Articles by Paul Adepoju

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Fri, November 2nd, 10:35 · Paul Adepoju

Ghana’s Internet leader charts course for escalating Africa’s Web use

Ghana’s Nii Quaynor, a leading African Internet figure and the head of the Africa Strategy Working Group (ASWG), has, alongside other stakeholders in Africa’s Internet community, revealed an initiative aimed at improving the continent’s involvement in the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) multi-stakeholder model. → Read more
Fri, November 2nd, 09:49 · Paul Adepoju

China pledges digital media technology assistance to Cameroon

China is assisting Cameroon by granting the West African nation “latest” digital media technology to improve on newsgathering, programmes production and information management, a visiting delegation from China at a discussion with Prime Minister Philemon Yang revealed. → Read more
Fri, November 2nd, 09:19 · Paul Adepoju

Alliance organises forum on Nigeria’s communication satellite Bill

All is now set for the one-day forum organised by the ICT Publishers Alliance to create public awareness on the Nigerian Communications Satellite (NigComSat) bill before the National Assembly. → Read more
Thu, November 1st, 11:52 · Paul Adepoju

Gambian students use mobile phones to control power stations, houses

Two Gambian students have come up with a technology that enables an entire power station to be controlled using a mobile phone. → Read more
Thu, November 1st, 09:10 · Paul Adepoju

Airtel wants national infrastructure priority for telecoms facilities in Nigeria

Nigeria’s government should declare telecommunications equipment in the nation as critical national infrastructure under the Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) arrangement that confers priority and protected status to telecom facilities, according to Airtel Nigeria. → Read more
Wed, October 31st, 11:54 · Paul Adepoju

Nigeria gets first paid to click website

Nigeria-based ICT firm Hexanet Solutions has launched the first pay-per-click (PPC) website in Nigeria named Skorty.com that rewards users for clicking and viewing adverts placed on the site. → Read more
Wed, October 31st, 09:26 · Paul Adepoju

Increased Wi-Fi access will ease Nigeria’s network congestion, CISCO says

A group of professionals from Cisco Systems, world leader in networking solutions, is advocating for increased Wi-Fi access in Nigeria, claiming it can improve Internet user-experience in the country as it is capable of ensuring traffic decongestion known to result from increased mobile data traffic on the Internet service providers (ISPs). → Read more
Wed, October 31st, 07:58 · Paul Adepoju

Experts call for inter-institutional synergy for Nigeria’s software policy implementation

The Nigerian government should create a platform where stakeholders in the nation’s software subsector can interact and become owners, according to Dr. Umar Bindir, the director general of National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion (NOTAP), a government agency that endorses tech advances in the country. → Read more
Wed, October 31st, 07:54 · Paul Adepoju

Solar firm in Nigeria woos Swiss manufacturer of UPS to invest in energy sector

Solar energy solutions firm Powercell Limited has announced a partnership with Newave Energy, a Swiss manufacturer of uninterrupted power supply (UPS) gadgets, to bring massive investments into Nigeria’s budding renewable energy sub-sector. → Read more
Tue, October 30th, 08:05 · Paul Adepoju

Nigerian Senate engages public on sale of police frequency

The Nigerian Senate has urged the members of the public to contribute to the ongoing house inquiry and deliberation on the sale of the Nigerian Police’s 450 MHz frequency band by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). → Read more
Mon, October 29th, 13:01 · Paul Adepoju

Huawei launches smartphones, tablet PC in Ghana

China-based global ICT solutions provider Huawei Technologies has introduced three smartphone brands and a tablet PC into the Ghanaian communications market, to avail itself of the huge potentials presented by the country’s notable smartphone uptake. → Read more
Mon, October 29th, 07:46 · Paul Adepoju

72% of rural Nigerians lack access to telecoms services

Some 72 percent of Nigerians living in rural areas lack access to telephone services within a kilometre “in spite of the phantom successes recorded in the Nigerian telecoms sector”, a survey reveals. → Read more
Fri, October 26th, 13:46 · Paul Adepoju

BREAKING: CAF rejects goal line technology for 2013 Nations Cup

The Confederation of African Football (CAF), Africa’s top football ruling body, has said it will not be using the goal line technology that the football’s global ruling body FIFA approved yesterday. → Read more
Fri, October 26th, 11:56 · Paul Adepoju

Nigeria’s Inlaks integrates 700 rural community banks in Ghana

Nigerian IT solutions firm Inlaks Computers has said it has completed the automation of more than 700 Ghanaian rural and community banks (RCBs) on Temenos T24, a single management software platform for real time online transaction processing. → Read more
Fri, October 26th, 11:27 · Paul Adepoju

Web solutions firm charts course for Nigeria’s ICT growth

Professionalism and excellence are the required yardsticks towards ensuring the growth in Nigeria’s vibrant ICT industry, remarks Bade Ayoade, the managing director of Edusoft Limited, a Nigerian mobile messaging and Web solutions firm. → Read more
Fri, October 26th, 10:01 · Paul Adepoju

Nigerian capacity building outfit bags Microsoft 2012 Valued Partner Award

Software giant Microsoft has announced New Horizons Nigeria, a franchise of the world's largest independent IT training organisation the New Horizons Worldwide, as its 2012 Microsoft Valued partner. → Read more
Fri, October 26th, 09:38 · Paul Adepoju

Phone technology enabling Nigeria’s rural residents to surf in local languages

Nigeria-based IT consultancy firm Adamu Consulting, alongside the Internet USA and the ICT University of Louisiana, is offering a new phone technology called InternetSpeech that allows surfing of the Net in local languages. → Read more
Thu, October 25th, 13:22 · Paul Adepoju

Lagos government to privatize ultramodern e-Learning centre

The government of Lagos State will begin privatization of its state-of-the-art e-Learning centre by December, the state’s commissioner for science and technology Adebiyi Mabadeje has revealed. → Read more
Thu, October 25th, 09:53 · Paul Adepoju

Visafone and RIM launch CDMA-enabled Blackberry smartphones in Nigeria

Visafone has signed a partnership agreement with Blackberry-maker Research in Motion (RIM) in a move viewed as geared towards raising its stake in Nigeria's smartphone and data sector. → Read more
Thu, October 25th, 07:35 · Paul Adepoju

Ghana’s 9 leading banks integrate ATM systems for exclusive operability

Nine banks in Ghana have completed the integration of their information technology systems, enabling their ATMs to accept each other’s cards across the country, Archie Hesse, the CEO of Ghana Interbank, Payment and Settlement Systems (GhIPSS), has revealed. → Read more