TECHNOLOGY

NCC vows tougher oversight as It pushes telcos to improve consumer experience

Daily Dispatch January 6, 2026

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has pledged to hold telecommunications operators more accountable, insisting on measurable improvements in the quality of experience delivered to consumers. According to the Commission, operators are expected to make deliberate investments in network

BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY

Thrifto Goes Public: Nigeria’s Trusted Digital Platform for Group Savings Launches Nationwide

Daily Dispatch December 16, 2025

Thrifto, a Nigerian financial technology platform reinventing traditional group savings, has officially launched to the public, offering safeguarded group savings with guaranteed payouts for salary earners and traders. After a successful soft launch to family and friends, Thrifto is now opening access to the wider public, providing a secure, transparent, and bank-backed

TECHNOLOGY

NCC addresses quality of service challenges in Abuja

Daily Dispatch December 13, 2025

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC has acknowledged the recent Quality of Service (QoS) challenges affecting telecommunications subscribers in Abuja, attributing the disruptions to issues related to diesel supply for critical telecom infrastructure. The Mrs. Nnenna Ukoha, Head, Public Affairs, Nigerian Communications Commission, stated this in a statement.

TECHNOLOGY

Cassava Technologies and Rockefeller Foundation expand access to AI computing to African NGO

Daily Dispatch November 20, 2025

Cassava Technologies (Cassava) (www.CassavaTechnologies.com) and The Rockefeller Foundation announced a new effort to harness the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) for good across Africa. Cassava, which previously announced plans to build Africa’s first AI factory powered with NVIDIA AI infrastructure, will provide access to compute capacity to

TECHNOLOGY

Tunji Alausa’s Team records 10,000 digitised thesis submissions in three weeks

Daily Dispatch November 8, 2025

● Enrols 135 institutions for certificate verification● Ekiti, Bayero Universities, Auchi Poly lead national digital submission Early reports from the newly established national education record digitisation programme under the auspices of the Nigeria Education Repository and Databank (NERD) have shown that Nigerian students successfully uploaded and curated over 10,000

TECHNOLOGY

Nigeria Showcases N-ATLAS AI Language Model at UNGA80

Daily Dispatch September 26, 2025

as Emir Sanusi Calls for Stronger Public-Private Collaboration On the sidelines of the ongoing 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA80) in New York, Nigeria’s Minister of Communications, Innovation & Digital Economy, Dr. ‘Bosun Tijani, unveiled the Nigerian Atlas for Languages & AI at Scale (N-ATLAS) — a pioneering artificial intelligence initiative focused on