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Nigeria’s Future is Mobile- Experts
Experts in mobile communications technology have stressed the need for educators in Nigeria to be up to speed with modern reality if the country would meet her millennium develop goals (MDGs) target and beyond.
After a thorough analysis of Nigeria’s market leadership position in the Middle East and Africa (MEA), in only about a decade since mobile telephony was introduced, various speakers at the conference tagged “MobileWeb West Africa” agreed that the country’s education system was not in sync with present reality.
Alex Dadson, managing director, Qualcomm West Africa, who spoke to Nigeria CommunicationsWeek exclusively stated that the education system in Nigeria would need a general overhaul to meet the market reality.
Dadson stated that multinational ICT firms usually have to retrain local graduates to fit into the workplace because of the gap between what is taught in the Universities and the work-place environment.
And as a practical demonstration of filling-in-gap, the leading global US chipset manufacturers organized a special training workshop for about 30 young Nigerian application developers at the MobileWeb conference.
It also introduced a new product into the market called Augmented Reality.
Dadson stated that Augmented Reality. is a special app that identifies images and augment the users’ experience in the mobile ecosystem.
Tunde Kehinde, a young and leading under 30 mobile online entrepreneur concurred with Dadson that Nigeria’s education system need major innovative overhaul to meet market reality.
“I attended primary and high school in Nigeria, but went abroad for post secondary education. Yes, there is a need for some major overall in our education curricula to fit into the advancing technological trend,” said Kehinde.
Kehinde’s Jumia is rated ahead of Amazon and eBay in global search engines from Nigerian searches for online shopping.
He believes Nigerian have the capacity to excel, but need the education to match their counterparts in other markets across the globe.
Several other experts also spoke on the emerging mobileweb space as next big thing in online entrepreneurship.
Elo Umeh, CEO of Twinpine Mobile Advertising reiterated that mobile web advertising is design as a veritable tool for big multinationals and local SMEs to explore and promote their businesses to their prospective clients.
Umeh, added that busineses can set value at the long run, for money invested to the business, by advertising on mobile platforms which relate to return on investment.
Specifically, he stated that this is done by showcasing products and services to both prospective and existing customers. Mobile web advertising is possible through website posters, SMS platforms on mobile phones.
The Twinpine executive stressed that their big push is a 30 million customer target by 2014, with services cutting across all sectors of the Nigerian economy including news, entertainment, gossips and sports.
Mrs. Harey Oyindamola Ogundeyi, industry manager, Google, stated that there was a huge market to be discovered in mobile branding opportunities for brands to reach their customers.
These platforms include the use of mobile video (which is in vogue) amongst music lovers, through mobile phones or the internet.
She noted that this can be harnessed by using it at people’s convenience, either at home, work or on the move, describing it as a unique feature.
Ogundeyi stressed further that this devices has created a platform of opportunities of freedom for people to part into civilized world. She declared that the platform makes “advertising on the net easy, through the process of search and display.”
Olusegun Martins, head technology at Insight Communication, shared similar views with Mrs. Ogundeyi.
He noted that the modern day technological advancement and innovation means mobile users are connected to various sectors of activities on the World Wide Web (www), for gathering and dissemination of information.
Martins added that this technological techniques makes brands a believable character, in any story message it delivers to its audience. He added (unscientific) that well over 25 percent on Nigerian mobile phone users are on the smartphones segment, turns it into life companionship.
“This trend enables people to sleep and wakeup with their phones even at night and early hours of the morning.”
Martins describes the emerging lifestyle “as emotional connection, media hub, shopping companies and personal assistance tools to life.”
Mr. Deepanker Rustagi, general manager, VCconect.com X-rayed the importance of the mobile web platform in helping to develop the small medium entrepreneur to grow their business by assisting them to design good strategies, to enable their prospective customers, which will go a long way, for them to have value for their investments.
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INTERPOL Report Shows Cybercrime is West, East African Most Dominant Security Concern

Cybercrime has emerged as a dominant security concern across Africa, with more than 30 percent of all reported crimes in Western and Eastern regions linked to cyber activity, according to the newly released 2025 Africa Cyberthreat Assessment Report by INTERPOL.
The report, based on data from African member states and private sector partners, reveals that two-thirds of surveyed countries describe cybercrime as constituting a medium to high share of total criminal cases.
This highlights how cyber-enabled criminal activity is evolving rapidly across the continent. The report identified alarming spikes in scam attempts, with some countries witnessing a 3,000 percent increase in suspected scam notifications in the past year.
Neal Jetton, INTERPOL’s Cyber Crime Director, warned that the threat landscape is evolving faster than enforcement responses.
“This fourth edition of the INTERPOL African Cyber Threat Assessment provides a vital snapshot of the current situation, informed by operational intelligence, extensive law enforcement engagement, and strategic private-sector collaboration.
“It paints a clear picture of a threat landscape in flux, with emerging dangers like AI-driven fraud that demand urgent attention. No single agency or country can face these challenges alone,” Jetton stated.
In the past year, suspected scam notifications rose by up to 3,000 per cent in some African countries, according to data from Kaspersky, one of several private sector partners that work with INTERPOL’s cybercrime directorate
Online scams, particularly through phishing, are the most frequently reported cybercrimes across the continent. Ransomware attacks and Business Email Compromise (BEC) incidents are also increasing, particularly in Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, and Egypt.
“Ransomware detections in Africa also rose in 2024, with South Africa and Egypt suffering the highest number, at 17,849 and 12,281 detections respectively, according to data from Trend Micro, followed by other highly digitised economies such as Nigeria (3,459) and Kenya (3,030),” it stated.
Incidents included attacks on critical infrastructure, such as a breach at Kenya’s Urban Roads Authority (KURA), and on government databases, such as hacks of Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the report stated.
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GSK to Slash Cost of Malaria Jab to Less than $5

