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- 9 Dec 2025
Global South Alliance Launches $72,000 Datafication and Democracy Fund to Support 2026 Research Projects
The Global South Alliance, a coalition of 26 digital rights organizations, launched today the second edition of the “Datafication and Democracy Fund” on December 9. Global South Alliance The Fund…
- 25 Nov 2022
Steve Babaeko Joins Global Business Leaders at the UN Stereotype Alliance Global Member Summit
Steve Babaeko, Founder and CEO of X3M Ideas, earlier this week, joined global business leaders at this year’s UN Stereotype Alliance Global Member Summit at the UN Headquarters in New York. The…
- 15 Jun 2015
Huawei, Vodafone in Strategic Alliance to Explore Global Enterprise Market
Huawei on Monday announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish a new Strategic Alliance with Vodafone Global Enterprise focusing on the enterprise market in Europe,…
- 13 May 2026
Africa to get AI Data Centres Through Three-way Partnership
Localised, industrial-grade artificial intelligence (AI) data centre infrastructure will be delivered across Africa and the Global South, following a strategic alliance between sovereign AI…
- 10 Oct 2024
Inuwa, DG NITDA Cautions on AI as Nigeria Seeks Inclusive Global Governance
Dr. Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, Director-General/CEO of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), has emphasized on the dual nature of artificial intelligence (AI) as both an…
- 13 Dec 2021
X3M Ideas Announced as Founding Member of UN Women's Newly Launched Unstereotype Alliance Nigerian Chapter
X3M Ideas, leading African advertising agency, proudly announces that it joins the core membership of the UN Women’s Nigerian Chapter of Unstereotype Alliance - a global coalition committed to ending…
- 20 Nov 2020
9PSB Board Appoints Branka Mracajac as CEO
The Board of Directors of 9 Payment Service Bank (9PSB) has announced the appointment of Branka Mracajac as the CEO designate. A seasoned Enterprise Resource Planning expert, Branka brings on board,…
- 21 May 2018
Nkemdilim to Speak in South Korea on Africa Innovation
Nkemdilim Begho, Chief Executive Officer of Future Software Resources Limited, will join Heads of African State, Delegations of 80 member countries, international organizations, government…
- 4 Dec 2020
GSMA Launches Framework to Improve Digital Inclusion for Persons with Disabilities
To mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the GSMA is launching the ‘Principles for Driving the Digital Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities’. The Principles aim to further…
- 2 Mar 2017
Global Internet Access Still Lagging Behind
The global community could miss the 2020 UN Sustainable Development Goals target for affordable, universal Internet access, as high connectivity costs remain one of the biggest obstacles. This is…
- 8 Jul 2014
Interdist Named Axis Representative in Africa
Interdist Alliances has been appointed as Axis Communications authorized distribution partner for all African regions outside of South Africa. Through this agreement, Interdist will distribute the…
- 16 Jan 2017
Turkish Airlines Airlifts Over 61m Passengers in 2016, Adds Kharkiv to Network
Traffic results for the period of January-December 2016 show that Turkish Airlines airlifted passenger carried increased by 2.5%, reaching to 62.8 million passengers from 61.2 million passengers for…
- 27 Dec 2022
Direct Carrier Billing Industry Consolidates Footprint in Africa and the Middle East
The global rating of the region keeps stable at 2.8 points; 4 countries enter the DCB Index for the first time; Data shows promising DCB potential for countries such as South Africa, Morocco, UAE,…
- 25 Sept 2024
d.light Named as a Finalist for Prince William’s 2024 Earthshot Prize
d.light, the global provider of transformational household solar products and affordable finance for low-income households, was today announced as an Earthshot Prize Finalist at the third-annual…
- 17 Nov 2021
COVID- 19 Vaccine Manufacturers’ Make $65,000 Every Minute – Report
Pfizer, BioNTech and Moderna are making combined profits of $65,000 every minute from their highly successful Covid-19 vaccines while the world’s poorest countries remain largely unvaccinated,…
- 6 May 2016
Agency Halts Aids to Nigeria over $3.8m Fraud
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has suspended payments to Nigeria's AIDS agency over evidence that $3.8 million was stolen by its workers and consultants, the Geneva-based…
- 12 Dec 2021
Europe Ships 1m Near-Expired Doses of COVID-19 Vaccine to Nigeria
As many as 1 million doses of AstraZeneca’s covid-19 vaccine reportedly expired before they could be used in Nigeria, a country of more than 200 million where less than 2% of the population is fully…
- Telecom29 Aug 2026
Ayeni Adekunle Urges Indigenous Firms To Leverage Corporate Partnerships For Global Scale
Ayeni Adekunle, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of BlackHouse Media (BHM), has urged Nigerian entrepreneurs to leverage strategic corporate ecosystems and trade platforms to build multinationals capable of dominating international markets.
