With a record-breaking seven million new subscriptions in the last seven months starting in November 2021, Nigeria’s broadband penetration showed a quantum leap, suggesting a sustained growth in the country’s effort to reach 70 per cent national coverage by the year 2025. Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, […]
Year: 2022
Ibrahim Odumboni, the Managing Director/CEO of the Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA), has reaffirmed the agency’s commitment to removing all trash produced during the Sallah celebrations in order to leave the city sustainably clean. He made the comment as he assessed the Authority’s degree of readiness to deal with the […]
Contrary to reports that the whereabouts of embattled Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari who is confined in Kuje Correctional Center, Abuja over drug-related offences with other high profile prisoners were unknown after the attack on Tuesday, it was revealed, yesterday, that he narrowly escaped death during the attack. Dependable […]
Lord Dollar Popat, a member of the UK House of Lords and the Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, and Rwanda, has bestowed the African Leadership Organisation’s prestigious Special African Leadership Commendation Award on Kashifu Inuwa, CCIE, Director-General of the National Information Technology Development […]
After 17 years of meritorious service, former Director of Spectrum Administration Department of the Nigerian Communications Commission, Engr. Oluwatoyin Asaju, has bowed out of the regulatory body, with encomiums from management and industry experts, after turning 60. Engr. Asaju who led the team that managed the 3.5Ghz Band Auction process […]
Nigeria’s former Vice President Alhaji Atiku Abubakar (Waziri Adamawa), will this Thursday, 7th July 2022 lead a pack of eminent Nigerians to the Oriental Hotel, Lekki, Lagos for the launch and public presentation of the book: Nigeria DRIVERS OF DIGITAL PROSPERITY, The Trajectories Of The Digital Evolution, Sector Analysis And Players’ […]
The Nigerian Communications Commission’s support for sports development, particularly the popular NCC-sponsored youth tennis championship, dominated discussions at the weekend launch of a book on sports in Nigeria in Lagos. The Commission was recognized as a patriotic corporate institution that has supported sports in Nigeria at the grassroots at the […]
Sunday Dare, Nigeria’s Minister of Youth and Sports Development, was at the ‘Futball City,’ built by the Portuguese Football Federation as the home of Portuguese football. Dare was shown around the massive facility by Ana Catrina, Minister of Sports in Portugal, Teresa Romao, General Secretary and Vice President of the […]
Youth and Sports Development Minister Sunday Dare, on behalf of Nigeria, signed two Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with Portugal in the areas of sports and youth development. The first Memorandum of Understanding will see Nigeria and Portugal participate in fruitful exchange programs and facilitate expertise transfer for sports development, among […]
Kashifu Inuwa CCIE, Director-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), has praised Jumia for deploying Information and Communications Technology (ICT) resources to reform the e-commerce sector and boost the country’s economic growth. The NITDA DG made the remarks while speaking on the role of ICT in shaping the […]