In its attempt to bridge the gender digital divide and promote digital literacy and skills amongst the women folk, the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has commenced a five day women training program dubbed “Women ICT Techprenuership” The training which is an intervention of NITDA to help in the […]
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“Detty December” came early for Party Kings and Queens at the anticipated 2021 Lagos Margarita Festival sponsored by Vbank. Renowned Disk Jockeys: DJ Lambo, DJ Poppaey, DJ Obi and DJ Tgarbs teamed up with Festival Hosts: Sheye Banks and Ada Ohh, taking their Turn Up fans by storm over the […]
MTN Nigeria Communications Plc (MTN Nigeria) is thrilled to have won one of the two 100MHz 3.5GHz spectrum licenses auctioned by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). This is a big step in realizing the objectives of Nigeria’s National Broadband Plan, according to Nigeria’s foremost Mobile Network Operator (MNO) (2020-25). According […]
Between September and November 2021, 475 people were convicted and sentenced to varying prison terms after the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, filed charges against them in Federal High Courts around the country. The figure is a fraction of the roughly 1,000 drug offenders who were sentenced to prison […]
Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) has held its annual Christmas Carol/End of The Year Thanksgiving service to celebrate the goodness of God to the agency in the year 2021. The event, themed: “Unlimited Praise”, took place at the Authority’s headquarters, Ijora Olopa, with LAWMA’s management and staff, as well as […]
Professor Adeeolu Akande, Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of telecommunications sector regulatory body, the Nigerian Communications Commission(NCC), has explained that spectrum plays a strategic role in meeting demand for advanced mobile data services According to him, telecommunications service consumers, especially for advanced mobile data services as well as a […]
The Nigerian Communications Commission has announced MTN Nigeria and Mafab Communications as the winners of the two slots in the 3.5GHz spectrum auction for Fifth Generation (5G) network licenses (NCC). According to Professor Umar Danbatta, executive vice-chairman of the NCC and auction overseer, the bids finished at $273 million […]
Orders Deployment Of X-Squad, Force Provost And Monitoring Unit To Police The Police Ahead Of The Yuletide The Inspector General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba has ordered Commissioners of Police in the thirty-six (36) States of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), their supervisory Assistant Inspectors General […]
Cybersafe foundation, one of Nigeria’s foremost non-governmental organization in the information security domain has launched the DigiGirls training programmes inpatnership with the United Kingdom (UK) government DigiGirls training program organised by Cybersafe Foundation is funded by the Foreign Development and Commonwealth Office of UK Government. The program is set to […]
The national coordinator of Progressive Shareholders Association, Okezie Boniface, said MTN Group’s decision to sell up to 575 million shares in MTN Nigeria to institutional and retail investors will make a Nigerian company. He made the commendation at an investors’ forum held in Lagos this week saying it would allow […]