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Apple's next generation of the iPhone will be the first to include wireless charging, according to one of the company's suppliers. Wireless charging will allow owners to place the phone on an inductive surface and it will charge without needing to plug the device in. The new smartphone will also have more advanced waterproofing, a feature missing from the…
June 15, 2017
NASA has unveiled a futuristic Mars rover protoype - which looks rather like Bruce Wayne's Batmobile. The new Mars rover concept vehicle was unveiled at the Kennedy Space Centre Visitor Complex, with the aim of inspiring and educating a new generation of researchers. NASA is continuing to develop its plans to journey to Mars by…
June 9, 2017
By Augustine Osayande The Executive Vice Chairman of Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) Professor Umar Garba Danbatta has said the Commission is prepared to leverage on its 8-Point Agenda to ensure Availability, Accessibility and Affordability of services to every citizen as the telecommunications regulator in the country. Danbatta stated this at the ongoing Digital Africa Conference…
June 7, 2017
A tutoring app developed by a 27-year-old Nigerian has won an engineering award given by the UK's Royal Academy of Engineering. Godwin Benson designed Tuteria, a platform that links qualified tutors to students in their area and within their budget. He developed the platform based on the experiences he had as a tutor. The engineering…
May 24, 2017
Financial institutions and other firms dealing with finances in Nigeria lose up to N127 billion every year to hackers on the cyber space, multinational computer technology corporation, Oracle Nigeria has said. The firm also stated that while this happened, banks in the country kept quiet to it, pretending they never did. It warned that cyber…
May 14, 2017
A massive cyber-attack using tools believed to have been stolen from the US National Security Agency (NSA) has struck organisations around the world. Cyber-security firm Avast said it had seen 75,000 cases of the ransomware - known as WannaCry and variants of that name - around the world. There are reports of infections in 99…
May 13, 2017
Towards boosting the quality services on all telephone networks in the country; the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has called on telecommunications operators to strengthen Quality of Service (QoS) on their various networks in the festive season. The Executive Vice Chairman, Prof. Umar Danbatta gave this advice during the grand finale of the NCC-sponsored Telecoms Cup…
December 18, 2016
Indications emerged Thursday morning that Ericsson Nigeria, the local subsidiary of the global telecommunications solutions provider, has disengaged about 160 permanent and outsourced workers in its Network Operating Centre. It was gathered that disengagement, which takes effect on Sunday, December 4, 2016, affected 55 full-time employees of the company. According to anonymous sources in the…
December 1, 2016
Following the myriad of complaints that trailed the directive to introduce price floor for the data segment of the telecommunications sector beginning from 1st of December, this year, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has suspended the move. The decision to suspend the directive, according to NCC’s Director, Public Affairs, Tony Ojobo, was taken after due…
November 30, 2016
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Apple's next generation of the iPhone will be the first to include wireless charging, according to one of the company's suppliers. Wireless charging will allow owners to place the phone on an inductive surface and it will charge without needing to plug the device in. The new smartphone will also have more advanced waterproofing, a feature missing from the…
June 15, 2017
NASA has unveiled a futuristic Mars rover protoype - which looks rather like Bruce Wayne's Batmobile. The new Mars rover concept vehicle was unveiled at the Kennedy Space Centre Visitor Complex, with the aim of inspiring and educating a new generation of researchers. NASA is continuing to develop its plans to journey to Mars by…
June 9, 2017
By Augustine Osayande The Executive Vice Chairman of Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) Professor Umar Garba Danbatta has said the Commission is prepared to leverage on its 8-Point Agenda to ensure Availability, Accessibility and Affordability of services to every citizen as the telecommunications regulator in the country. Danbatta stated this at the ongoing Digital Africa Conference…
June 7, 2017
A tutoring app developed by a 27-year-old Nigerian has won an engineering award given by the UK's Royal Academy of Engineering. Godwin Benson designed Tuteria, a platform that links qualified tutors to students in their area and within their budget. He developed the platform based on the experiences he had as a tutor. The engineering…
May 24, 2017
Financial institutions and other firms dealing with finances in Nigeria lose up to N127 billion every year to hackers on the cyber space, multinational computer technology corporation, Oracle Nigeria has said. The firm also stated that while this happened, banks in the country kept quiet to it, pretending they never did. It warned that cyber…
May 14, 2017
A massive cyber-attack using tools believed to have been stolen from the US National Security Agency (NSA) has struck organisations around the world. Cyber-security firm Avast said it had seen 75,000 cases of the ransomware - known as WannaCry and variants of that name - around the world. There are reports of infections in 99…
May 13, 2017
Towards boosting the quality services on all telephone networks in the country; the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has called on telecommunications operators to strengthen Quality of Service (QoS) on their various networks in the festive season. The Executive Vice Chairman, Prof. Umar Danbatta gave this advice during the grand finale of the NCC-sponsored Telecoms Cup…
December 18, 2016
Indications emerged Thursday morning that Ericsson Nigeria, the local subsidiary of the global telecommunications solutions provider, has disengaged about 160 permanent and outsourced workers in its Network Operating Centre. It was gathered that disengagement, which takes effect on Sunday, December 4, 2016, affected 55 full-time employees of the company. According to anonymous sources in the…
December 1, 2016
Following the myriad of complaints that trailed the directive to introduce price floor for the data segment of the telecommunications sector beginning from 1st of December, this year, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has suspended the move. The decision to suspend the directive, according to NCC’s Director, Public Affairs, Tony Ojobo, was taken after due…
November 30, 2016
