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The internet users increased marginally to 98.3million in November, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has said. The NCC made this disclosure in its Monthly Internet Subscribers Data for December 2017 on its website on Thursday in Abuja. According to the data, Airtel, MTN and Glo gained more internet subscribers during the month in review while…
February 9, 2018
Twenty-three African states, including Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya, have launched a single aviation market in a bid to boost connectivity, reduce fares and stimulate economic growth on a continent widely considered the most expensive and inconvenient to fly around, reports FT. Three decades after the concept was first proposed, the 55-member African Union on…
January 29, 2018
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has debunked media reports that one of the five bidders seeking to acquire 9Mobile, Nigeria’s fourth largest mobile network which is indebted to some banks, is being preferred above others. The telecommunications regulator and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) had last year appointed an interim Board and Management to…
January 12, 2018
By 'Dotun Akintomide Less than 24 hours after a system collapse was expressed within the Lagos transmission region, the blackout woes spread across Nigeria Wednesday after efforts by the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) to restore electricity failed, following a second system collapse of transmission network at exactly 14.19 hours. According to TCN, the second…
January 4, 2018
Chinese are likely to leave the house without our IDs than our smartphones. That's the idea behind a pilot program in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province, which intends to eliminate the need for Chinese citizens to carry their physical ID cards as early as next year. The first "virtual national identity card" was issued during…
December 29, 2017
As a result of the high rate of e-banking fraud in Nigeria, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has collaborated with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and stakeholders in the sector to fight the menace. NCC at a one-day interactive workshop in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital said that all hands must be on deck…
December 27, 2017
Dangote Refinery currently under construction would save Nigeria $12 billion annual import substitution, create 4,000 direct jobs and crash prices of petroleum products. Mr Babajide Soyode, the Technical Consultant to Alhaji Aliko Dangote, said the project would add value to the economy as it would also create 145,000 indirect jobs. He said that the refinery…
December 14, 2017
By 'Dotun Akintomide Shrouded in water-tight secrecy, the $80 billion (N16trn) nuclear plants' deal signed last October by the incumbent administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has been described by concerned activists' groups as a looming catastrophe hanging on Nigeria's civil population, worse than the deadly sect, Boko Haram and its unending holocaust. According to snippets…
December 12, 2017
Nigeria’s electricity generation has hit 7,000 megawatts, the highest in the history of Nigeria, but a large proportion of the generation is idle. Reports say that only 5,000 megawatts had been utilised, leaving 2,000 megawatts idle. Mr Babatunde Fashola, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, complained that only a part of the generation had…
December 12, 2017
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The internet users increased marginally to 98.3million in November, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has said. The NCC made this disclosure in its Monthly Internet Subscribers Data for December 2017 on its website on Thursday in Abuja. According to the data, Airtel, MTN and Glo gained more internet subscribers during the month in review while…
February 9, 2018
Twenty-three African states, including Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya, have launched a single aviation market in a bid to boost connectivity, reduce fares and stimulate economic growth on a continent widely considered the most expensive and inconvenient to fly around, reports FT. Three decades after the concept was first proposed, the 55-member African Union on…
January 29, 2018
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has debunked media reports that one of the five bidders seeking to acquire 9Mobile, Nigeria’s fourth largest mobile network which is indebted to some banks, is being preferred above others. The telecommunications regulator and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) had last year appointed an interim Board and Management to…
January 12, 2018
By 'Dotun Akintomide Less than 24 hours after a system collapse was expressed within the Lagos transmission region, the blackout woes spread across Nigeria Wednesday after efforts by the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) to restore electricity failed, following a second system collapse of transmission network at exactly 14.19 hours. According to TCN, the second…
January 4, 2018
Chinese are likely to leave the house without our IDs than our smartphones. That's the idea behind a pilot program in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province, which intends to eliminate the need for Chinese citizens to carry their physical ID cards as early as next year. The first "virtual national identity card" was issued during…
December 29, 2017
As a result of the high rate of e-banking fraud in Nigeria, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has collaborated with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and stakeholders in the sector to fight the menace. NCC at a one-day interactive workshop in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital said that all hands must be on deck…
December 27, 2017
Dangote Refinery currently under construction would save Nigeria $12 billion annual import substitution, create 4,000 direct jobs and crash prices of petroleum products. Mr Babajide Soyode, the Technical Consultant to Alhaji Aliko Dangote, said the project would add value to the economy as it would also create 145,000 indirect jobs. He said that the refinery…
December 14, 2017
By 'Dotun Akintomide Shrouded in water-tight secrecy, the $80 billion (N16trn) nuclear plants' deal signed last October by the incumbent administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has been described by concerned activists' groups as a looming catastrophe hanging on Nigeria's civil population, worse than the deadly sect, Boko Haram and its unending holocaust. According to snippets…
December 12, 2017
Nigeria’s electricity generation has hit 7,000 megawatts, the highest in the history of Nigeria, but a large proportion of the generation is idle. Reports say that only 5,000 megawatts had been utilised, leaving 2,000 megawatts idle. Mr Babatunde Fashola, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, complained that only a part of the generation had…
December 12, 2017
