CBN, NIBSS unveil AfriGo, Nigeria’s first national payment card

THE Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement Systems (NIBSS) have unveiled Nigeria’s first National payment card named AfriGo. At the unveiling virtually yesterday, the CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, said the card was designed to cater to local peculiarities that the existing card products have failed to cater to. Emefiele said... Read More

NDPB hosts national privacy week

NIGERIA will on January 28, 2023, join the international community to observe GlobalData Privacy Day 2023. It is a Day that has been set aside to create awareness of fundamental rights and freedoms relating to the privacy of citizens in the data processing ecosystem. In line with the overarching global objective of awareness on... Read More

More Nigerians on national database as NIN issuance hits 95m

  By Staff Reporter MORE Nigerians have been identified and added to the national database as the figure of National Identification Number (NIN) issued by the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) rose to 95 million as of January 22. According to data obtained from the NIMC, the commission was able to enroll 21.3 million... Read More

Airtel brings eSIM to Nigeria’s telecoms market

TELECOMMUNICATIONS services provider, Airtel Nigeria, has announced the launch of eSIM (embedded SIM) – a digital SIM that enables customers to access same functionality as someone using a physical SIM. The eSIM offers several benefits over the traditional SIM cards as it is quick and simple to set up online, it is planet-friendly (plastic-... Read More

Nigeria hosts regional digital economy conference

By Staff Reporter POLICY makers and stakeholders in the digital economy ecosystem in the West African sub-region will converge in Abuja from January 31 to February 1, for the Digital Economy Regional Conference to discuss the future of digital economy and intensify regional public private partnerships for the region. The event is being hosted... Read More

BON claims poor power supply, high energy cost killing broadcast industry

  By Staff Reporter THE Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria (BON), has identified poor electricity supply, incessant collapse of the national grid as well as high cost of procuring diesels and premium motor spirit (PMS) as factors responsible for stifling the performance of Broadcast stations in the country. Besides, BON said the dwindling advertising budget... Read More

38% of computers suffer attack in Nigeria as META region faces more

FROM January to September 2022, computers in the industrial control systems (ICS) environment were attacked using multiple means in Nigeria and other part of Africa, including Middle East and Turkey (META).    Kaspersky, which revealed this, said in the META region, malicious objects were blocked on 38 per cent of ICS computers in the region... Read More

Weak consumer spending, economic slowdown cut PC shipment to Nigeria

  By Staff Reporter SHIPMENTS of personal computing devices (PCD) to markets in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) suffered a huge decline in the second quarter of 2022.   The International Data Corporation (IDC), which revealed this in a document, categorised PCD to include desktops, notebooks, workstations, and tablets. It disclosed that shipment suffered... Read More

Concerns as Nigeria’s telecoms industry sees 50,000 infrastructure damages in five years

By Adeyemi Adepetun OVER 50,000 cases of major destruction to telecoms infrastructure and facilities have been reported across the country in the past five years, raising alarm over the implication of these incidents to the quality of telecommunications services in Nigeria. Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta, who... Read More

Nigerian govt tasked on data sovereignty

  By Staff Writer AS part of the measures to ensure growth of indigenous telecoms operators, experts have beckoned on the Federal Government to enforce data sovereignty and local residency. The Chief Executive Officer of Open Access Data Centre (OADC), Ayotunde Coker, who made this call, said data centres in the country have evolved... Read More