Technology

Telecommunications operators added new 1.95m new subscribers to telephony networks in the country between July and August this year. Specifically, the figure moved from 174.9m in July to 176.8m in August, representing a 1.02 per cent increase in the country’s ...

IGP congratulates, assures Nigerians of hitch-free celebration As the country celebrates its 59th independence anniversary today, professionals have urged Nigerians and organisations to leverage innovation, data and the nation’s young population to build a united and economically viable country. Speaking at ...

Players in the Value Added Service (VAS) segment of Nigeria’s telecommunications market have decried the adverse impact of the ‘Do-Not-Disturb’ (DND) activation on their operations nationwide. According to the operators, under the aegis of Wireless Application Service Providers Association of ...

The Nigeria Implementation Science Alliance (NISA) has urged the Federal Government to initiate comprehensive health interventions to address all communicable and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in the country. Speaking at the 2019 NISA Conference in Abuja, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Chair ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has restated the need for adequate training and provision of special funding to support Nigerian engineers if the nation desires to make progress. He argued that since it was right to say that ‘without engineers, there ...

The Federal Government is to develop appropriate technologies for credible elections and containment of violence. The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, disclosed this while addressing newsmen at his maiden press conference in Abuja. He expressed determination to ...

Social media platform, Facebook, in partnership with Africa Check, has added a new local language support for several African languages to fortify its third party fact-checking programme. The initiative helps to assess the accuracy of news on the platform, thereby ...

Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde is to establish an emergency communication centre for distress calls on security and other issues of urgent concerns in the state. The governor dropped the hint when he received the management of the Nigerian Communications ...

The Paradigm Initiative has raised concern about whether the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) regulation could be substituted for a comprehensive data protection law. Such a law, it noted, should be compliant with best global standards such as the ...

Offers $3m grant for education in underserved areas Technology firm, Google has extended its street view navigation system to four more cities in Nigeria after Lagos. The newly mapped cities are Abuja, Benin City, Enugu and Ibadan. The street view ...