- 5 Nov 2025
Nigeria, Other African Nations Eye Sin Taxes, Debt Restructuring to Replace Lost Funding
Cash-strapped African nations are looking at imposing sin taxes, restructuring debt and even trying to take a cut of diaspora remittances to replace lost aid funding and prop up their health systems.…
- 29 Oct 2012
Olufuye Seeks Enhanced Cooperation on Internet Governance
Dr. Jimson Olufuye, chairman, Africa ICT Alliance, (AfICTA), has said that enhanced cooperation on internet governance would encourage digital inclusion of Nigeria and rest of the African sub-region.…
- 21 Aug 2017
Nigeria Innovation Summit Gathers Momentum, Speakers Unveiled
The Nigeria Innovation Summit (NIS), an international annual event that promotes innovation in Nigeria is set to once again gather stakeholders across all sectors of Nigeria's economy to share ideas,…
- 13 Mar 2013
Interswitch, Discover Ink Financial Services Agreement
Interswitch Plc, integrated payment processing provider and Verve card network promoter has signed an agreement with Discover Financial Services (DFS) that will enable the former accept Discover and…
- 16 Dec 2013
MainOne Backs OAU’s NgREN Initiative
MainOne, the leading communications Service Company and first private undersea cable company to land in Nigeria and Ghana, has identified National Research and Education Networks (NREN) services as a…
- 13 May 2026
Distinguished Industry Veteran Dr. Olusola Teniola to Chair NDSF 2026
The organizing committee of the 2026 Nigeria DigitalSENSE Forum (NDSF) on Internet Governance for Development (IG4D) is proud to announce Dr. Olusola Teniola as the Chairman for this year’s landmark…
- 10 Jul 2024
Global Coalition Formed to Make Smartphones Affordable Worldwide
A new global coalition made up of the World Bank Group, the ITU and the WEF Edison Alliance have been formed to drive innovative solutions to boost handset affordability for some of the world’s…
- 9 Nov 2015
How Samsung Stormed #OpenWorld15 with Wearable Apps, Enterprise Solutions
Samsung Electronics is showcasing premier enterprise solutions created for Samsung’s best-in-market mobile devices and developed on Oracle’s industry-leading architecture at the recent Oracle…
- 18 Jun 2013
DSA to Help Govts Spur Wireless Data Growth, Close Digital Divide
23 companies and organizations from across the world: 6Harmonics, Adaptrum, BSkyB, Carlson, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research - South Africa, Computer and Communication Research Center -…
- 28 Apr 2025
How Sen. Hope Uzodinma Is Transforming Imo State Through Digital Innovation
By Chimezie Orisakwe It is often wise to be sceptical when politicians promise heaven on earth because, more often than not, they have shown Nigerians that their grand declarations frequently lack…
- 24 Feb 2022
Mobile Malware Attacks Decline in Africa in 2021
While analysing the threat landscape of African countries, Kaspersky experts saw a steady decline in attacks on mobile devices in the region, as cybercriminals consolidated their efforts to focus on…
- 7 Dec 2019
21st Century Technologies, Nexusguard to Provide Cyber Resilience for DDoS Attacks in Nigeria
21st Century Technologies Limited, a leading ICT powerhouse in Nigeria has partnered with Nexusguard, a leading DDoS security solution provider to unveil DDoS scrubbing center in Nigeria to provide…