TECHNOLOGY
We’re Expecting Twitter To Open Nigerian Office In Q1 2022 — Lai Mohammed
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said on Monday, that the microblogging site, Twitter, is expected to open its Nigerian office before the end of March 2022. The minister, who disclosed this when he appeared on a radio progarmme, the Radio Link, in Abuja, said the move is part of the agreement the company reached with the Federal Government...
Jeff Bezos Pays $200million To Get His Name Put On A Space Museum For At Least 50 Years
A whooping $200 million has been doled out by the world’s second richest man, Jeff Bezos to get his name put on a new branch of the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum. After the Amazon founder traveled to space just once, he decided to have his name displayed on the new Bezos Learning and several other locations around the museum...
Federal Govt Unveils National Policy On 5G
The Federal government on Tuesday launched the National Policy on Fifth Generation Networks (5G) for Nigeria’s Digital Economy. Speaking at the launch presided over by President Mohammadu Buhari, the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami) said that the deployment of the fifth-generation (5G) network, “will play a vital role in improving the security situation in...
Xiaomi Produces CyberDog Robot That Can Recognize Owner’s Face & Voice (Photos)
The Xiaomi CyberDoge robot was announced by the company at the launch of the Mi Mix 4 and Mi Pad 5 smartphones some time ago. CyberDog is the first robot product made by mobile phone manufacturer Xiaomi. In terms of outward appearance, CyberDog has a resemblance to the Spot robot made by Boston Dynamics. It's just that the robot made...
FG To Run A Paperless Government By 2030 – Pantami
The Federal Government is targeting 2030 to migrate all government paper activities to paperless ones. The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, disclosed this in Abuja during the Champion Day and Closing of 2021 Service Wide Capacity Building program on e-Government. He said: “The target of the Federal Government is to make sure that by 2030, we...
Nigeria Lifts Ban On Twitter
The Federal Government has lifted the suspension of Twitter operations in Nigeria after approval by President Muhammadu Buhari The decision was announced by the Chairman Technical Committee Nigeria-Twitter Engagement and Director-General National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, CCIE. Kashifu, in a statement in Abuja, said the approval was given following a memo written to the President by Minister...
Facebook, Twitter, Google, Others Now To Pay Tax In Nigeria [VIDEO]
The Senate on Tuesday passed the Finance Bill 2021, transmitted to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari, on December 7, 2021. The passage by the Upper Chamber of the National Assembly followed the consideration of a report by the Senate Joint Committee on Finance; Customs, Excise, and Tariff; Trade and Investment. One of the major highlights of the Bill is...
Tiwa Savage, Obi Cubana Make List Of Most Searched Nigerians On Google
Nigerian singer, Tiwa Savage, and popular businessman, Obi Cubana, topped Google’s list as the 2021 most trending people in Nigeria. Google announced this on Wednesday in a statement titled, ‘Google releases Nigeria’s 2021 Year in Search lists’. The search lists included top ten search queries on Google in different categories such as top trending searches, top trending people, top trending musicians,...
Telecommunication Services Restored In Zamfara After Months Of Disconnection
Authorities have restored telecommunications services in Zamfara communities, ABN TV reports. It would be recalled that the Zamfara government last Wednesday said the process of restoring telecommunications services in the state is ongoing. As part of measures to tackle banditry in the north-western state, the government had cut telecommunications networks in 14 local government areas in September. However, on November 27, Governor...
Nigeria Alerted As Iranian Cyber Spies Eye Telecommunication Companies, ISPs
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has raised the alarm over the existence of another hacking group orchestrating cyber espionage in the African telecoms space. An Iranian hacking group known as Lyceum (also known as Hexane, Siamesekitten, or Spirlin) has been reported to be targeting telecoms, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and Ministries of Foreign Affairs (MFA) in Africa with upgraded malware...
