Pioneer 4G LTE broadband service provider Smile Nigeria has introduced FREE eSIM into the Nigerian market with an offer of 10 FREE off-net local minutes valid for 30 days. The offer yields unlimited FREE on-net voice and SMS and a competitive out-of-bundle rate of N9.20/min. Also, calls are charged per […]
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After a year since its introduction, the eNaira website receives over 2.5 million daily visitors. During the first anniversary of the launch of the eNaira on Tuesday in Lagos, the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, said this. The Nigerian government has created eNaira, a digital currency […]
At the weekend in Lagos, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) received a cybersecurity promotion award at the maiden edition of the Cybersecurity Merit Awards hosted by the Cybersecurity Experts Association of Nigeria (CSEAN), which enumerated several steps taken by it to promote a safer Internet. The award, which was conferred […]
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has put up another two slots of spectrum in the 3.5GHz Spectrum band for auction before the end of 2022, to boost the deployment of Fifth Generation (5G) services in Nigeria. The process, which was made public on 21st October 2022 with the publication of […]
The ICT industry has regularly had a double-digit contribution to the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) during the previous three years, according to Prof. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, Minister of Communications and Digital Economy. “In the last three years, the ICT industry made three previously unheard-of contributions to the country’s […]
In an effort to increase local content and encourage economic sustainability in Nigeria, the National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion (NOTAP) has set plans in motion to collaborate with the Nigerian Academy of Science (NAS). Speaking when he received the first female President of NAS and her delegation during […]
Director-General of NITDA, Mallam Kashifu Inuwa, stated this at the Blockchain Summit Day of the agency’s ongoing Digital Nigeria Conference and Exhibition in Abuja. According to Inuwa, the success of cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), Metaverse, and Web3 is beginning to dominate the industrial and financial space. “With Blockchain Technology supporting […]
In alignment with the global best practices through the implementation of the present administration’s National Digital Economy Policy and Strategy (NDEPS), The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) under the supervision of the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy has trained teeming youths on Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented […]
The Director General, National Information Technology Development Agency, (NITDA) Kashifu Inuwa, CCIE, has said Nigeria has a competitive advantage to continue positioning itself as the global talent factory in the areas of technology, sports, music, and movie industries. Inuwa made this known when he received the Chief Executive Officer, (CEO) of Outsource Global, […]
The Federal Government, in its stride to upscale the impact of digitisation, has partnered with Coursera, a global online digital skills acquisition platform to launch a free nationwide digital training programme through the collaborative efforts of the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy (FMoCDE) towards the implementation of the […]