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Chronicling NCC’s performance since 2015 to date (1)

On August 4, 2015, Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, was appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari as the Executive Vice Chairman/CEO of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the regulatory authority for telecommunications in Nigeria. He was subsequently confirmed by the Senate on…

AFF 2019 Briefing
ICT

Start-ups entries hit 10,000 ahead of AFF’s Disrupt 2019 summit in Lagos

The Executive Director, Operations and IT, Access Bank Plc, Mr. Ade Bajomo, Tuesday revealed that the target of 5,000 start-ups entries for the 2019 Disrupt conference of the Africa Fintech Foundry (AFF) planned for Landmark Centre in Victoria Island on…

Experts at First Bank’s FinTech summit list gains of AI, big data analytics

Banks in developing economies have continued to search for marching technologies that will fit into the ever rising new technology-driven appetite for customers especially in Nigeria. Accordingly, technology experts and banking wiz-kids who recently gathered at the First Bank’s FinTech…

Ekeh Zinox 22
ICT

Federal aid for IT entrepreneurial startups can unlock economy faster—Zinox Report

A new Technology Report released by the Zinox Technologies Group in Nigeria has called for strong support for technology startups budding up across known and emerging Information Technology Hubs (ITH) in Nigerian cities and Lagos in particular. Reviewing the critical…

Adebayo Shittu
ICT

Minister expects ICT Varsity Comte report soon, VC, Registrar coming soon

Following the successful inauguration of the proposed implementation Committee of the ICT University of Nigeria (ICTUN) on Thursday in Abuja, the Minister of Communications, Barr Adebayo Shittu has charged the members to turn in report within six weeks so that…