The Director General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Dr. Isa Pantami has explained how the local content development policy of the federal government has boosted sales for Original Equipment manufacturers in Nigeria. Pantami, who was speaking at a press conference in Abuja, disclosed that in accordance with the directive of the government on local content, Original Equipment Manufacturers sold 788,295 computer systems in five years. The sales, according to him increased massively between 2016 and 2017. “The local content policy has resulted in an exceptional increase in the patronage of locally-assembled devices. Records have shown that in…
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Again, Nigeria’s telecom regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission is set to intervene in the base station imbrioglo between the Kogi State government and MTN Nigeria later this week. The Kogi State government had last week closed down several base stations belonging to MTN Nigeria, thereby disrupting telecom services in Lokoja, Obajana and other bordering communities. The government blamed the action on the refusal of MTN to offset an outstanding tax liability of N120 million to the state government. It says MTN only paid a paltry N250, 000. “Paying a paltry N250, 000 out of N120 million is an abuse…
Nigeria’s Renmoney, which provides convenient loans, savings and fixed deposit products to Nigerians has deployed Freshworks customer engagement software to improve its customer service engagement. The Fintech company had in last year delivered over 95,000 loans to individuals and small businesses via its website, contact centre, agent network and branches. These interactions were made across multiple channels, which created complexities that made it challenging to maintain a holistic view of each customer. “Using multiple solutions to handle customer data was significantly affecting our ability to scale and serve more customers. We needed a solution that would meet our needs without…
The National Association of Nigerian Students, an umbrella body of all higher institution’s students in Nigeria last week declared the President and Chief Executive Officer of Medallion Communications Limited, Engr. Ikechuckwu Nnamani 2018 ‘Man of the Year’. Presenting the ‘Man of the Year’ award to Nnamani in a brief ceremony in Lagos, the Public Relations Officer of NANS, Comrade Jeremiah Olatinwo said Nnamani, who is also the first Vice President of the Association of Telecom Companies of Nigeria was painstakingly selected for the award owing to his effort in the development of Communications Technology in Nigeria. The award, which…
The Kogi State government has again shut down several base stations belonging to MTN Nigeria, thereby disrupting telecom services in Lokoja, Obajana and other bordering communities. This shutting down is coming barely two months, when the state government closed down over 160 base stations, leading to a total blackout of telecom services in the state and other neighbouring states of Nassarawa, Benue, Enugu, Anambra, Edo, Ondo, Ekiti, Kwara, Niger States and parts of Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory. This time, Jamil Isah, director, legal services and enforcement of Kogi State Internal Revenue, who led other staff to seal the…
The Google ‘My Business’ application has been updated to give business owners a tool that increases their chances of being discovered. It also allows users to share information via Maps & Search. “With this update, we hope to better connect you with potential customers in your service areas so consumers get the services they need and you find new customers,” Tom Pritchard, Product Lead, My Business, ET Telecom quoted Google in a blog post on Tuesday. ‘My Business’ app to allow users to share the service-areas and information about their business via Maps and Search, increasing their chances to be…
The launch of the digital declaration by the GSMA at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland yesterday received thumbs-up from over forty business leaders across the world. According to a press release by GSMA, the world leaders who have already committed to the declaration span several industry sectors and include representatives from: Bharti Airtel, China Mobile, China Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, IBM, KDDI, KT, LG Electronics, Mobile World Capital Barcelona, Nokia, NTT DOCOMO, Orange, Samsung Electronics, Sharp, SK Telecom, Sony Corporation, STC Group, Telefónica, Turkcell, Verizon, Vodafone and Xiaomi. The ‘Digital Declaration’ captures key principles that serve as a…
Several Unity Schools from Nigeria will later this year compete with their global peers after excelling in last week’s 2-day annual First LEGO League Nigeria National Championship, which was hosted by the Base University, Abuja. Some of the schools that displayed their robotics ideas are Federal Govrnment College, Odogbolu; Federal Government Girls College – Ikot Obio Itong, Akwa Ibom State; Kings College Lagos and Oginigba Community Secondary School, Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The FIRST LEGO League is an international program for 9- to 16-year-old children created in a partnership between FIRST and the LEGO Group in 1998 to get…
Nigeria’s first On-demand health plan retailer, Healthpoint has announced plans to give free health insurance cover to widows and orphans across the country. A statement by Chief Executive Officer of Healthpoint, Mrs Kemi Ayinde said that the free health insurance coverage is part of the organization’s effort to promote inclusion, health in Africa, to redress health and social inequities among the populace by providing effective interventions for marginalized and excluded populations. Ayinde stated that the offer would provide free health insurance coverage for a number of widows and orphans for one year in accredited hospitals across the country. “This…
By Martin Ekpeke Stakeholders in Nigeria’s higher institutions of learning have been urged to subscribe to Open Science, where they can easily collaborate and contribute to a repository of knowledge so that research data and processes are freely available under terms that can enable reuse, redistribution and reproduction. This call was made yesterday at the on-going Eko-Konnect Users Conference at the University of Lagos. Specifically, Librarians, Researchers and other Academians were told that Open Science has become a movement to promote the free sharing of knowledge, rather than restricted publications that are paid for. Delivering the lecture titled ‘Open…