Tech giant Microsoft has announced a $1 million (approximately ₦1.6 billion) investment in the Nigerian economy over the next two years to equip one million Nigerians with Artificial Intelligence (AI) skills. The announcement was made today in Lagos by Ola Williams, Microsoft’s Country Manager for Nigeria and Ghana. … developing story ...
Airtel Nigeria, the country’s second-largest telecom operator, has revised its data pricing structure, implementing a tariff adjustment of up to 50 per cent, according to details published on its website yesterday. The price revision, which affects various data bundles, aligns with ongoing industry concerns over escalating operational costs, r...
•Elon Musk Elon Musk said his startup xAI will release its Grok 3 chatbot today and billed it as the “smartest AI on Earth” in a fiercely competitive market. The company’s flagship artificial intelligence product will go live with a demonstration tonight at 8:00 pm Pacific time (0400 GMT), the tech billionaire wrote Saturday on […]...
MTN Nigeria has publicly apologised to its customers following widespread backlash over a sudden 200% increase in the price of its 15GB digital bundle plan. The telecommunications giant admitted the adjustment was an error and assured subscribers of better decision-making in the future. In a statement posted on its official Instagram handle to...
•House of Representatives Following a motion of urgent national importance by a member, Oboku Oforji, the House of Representatives yesterday called for the immediate suspension of the 50% hike in telecoms tariff. The House also decried the poor service delivery from telecom operators and insisted that an increase in tariff should not happen un...
Nigeria’s largest telecom operator, MTN, has commenced the gradual implementation of a 50 per cent tariff increase approved by the Nigerian Communications Commission in January. The adjustment, which is evident in the updated prices of data plans, leaves call and SMS rates unaffected for the time being, reports The PUNCH. A senior executive fr...
•Elon Musk Elon Musk, the world’s richest person and a top advisor to US President Donald Trump, said he has no interest in acquiring social media platform TikTok’s operations in the United States, in comments released Saturday. “I’ve not put in a bid for TikTok and I don’t have any plans for what I would […]
In spite of the recent tariff hike approval for telecom operators which is being trailed by controversies among stakeholders, there are indications that many subscribers may dumb their respective networks for Starlink, a global satellite service provider. The telcos’ uneasiness is linked to the push by Starlink to deploy its Direct-To-Phone ...
•Donald Trump and Mark Zuckerberg Meta has agreed to pay President Donald Trump $25 million to settle a 2021 lawsuit he filed claiming he was wrongfully censored by Facebook and Instagram after the US Capitol riot, the company said yesterday. The Wall Street Journal first reported the settlement of the suit brought against Meta and […]...
Nigerians are mounting a resolute challenge to the contentious 50 per cent increase in call and data tariffs, with telecom subscribers and advocacy groups escalating the matter to the courts following unsuccessful attempts to engage the Nigerian Communications Commission. The National Association of Telecommunications Subscribers declared its ...