Sponsored prototypes showcased The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has put the Federal Government’s push to encourage indigenous innovative technology in Nigeria’s telecommunications sector into action. The NCC demonstrated this by hosting the first prototype and research exposition, which featured no less than ten prototypes resulting from its sponsored Telecommunications-Based Research […]
Year: 2022
Following President Muhammadu Buhari’s signing of the new electoral bill into law, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) released a new timetable for the 2023 elections on Saturday, with the conduct of party primaries, including the resolution of disputes arising from them, now scheduled for April 4, 2022, to June […]
Seizes Heroin, others going to US, UK, Canada; recovers over 1,000kg in Kano, Abuja, Adamawa raids At least 649,300 Tramadol 225mg capsules and 809,850 Euros in cash were among consignments from Pakistan, Austria, and Italy intercepted at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja, Lagos, where operatives from the […]
Bharti Airtel announced on Friday that it has agreed to purchase Vodafone’s 4.7 percent ownership in Indus Towers on the condition that the revenues be used to invest in Vodafone Idea and pay off the mobile tower company’s debts. Debt-ridden Vodafone Idea (VIL) has been unable to pay its debts […]
Following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine on Thursday, nations around the world imposed wide penalties on Russian firms, banks, and politicians. Due to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, YouTube stated on Saturday that it would prohibit specific Russian channels from selling their videos, among other restrictions. “We’re taking a number of initiatives […]
Nigerians including members of the Nigeria Police Force management team led by Inspector General of Police (IGP) Baba Usman Alkali were in July, 2021 taken aback when the media broke the news that a United States District Court in California had indicted the Commander of Nigeria’s Police Intelligence Response (IRT); […]
The Nigerian Communications Commission’s Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) has found new dangerous software that steals Android users’ banking app login information. According to a security bulletin from the NCC CSIRT, the malicious software known as “Xenomorph,” which has been discovered to target 56 European financial institutions, has a […]
Mrs Sherifat Kehinde Lawal, a major drug kingpin operating the notorious Patey Lagos Island drug haven in Lagos state, was arrested along with six other suspects by NDLEA operatives who also recovered 5,862 kilograms of assorted illicit drugs including Loud and Codeine in a raid on Saturday 26th February 2022. […]
MTN Communications Nigeria PLC and Mafab Communications Limited, the provisional winners of the 3.5 Gigahertz (GHz) spectrum license, have paid the Nigerian Communications Commission $273.6 million each for the 5G Spectrum license. Prof. Umar Danbatta, Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), announced the payment status today, February […]
On Wednesday, Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu introduced the Adopt-a-Bin program, which would first deploy 40,000 conventional dumpsters to households and commercial establishments. The Adopt-A-Bin Programme has been carefully designed to encourage effective waste management in the state, with a focus on garbage sorting at the source of generation. Sanwo-Olu, […]