Tech

The Director General/CEO National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA, Mr Kashifu Abdullahi, on Tuesday, said despite numerous challenges bedeviling the country, Nigeria remains a major global supplier of tech talents. This is coming as a United States, U.S. based tech giant, Google, unveiled 60 Africa Startups grantees of its second cohort Black Founders Fund, BFF, initiative. Abdullahi who spoke at …

The communications minister says the planned excise duty on telecommunication services has been suspended. The federal government has suspended the proposed new tax on phone calls and other telecommunications services. The Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, announced this on Monday. He said the planned excise duty on telecommunication services has been suspended. Mr Pantami spoke at the inaugural …

The Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye has identified the deployment of technology as crucial to the fight against corruption and Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs). Owasanoye, made this known at the presentation of demo- hacking solutions by seven innovators at Abuja.The IFFs Hackathon is an initiative of the ICPC and the …

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Information and Communication Technology (ICT),sector had contributed 18.44 per cent to the ‘Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product Report’ for Q2 2022. Dr Femi Adeluyi, Technical Assistant Research and Development to the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, made this known in a statement on Saturday in Abuja. Adeluyi said that the digital economy sector …

Yesterday, MTN Nigeria Communications Plc kicked off an open Fifth-Generation (5G) pilot in the lead-up to its highly anticipated commercial launch. The company, which intends to launch 5G services in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Ibadan, Kano, Owerri and Maiduguri, is testing the next-generation network infrastructure. Customers with certain enabled devices will be allowed to connect with and try out the …

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”— Buckminster Fuller Over a century ago, when Scottish inventor cum scientist, Alexander Graham Bell, was experimenting in his laboratory, he thought he was testing the validity of an idea that raced through the neutral pathways of his brain, …

Mr Irukera ordered the company to pull down the “obnoxious “ money lending companies. The Federal Competition and Consumer Agency has ordered Google Play Store to pull down four money lending companies for “escalating unethical, obnoxious and unscrupulously exploitative practices in the industry.” The affected money lending firms are Maxi Credit, ChaCha, Here4U and SoftPay, a statement signed by Babatunde Irukera, the …

Windows 11 is here with great and new features, but you will be sad to hear that some of our older favorite features from Windows 10 are removed. Windows 11 adds several unexpected new features, including Android apps, a revised Start Menu and Taskbar, new Widgets, and much more. Windows 11 also removes many Windows 10 features that PC users …

AI-powered voice transcription service Otter.ai wants to make it even easier for its business users to record their meetings. The company is today introducing a new feature, Otter Assistant, which can automatically join the Zoom meetings on your calendar, transcribe the conversations and share the notes with other participants. Though Otter.ai is already integrated with Zoom, the assistant is designed to make …

The Senate has approved the deployment of the 5G network in Nigeria, following the outcome of investigations by a Joint Committee mandated to look into the Status of 5G Network in Nigeria and its technological impact on Nigerian citizens. The approval was sequel to the consideration and adoption of the report of Joint Committee on Communications, Science and Technology, ICT …