The recent call by the Federal Government for social media platforms to stop supporters of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra from posting inciting messages has been faulted by some Civil Society Organisations. Recall that the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, had at a meeting with a team from Facebook on Tuesday, cautioned social media companies against yielding their platforms to members of IPOB to incite violence and instigate ethnic hatred in Nigeria. The minister was quoted in a statement signed by his media aide, Mr Segun Adeyemi, as saying that since IPOB had been proscribed and classified…
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Confidential information from a few highly placed sources indicates that the Chairman of the Zinox Group, Leo Stan Ekeh, is ramping up shares indirectly in eCommerce giants, Jumia for a possible acquisition, Digital TimesNG can report. Feelers say the serial digital entrepreneur, who is credited with pioneering e-commerce in Africa with his now-defunct BuyRight Africa over 12 years ago, is replicating the same strategy which he deployed successfully in acquiring Yes Mobile, a cosmopolitan high-value retail outfit, Ashour Corporation, a foremost telecommunications services provider headquartered in Dubai, UAE and more recently, Konga. Efforts by our reporter to reach Ekeh, who…
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The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has appointed the Honourable Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Professor Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami), as the Chairman of the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) Forum 2022. The event takes place at ITU Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Digital Times understands that the appointment was conveyed to the Honourable Minister through a letter from the Secretary-General of the ITU, who noted that Professor Pantami was appointed “in the light of his overall commitment to Information and Knowledge Societies and the active role he has played in the WSIS Process” and it followed consultations with various…
Since the famed telecommunications revolution in Nigeria in 2001, the telecommunications sector has remained pivotal to national economic growth and development. It has also remained outstanding by the innovative products and services which its leading lights like Airtel, MTN, Glo, 9mobile, nTel, Swift Networks and Smile have made second nature. One of the most cherished innovations from telcos is the Voice over LTE (VoLTE) introduced in Nigeria by Smile Communications in 2016 and enlivened six years later by the recent launch of the service by MTN in April 2022. In gifting Nigeria its first VoLTE service via a test run…
Close your eyes for a moment and imagine how you can fare in today’s world without being “mobile”, not just on the move but living without your telephone or allied tablets. Invariably, modernity has predisposed most people to be largely dependent on telephony and data transmission. Today, the average Nigerian could be said to need four essentials namely food, shelter, clothing, and telephony. More than most things, the Nigerian has embraced telephony with utmost gusto. Nigeria has the highest teledensity in Africa. And not even the recent revelation by the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) that almost twenty-five million lines are…
Fidelity Bank Plc has tutored 4,000 students in 36 schools across Nigeria on the value of managing financial resources effectively in order to improve their economic well-being. Digital Times understands that this initiative, organized in collaboration with Junior Achievement Nigeria (JAN), is part of the activities celebrating the Central Bank’s (CBN) annual Global Money Week (GMW), which promotes financial literacy on a global and local scale. Themed “Build your future, be smart about money,” this year’s GMW emphasizes the importance of ensuring that young people are financially conscious from an early age. It also aims to ensure that they gradually…
FirstBank will on Friday, 25 March 2022, hold a round table discussion for the Gen Zs and Millennials to learn from speakers cutting across diverse experiences, socio-economic backgrounds and career paths, that spoke at the FirstBank’s recent webinar held on 8 March 2022, to commemorate the 2022 International Women’s Day (IWD). The event themed “Discrimination, Bias, Stereotype: Still Walking Tall!” will have Cobhams Asuquo, award-winning music producer, songwriter and musician; Osas Ighodaro, Actress, Host, Producer & humanitarian; Ore Runsewe, the founder of Arami Essentials, a natural beauty brand and Foluso Gbadamosi, Executive Director, Junior Achievement Nigeria share their experiences with…
Treepz Inc on Wednesday announced that it has successfully achieved a milestone of 1 million bookings completed across the three countries it currently operates in. Digital Times understands that these bookings span across the three core services the business offers including Daily Treepz, Travel Treepz and Corporate Treepz. Daily Treepz is the service focused on connecting riders to heroes (drivers) commuting within cities daily. Travel Treepz is a business service that allows users to search, compare and directly book travel bus tickets on the Treepz platform. This service was designed to help commuters travel and connect cities with ease. Corporate…
All is now set for the commissioning of the newly built international terminal of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos on Tuesday, March 22, 2022. The brand new, world-class international terminal is one of five, being built in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Kano and Enugu, in a bilateral arrangement between the Federal Government of Nigeria, and the People’s Republic of China. The ones in Abuja and Port Harcourt have been completed and commissioned already, while that of Kano has been completed and will soon be commissioned. The new Lagos International terminal, which will be commissioned by the President of the Federal…