United States President Joe Biden recently signed a bill that could potentially result in the ban of TikTok in the US if its Chinese-owned parent company, ByteDance, fails to sell it within a year. US lawmakers are concerned about the potential national security risks associated with the app, particularly if the Chinese government were to [&he...
The plan by telecommunication operators in Nigeria to hike tariffs for data and voice calls appears not to have gone down well with Nigerians, warning that any move to further impoverish them would be resisted. The planned resistance is coming on the heels of a joint statement released yesterday, by the Association of Licensed Telecom [&hellip...
•Telecoms Telecom operators yesterday renewed their push for end-user tariff hike to reflect the cost of doing business. The operators, acting under the aegis of Association of Licensed Telecom Companies of Nigeria (ALTON) and Association of Telecom Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) in a joint statement asked for a cost-reflective tariff of service...
•Document Management System (DMS) The federal government has ordered the Computer Professionals (Registration Council of Nigeria (CPN), to crackdown on all individuals and corporate organisations practicing Information and Technology in Nigeria without due registration with CPN. Minister of State for Education, Dr Yusuf Sununu who gave the dir...
Repairs and revenue losses from damaged cables are estimated to have cost Nigeria’s telecom industry almost N27 billion ($23 million) in 2023, according to documents obtained by Bloomberg. According to the report, MTN Nigeria and Airtel Africa Plc bore the brunt of the costs. MTN suffered more than 6,000 cuts on its fibre cable last […]...
•Elon Musk The chief executive officer of the social media platform, X, Elon Musk has said that new users will start paying to post. Musk said this yesterday while reacting to a post about the X policy on new accounts, adding that it is the only remedy to combat the issue of bots on the […]
The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has said 95 million Nigerians need to enrol for the National Identification Number (NIN). This was revealed by the Head of Corporate Communications at the commission, Kayode Adegoke, on X over the weekend. According to him, for NIMC to meet the 200 million target by 2025, 95 million Nigerians ...
•New flagship Galaxy phone packed with artificial intelligence features Samsung regained its position as the top smartphone seller, wresting back the lead from Apple as Chinese rivals close the gap on both market leaders, industry tracker International Data Corporation (IDC) reported yesterday. South Korea-based Samsung overtook Apple as world...
The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has inaugurated a new card with a lot of features including payment functions for all types of social and financial services. According to NIMC, the card will solve the demand for physical identification enabling cardholders to prove their identity, and access government and private social ser...
TikTok, the short video social media platform owned by Bytedance, said that it has deleted 1.7 million recordings from Nigerian users during the fourth quarter of 2023. Explaining reasons for the action via its Community Guidelines Enforcement report, the platform said Nigeria was among the top 50 countries where videos violating its policies ...