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The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and the Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria (ALTON) have drummed support for the 2021 edition of the ITREALMS E-Waste Dialogue scheduled at Adam’s Hall, Welcome Centre Hotels, International Airport Road, Ikeja, Lagos by 9 am on Thursday. This is coming just as experts from the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA), Environmental Health Officers Registration Council of Nigeria (EHORECON) and E-Waste Producer Responsibility Organisation of Nigeria (EPRON) to name a few, have lined up to dissect the theme of the dialogue “e-Waste in Nigeria:…
Africa has recently experienced a technological and innovation boom, largely as a result of the ingenuity and diligence of its product leaders. Many of these leaders have found success because of their ability to use data to drive product innovation. This article features three of Africa’s finest product managers, including Olatunji Obaoye, Senior Product Manager at Africhange, who have successfully used data to drive product innovation. OLATUNJI OBAOYE, a senior product manager at Africhange, has played a key role in advancing data-driven product innovation. With operations in Africa and Europe, Africhange is a remittance company that uses blockchain technology and…
All is set for the 10th edition of Celebrating You 2021, a showpiece celebratory event hosted by TD Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa’s foremost distributor of tech and lifestyle products. Hosted annually, Celebrating You 2021 is a glamorous Dinner Party and Awards night which remains arguably the most eagerly anticipated celebratory event in the Nigerian Information and Communication Technology (ICT) ecosystem. This year’s edition holds on Sunday, December 5, 2021, at the Livespot Entertainment Centre, opposite Nike Art Gallery, Lekki, Lagos. With the theme – #WeRise, the event will celebrate the courageous and collective Nigerian spirit which has remained indefatigable in the…
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The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has hosted another edition of Campus Conversation (CC), at the weekend at Bayero University, Kano (BUK), where officials of the Commission engaged in intensive enlightenment of students of the varsity on their rights and privileges as telecoms consumers. Campus Conversation is a sub-programme of the Telecom Conversations (TCs), a modified consumer information and education outreach programme in the purview of NCC’s Consumer Affairs Bureau (CAB). It consists of six sub-programmes, all conceived to target different categories of telecom consumers in order to empower them with the right information they require to make informed decisions. Addressing…
The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, has charged the Nigeria Office for Developing the Indigenous Telecom Sector (NODITS) to ensure effective delivery of its mandates with respect to the promotion of indigenous contents in the nation’s telecoms sector. Danbatta who made this call in a keynote address delivered at a two-day brainstorming and team-building session organised by the NODITS team, which started in Abuja on Thursday, November 25, 2021, said the Office is very critical to the effective mainstreaming of local content development in the nation’s burgeoning telecoms sector. NODITS is a…
In alignment with its CSR objectives, Vbank, Nigeria’s foremost digital bank has announced its intention to support the core mission of Women In Tech Global, Nigeria chapter to close the gender gap and help women embrace technology in the country through its WIT Nigeria Makeathon. The WIT Nigeria Makeathon, the inaugural program of Women in Tech Global, Nigeria chapter was launched on Tuesday, November 23, 2021, and aims to empower 1000 girls and women spread across rural and urban settlements across Nigeria over a period of three months by upskilling them with varying degrees of digital, deep tech, and soft…
The Nigerian Communications Commission has once again expressed its commitment to reach all categories of telecom consumers, with the launch in Benin, of a consumer-centric outreach programme tagged, “Shine your eyes, no fall mugu,” which literally translates to, “Be alert, Don’t be a victim of fraudsters.” The programme, an initiative of the Commission’s Consumer Affairs Bureau (CAB), is specially conceived and implemented using Nigerian pidgin, and it’s intended for a segment of the telecom consumer population who are more comfortable with localised communication that resonates with their reality. The two-day programme, implemented in three phases, started with a roadshow that…
Zinox Technologies Ltd, a leading integrated Information and Communication Technology (ICT) giant has been crowned the pioneer 2021 Technology Company of the Year by the Nigeria Computer Society (NCS). NCS is the umbrella organisation of all Information Technology professionals, interest groups and stakeholders in Nigeria. Zinox was accorded the award at the National Information Technology Merit Awards (NITMA) held at the Muson Centre, Onikan, Lagos on Thursday, November 18, 2021. The well-organised event had the crème of personalities in the Nigerian tech sector in attendance, including the Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat who represented the Lagos State…