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 […]

By Emmanuel Elebeke The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) Prof Umar Danbatta on Tuesday said over 180 million telephone lines are now linked with the National Identity Numbers (NIN). The EVC disclosed this on Tuesday during the Public Inquiry on three Regulatory Instruments on the Rule Making Process at the headquarters […]

By Prince Osuagwu, Hi-Tech Editor & Emmanuel Elebeke     A report by Yahoo Finance has indicated that Facebook founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Mark Zuckerberg, lost more than $6 billion in personal wealth, in the few hours after the crash of Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram on Monday. Recall that the three apps which are all owned […]

By Juliet Umeh The two frontline interest groups in the Nigerian telecom industry; the Association of Telecom Companies of Nigeria, ATCON and Association of Licensed Telecom Operators of Nigeria, ALTON have joined forces with DigiVation Network, an awareness and digital solution firm to celebrate Nigeria’s telecom revolution at 20. The event, which holds in Abuja, […]

By Juliet Umeh Provider of end-to-end Information Technology (IT) system solutions, Cloud Exchange, has launched Africa’s first uptime institute tier IV modular prefabricated data centre in collaboration with telecommunications giant, Huawei. The centre is the highest level of availability threshold obtainable in the world of Data Centres so far. Cloud Exchange said the state-of-the-art data […]

By Juliet Umeh Finding the right tenants, managing real estate portfolios and payment procedures can be daunting in Nigeria. To remove the complexities, a technology-based company, Respay has unveiled suites to enable subscribers have a complete property management solution which addresses the issues seamlessly. Chief Executive Officer of the company, Mr Adedotun Fasiku, said Respay […]

By Rasheed Sobowale Facebook has announced that its platform is back online with an undertone that insinuates things might not be functioning perfectly as it was before, at the moment. In a Tweet announcing the development, Facebook wrote: “To the huge community of people and businesses around the world who depend on us: we’re sorry. […]