By Favour Unukaso THE Federal Government has announced the removal of excise duty for telecoms sub-sector of Nigeria’s Digital Economy Industry in line with the recommendations of the Committee it constituted to review the applicability of the Duty to the telecom sector which is considered already overburdened with taxation and sundry levies. Minister of...
Read MoreBy Favour Unukaso AS part of moves to sanitise the environment, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has disclosed plans to commence activities that will result in the formulation of a regulation on E-Waste in Nigeria. NCC noted that currently, the global concern for the regulation of e-waste is two-pronged, which include the acute...
Read MoreTHE Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said that the advent of the Fifth-Generation (5G) network and its expansion in the country would drive increased energy consumption in the country. Specifically, NCC said wireless service coverage requirement for 5G service will trigger high demand for data services, which will result in increased energy consumption for...
Read MoreMACRO economic challenges including inflation and forex challenge, especially dollar shortage have impacted the smartphone market in Nigeria. The International Data Corporation (IDC) informed that Nigeria’s smartphone market declined 32.1 per cent year-on-year in Q4 2022 due to sustained high inflation and a shortage of U.S. dollars in the country. Largely,...
Read MoreFOUNDRY, an initiative of the Nest Innovation Technology Park, supporting businesses – both Start-up founders and SMEs, empowered over 500 SMEs and 40 startups, and providing grants to profitable and resourceful SMEs to scale across Nigeria, Kenya, Sierra Leone, and Ghana. The initiative plans to extend its reach to 5000 SMEs and 200 startups...
Read MoreTHE Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy has said while monitoring the cyberspace, about 12.9 million attacks were launched against the servers of the Independent National Electorral Commission (INEC) during the Presidential elections on Februay 25 both from within and outside the country. The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Pantami, who...
Read MoreTHE Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has directed mobile network operators (MNOs) to commence implementation of approved harmonised short codes (HSC) for providing certain services to telecoms consumers in Nigeria. The commission has already set a deadline of May 17, 2023, for all mobile networks to fully migrate from hitherto diverse short codes to the...
Read MoreTHE Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has concluded arrangements to host an event to mark the 2023 World Consumer Rights Day (WCRD) in Abuja with spotlight on its regulatory initiatives on clean energy usage in the telecoms sector. In what has become a tradition in the Commission since 2017, when it declared 2017 as Year...
Read MoreTHE Nest Innovation Technology Park has partnered with Campus Innovation Circles (CIC) to launch The Nestlings Playbook; its pioneer program designed to address the unique challenges faced by founders across Universities in Nigeria. The Nestlings Playbook is specifically tailored to provide the undergraduate community with a sandbox that offers access to resources and...
Read MoreTHE Advanced Science Research Group (IASRG) of Summit University, Offa, in collaboration with Dr. Cynthia Kusin Okoro-Shekwaga, has won the International Academic Pump-priming Fund by the School of Civil Engineering University of Leeds, to explore opportunities in biomethane production for clean cooking using locally-available organic waste resources in Nigeria. Speaking at the virtual...
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