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Mon, November 5th, 07:39 · Paul Adepoju

Telecoms masts are not harmful, declares Nigeria’s communications minister

Nigeria’s minister of communications technology Omobola Johnson has declared as “untrue” the widely circulating claims that telecoms masts emit substances that are injurious to the human health. → Read more
Fri, November 2nd, 14:13 · Tefo Mohapi

Anonymous Nigeria threatens further attacks on government sites, databases

Anonymous Nigeria, a hacker’s syndicate, have declared that they are planning more cyber attacks in Nigeria as part of “its war against corruption” in the country. → Read more
Fri, November 2nd, 14:02 · Paul Adepoju

Airlines in Nigeria urged to adopt e-Planning to tackle flight delays

Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), the government agency charged with the management of the nation’s airspace, is partnering with other stakeholders to tackle the menace of incessant flight delays at airports across the country by deploying the latest technology. → 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, 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, 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, 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, 14:21 · Robert K'Odingo

Floods and insecurity in Nigeria delay MTN’s network optimisation project

Integrated telecommunications firm MTN has blamed insecurity and the current flooding in parts of Nigeria for posing a challenge to the countrywide upgrade of its base stations. → 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
Wed, October 24th, 12:04 · Tefo Mohapi

iROKO Partners wins trademark infringement case against Iroko TV Movies

iROKO Partners, the world’s largest online distributor of African movies and music, today announced its legal victory against Iroko TV Movies over a domain name that it claimed had been infringing on its trademarks. → Read more
Wed, October 24th, 07:39 · Paul Adepoju

MasterCard endorses Nigeria’s call for transition to cashless economy

Global payment solutions firm MasterCard Worldwide has added voice to the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN’s) call for Nigerians to embrace and switch to the digital regime of a cashless economy. → Read more
Tue, October 23rd, 12:11 · Tefo Mohapi

Dimension Data splits with BMSL for independent operation in Nigeria

South Africa-based global ICT solutions provider Dimension Data has reached an agreement with Beachfront Management Services Limited (BMSL) of Nigeria to end an 8-year relationship in West Africa. → Read more