In a great development for the African blockchain space, Xend Finance the first decentralized finance (DeFi) platform in the continent has announced the continent’s largest hackathon. Dubbed “Decentralising Africa and Beyond”, the first Xend Finance DeFi Hackathon is focused on promoting the dreams and visions of blockchain and cryptocurrency as well as decentralizing the financial […]

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 […]