We Invested N9bn in Nigeria Film Industry in 6 years – Netflix
Ms Shola Sanni, Director of Public Policy for Sub-Saharan Africa, Netflix, made this known at the second Nigeria Digital Content Regulation Conference held in Lagos.[more...]
Ukraine War: Russians Shut Out of The Internet
In many places, searching the web is a gateway to a wider world of information, but in Russia, it is part of a system that[more...]
NITDA to Parley Stakeholder on Draft National Data Strategy Policy
The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) plans to engagement stakeholder on the draft National Data Strategy (NDS), designed in line with the National Digital[more...]
Google Modifies Gmail Interface with 3 New Features
Global tech giants, Google has announced it will be changing the interface of its mail app, Gmail and will be adding three new features which[more...]
US President wants Elon Musk Foreign Links Investigated
US President Joe Biden says Elon Musk's relationships with foreign countries are "worthy of being looked at". Mr Biden was asked whether Mr Musk posed[more...]
Africa Data Centres Ink deal with Nokia for High-capacity Interconnection Services
Africa Data Centres, has signed a deal with Finnish multinational telecommunications firm Nokia to enable the cloud-neutral data centre provider offer high-capacity interconnection services to[more...]
Tizeti, Eutelsat Partner to Bridge Digital Divide in Nigeria and South Africa
Tizeti and Eutelsat Communications, the top satellite operator, will increase broadband penetration in Nigeria, particularly in underserved areas. Tizeti is the first solar-based internet service[more...]
Police Warns of Growing Threat of 3D Firearms
Officers from the Metropolitan Police's Specialist Crime Command had discovered what they alleged was a "suspected makeshift 3D firearms factory" at a home in London.[more...]
Apple Appoints TD Africa First Distributor For Nigeria
iPhone maker, Apple Inc. has chosen TD Africa as its first authorized local distributor in Nigeria for its products. The historic move will see TD[more...]
NITDA, CITAD Commission School of Community Network to Offer IT Diploma in 10 States
National Information Technology Development Agency NITDA), and Centre for Information and Technology Development (CITAD), has commissioned the School of Network Community (SCN), an initiative designed[more...]
Danbatta Restates NCC’s Partnership With The Media
Executive Vice Chairman, Prof. Umar Danbatta, has said the media remains an indispensable partner in information dissemination to the diverse stakeholders of the telecom industry,[more...]
FIRS Appoints MTN, Airtel, Banks to Withhold VAT
MTN, Airtel, as well as money deposit banks in Nigeria have been appointed by the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) to withhold Value Added Tax[more...]
Teraco Announces Regional Interconnection with Google Equiano Cable
Teraco, Africa’s largest provider of interconnected data centre platforms, is now an integral connectivity and interconnection point for Google’s Equiano subsea cable. Equiano starts in[more...]
Nigeria, Twitter Agreement Risks Collapse Over Global Restructuring
• Micro-blogging platform sacks Africa’s team, Musk may scrap it • Firm failed to open Nigerian office in Q1 • Twitter recalls some workers yesterday[more...]
MTN Announces 7-hour Service Downtime for System Upgrade
Mobile telecommunications giant, MTN Nigeria has announced some customers may experience service downtime for seven hours as it plans to effect a system upgrade. The network[more...]
Airtel Africa, New World TV Bring FIFA World Cup to Africa
Airtel Africa and New World TV in Paris, France, have announced a partnership, in which Airtel TV subscribers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),[more...]
Amazon Introduces a $7.3 Annual Prime Video Subscription Tier in India
Amazon has introduced a new price tier for Prime Video in India, making the on-demand video streaming service even more affordable as it races to[more...]
Pantami to Lead Software Ecosystem Players to TestNigeria Conference 1.0
Nigeria’s Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Professor Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami) is set to lead stakeholders in the country’s software industry to the first[more...]
NCC Inaugurates Committee to Accelerate Broadband Infrastructure Deployment
In a bid to give verve to expansion of broadband services in the country, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has inaugurated an industry-wide committee to[more...]
Nearly 50% of Phishing Targeting Gov’t Workers Aimed at Credential Theft – Report
Nearly 50% of all phishing attacks targeting government personnel in 2021 aimed to pilfer the credentials of those workers, according to a report released Wednesday[more...]
