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Social Media

Report of Social Media Activities Monitoring By Nigerian Govt is False, Says Minister’s Aide

Report circulating in the social media that the Nigerian Government beginning from tomorrow, February 20 will started monitoring activities of Nigerian on the social media is fake news. The report, which had the name of the Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ibrahim Pantami on it suggested that government is also monitoring the […]

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Internet

About 64 % of Nigerians Don’t Know When they are Under Cyber Attack

The 2019 KnowBe4 has revealed that about 64 % of Nigerians don’t known when they are under cyber attack and may not even know what to do. Others don’t even recognise a security incident or issue if they saw one while more than a quarter had fallen for a scam. Nigeria one of the African […]

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Telecoms

Nigerian Govt Receives 2020-2025 National Broadband Plan C’ttee Report

The Nigerian Government has received the draft report of the National Broadband Plan Committee 2020-2025, which expected upon implementation to set stage for a new level of industry growth and development. Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, received the draft report from the Chairman of the Committee, Ms Funke Opeke, […]

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Cloud Infrastructure

MDXi Partners Microsoft, HPE to Unveil First Locally Available Stack Cloud Offering at Nerds Unite

MDXi, MainOne’s data center subsidiary, will announce the local offering of Microsoft’s Azure Stack to its customers as part of its ‘Managed Cloud Services’. The Stack platform provided in partnership with Microsoft and HPE will be unveiled at MainOne’s 5th annual gathering of customers, partners and tech professionals, called Nerds Unite. With the introduction of […]

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Internet

Valued-Added Platform Services to Fuel IoT $8b Revenue Forecast

The total number of 5G connections will reach 1.5 billion globally by 2025, rising from only 5 million in 2019. This is an annual average growth of 150% over the next 6 years. The new research, Networks in IoT: Sector Analysis & Impact Assessment 2020-2025, anticipated that revenue from these 5G connections is a highly […]

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StartUps

Pan-African Community of Hubs Unveils Innovation Policy

i4Policy, a pan-African community of over 160 innovation hubs in 45 countries across Africa, has launched a continental consultation to shape the next version of the Africa Innovation Policy Manifesto. i4Policy emerged from a gathering of innovation hubs from across Africa, organised in Kigali, Rwanda in October 2016, and in May 2018 a group of […]

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Technology

Nokia Plans 5G Certification at Associate & Professional Level to Boost Knowledge on Planning, Design

Nokia is launching a certification program to help industry professionals realize the full business potential of end-to-end 5G networks at associate and professional level. The Nokia Bell Labs End-to-End 5G Certification Program is a first-of-its-kind program that will offer professionals across the information and communications technology (ICT) industry two levels of certification – Associate and […]

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StartUps

Solar Startup Daystar Power Daises $4m Debt Funding

Nigeria’s solar startup Daystar Power has gained access to a debt funding facility of up to US$4 million from SunFunder to help it scale further. Daystar Power specialises in providing solar power and energy efficiency solutions for businesses in the commercial, industrial, and agricultural sectors that result in at least a 20 per cent reduction […]

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Digital Leadership Series

The 9 Dimensions of Innovation for Digital Leaders

Innovation is at the core of business development – whatever stage of the business. With rapid developments in digital technology come more opportunities to adopt technology that will help organisations to experiment with innovation and explore different development frameworks. Many of these opportunities stem particularly from developments in information and communication technologies and the growth […]

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Internet

Cyber Crooks Succeed Breaching SA Bank IT System on Val Eve, 1.7m Customers Affected

Nedbank service provider’s IT systems have been breached, exposing the big four bank’s personal information of up to 1.7 million clients. In a statement on the eve of valentine celebration, the bank said it has investigated a data security issue that occurred at the premises of a third-party service provider, namely Computer Facilities. Computer Facilities […]

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