The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has announced the 2nd Edition of its Village Square Dialogue (VSD) would take place Thursday, May 26, 2022, in Kano State, as part of the telecoms sector regulating Commission’s planned, multistakeholder consumer outreach initiative. According to ConsumerConnect, The NCC announced the forum on its corporate […]
The Ministry of Education has begun five-day robotics and coding training workshop for Federal Unity College coaches (FUCs). The program is in collaboration with the Coderina Education and Technology Foundation and the Technology and Service Education Development’s Continuing Professional Development (CPD) scheme. The coaches gathered on Monday at Queens College […]
Says cart pushers constitute security challenges The Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) has destroyed more than 400 carts, confiscated from pushers, who serially dump waste at unauthorised locations across the city, in clear violation of environmental laws of the state. Commenting on the exercise which took place at LAWMA’s Ogudu […]
The Lagos State Police Command has been alerted about a social media post by a nameless DSS officer alleging a cover-up by the police in the terrible lynching of David Imoh on May 12, 2022. The Command desires to disprove this report as nothing more than a deviously designed piece […]
FirstBank has launched a promotion in cooperation with Interswitch to reward users of the FirstMobile app, its industry-leading mobile banking application. FirstMobile Cash-out is the name of the promotion. The promotion will last three months. The promotion, which began on Monday, March 21, 2022, will end on Tuesday, June 21, […]
To avoid potential cyber vulnerabilities, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has recommended telecom customers and other Information and Communications Technology (ICT) end-users to always enable automatic update features for AVAST and AVG antiviruses. This was featured in recent advice issued by the Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT), the Commission’s […]
The Federal Government of Nigeria has announced a new tax on phone calls in the country to pay for free healthcare for the vulnerable group. This is despite recent initiatives by telecommunications firms to raise their service prices due to an unfavourable operating environment. The telecom tax of at least […]
The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Ali Pantami, has re-echoed the need for key players in the sector to create value within the digital economy using data to enhance the process. Prof. Pantami said this while launching the World Development Report 2021 in Abuja. The Minister who […]
A Lagos mobile court at Bolade Oshodi, headed by magistrate T. O. Fashina, has jailed for three months (3-months) a 32-year-old environmental offender, Abubakar Sanni, who posed under the guise of cart pushing, to vandalise and steal iron rods at Karim Kotun area of Victoria Island, Lagos. The Managing Director/CEO […]
The National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion (NOTAP) is slated to begin ranking Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer Offices (IPTTOs) around the country in order to foster demand-driven research and propel Nigeria into the comity of technologically independent nations. The establishment of IPTTOs in the Nigerian knowledge institutions across […]
