TECHNOLOGY

Nigeria needs 32m STB for digital switch over – NBC

Daily Dispatch June 17, 2017

The National Broadcasting Commission says the country needs 32 million Set Top Box for it to switch from analogue to digital terrestrial broadcasting. The Director-General of the NBC, Ishaq Kawu, made this known during a news conference on Digital Switch Over held in Lagos on Friday. Kawu said

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FUTA launches Birds 1 Satellite

Daily Dispatch June 4, 2017

The Federal University of Technology Akure on Saturday made history when the SpaceX Falcon9 Rocket launched Birds 1 satellites, comprising five CubeSats belonging to Japan, Ghana, Mongolia, Nigeria and Bangladesh, into Space from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, USA. The Nigerian CubeSat, code name NigeriaEdusat-1, is designed, built and owned by FUTA in collaboration with

TECHNOLOGY

New Nokia 3310 back in Nigeria

Daily Dispatch June 1, 2017

The old reliable Nokia 3310 phone is now back in Nigeria as a modern reimagined handset that would speak for itself. Unlike the old Nokia 3310, the new Nokia came with dual SIM slots and camera. Nokia phones manufacturer, HMD Global, said in a statement on Thursday that the new Nokia 3310 was a classic […]

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FUTA to launch satellite into space for Nigerian socio-economy development

Daily Dispatch May 31, 2017

The Federal University of Technology, Akure, is set to break a record as it announced launch of a satellite into space for the sustainable socio-economic development of the nation. Premium Times reports that the satellite would be launched into space from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, USA. FUTA announced on Tuesday, May 30, that it […]

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NCC impounds broadcast equipment worth N5.5milliom

Daily Dispatch May 23, 2017

Mr Augustine Amodu, Director of Enforcement, Nigeria Copyright Commission (NCC), says the commission has impounded broadcast materials worth more than N5.5 million from suspected pirates during an anti piracy raid in Anambra state. Amodu disclosed on Monday at a news conference in Awka. He said that the raid carried out at Onitsha and Nnewi, was […]

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‘Nigeria-made speed limiter better, cheaper than imported ones’ – Onu

Daily Dispatch April 30, 2017

The speed limiting device being manufactured in Nigeria is better and cheaper than the imported ones, the Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbommaya Onu, has said. Onu, who spoke with the Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in New York, said that made-in-Nigeria device was a research product where Nigerians in Diaspora […]