The Nigeria Information Technology Reporters’ Association (NITRA) are billed for a one-day Capacity training on Blockchain technology, bearing in mind the evolving trends in digital currency and technologies. The training which will be facilitated by frontline Cybersecurity and Consultancy firm, Digital Encode in Lagos, will cover areas that include Digital […]
Month: November 2021
As part of activities to mark 10th anniversary, CyberAfrica, a Pan-African Information and Communications Technology magazine has instituted a ‘Pan-African Digital Economy Award’, which is targeted at celebrating digital innovations across all sectors on the continent. Disclosing this in a short statement in Abuja, the Managing Editor of CyberAfrica magazine, […]
A 25-year-old lady, Chioma Okocha and five men: Ndubuisi John, Haruna Aliyu, Saddam Abdullahi, Bashir Usman, and Usman Ibrahim have been sentenced to a total of 141 years imprisonment for trafficking in Cocaine and Cannabis Sativa by Federal High Courts sitting in Benin, Edo and Abeokuta, Ogun state respectively. Chioma […]
Healthtech startup, DrugStoc has raised USD 4.4 million in Series A funding to expand access to quality medicines while providing sustainable supply chain financing for healthcare providers in Sub-Saharan Africa. The funding round is led by Africa HealthCare Master Fund (AAIC), and other investors include Chicago-based venture firm Vested World […]
Dr. Bayero Agabi, founder and chief executive officer of DigiVation Network and the Deputy Governor of Lagos State Dr. Obafemi Hamsat, will be among those to be conferred fellows of the Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) at this year’s National Information Technology Merit Awards (NITMA), While Honourary Fellowship will be conferred […]
The Sectoral Working Group (SWG) of the Nigerian Content Consultative Forum on Information and Communications Technologies (NCCF-ICT) has named the founding Editor-in-chief of ITREALMS Media group, Mr. Remmy Nweke, as chairman of its five-man subcommittee on Awareness and Sensitisation (AS). Other members of the subcommittee includes the Secretary, ICTLOCA, Mr. […]
OPINION: By Olukunle Martins In the past few years, one of the challenges the country have had to grapple with is the level of bigotry, which has dominated our socio-political discourse . Such is the sensitivity of this issue that it has permeated all sectors and affected the perceptions of […]
In keeping with its commitment to continuously keep stakeholders in the country’s telecoms sector informed, educated and protected, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) wishes to, once again, notify the public of the existence of another hacking group orchestrating cyberespionage in the African telecoms space. An Iranian hacking group known as […]
As the three-day 2021 Board and Management Retreat (BMR) organised by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) comes to a close, the Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Commission, Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, has re-emphasised the confidence of Management in the continuous support of its Board of Commissioners […]
Brainstorms on emerging challenges, opportunities Set to Deepen Growth of Telecom Sector As the telecoms sector emerges as a leading contributor to Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and as the nation prepares to launch the Fifth Generation (5G) network in 2022, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has convened the 2021 […]