The Nigerian Communications Commission is stepping up efforts to curb the circulation of counterfeit, cloned and unauthorised mobile devices, as the regulator strengthens enforcement of technical standards across the telecommunications market Speaking at a media briefing in Lagos today, the Director of the NCC Lagos Zonal Office, Tunji Jimoh, ...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives has threatened to issue arrest warrants against chief executives of telecommunications companies over their failure to honour invitations to explain persistent poor network services across the country. The warning followed the rejection today by the House Ad Hoc Committee investigating tel...
•Chief Executive Officer of MTN Nigeria, Karl Toriola MTN Nigeria has attributed the rapid depletion of subscribers’ internet data bundles to high-resolution video streaming, automatic downloads, background applications, cloud backups and increased internet activity, dismissing allegations that telecommunications operators deliberately deduct ...
The House of Representatives has given MTN Nigeria, Airtel Nigeria, Globacom, Mafab Communications and other telecom operators seven days to explain persistent poor network services across the country. The ultimatum came today during a public hearing in Abuja, where the lawmakers directed the companies’ chief executives to appear before the co...
•AI letters on a laptop screen next to the logo of China’s Deepseek AI application (bottom) The United States Department of Homeland Security on Monday ordered government agencies to stop using artificial intelligence tools from DeepSeek, citing concerns over data being transferred to China. Here are five things to know about the Chinese AI s...
•The Google logo is seen outside a building housing Google offices in Beijing A power outage at a Google Cloud data centre near London caused serious failures to services today, the US technology giant said, as several UK banks reported widespread disruptions. Google said in a service update that its Cloud services suffered an outage [&helli...
•Adejisola Atiba Leadership expert and author Adejisola Atiba has emphasised the enduring importance of human wisdom, compassion, sound judgment and purpose in navigating a rapidly changing world, as Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to transform industries, careers and workplaces. Atiba stated this in an extract from her book, Beyond AI:...
Google announced yesterday it will start displaying links to websites and articles more prominently and higher up in search results powered by artificial intelligence (AI), as brands and news publishers warn of a sharp decline in their traffic. The Alphabet subsidiary began integrating more AI features in its search results over two years ago,...
Meta yesterday launched a new open-weight AI model which it claims rivals, and in some cases outperforms, similar products from leading Chinese developers. Muse Spark Open “is the most capable US open-weight model to date,” Meta’s chief of AI Alexandr Wang wrote on X. Unlike with so-called closed models — such as Anthropic’s Claude or [&hellip...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has introduced a Device Checker service that allows consumers to verify communications devices by dialling *315#, as part of efforts to curb counterfeit and non-compliant phones on Nigerian mobile networks. The Commission said the initiative formed part of an enhanced Type Approval Compliance framew...
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