TECHNOLOGY

‘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

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North Korea ‘hacking Nigerian banks’ to fund nuclear programme

Daily Dispatch April 6, 2017

A new report from a Russian online cyber security firm, Kaspersky, has observed that North Korean hackers are allegedly attacking banks in 18 countries, including Nigeria. The organisation noted in its report that this could be regarded as the biggest bank heists in world history. Banks and security researchers have previously identified four similar cyber-heists attempted

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Legend Deploys Municipal Wi-Fi hotspot Network in Abuja

Daily Dispatch March 28, 2017

A firm, Suburban Fiber Company Limited, popularly known as Legend has deployed a municipal Wi-Fi network in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to join over 100 cities across the world. Wi-Fi hotspots connected through a type of wired or wireless backhaul system using a cluster of Wireless Access Points (APs). A statement signed Tuesday in […]

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UNILAG Students Have Built First ‘Electric Car’ in Africa

Daily Dispatch March 8, 2017

A group of Nigerian students came together to create Africa’s first electric car from scratch, using locally sourced materials. The project began was said to have commenced in 2014 and by 2015 the students had built a zero emission electric powered prototype vehicle called the ‘DOVE P1’. Olukoya Olusanya and Maduka Smart pioneered the project, […]

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NCC To Assist In Rebuilding Telecommunication Facilities Destroyed by Boko Haram

Daily Dispatch March 5, 2017

The Nigerian Communications Commission said on Sunday it was willing to assist GSM service providers in rebuilding telecommunication facilities destroyed by suspected Boko Haram terrorists in the North-East. Hajiya Hafsat Lawan, the NCC Assistant Director, Legal and Regulatory Services, made the promise while speaking with journalists in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.

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32 million accounts accessed using ‘forged cookies’ – Yahoo

Daily Dispatch March 2, 2017

Yahoo Inc, which disclosed two massive data breaches last year, said that about 32 million user accounts were accessed by intruders in the last two years using forged cookies. The company said some of the latest intrusions could be connected to the “same state-sponsored actor believed to be responsible for the 2014 breach” in which […]