The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ibrahim Pantami has won the Most Outstanding Minister of the Year 2020, from PEOPLE AND POWER MAGAZINE. It was a double award for Pantami when the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy also bagged the Most Outstanding Ministry of the Year […]
Year: 2021
MassChallenge, a global network of zero-equity startup accelerators, and the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) announced last week a partnership to catalyze and support a national startup community in Nigeria. MassChallenge and NITDA have closely aligned goals to stimulate economic vitality and job creation in Nigeria by catalyzing entrepreneurial activity and supporting […]
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and Nigerian Communications Satellite (NigComSat) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that will facilitate the release of contiguous bandwidth in one of the most suitable frequency spectrum bands for early deployment of fifth Generation (5G) Network services in Nigeria. The MoU signing ceremony was […]
Danbatta Gives Account of 5-year Stewardship, Sets Priorities for Second Term executive vice chairman and chief executive officer of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, recently,hosted an interactive session with senior media chiefs from the mainstream and online media community where he gave impressive accounts of his […]
Temi Adebayo, a Nigerian Born Photographer and a Member of Royal Times of Nigeria editorial team, has won the prestigious International Photography Award of the British Journal of Photography (BJP) award 2020. His photograph, captioned Hu:Man, was selected as part of the award winning photographs of the year 2020 which […]
. Fake Police Officer Nabbed With 76kg Skunk In Adamawa An 80-year-old woman, Mrs. Mary Adebayo, her 19-year-old granddaughter, Funmilola Adebayo and two other ladies have been arrested in Akure, the Ondo state capital by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEAS, for selling assorted illicit drugs like […]
NIN Enrolment Reaches 54 Million The Federal Government has approved the extension of the deadline for NIN-SIM data verification to the 30th of June, 2021. The extension was as a result of the virtual meeting chaired by the Honourable Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, […]
. 400-level varsity student nabbed for selling drugs on campus Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have raided some eateries in Jos, the Plateau state capital where freshly baked cakes made with cannabis sativa were recovered in addition to 48.726kilogrammes of assorted psychotropic substances. Some of the drug […]
MTN Nigeria Communications Plc has announced its unaudited results for the quarter ended 31 March 2021 The Telecommunications giant, reveals that its mobile subscribers declined by 5 million to 71.5 million due to the effects of customer churn and the regulatory restrictions on new SIM sales and activations. The telecom […]
The speakers at the third edition of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) dialogue have reiterated the importance of powering businesses, whether big or small, with technology and digital transformation in order to guarantee growth. MSME Dialogue, a quarterly event which took place on April 24, 2021 was organized by […]