TECHNOLOGY

NCC assures of vibrant telecoms sector

Daily Dispatch September 22, 2017

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) says it has taken steps to ensure that the telecommunications sector remains vibrant. The Executive Vice Chairman, NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta said this in Lagos during the 81st edition of the Telecoms Consumer Parliament (TCP). The chairman was

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Twitter suspends 935,897, removes 299,649 accounts for promoting terrorism

Daily Dispatch September 20, 2017

Twitter on Tuesday touted victories in the battle against tweets promoting extremist violence, saying it has been vanquishing those kinds of accounts before governments even ask. Twitter highlighted progress in its latest transparency report, noting that between the start of August in 2015 and June 30 of this year it has suspended 935,897 accounts for “promotion of […]

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Nigerian makes drones that smell bombs

Daily Dispatch August 29, 2017

A Nigerian engineer and neuroscientist, Oshiorenoya Agabi, is blazing a trail in America’s Silicon Valley by developing drones that are capable of smelling bombs far away. Agabi is the founder and CEO of the Silicon Valley startup, Koniku, a wetware company, which is the world’s first neurocomputation company. Koniku is a privately held venture company […]

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NCC boss, Danbatta visits Computer Village, assures CAPDAN of strategic partnership

Daily Dispatch August 25, 2017

Professor Umar Danbatta, the Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, was at the Computer Village in Lagos, on Wednesday. The NCC boss said the commission was eady to partner with the Computer and Allied Products Dealers Association of Nigeria, CAPDAN, in order to translate into reality the relevant provisions of the Nigerian Communications Act 2003. A […]

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Nigeria has enough biomass capacity to provide electricity – Expert

Daily Dispatch August 24, 2017

Micheal Kotter, the Chief Executive Officer, International Biogas and Bioenergy Centre of Competence, Germany, say Nigeria has enough biomass capacity to provide its electricity. Kotter said this at the workshop on biogas technical presentation organised by the National Biotechnology Development Agency on Thursday in Abuja. He said that even though it was his first visit

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9mobile speaks on service disruptions

Daily Dispatch August 23, 2017

The management of 9mobile has reacted to disruption in services to its subscribers. Millions of customers have been lamenting the 9mobile’s poor call and data network. On Wednesday, 9mobile announced a network outage in one of its data centres as the reason for the service disruption. In a statement signed by Ibrahim Dikko, one of […]