Facebook on Wednesday released findings from The Impact of Facebook’s Connectivity Initiatives in Sub-Saharan Africa, a study conducted by Analysys Mason that highlights how Facebook investments in infrastructure and connectivity across the region will deliver over $57 Billion in Economic Benefits over the next five years (2020–2024). The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Inclusive Internet Index 2020, shows that over 800 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa are unconnected to the internet. Over the years, Facebook has invested in infrastructure and partnerships to address the barriers to connectivity, such as the lack of availability in infrastructure, affordability, relevance and readiness to get online. Aiming to provide financial and technical inputs…
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Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta, has commiserated with the family of late Malam Ismaila Isa Funtua, who passed on at 78 in Abuja on Monday, July 20, 2020. Until his death, the late Isa Funtua was a publisher, industrialist and founder of Bulet International Nigeria Limited. Danbatta, who alongside some staff of the Commission paid a condolence visit to the family at the residence of late Funtua on Tuesday, July 21, 2020, in Abuja, described the late Funtua “as an industrialist, a loyal and trusted ally of President Muhammadu Buhari, whose accomplishments have…
The Nigerian Communications Commissions (NCC) has reiterated its commitment to the creation of an enabling environment for competition among operators in the industry aimed at ensuring the provision of qualitative and efficient telecoms services as stipulated in the Nigerian Communications Act (NCA), 2003. Towards this end, the NCC has commenced the implementation of the Accounting Separation Framework (ASF) in the Nigerian telecoms industry effective from July 15, 2020. The NCC move according to DigitalTimesNG checks is in order to further ensure transparency and accountability in regard to effective regulation and prevention of anti-competitive behaviour. DigitalTimesNG further learnt that the policy…
Access Bank Plc, Monday announced the completion of the acquisition of Transnational Bank (Kenya) Limited, a Kenyan-based financial institution. Recall that Access Bank had acquired Transnational Bank (Kenya) Limited after the Nigerian tier 1 lender announced in January that it had secured regulatory approval to acquire the Kenya lender. But in a release on Monday, Access Bank said it has completed the acquisition of Transnational Bank (Kenya) Plc after it received the full regulatory approval and fulfilled all conditions precedent to completion of the process. “The Bank’s vision is to be the World’s Most Respected African Bank and our entry into…
Fidelity Bank Plc, Nigeria’s tier-2 lender has announced the appointment of Nneka Onyeali-Ikpe as its managing director/chief executive officer-designate. The bank announced on Monday in a notice on the NSE website, signed by Ezinwa Unuigboje, its company secretary that Onyeali-Ikpe will formally assume duties on January 1, 2021. The notice said the appointment followed the impending retirement of Mr Nnamdi Okonkwo, managing director/chief executive officer, from the Board of Directors of the bank, with effect from Dec. 31, 2020, upon completion of his contract tenure. “In compliance with the succession policy of the Bank, the Board has approved the appointment of Mrs…
By Comrade Mustapha Ya’u GUMEL On the 20th August 2019, Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, CCIE, assumed duty as Director-General/CEO, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), at a relatively young age of 39. He is one of the few young Nigerians to have that privilege in recent history. I was opportune to pass through the same Secondary School with Kashifu, between 1995 and 1997, having joined the School a year earlier than I did. Science Secondary School Kafin Hausa was and is still ranked as one of the best Science Schools in Jigawa State. The School’s admission process was and still is…
…….Say It Has Potential To Accelerate SME Growth In The Country Technology experts have called for fresh investments to drive the adoption of Cloud Computing in Nigeria, even as they stressed that the technology has the potential to accelerate the growth of the about 41 million small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) in the country, and even enable rapid governance on the part of the government. The experts who gathered virtually at a webinar hosted by CyberCloud, an indigenous service provider, with the theme: “The New Normal: Future of Cloud Computing in Nigeria post-COVID19,” submitted that with coronavirus pandemic still…
All is now set for the confirmation by the Senate, of the reappointment of the Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, by President Muhammadu Buhari, for another five-year term in office as the country’s chief telecoms regulator. The development followed the acknowledgement of Prof. Danbatta’s outstanding performance in the last five years when he appeared before the Senate Screening Committee recently in Abuja. A prominent member of the committee, Senator Ibrahim Oloriegbe, who represented the Chairman of the Senate Screening Committee, Mrs Oluremi Tinubu, during the screening,…
MTN Nigeria Plc Wednesday announced the trial of e-SIM services on their network based on approvals received from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). The services are coming as MTN’s continued drive to lead digital transformation, foster inclusion, improve customer experience and maintain the highest quality of service for its customers. The next step in the evolution of Subscriber Identity Modules (SIM cards), e-SIMs are designed to deliver unprecedented freedom and flexibility. Unlike the physical SIMs, e-SIMs are built into smartphones, devices and wearables. They support multiple profiles and allow customers to connect multiple numbers to their e-SIM devices. Notwithstanding the…
By Andrew BOURNE Companies around the globe have had to adopt remote working in a short period of time. Some have thrived and won’t go back to the office model, with the likes of Twitter, Quora, and Slack all indicating that they’ll either be fully remote or remote-first for the foreseeable future. Others, however, have struggled with the transition and are hankering to get their teams back into the office. The ideal solution is probably somewhere in between these two extremes with employees able to work remotely when it is suitable and returning to the office as needed. Here’s how…