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  An environmental support services firm, Breval Tulip has said that Lagos State Government will earn over N7billion annually from its proposal to the state on commercial waste bin branding. Executive Director, Corporate Services, BrevalTulip, Mrs. Busayo Binuyo said this recently during a presentation to the management of the Lagos State Signage Advertising Agency, LASAA on the untapped benefits of waste bin branding. Speaking at the meeting, Mrs Binuyo said her company is specifically focused on commercial and industrial waste bin distribution and branding and is hoping to help the state increase its internally generated revenue through branding of the…

  By Martin Ekpeke A new Interconnect rate is expected to berth in the Nigeria’s telecommunication space latest March this year. This was the position of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) yesterday, at a forum on cost based study for the determination of mobile voice termination rate in Lagos. According to Mr. Sunday Dare, Executive Commissioner, Stakeholder Management, the new interconnect rate is critical to the growth and development of the telecoms industry, stressing that it a key component of the commercial aspects of interconnection between the network service providers. “We are working and hoping that Nigeria would have a…

  By Kester Omu The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said it has no plan to revoke the license of any of the Interconnect Clearinghouse operators, who are presently being queried on the allegations of call masking and refilling. The Executive Commission, Stakeholders Management at the NCC, Mr. Sunday Dare, disclosed this yesterday, while speaking to Journalists on the sideline of a stakeholders’ forum on cost based study for the determination of mobile voice termination rate in Lagos. According to him, the worst that could happen to any of the Interconnect Clearinghouse operators found culpable is to sanction or suspend…

  Nigeria’s Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has disclosed that to achieve the digital national identity for all citizens, the National Identity Management Commission would need an additional $3.1 billion. The Vice President, who stated this at the stakeholder workshop on Strategic Roadmap for Digital Identity, Eco-system in Nigeria, also revealed that Nigeria spent $, based on the 1.2 billion since the 1970s on the project, on a World Bank research on 2015. “Nigeria will have to spend additional $3.1 billion to develop a full identity for all Nigerians,” Osinbajo who was represented by Senior Special Assistant to the President…

  The General Manager of the MainOne Data Center subsidiary, MDXI, Mr. Gbenga Adegbiji has debunked the perception that power hungry industries such as data centers cannot successfully operate in Nigeria. Adegbiji, who was reacting to media reports that power is the key challenge of the Data center operation in Nigeria, disclosed that the MDXi Data Center has enjoyed over 90 per cent power uptime since 2015 and is poised to achieve 95 percent availability in 2018, based on a growing partnership with a local power distribution company. “We recognized the crippling impact of downtimes, the peculiarities of the Nigerian…

A prominent development economist, Mr. Mukoro Okotete had commended the contribution of the telecoms sector to the nation’s economic growth and development. Speaking at a seminar in Lagos with the theme “Nigeria: Sustainable Growth After Recession” Okotete noted that the impressive growth of the telecoms sector would be enhanced by the planned sale of 9Mobile.  He, however, cautioned that for the sale of 9Mobile to yield the desired dividends, it has to be done transparently.  He expressed dismay that some vested interest had sought to derail the sale by announcing the emergence of a preferred bidder.  That the preemptive…

  The Nigerian Senate has expressed concerns over the widespread of usage of Crypto-currency in the form of Bitcoin in Nigeria, warning that Nigerians seem not to be aware of the consequences with the way it is openly marketed across the country on the local television and radio stations. In a motion, sponsored by Senator Benjamin Uwaiumogu (APC, Imo North), the upper legislative chamber expressed concern that Nigerians are freely advised, and even persuaded to invest in crypto-currency as it promises quick returns, in certain instances, a triple or quadruple of the invested sum as profit within days. Uwaiumogu noted…

  By Kester Omu The Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) has posited that it would be wrong for the  Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to suspend some Interconnect houses, over the allegation of call masking without making available evidence to show that call masking emanated from their end. The President of ATCON, Mr. Olusola Teniola, who spoke to the Punch Newspaper, also argued that the affected interconnect houses, who are members of ATCON are only responsible five per cent of all calls routed in the telecom industry, while the remaining 95 per cent passed through network operators. “To the…

  Software giant, Microsoft has said its newly acquired gaming start-up PlayFab, which will be integrated into Azure platform, will help developers build better games. Microsoft had acquired PlayFab, which powers more than 1,200 live games and has served over 700 million players for for an undisclosed sum. “Together, Azure and PlayFab will further unlock the power of the intelligent cloud for the gaming industry, enabling game developers and delighting gamers around the world,” Kareem Choudhry, Corporate Vice President of gaming at Microsoft, said in a blog post. PlayFab technology is being used by entertainment companies like Disney, NBC Universal,…

  Based on the alert that there will be a potential cyber-attacks on MDAs, including the organised private sector and the general public, the following precautionary measures are hereby recommended by the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has through its Computer Emergency Readiness and Response Team (CERRT). Efforts should be intensified at ensuring that any data is encrypted, particularly any sensitive or personal data. Ensure that networks are fully secured through the use of wired network thereby protecting them from possible hackers’ attempt at using Wi-Fi security lapses to remotely break into computer systems. Where Wi-Fi network is used,…