By Staff Reporter LOUNGING on Labadi Beach, browsing the shops on Osu’s Oxford Street, ending the day with a meal in a local chop bar: This is Accra, Ghana’s bustling capital city. It’s also where, in 2018, Google opened its first Artificial Intelligence (AI) research center in Africa. The center houses research labs that...
Read MoreTHE Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta , will be conferred with the esteemed National Productivity Order of Merit (NPOM) award, among other notable Nigerians. The announcement was made in an advertorial signed by the Director-General of the National Productivity Center, Dr. Nasir Olaitan Raji-Mustapha, heralding Danbatta’s...
Read MoreBy Staff Reporter VOICE and data services have earned Airtel Nigeria N892 billion, according to the audited financial report released Thursday by Airtel’s parent company, Airtel Africa to the Nigeria Exchange Limited (NGX). Specifically, the Nigeria operating company recorded a 13.4 per cent growth in voice revenue to N484.9 billion ($1.053 billion), while...
Read MoreBy Favour Unukaso TELECOMMUNICATIONS operators are set to disconnect Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) from the use of the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) over the protracted debt, which has amounted to N120 billion. Under the aegis of the Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria (ALTON), the services providers said the Nigerian...
Read MoreBy Staff Reporter CYBERSECURITY firm, Sophos has revealed that the rate of successful data encryption from ransomware attacks on organizations and businesses hit the highest level in 2023. Sophos in its “State of Ransomware 2023” report, said it found that in 76 per cent of ransomware attacks against surveyed organizations, adversaries succeeded in...
Read MoreFOUNDRY, an initiative of The Nest Innovation and Technology Park, has empowered over 300 entrepreneurs from diverse industries, including agriculture, fashion, food and beverage, hospitality, healthcare, beauty and wellness, manufacturing, and recycling, were empowered with the right business and entrepreneurial knowledge to refine their businesses towards profitability and sustainable growth. The empowerment, which is the sixth...
Read MoreTHE Creatives Hub, an initiative of The Nest Innovation and Technology Park, has organised a three-day Digital Art and Artificial Intelligence (AI) workshop, where over 30 self-taught users and interested individuals in digital art, AI, and gaming sectors were in attendance. This workshop, held in partnership with Africacomicade and sponsored by Newcomma, demonstrated the initiative’s commitment...
Read MoreKONGA Logistics, the digital arm of Nigeria’s composite e-commerce firm, is investing billions of Naira in her ambition to take a commanding position in the challenging logistics sector in Africa, which stakeholders believe is responsible for the retarded growth of e-Commerce and other movement of goods and services in Africa. The company is...
Read MoreTHE Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has reiterated its commitment to job creation in the country with more focus on youths development. NCC said while one of the pillars of the National Digital Economic Policy and Strategy (NDEPS 2020-2030), which is to further accelerate economic growth in digital literacy and skills, the commission is fully...
Read MoreTELECOMMUNICATIONS operator, MTN, is hoping to achieve a 10 per cent fifth-generation (5G) network reach by the end of this year. The telecoms giant, which disclosed this in its Integrated Report for the year ended December 31, 2022, at the weekend, said it has deployed over 2,500 5G sites across its 19 markets in two continents....
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