By Okoh Aihe Understandably the Nigerian government last week hailed media entrepreneur and emerging movie maker, Mo Abudu, for notching up a deal with global streaming outfit, Netflix, for on-screen adaptation of Wole Soyinka’s ‘Death and The King’s Horseman’ and Lola Shoneyin’s ‘The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives’. The partnership described by the Minister […]

By Rasheed Sobowale Facebook’s $19 billion acquired company, WhatsApp, has after a long expectation unveiled its payment feature which will allow users of the messaging app to send and receive money. The new feature was on Monday launched in Brazil, a country with about 120 million users of the app, the second-largest after India which […]

By Juliet Umeh Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Folio Communications Limited, Mr. Fidelis Anosike, has charged Nigerian youths to take bold steps into their future if they hoped to break even. Anosike said his advice, coming on the heels of his resignation from the company’s board, was premised on today’s economic realities. Anosike also […]

Huawei has launched an intelligent collaboration product called IdeaHub, to drive enterprise collaboration in the in Sub Saharan Africa region. The online product launch themed “Huawei IdeaHub-Intelligence at Your Fingertips” was attended by over 300 African business leaders and ICT experts, who exchanged views on digitisation of African enterprises. Distance Economy, people will likely stay […]

By Prince Osuagwu, Hi-Tech Editor The Federal Government, Thursday, said it had commenced policy formulation to direct 5G (the 5th generation mobile network) deployment in Nigeria. The technology is a new global wireless standard after 1G, 2G, 3G and 4G networks. 5G enables a new kind of network that is designed to connect virtually everyone […]

Chris Ochayi – Abuja The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, AEDC, announced it has in collaboration with Aquivis Technologies Limited, successful deployment of a smart high-tension overhead line fault circuit locator in Nigeria. This smart grid outage management solution deployed for the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, AEDC, according to a statement issued by the company, is […]

The Vskit Nigeria Marketing Manager, Sean Shu, has said ease of use and sharing of materials on social media, especially as the COVID-19 pandemic rages, are some of the features that have endeared the video-sharing platform to celebrities. In a statement, on Wednesday, Shu said more Nigerians are taking to other means to get themselves […]

By Prince Osuagwu, Hi-Tech Editor The smartphone segment is where the competition in the mobile market is headed. The upset is alarming and the intrigues are interesting. It would have been unthinkable, some few years ago to suggest that Tecno, a mobile Original Equipment Manufacturer, OEM, derided by many at entry to the market, will […]

By Okoh Aihe The big news last week in the telecommunications industry was the reappointment of Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta as the Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). In the manner of practice in this part of the world, felicitations are pouring in from far and wide because, as it is in […]

By Prince Osuagwu Nigerian-based software engineering firm, Decagon Institute has developed a mobile application for easy communication of COVID-19 information. Already, Kaduna state is said to be leveraging on the application to disseminate its COVID-19 messages effectively to its 3.9 million citizens. The Decagon app serves as a communication dissemination tool to the government or […]