The manufacturers of the world’s first malaria vaccine are set to slash the price by more than half by 2028 to less than$5 per dose.
The manufacturers of the shot, known as RTS,S, said a phased reduction in cost would begin immediately, with an ultimate aim to reduce the price to less than $5.
The announcement could hardly come at a more critical moment.
Gavi, a major vaccination initiative which funds immunisations in the world’s poorest countries, is facing a major budget crunch.
In Brussels on Wednesday, Gavi’s replenishment event raised $9 billion to fund immunisation programmes over the next five years. While this sounds like a huge sum, it’s significantly less than the $11.9bn the group had been aiming for.
Governments around the world are cutting development spending dramatically.
The UK, for instance, cut its contribution to Gavi by 40 per cent in real terms, telling The Telegraph it was prioritising defence, while the US has pledged nothing at all.
Though America previously gave Gavi roughly $300m a year, the country’s new health secretary claimed without evidence that the organisation was ignoring vaccine safety.
The announcement from the British pharmaceutical giant GSK and Indian drugmaker Bharat Biotech will therefore be a relief to those trying to balance the books.
In a statement the companies said the price reduction demonstrated their “commitment to Gavi”, and was “driven by process improvements, expanded production capacity, cost-effective manufacturing, and minimal profit margins”.
By the time the price has fallen to below $5 per dose, a technology transfer agreement means Bharat will have taken over production, though GSK will continue to supply the adjuvant piece of the shot.
“For us, this is more than a cooperation, it’s a promise,” said Dr Krishna Ella, executive chairman of Bharat Biotech International Limited.
“By joining forces with GSK, and working closely with Gavi, and the WHO [World Health Organization], we are taking a real step toward closing the gap between vaccine supply and the urgent needs of children at risk of malaria.”
Each year, malaria still kills 500,000 people – the vast majority of them children aged five and under in sub-Saharan Africa.
According to WHO estimates, cases and deaths fell significantly between 2000 and 2015, but progress has since stalled.
Some have high hopes that RTS,S, as well as another vaccine called R21 developed by Oxford University, could prove critical in efforts to turn the tide.
In clinical trials, RTS,S reduced hospitalisations for severe malaria by 30 per cent.
But critics say the shot is too expensive and not as effective as existing tools, such as bed nets and antimalarials.
The reduction in price will bring it more in line with the cost of R21, which is priced at around $4 per dose.
Yet the cost will still add up, as both jabs require multiple shots. For RTS,S, this means four doses – the first three doses are given monthly, starting around five months of age, while the fourth dose is administered 15-18 months later.
Both jabs “provide reasonable short term efficacy – over about a year – so are a useful addition to other measures,” said Professor Nick White, a professor at the Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit who specialises in malaria.
“In the past GSK had limited production capacity – one of the reasons the R21 was developed. So reducing the price will be good and the two comparable vaccines can fight it out in the market place.”
A spokesperson for Gavi said the alliance’s goal is to “create sustainable demand backed by predictable financing so that companies – like GSK and Bharat – can continue investing in technology transfer and other efficiencies that bring down costs, thus making critical vaccines more available and affordable.
GSK’s decision to lower its prices, the spokesperson added, is “an important step for the global malaria vaccination programme, and our ability to make this lifesaving tool more widely available to those who need it the most”.
Gavi plans to help fund RTS,S in 12 African countries by the end of this year.
Previously, GSK has said it will supply up to 18 million vaccine doses between 2023 and the end of this year.
The company plans to supply 15 million doses annually from 2026-2028, a spokesperson told Reuters.
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Rack Centre Signs Collocation Deal with TelCables Nigeria

Rack Centre, West Africa’s Tier III carrier- and cloud-neutral data centre, has struck a collocation agreement with TelCables Nigeria, an Angola Cables subsidiary.
TelCables Nigeria is delivering its high-capacity network and cloud infrastructure, as well as four international subsea cable systems (SACS, MONET, SEBRAS, and EllaLink), directly into Rack Centre’s regional carrier ecosystem as part of the agreement.
According to Angola Cables, the move provides reliable, low-latency south-bound routes to Europe, the Americas, and Latin America, reducing the danger of future cable disruptions along West Africa’s coast and enabling next-generation cloud services across the continent.
“Our unique Africa – to – Latin America route via SACS, combined with MONET, SEBRAS and EllaLink, gives customers the lowest – latency paths to the Americas and Europe,” said Fernando Fernandes, CEO of TelCables Nigeria.
“Businesses in latency sensitive sectors: financial services, content delivery and real-time communications will experience faster transactions, reduced lag and an enhanced user experience.
“By hosting at Rack Centre we also localise Clouds2Africa resources, price them in naira, and remove expensive ingress/egress charges or FX exposure.”
Rack Centre said its 13.5MW data centre campus designed with its recently launched LGS2 facility that delivers a design PUE of 1.35 and powered from sustainable energy sources, already hosts 70+ carriers, ISPs and network operators.
Lars Johannisson, CEO of Rack Centre, commented: “Adding a global operator of Angola Cables’ calibre through TelCables Nigeria dramatically deepens our connectivity fabric.
“We can now offer 99.95 % SLA routes to more destinations, enabling enterprises, governments and cloud providers to meet performance and data-residency requirements while keeping traffic local.”
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