The Executive Vice-Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, has identified major benefits in promoting digital literacy in the country. Danbatta who was delivering the first Annual Lecture of the Bichi Emirate titled, “Digital Literacy as a Veritable Tool for Social and Economic Transformation” in Bichi, Kano State, challenged actors in both public over the weekend and private sectors to key into the programme. Digital literacy he noted provides the confidence required by individual citizens to utilise digital content and tools, adding that it also helps citizens to effectively collaborate in creating digital content…
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The Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy and its parastatals have generated a total of One trillion, fifty-four billion naira (N1.54trn) as revenue for the Federal Government through the implementation of various policies, initiatives and interventions. The Honorable Minister in charge of the ministry, Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami made this disclosure on Friday during the virtual commissioning of the 12th batch of the Digital Economy Projects for a Digital Nigeria at the Digital Economy Complex, Mbora, Abuja. The 12th batch of the digital economy projects which were virtually commissioned by Dr Pantami includes; the e-Accessibility Centre in Bauchi…
The Board of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) Friday paid an official condolence visit to the family of late Ahmed Joda, former Board Chairman of the Commission, in his country home in Yola, Adamawa State. Alhaji Ahmed Joda passed on Friday, August 13, 2021, at the age of 91. The delegation, which was led by the Chairman of NCC Board, Prof. Adeolu Akande included the Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of the Commission, Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta; the Executive Commissioner, Technical Services, Engr. Ubale Maska; and Executive Commissioner, Stakeholder Management, Barrister Adeleke Adewolu. Also on the visit were other Board Commissioners,…
The african|markets team has announced the launch of the public version of the Research Hub (hub.african-markets.com), an Africa-focused research distribution platform that connects investors to some of the best equity analysts covering Africa’s frontier markets. Built for analysts, investors, academicians, and corporate insiders, the intuitive platform gives access to company, market, and sector reports, as well as stock recommendations from brokers across the continent. The carefully selected research helps readers better understand Africa’s business environment, identify, and assess investment targets. The Research Hub has more than 200 reports from 20 partner brokers in Botswana, Egypt, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Morocco,…
Invest Africa, the trade and investment platform for African markets has launched a new programme of support for over 500 African MSMEs. The Next Generation Africa Forum will take place virtually on 16th September using a digital platform to connect MSMEs across the Continent with practical support from leading banks, VCs, multi-national tech companies and incubators, including Google, KPMG, DHL, Aon and 4G Capital. MSMEs form the backbone of Africa’s economies and are the engine of the region’s job creation drive, accounting for 70 per cent of employment. With a high proportion of informal enterprises, many of Africa’s MSMEs, which…
Airtel Africa Group CEO-designate, Segun Ogunsanya, has been named the African Business Leader of the Year in the 2021 African Business Leadership Awards (ABLA). The awards are organized by African Leadership Magazine, a flagship, pan-African, leadership-focused publication. Ogunsanya topped the category ahead of the runner-up, Standard Bank Group CEO, Simphiwe Tshabalala. According to the organisers, Ogunsanya, who also won the Africa Industry Personality of the Year in 2020, was selected in a keenly contested three-step points-based process that included a call for nomination, online voting for shortlisted nominees, and the editorial board’s final review of nominations and voting submissions. Online…
Konga, Nigeria’s leading composite e-Commerce giant, is set to pioneer another first with the launch of the first Cloud TV in the e-Commerce sector. The Konga Cloud TV is set to go live in September 2021. Although details of the closely-guarded development are still unfolding, feelers indicate that the Konga Cloud TV innovation will run on a digital cloud-based platform and will serve a global audience including Nigerians at home and in the Diaspora, as well as other key stakeholders, such as potential investors and other groups and individuals in search of a reliable platform with which to trade, engage…
Pngme, a Fintech startup raised $15 million in Series A funding as the company sets out to grow its financial data infrastructure and machine learning-as-a-service platform for financial institutions and fintechs across sub-Saharan Africa. The round was led by Octopus Ventures, a $1.7bn Venture Capital fund based in London and comes less than a year after the $3 million Seed round. Pngme’s mission has been to enable access to finance for everyone by providing mission-critical data infrastructure and machine learning models for the next generation of financial services. The startup will use the Series A raise to expand its executive…
African girl coders are taking the lead in ensuring gender equity and balance in technology on the continent, a field majorly dominated by their male counterparts. Through the Connected African Girls Coding Camp initiative, a joint programme of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in collaboration with UN Women and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), young girls are applying their coding skills that include Animation, Gaming, Turtles stitch, artificial intelligence, robotics and internet of things they acquire through the program training. The initiative has held training camps for African girls from across the continent in Ethiopia and Cameroon. The…
The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has announced the commencement of the Application Process for the Bridge to MassChallenge Nigeria Programme (B2MC). Recall that early this year, NITDA signed a partnership arrangement with MassChallege, a global network of zero-equity startup accelerators. The partnership was aimed at stimulating economic vitality and job creation in Nigeria by catalyzing entrepreneurial activity and supporting entrepreneurs as they develop and execute game-changing ideas, digital technologies, and discoveries. The commencement of the application process followed a comprehensive stakeholder engagement with key players in the ecosystem. These include Government, Academia, Entrepreneurs, Angels and VCs, Corporate Organisations,…