By Angeline Mgbele, Correspondent Abuja The leading pan-African banking group, the Ecobank Group, celebrated its eighth annual Ecobank Day, which is the Group’s flagship annual event, showing commitment and giving back to its local communities across 33 African countries. This year’s theme is ‘Take Action Against Diabetes’ and it marks...

By Angeline Mgbele, Correspondent Abuja The philanthropic arm of Merck KGaA Germany, Merck Foundation marks World Science Day through their Merck Africa Research Summit–MARS Awards 2020 for best Young African Researchers and best Women African Researchers. CEO of Merck Foundation and One of 100 Most Influential Africans (2019, 2020) Dr....

By Angeline Mgbele, Correspondent Abuja As Nigeria marks her 60th independence anniversary on October 1, 2020, the Corps Marshal of road safety management agency, the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Dr. Boboye Oyeyemi has congratulated the country and all Nigerians and prayed for continuous prosperity, enjoining everyone to observe the...

With 150 Countries Joining The Virtual WSIS Forum 2020 By Angeline Mgbele, Correspondent Abuja ​The 15th annual World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum concluded today following 11 weeks of virtual events that saw attendees from UN agencies, private sector, governments, academia and civil society joining together online to...

By Kelly Hill Global Wireless Solutions has crowned AT&T the “best network” in its third annual national testing, but all of the three national operators can find good news in GWS’ latest network scoring, which couples nationwide drive-testing with a consumer survey about wireless use and perceptions of mobile service....

By Juan Pedro Tomás Chinese carriers have already deployed a total of 480,000 5G base stations, which represents 96% of the country’s target for the year of 500,000, according to government data. China also ended August with approximately 100 million devices connected to 5G networks in mainland China, according to...

By Clifford Agugoesi, Editor-in-Chief Diligent execution of telecommunications sector regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission(NCC’s) Strategic Vision Plan (SVP), which focused on the 8-Point Agenda, which has served to raise  broadband penetration from 6 per cent in 2015 to 42.02 per cent by July, 2020,  heightened sector contribution to GDP from...

By Josephine Akaerr Rotary and its partners in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) have announced a historic public health achievement as the World Health Organization’s African region is now certified wild poliovirus-free. The milestone comes four years after Nigeria – the last polio-endemic country in Africa – recorded its...

By Clifford Agugoesi, Editor-in-Chief Today, August 20, marks exactly one year  that the current  DG of NITDA, Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi was appointed by Nigerian Leader Muhammadu Buhari, to step into the big shoes of the current Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami.   The NITDA DG...

By Emmanuel Oluebube, Correspondent UK Ericsson has achieved a significant 5G milestone by securing the company’s 100th commercial 5G agreement or contract with unique communications service providers. The figure includes 58 publicly announced contracts and 56 live 5G networks, spanning five continents. The milestone was reached with the announcement of...