Expert Urges Rejig Of Nigeria’s Tech Sector To Function Maximally
The Chief Executive Officer, InstinctWave, Akin Naphtal says there is need to strategically strengthen Nigerian technology sector in order to build a prosperous digital nation that works for all its citizens. Mr More...
World Bank, AFDB Provide $550m Support For Off-Grid Solutions –REA
News Investigators/ The Rural Electrification Agency (REA) has announced the provision of $550m in funding by the World Bank (WB) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) to support the implementation of its off-grid More...
5G Subscriptions With Capable Device To Reach 580 Million By End Of 2021 -Report
News Investigators/ Ericsson, a multinational telecommunications company says that 5G will soon become the fastest adopted mobile generation in history. Ericsson made this known in a statement on Wednesday in More...
Backup Day: NITDA Calls For Data Protection, Duplication
News Investigators/ The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) on Wednesday called on Nigerians to ensure the protection of their data by duplicating them in safe places, to avoid loss. The More...
Nigerian Immigration Installs Data Analysis System To Ease Operation
News Investigators/ The Nigeria Immigration Service has deployed the Migration Information Data Analysis System (MIDAS) to various commands of the service to ease operational activities.Comptroller of Immigration, More...
Experts Crack Serial Killer’s Code 51 Years After Being Sent To U.S. Paper
News Investigators/ A coded message sent by the Zodiac Killer to The San Francisco Chronicle in 1969 has finally been cracked, the newspaper reported on Friday. A team of code breakers solved the vexing cryptogram More...
SpaceX Prototype Rocket Destroyed In Explosive Test Launch
(NEWS INVESTIGATORS) SpaceX’s Starship rocket prototype exploded in flames as it made a vertical landing on Wednesday, minutes after what seemed to be an uneventful test launch from the company’s testing site More...
Nigerian Govt Acquires Tools To Spy On Citizens -Report
News Investigators/ Nigeria’s Defence Intelligence Agency has acquired equipment that it can use to spy on its citizens’ calls and text messages, according to a report by the University of Toronto’s Citizen More...
National ID Card Now Mandatory For Driver’s Licence Application —FRSC Boss
News Investigators/ Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Boboye Oyeyemi, says the National Identification Number(NIN) is now compulsory for processing and issuance of the driver’s licence. Mr. More...
Atomic Energy Commission Hails ABU Nuclear Reactor
News Investigators/ The Nigerian Atomic Energy Commission (NAEC) has expressed satisfaction with the state of the nuclear research reactor at the Ahmadu Bello University Centre for Energy Research and Training. A More...
Zoom suspends U.S.-Based Activists’ Account After Tiananmen Event
News Investigators/ Zoom Video Communications temporarily shut the account belonging to a group of U.S.-based Chinese activists after they held an event to commemorate the 31st anniversary of China’s Tiananmen More...
Poly Ibadan Manufactures Ventilator, Smart Hand Washer
News Investigators/ The department of Mechatronics of the Polytechnic, Ibadan, has manufactured a Ventilator and a Smart Hand Washer as part of efforts to combat the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Rector of More...
FG Will Leverage ICT To Create Jobs -Pantami
News Investigators/ Minister of Communications and Digital Economy Isa Pantami says the government will leverage on Information Communications Technology and Entrepreneurship to increase job creation for the youth. The More...
Digitization: Ministry Seeks $500Million External Loan
News Investigators/ Minster of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed says the ministry has applied for 500 million dollar-loan to enable it to actualise the digitization of Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) More...
“Digital Explorers” at the Forefront of EU – Africa Digital Partnership
(NEWS INVESTIGATORS) On October 15, “Digital Explorers” programme was officially launched in Vilnius,Lithuania. It started with the first batch of 15 thoroughly selected young NigerianICT specialists, who More...
GITEX 2019: FG Woos Investors To Nigeria, Africa
(NEWS INVESTIGATORS) The Federal Government of Nigeria at the ongoing 39th Gulf Information Technology Exhibition (GITEX) has invited investors to leverage on the potential of Nigeria to do businesses for the boosting More...
