Ecobank Nigeria Celebrates ‘Africa Day’

Ecobank Nigeria has joined other Africans at home and in diaspora to commemorate the Africa Day 2019. The Africa Day celebrated May 25th is a commemorative annual event celebrated as…

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MainOne to Invest N25b for Digitisation of Lagos

MainOne launches its “Digital Lagos: Broadband for All” campaign initiative to enable the digital transformation of Lagos state West Africa’s connectivity and data centre solutions provider, MainOne has launched its…

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Nigeria’s Teledensity Swing Up by 91% as Active Subscribers Increase to 173.7 Million

Nigeria’s teledensity as at March stood at 90 % with the active subscribers increasing to 173.7 million. Following the latest statistics, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has clarified that it…

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U. S. Underestimated Huawei, Says Chinese Firm Founder

The United States has temporarily eased trade restrictions on China’s Huawei to minimize disruption for its customers, a move the founder of the world’s largest telecoms equipment maker said meant…

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Stop Using Yahoo & Gmail, ABCON Tells BDCs

The Association of Bureaux De Change Operators of Nigeria (ABCON) has advised over 4,500 Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)-licenced Bureaux de Change (BDCs) to create or activate over 4,000 official/corporate…

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Trump Bans China’s Huawei from Doing Business with U.S. Companies

The Trump administration on Thursday officially added China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd to a trade blacklist, immediately enacting restrictions that will make it extremely difficult for the telecom giant to…

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Uwaje to Preside Over DigitalSENSE Forum on Internet Governance, IPv6 Roundtable

The organisers of the Nigeria DigitalSENSE Africa Forum on Internet Governance for Development (IG4D) and Nigeria IPv6 Roundtable said that the 2019 edition will be presided over by the Chairman…

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Xiaomi introduces Redmi Note 7 to Nigerian market

Xiaomi Corporation has introduced Redmi Note 7, a new smartphone into the Nigerian market. Head, Regional Marketing, Xiaomi Global, Steven Wang, described the new smartphone as the biggest upgrade to…

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Plans to Ban Huawei, in US over Security Fears Heighten, Trump Expected to Sign Order

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order this week barring U.S. companies from using telecommunications equipment made by firms posing a national security risk, paving the way…

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AI in Africa Gets $7m Funding from Tunisia’s InstaDeep

Enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) startup InstaDeep has raised US$7 million in Series A funding from AfricInvest and Endeavor Capital to expand AI opportunities in Africa. Founded in Tunisia in 2014…

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