ICT

Wema Bank Empowers Tech Innovators at Akure, Zaria, Ibadan, and Lagos with Hackaholics 6.0 Wema Bank, Nigeria’s most innovative bank and pioneer of Africa’s first fully digital bank, ALAT, has continued to deepen its commitment to youth innovation and entrepreneurship with Hackaholics 6.0, its flagship campus ideathon. This year, the ...

Waves of Innovation: How First Bank turned Lagos into Africa’s Electric Playground By Kazeem Ugbodaga   The Lagos Lagoon glistened in shades of blue and gold as electric powerboats sliced through the water, cheered on by an ecstatic crowd that lined Victoria Island’s waterfront from Saturday, 3 October to Sunday, ...

    The National Biotechnology Research and Development Agency has assured Nigerians of the health safety of genetically modified organisms   The Director-General of NBRDA, Abdullahi Mustapha, disclosed this in a statement on Monday.   Mustapha gave the assurance against the backdrop of ongoing debates and conversations around GMOs, which ...

  The Corporate Affairs Commission has said its newly deployed Artificial Intelligence-driven registration platform, the Intelligent Companies Registration Portal, now handles over 11,000 company registration and compliance cases daily.   According to the commission, the portal recently processed 8,000 name reservation requests in a single day.   It noted that ...

Is MTN Nigeria Running a Data Empire or a Criminal Scheme? President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s effort to open up the digital economy is facing serious challenges, which are coming in the form of data exploitation. The move is having a negative telling effect on many, especially at a period when ...

  The Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, has warned Federal Universities, Polytechnics and Colleges of Education across the country, declaring that any satellite campus established without prior approval through their respective regulatory agencies, the National Universities Commission, the National Board for Technical Education and the National Colleges of Education ...

  Startups and businesses across Africa have been invited to showcase their innovations at the upcoming Lagos Startup Expo, scheduled for June 18–19, 2025, at the Landmark Centre, Victoria Island, organisers disclosed in a statement on Tuesday.   With the theme ‘Connect, Invest and Innovate’, the Lagos Startup Expo 2025 ...

  The founder and Chief Executive Officer of music streaming giant, Spotify, Daniel Ek, has said that Artificial intelligence will drive more people to create music and should not be seen as a threat to the industry.   Speaking at an Open House event at Spotify’s headquarters in Stockholm, Ek ...

How rising costs threaten Nigeria’s telecom sector – by Ismail Olatunji Rising operating costs have become increasingly overwhelming for most businesses in Nigeria in the past two to three years. Escalating costs of fuel, power, labour, transportation, equipment maintenance and security, coupled with forex fluctuations and availability have especially put ...

Zenith Tech Fair 4.0 Concludes with Hackathon Winners Awarded ₦77.5M in Cash Prizes The Fourth Edition of the Zenith Bank organized Zenith Tech Fair, themed “Future Forward 4.0: Embedded Finance, Cybersecurity & Growth Imperatives – The Impact of AI,” concluded on Thursday, November 21, 2024, at the Eko Convention Centre, ...