Solar Cars Coming To Nigeria By 2020
As Nigeria celebrates 59th Independence anniversary, an indigenous company says it is intensifying efforts to begin assembling of solar cars by 2020. Mr Moses Onaja, Chief Executive Officer, Sun Energy More...
Tech Entrepreneur, Stephanie Obi To Help Africans Monetize Knowledge With Latest Tech Platform
(NEWS INVESTIGATORS) I was tired of seeing Africans struggle with monetizing their knowledge online, so I created a solutionthat is appropriate for Africans across the continent – Stephanie Obi, Founder, More...
We Need Institution That Will Produce Cutting Edge AI Applications — Osinbajo
(NEWS INVESTIGATORS) Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says Nigeria needs an institution that will produce cutting edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications for education, business, medicine, security among others. Osinbajo More...
NACETEM Identifies Barriers To Innovation In Nigeria
(NEWS INVESTIGATORS) National Centre for Technology Management (NACETEM) has identified lack of technology information and qualified personnel as top innovation barriers for Nigerian firms. This is contained More...
India Loses Spacecraft to Moon
India lost contact with a spacecraft it was attempting to land on the moon on Saturday, the Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said. This is considered a setback to the nation’s ambitious More...
VP Osinbajo Inaugurates 7.1MW Power Plant in BUK
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has inaugurated a 7.1 megawatts Solar Hybrid power plant in Bayero University Kano (BUK), to ensure sustainability in power supply. Osibanjo said that the project would benefit thousands More...
Fake Phones Are Dangerous To Your Health -NCC
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has warned Nigerians that using sub-standard telecom devices could adversely affect their health. Prof. Umar Danbatta, NCC’s Executive Vice Chairman, said at a More...
Google Disables YouTube Channels For Hong Kong ‘Influence Operation’
(NEWS INVESTIGATORS) Google said it disabled 210 channels from its platform YouTube which uploaded content related to the ongoing pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong in an apparent coordinated influence operation. Shane More...
Berlin Acts On Old Diesel-Driven Vehicles
Driving bans imposed on older diesel-powered vehicles are to go into effect on certain heavily polluted streets in two districts of Berlin from the beginning of October, officials said on Thursday. Eight stretches More...
Research Institute Develops Substitute For Killer Sniper
The National Research Institute for Chemical Technology (NARICT) says it is currently developing non-toxic chemical product for the Nigerian market as a substitute for the killer sniper pesticide.The Director General More...
ABU Launch 32GB E-learning Flash for PG Studies
The Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria has launched a 32GB e-learning flash for Postgraduate Students to ease access to their studies, an official said. The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Ibrahim Garba disclosed this More...
FOCAC: Nigeria, China To Sign $328 Million Agreement On ICT Dev., In Addition To 25 MoUs
By Nuel Suji – President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday arrived Beijing, China’s capital where he is expected to join his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jingping, to witness the signing of an agreement worth $328 More...
ITF Trained 150,000 Nigerians In 2-Yrs, Targets Additional 13,000 Vocational Skills In 2018
By Sadiq Umar – The Director-General of the Industrial Training Fund (ITF), Joseph Ari, says the fund has trained over 150,000 Nigerians in the last two years in accordance with its reviewed vision. Mr. Ari More...
NASENI Boss, Mohammed Haruna, Assures Nation On Globally Competitive Indigenous Industrial Tools, Machine
(News Investigators)/ The Executive Vice Chairman of National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) Mohammed Haruna, says he is more determined to make more impacts on indigenous development More...
Korea Ready To Share Technology, Industrial Experience With Africa, Says Moon
By News Investigators – The Republic of Korea has assured of its readiness to share its technological and industrial revolution experience with Africa. Korean President Moon Jae-in, made this known at the More...
