TECHNOLOGY

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.

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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 […]

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 research product where Nigerians in Diaspora […]

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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, […]