Startup funding to Nigeria, South Africa, Egypt, Kenya and other parts of Africa dropped by 31 per cent in the half year of 2024. This is according to an analysis by Africa:
• Country misses June 30 deadline to issue 148m NINs to citizens To ensure more Nigerians enrolled for the National Identification Number (NIN) under the Nigeria Digital Identification for Development (ID4D) project, through
• Trapped funds, DND, other challenges shrink sub-sector by 35% • Operators write NCC, seek intervention • NCC plans review of VAS industry for more efficiency • Big banks delay settlement of
Social Media platform, Meta has announced the availability of two new monetisation features for eligible creators in Nigeria and Ghana. Meta said from July 1, 2024, content creators in the two countries
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), at the weekend, admitted that the telecoms sector is challenged and hoped that the issues are tackled headlong. Â Its Executive Vice Chairman (EVC), Dr Aminu Maida,
The West Africa Telecommunications Regulators Assembly (WATRA) has partnered with the ECOWAS Commission at the recent annual ECOWAS Digital Observatory (ECODOB) to forge stronger digital and cybersecurity frameworks for the region. Â Â Â Â
Minister meets NIMC over data breach Telecoms operators are planning to engage the Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) over its plan to increase licencing fees for data protection compliance organisations (DPCOs) to
In 2012, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Robert Mueller, said there are only two kinds of companies – those that have been hacked, and those that will be.
Contributions of the information and communications technology (ICT) sector to Nigeria’s gross domestic product (GDP) dropped from N8.4 trillion in Q4, 2023 to N7.9 trillion in Q1, 2024. But the Ministry of
Cybersecurity solutions firm, Sophos, in its ‘Cyber Insurance and Cyber Defenses 2024: Lessons from IT and Cybersecurity Leaders’ survey, said 76 per cent of companies improved their cyber defence as they battled
The Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development will bank on Artificial intelligence (AI) to help bring online the 2.6 billion people still not connected to the Internet.      In its The State of Broadband