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Month: September 2017

Glo seals Laffta Fest deal on Independence Day for Onitsha residents

Grandmasters of data, leading voice telecoms and national telecommunications operator, Globacom, is set to treat residents of Onitsha and its adjoining communities in Anambra to a delightful Independence Day celebration with its hilarious comedy show, Glo Laffta Fest. According to…

Latest WEF report: Nigeria still far from global competitiveness

…Poor in ICT, infrastructure, education More facts have emerged on why Nigeria was conspicuously missing in the recent report on ‘Where to invest in Africa’ released by Rand Merchant Bank. This is stemming from revelations made by the latest ranking…

Worried by failures, FG plans re-launch of ease of doing business

In what pundits see as a subtle way of accepting poor results of the first launch of the ease of doing business in Nigeria, the federal government has decided to unveil what it described as second action plan on the…

Shola Taylor
ICT

Learn from Ghana, CTO tells Nigeria, other Africans at ITU

The Secretary-General of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Union (CTO), Nigeria’s Shola Taylor, has called on agencies regulating telecoms and allied sectors in Africa to learn from the Ghana’s National Communications Authority (NCA) in the areas of regulatory flexibilities and collaboration between…

Kids in ICT
ICT

Yudala lists 6 ways children can gain from early exposure to ICT

The Research and Development Unit of Yudala, Nigeria’s fastest growing online and offline e-commerce outfit has listed six ways children can gain from getting early access to Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in life. Whereas new and emerging technologies have…

YouTube-Go
ICT

Finally, data connectivity complaint YouTube Go berths in Nigeria

Leading global online video services, YouTube has announced that the YouTube Go app previewed at the recent Google for Nigeria event is now available for initial public download in Nigeria. YouTube has been re-imagined to meet the needs of the…

Experts see Niger Rep as first neighbour to link by rail

Though the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, on Wednesday announced plans by the Federal Government to build international rail lines that would connect Nigeria with neighbouring countries without mentioning any country, industry experts have fingered Niger Republic. Maritime analysts who…

Insecurity on Nigerian waters, failed rail system key causes of Apapa gridlocks—-NPA

The Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman has opened up on the reasons behind the singular use of roads to evacuate containers to and fro the Lagos ports. Speaking Thursday in Lagos during the 5th…

Chevron deepens interventions, partners JOA in donating books to states

In keeping with its need-driven social intervention scheme, leading oil conglomerate, Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL), operator of the joint venture between the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and CNL (NNPC/CNL JV), in partnership with the Jewels of Africa Foundations (JOA)…

ONELGA oil communities give 14-day ultimatum to FG, IOCs on dev.

Worried by persistent underdevelopment and negligence of several memos sent to the federal government on the level of poverty and official negligence in terms of development projects, the people of oil-rich Ogba Egbema Ndoni Local government area, ONELGA, in Rivers…