volume as well as transaction value worldwide. Also, Western Africa registers the second largest share of mobile money accounts in the continent. However, Nigeria, the […]

By Prince Osuagwu The new Galaxy A12 may not be one of Samsung’s flagship smartphones, but it is packed with exciting and innovative features only previously seen in Note and S series. The Galaxy A12 is a mid-range smartphone, with aesthetically appealing modifications, making the smartphone a stunning device. The device ticks the box for […]

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 […]