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The duo of Bako Wakil and Oluwatoyin Asaju, both Directors at the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC),  have been conferred with the Fellowship of the Nigerian Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FNIEEE). In a statement issue and signed by Dr. Ikechukwu Adinde, Director of Public Affairs at NCC, the Directors received the Fellowship Award at the 8th Fellowship Conferment and Awards/Dinner of the Institute, held last week Saturday. While Wakil is the Director, Technical Standards and Network Integrity, Asaju is the current Director, Spectrum Administration Department at the Commission. They are both certified engineers, Bako Wakil holds a Master of…

The Internet Protocol Version Six (IPv6) Council Nigeria, has sealed a partnership deal with the Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) to host the 1st web seminar (webinar) on the state of IPv6 deployment in Nigeria. In a joint statement, signed by the Chairman of IPV6 Council Nigeria, Mr. Muhammed Rudman and President of ATCON, Engr. Ikechukwu Nnamani, the theme of the webinar scheduled to hold on Thursday, April 8, 2021, by 10 am, is “National IPv6 Migration: Challenges and Prospects for the Nigerian/Africa Digital Transformation”. The statement noted that the webinar is a veritable platform to discuss the…

Nigel Green, the Chief Executive Officer of deVere Group has explained how institutional investors such as Tesla’s Elon Musk and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey interest in Bitcoin will permanently hike the price. According to Green, Bitcoin has been on an epic rally since last October owing to the momentum that came from investors who are looking for alternatives to traditional currencies as central banks and governments continue to helicopter new cash into economies. “As Wall Street giants increasingly pursue crypto activities and as billionaire entrepreneurs such as Tesla’s Elon Musk and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey pile into the cryptocurrency, Bitcoin prices will…

As enterprises sharpen cloud migrations, SaaS vendors are predicted to boom significantly. Cloud migrations are often complex. Toss in a pandemic and a quick transformation to remote work, and 2021 becomes the year of clean-up. Looking towards 2021, there will be a massive uptick in cloud infrastructure implementations and spending to enable new remote workers to function efficiently outside the legacy office environment. The transformation to the cloud isn’t slowing down, but enterprises are tidying strategies to take complete benefit of a hot cloud moment. In 2021, firms are preparing for the cloud to trickle into all departments. Here are…

Nigeria’s premier financial institution, Firstbank is set to hold the fourth edition of the annual FirstGem Conference, tagged FirstGem 4.0. The 2021 event is themed ‘The Art of Negotiation’.  The conference, which is scheduled to hold on Wednesday, 31 March 2021 is being convened to provide women with insights on the secrets of wealth management, investment and savings. Participants are required to register via the link http://bit.ly/firstbankwebinar Announcing the conference in a statement, Mr. Francis Shobo, Deputy Managing Director, Firstbank said “The FirstGem 4.0 is the icing on the cake in the streams of initiatives and activities we have organised…

By Elvis Eromosele Numbers tell a story. If you can connect one story with another, you can make plausible inferences. Two reports released last week showed the power of these connections. The Nigerian Bureau of Statistics showed that the unemployment rate for the fourth quarter of 2020 hit 33.3 percent. This is an increase from the 27.1 percent recorded in Q2, of the same year. The Nigerian Protein Deficiency Report 2020 released in the same week indicated that cost and household income levels remain the major deterrents to adequate protein intake in Nigeria. According to the report, 45 percent of…

Nigeria is currently mired in the throes of a worsening unemployment tide. As you read this, the situation is so bad that out of every three Nigerians you encounter, one of them is unemployed. Numbers-wise, Nigeria’s unemployment profile currently stands at about 33.3%. The data above is backed up by the latest statistics released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The report released on Monday, March 15, 2021, Monday, March 15, makes for grim reading. It showed that Nigeria’s unemployment rate rose from 27.1 percent in the second quarter of 2020 to 33.3 percent in the fourth quarter of 2020.…

The United Nations Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development has advocated for a deliberate building of an inclusive post-COVID digital future with impactful partnerships with various stakeholders, which will ultimately, make the best use of broadband Internet. The Commissioners of the Commission, who made this advocacy, noted that there is a need for innovative financing mechanisms, impactful partnerships, bold decision-making and holistic approaches to capacity and content development to make the best use of broadband Internet. Gathering at their spring annual session, more than 50 commissioners, who comprise government leaders, heads of international organizations and private companies, civil society and academia, discussed…

The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Pantami has highlighted some of the progress made so far in the implementation of the Nigerian National Broadband Plan 2020-2025. The Minister, who gave the highlights yesterday at a virtual structured engagement with key stakeholders in the Nigerian Telecom & ICT sector on the new national broadband plan 2020 – 2025, organized by the Association of Telecom Companies of Nigeria (ATCON), noted that the journey is encouraging with significant progress made in realizing some of the targets set in the new Broadband Plan. He said though, most of the challenges are…

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has given reasons why as part of its regulatory roles, it has always advocated for what it described as responsible use of the Internet. According to the telecom regulator, its advocacy for the responsible use of the technologies, especially the Internet is hinged on its drive to help address the country’s socio-economic, cultural and national security challenges. Giving a goodwill message at the ‘Quarterly Public Lecture of the National Institute for Cultural Orientation (NICO) yesterday, the Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta, noted that aside from driving ubiquitous access to telecoms services, NCC…