E-Business
NOTAP Explores Partnership with Trademark Registry for National Development
The National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion (NOTAP) is exploring partnership with the Trademark Registry, Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment for national development.
Director General of NOTAP, Dr. DanAzumi Mohammed Ibrahim, gave this hint while hosting the Registrar, Trademark Registry, Barrister Shafiu Adamu Yauri.
Dr. Ibrahim said because the world is moving from resource to knowledge base and that the vibrancy of Research and Development in an economy determines the industrial and technological development of a nation, NOTAP would like to see products being developed by Nigerians.
He lamented that the pattern of consumption in Nigeria is import dependent with the resultant negative effect on the nation’s foreign reserve noting that the only solution is to reduce foreign consumption, develop local substitutes and improve them for export.
The NOTAP boss added that for the Nigerian economy to improve at a sustainable level, the nation’s Research and Development must translate into products and services.
Dr. Ibrahim disclosed that NOTAPs concentration for a long time had been on assisting researchers to patent technologies through filling forms, citing the claims and paying the patent fees at the Patent Registry.
He stressed that NOTAPs intervention in the area of patent promotion was yielding positive results with the attendant increase in patents secured by researchers through the Office over the years citing examples of the increase in patents from six in 2015 to sixteen in 2016 and from fifty in 2017 to fifty five in 2018 and fifty seven in 2019.
The Director General said with the collective goals of enhancing the development of the nation that both organizations share, available windows for partnership with the Trademark Registry would be fully explored.
Earlier, the Registrar, Trademark Registry, Federal Ministry of Trade and Investment, Barrister Shafiu Adamu Yauri stated that the visit is to seek partnership because of the crucial role trademark plays in commercialization which is intertwined with the statutory functions of NOTAP.
He added that the Trademark Registry desired to also ensure that it embeds the function and essential role of trademarks in NOTAPs projects and activities not only to sensitize and educate but to establish a relationship that will make it easy for scientists and researchers to protect their trademarks in the Trademark Registry.
The Registrar said that the Trademark Registry is the gateway to the market and and had decided that a desk officer from NOTAP would be needed at the Registry, that will handle every trademark application from the Office efficiently.
He advocated for a robust relationship between Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of government to drive processes and complement each other in their activities.
The Registrar was accompanied on the visit by key officials of the Registry.
Transcorp Hotels Plc has delivered a stellar performance in the first half of 2025, recording a 60% year-on-year surge in revenue to ₦47.57 billion, up from ₦29.72 billion in H1 2024. Gross profit climbed 71% to ₦36.21 billion, maintaining a strong 76% margin despite inflation and operational headwinds.
The hospitality giant, a subsidiary of Transnational Corporation Plc, also announced an interim dividend payout of ₦1.024 billion — offering ₦0.10 per 50 kobo ordinary share to shareholders.
In a bold move, the company unveiled Nigeria’s largest corporate venue — the 5,000-seat Transcorp Centre — staking its claim as the new leader in event hospitality. Chairman Emmanuel Nnorom described the results as proof of Transcorp Hotels’ transformative strategies and unwavering investor commitment. MD/CEO Uzo Oshogwe attributed the success to relentless execution and a resilient business model.
Transcorp Hotels, renowned for iconic assets like Transcorp Hilton Abuja and its digital platform Aura, says it isn’t just leading Nigeria’s hospitality sector — it’s redefining excellence across Africa.
Chinese “threat actors” have hacked Microsoft’s SharePoint document software servers and targeted the data of the businesses using it, the firm has said.
China state-backed Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon as well as China-based Storm-2603 were said to have “exploited vulnerabilities” in on-premises SharePoint servers, the kind used by firms, but not in its cloud-based service.
The US tech giant has released security updates in response and has advised all on-premises SharePoint server customers to install them.
“Investigations into other actors also using these exploits are still ongoing,” Microsoft said in a statement.
The firm said it had “high confidence” the hackers would continue to target systems which have not installed its security updates.
It added that it would update its website blog with more information as its investigation continues.
Microsoft said it had observed attacks in which hackers had sent a request to a SharePoint server “enabling the theft of the key material by threat actors”.
Charles Carmakal, chief technology officer at Mandiant Consulting firm, a division of Google Cloud, told reporter, it was “aware of several victims in several different sectors across a number of global geographies”.
Carmakal said it appeared that governments and businesses that use SharePoint on their sites were the primary target.
A number of adversaries who stole material encoded by cryptography were then able to regain ongoing access to the victims’ SharePoint data, he said.
“This was exploited in a very broad way, very opportunistically before a patch was made available. That’s why this is significant,” Carmakal said.
Carmakal said the “China-nexus actor” was deploying techniques similar to previous campaigns associated with Beijing.
Microsoft said Linen Typhoon had “focused on stealing intellectual property, primarily targeting organizations related to government, defence, strategic planning, and human rights” for 13 years.
It added that Violet Typhoon had been “dedicated to espionage”, primarily targeting former government and military staff, non-governmental organizations, think tanks, higher education, the media, the financial sector and the health sector in the US, Europe, and East Asia.
Meanwhile, Storm-2603 was “assessed with medium confidence to be a China-based threat actor”.
National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has issued a public warning that it is not associated with NINcard.com.
According to the commission, the website has been circulating online to offer services for Nigerians seeking National Identification Number (NIN) services.
NIMC, in a post on its official X account on Wednesday, said, “NINcard.com is not in anyway affiliated to NIMC. Stay vigilant!”
The warning was accompanied by screenshots of fake payment receipts and OTP request pages from the website, both of which were boldly stamped “FAKE” by NIMC to alert the public.
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