Digital Switch-on: Broadcast Engineer Warns Against Using Outdated Equipment
New Investigators/As Nigeria gradually inch towards the much hyped set deadline for digital switch over from analogue to the digital mode of signal distribution or Digital Terrestrial Transmission (DTT), a Broadcast More...
Senate Approves $1.8Billion Lagos- Rail Project, $750 Kano Million For Ten Other States
By News Investigators – The Senate on Thursday approved a sum of $1.806bn for the Lagos-Ibadan segment of the Lagos-Kano rail modernization project. The Senate also approved external borrowing for 10 states More...
Ripples Over Substandard Digital Switch-Over Equipment
There are indications that the success recorded at the recent launch of Nigeria’s digital switch over in Jos and Abuja may be on the decline as subscribers have continued to register their displeasure over the More...
Shittu Seeks Collaboration With Military On ICT
The Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu has said that the ministry is ready to collaborate with the Nigerian Army on Information Communications Technology (ICT). The Minister said this when he visited the More...
Stakeholders Oppose Illegal Plans By Foreign Companies To Take Over DDT Airspace
By Nuel Suji – Stakeholders in the broadcast industry have opposed illegal plans by foreign companies to take over the DDT airspace. They hinged their argument on the 2012 white paper on the digital switchover More...
Buhari Commends Zuckerberg For Inspiring Nigerian Youths
I’m here to promote “fast and cheap” internet connectivity – Zuckerberg By Sadiq Umar – President Muhammadu Buhari has commended the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Co-founder of Facebook, Mark More...
What Does China’s One Belt One Road Strategy Mean For NigComSat -1R
China’s partnership with Nigeria in satellite technology is yielding dividends, but can Nigeria leverage President Xi’s One Belt One Road Initiative to further consolidate its space technology drive?, asks Idowu More...
Packaging Technology: Expert Advocates Use Of Silos Made Of Termite Mud
By Henry Oloja – Dr. Francis Olaniji Adegunloye, an expert in the field of Agricultural Engineering and a Lecturer at Adeyemi College of Education (ACE) Ondo has called for the use of Silos made from termites More...
Pay TV in Nigeria: Chinese StarTimes battles for supremacy with main rival Dstv
Nigeria has set 2017 as its new digital switch over date, but then, can NTA-StarTimes leverage on the extension for a bigger slice of pay-tv market share?, asks Idowu John Bakare StarTimes, the Chinese pay TV provider, More...
Nigeria’s Crude Export Threatens As China Launches Fastest-Charging Electric Bus
…fully charged in 10 seconds By Sadiq Umar Nigeria’s crude oil export may be further threatened as the world’s fastest charging electric buses, with a battery that takes just 10 seconds to be More...
Kidnapping: NIMCC Advocates Use Of Personal Locator Beacons As Security Measure
By Sadiq Umar As the incidence of kidnapping increases in the country, Nigerians have been advised to get personal locator beacons as part of safety precautions. Head of the Nigerian Mission Control Center (NIMCC), More...
SON Raises Alarm Over Building Collapse, Says Only 5 Percent Of Blocks In Nigeria Meets Standard
By Funmi Emmanuel, Abuja.The Director General of the Standards Organisation of Nigeria, SON, Dr. Joseph Odumodu has raised an alarm about building construction in the country, disclosing that only five percent of More...
Minister Calls For Application Of Science And Technology Innovations In African Countries
By Chuks Sunday, Abuja.African scientists have being urged to apply science and technology innovations (STI) in their various countries, as a means of improving socio-economic conditions.The call was made by the More...
Aliyu Urges Implementation Of Sci. & Tech Innovation At Grassroot
Chuks Sunday, Minna. The Governor of Niger State, Dr. Babangida Aliyu has urged participants at the recently concluded meeting of the National Council on Science and Technology to engender positive impact through More...
Jonathan Unveils First Nigeria’s Indigenous Drone
Nigeria has unveiled it first homemade Nigeria Air Force (NAF) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) as part of the government efforts to reposition its air defence system. President Goodluck Jonathan at he occasion More...
