NIPOST dumps planned banking services for postal, money orders
…revokes licenses of 14 Courier firms, seals 2 Indications have emerged that the planned transformation of the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) to a digital banking services provider may have been finally jettisoned by the federal government. The agency which is…
Minister hails Microsoft initiative, silent on diversion of $30bn data centre
At a time many Nigerian stakeholders in Information and Communications technology (ICT) are still disturbed on why technology giant, Microsoft summoned courage to dump plan it has publicized and moved its $30bn game changing data centre investment to South Africa,…
FG seeks Indian tech giants’ partnership in new ICT Varsity, bank
The Minister of Communications, Barr Adebayo Shittu has taken his campaign for the takeoff of Nigeria’s ICT University and ICT Development Bank to Indian technology experts who gathered in Lagos on Wednesday, encouraging to partner with Nigeria to deepen the…
FG secures 20 hectres for ICT Varsity campus in Enugu—Minister
The Minister of Communications, Barrister Adebayo Shittu, has secured 20 hectares of land from the Enugu State Government for the Enugu Campus of the ICT University of Nigeria. In a letter of request for additional plots of land personally handed…
ICT Varsity takeoff under threat as Reps hits DBI over N1.2Bn TSA fraud
At a time the Minister of Communications, Barr Adebayo Shittu is warning up to beat his chest that his drive to ICT Varsity in Nigeria is becoming a reality, the House of Representatives Committee on Telecommunications has threatened to sanction…
Digital is future cities, Nigeria can’t afford to lag behind—Osinbajo
…Says implementation’ll be difficult The acting President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, in Abuja on Tuesday, made it clear that as the entire globe is drifting towards digital economy and allied city infrastructures, Nigeria cannot stand alone but join the comity of…
Shittu seeks faster passage of bill to enable unbundling of NIPOST
The Minister of Communications, Barrister Adebayo Shittu has called on the National Assembly to expedite action in passing the Postal Reform Bill designed to drive the restructuring of the nation’s postal flagship, the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST). The new bill…
Instead of new ICT Dev. Bank, upgrade NIPOST to do the job—Experts tell Minister
Stakeholders in Nigeria’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) have advised the Minister of Communications, Barr. Adebayo Shittu to work his talk on transforming the moribund Nigerian Postal Services (NIPOST) to a digitally integrated commercial bank and rest the idea of…
FG to market huge investment potentials in Nigeria’s broadband at ITU in Sept
As the Ministry of Communications and the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) begin preliminary build up that will see a structured delegation to the 2017 International Telecommunications Union (ITU) conference in Busan, South Korea, indication has emerged that canvassing for international…
Communications Minister, Shittu claims training 28,800 youths on e-jobs
The Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu on Thursday in Ile-Ife, Osun State said his ministry has trained 28,800 unemployed youths from various states of the Federation on online job majoring on Micro-work and E-lancing. He said the training was possible…
