Yusaku Maezawa is launching an international search for eight crewmates to join him on a private spaceflight around the moon on Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket in 2023. Maezawa, who made his money in online fashion, is paying for the entire cost of the first private trip beyond Earth’s orbit – but he’s looking for some company, according to a report in the Metro. While Maezawa was originally looking for only artists, he has now expanded his search to anyone from around the globe. “If you see yourself as an artist, then you are an artist,” Maezawa said in an announcement.…
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The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank has awarded a grant of $320, 535 to the West African Monetary Agency to mainstream gender in ECOWAS’ core digital financial services (DFS) regulatory frameworks. The funds will support a gender gap analysis of several WAMA strategies including those for financial inclusion; gender disaggregation data analytics; digital payment services and infrastructure; and digital identity. The project, to be executed over a three year period, will potentially affect 350 million people in all 15 ECOWAS nations including Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Cape Verde, Ghana, Guinea, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger,…
GOtv Nigeria has announced the return of its special reward campaign, ‘GOtv Dey Your Side’, designed to appreciate loyal customers for their continued support and reward them with discounts, more content and more value this March. The campaign which kicked off on Tuesday, 2nd March will see customers on GOtv Jolli and GOtv Jinja enjoy discounts up to 32% and an upgraded viewing on GOtv Max, which is the highest package offering on the platform. John Ugbe, Chief Executive Officer, MultiChoice Nigeria, explained that the offer is borne out of GOtv’s desire to show support to subscribers, who have remained…
The Ministerial Task Force on the NIN-SIM registration has given approval to Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) for the establishment of dedicated SIM Swap Centres across the Local Government Areas (LGAs) in Nigeria. This approval among other decisions was taken at the 4th Review Meeting of The Ministerial Task Force on the NIN-SIM registration held on Friday, February 26, 2021. The meeting was chaired by the Honourable Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami. In a joint statement signed by Dr. Ikechukwu Adinde, Director, Public Affairs of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and Mr. Kayode Adegoke, Head,…
Facebook and Google are teaming up with Indian firms, Infibeam and Reliance Industries on an application to set up a national digital payment network in the South Asian country, according to the Economic Times. The Reserve Bank of India has invited companies to create new umbrella entities (NUEs) that build payments networks that offer an alternative to the bank-owned not-for-profit National Payments Council of India. Citing sources, the Economic Times says that Google, Facebook, conglomerate Reliance and fintech firm Infibeam are at an advanced stage in submitting their plan to the central bank. Google and Facebook (through WhatsApp) are already…
The MultiChoice Talent Factory (MTF) has announced that its very first Acting for Camera Masterclass in partnership with the world-renowned AMDA College and Conservatory of the Performing Arts on March 2, 2021. AMDA (The American Musical and Dramatic Academy) has been ranked the number one college for performing arts in the United States and will add a game-changing dynamic to the MTF shared-value initiative offering. Since the introduction of the MTF industry Masterclasses in 2018, MTF has provided some of the most sought-after masterclasses facilitated by film and TV experts including renowned Nigerian filmmaker, Tunde Kelani and veteran Kenyan producer,…
The Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja has been awarded the Airport Service Quality (ASQ) Award 2020 as judged by their customers as the Best Airport by Size and Region (5 to 15 million passengers per year in Africa). This award represents the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) commitment to continuously improving customer experience across all Nigerian airports according to a statement by Henrietta Yakubu, General Manager, Corporate Affairs at FAAN. “The recognition comes at a time when we are geared towards ensuring seamless airport facilitation with the opening of new terminals and upgrading of our current infrastructures across the…
……As Farmcrowdy Fully Leaves The Crowdfunding Space EMFATO Holdings (owners of Farmcrowdy and investors in Plentywaka) have announced the exit of one of its portfolio companies – Crowdyvest, following up on new investments into the startup to grow as a digital savings company in Nigeria. Crowdyvest, an impact-driven fintech platform, which was launched just over a year ago, has over 10,000 members who have used opportunities on its platform to sponsor projects in Agriculture, Real Estate, Transportation, Health and Education sectors. Previously led by its Co-founder & CEO, Onyeka Akumah but today, along with the new investment, there is a…
ITREALMS Media, organizers of the annual Nigeria DigitalSENSE Forum series, has unveiled the date for this year’s edition. Editor-in-Chief/Lead Consulting Strategist at ITREALMS Media, Mr. Remmy Nweke, who disclosed this at the weekend, said the management has approved Thursday, June 10, 2021, as the date for the yearly NDSF which borders on Internet Governance for Development (IG4D) and Nigeria IPv6 Roundtable respectively. He also revealed that the main theme for 2021 is ‘Digital Cooperation: Enhancing Multistakeholder Governance for Digital Economy.’ According to Nweke, nowadays, a paradigm shift has shown that the digital era brought inconceivable benefits alongside many challenges not…
The Presidency has directed the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, to remit the statutory deductions accruable to the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure, NASENI. The directive is part of the steps to boost Science and Technology development in the country. The agency may soon get one to two per cent of the Federation Account as contained in its establishment law. The directive followed the upholding of the decision of the Governing Board of NASENI, which is headed by President Muhammadu Buhari. DigitalTimesNG understands that the directive has also been communicated to the Minister of Finance, Budget and National…