Anambra, Lagos align for Nigeria’s ICT growth

TO advance Information and Technology (IT) development in Nigeria, Anambra and Lagos States have agreed to a collaborative partnership that will see to the strengthening of their respective IT ecosystems.   This collaborative effort, which stemmed from bilateral meetings with the IT Ecosystem members during the Reverse Trade Mission in the United States of... Read More

NCC rallies Nokia to invests in Nigeria’s technology sector

By Favour Unukaso THE Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (EVC/CEO) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Dr. Aminu Maida, has requested Nokia Networks to increase its investments in Research and Development (R&D) to support the growth of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Nigeria.     Maida spoke when a delegation from Nokia Networks... Read More

FG boosts broadband access with N16.7b projects for MSMEs, varsities, others

  By Favour Unukaso More than 22 institutions in the country, comprising 18 universities, and six polytechnics, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME), drawn evenly from the six geopolitical zones in the country, have benefited from a Federal Government’s broadband infrastructure projects designed to accelerate the Nigeria Digital Economy efforts. At the unveiling of... Read More

ICT sector’s contribution to GDP hits 18.44%

By Favour Unukaso THE Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Pantami, is excited to hear of the remarkable contribution of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector to Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the second quarter of 2022 (Q2 2022). The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) stated this in the ‘Nigeria’s... Read More