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- 20 Oct 2022
Google Arts & Culture Partners with CyArk and The Adunni Olorisha Trust to digitally preserve Osun Osogbo Sacred Grove
Google Arts & Culture on Thursday partnered with The Adunni Olorisha Trust and CyArk to announce the launch of the first and largest digital library of content showcasing the Osun Osogbo Sacred…
- 9 Aug 2018
MTN Continues in its Drive for Cultural Renaissance, Supports Osun Osogbo Festival
As part of its efforts to promote arts and culture in Nigeria, the nation’s leading ICT Company, MTN Nigeria will again be supporting the Osun Osogbo Festival this year. Set to hold from the…
- 28 Jan 2018
NBC to Launch DSO in Enugu, Osun
Federal government will in February roll out Digital Switch Over in Enugu and Osogbo in Osun State as part of its efforts to transit broadcasting from analogue to Digital Terrestrial Television…
- 15 Apr 2020
Facebook User Remanded in Osun for Allegedly Spreading False Information
Saheed Akinloye, Facebook user, has been remanded in a correctional centre by the Osun State Magistrates’ Court sitting in Osogbo for accusing the state government of importing COVID-19 patients into…
- 24 May 2023
13 Ways to Celebrate Africa Day
Every year on May 25th, the world comes together to celebrate Africa Day, a commemoration of the foundation of the Organisation of African Unity, now known as the African Union, and the diverse…
- 1 Oct 2020
Google and NTDC partner to support Tourism Industry - launch Tour Nigeria Collection
Google and the Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC) have partnered to help the Nigerian tourism sector recover and grow in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The partnership is geared…
- 9 Oct 2017
Osun Trains 20,000 Youths on ICT
Osun State Government said it has engaged several youths in productive venture through its various empowerment programmes, especially, the training of about 20,000 indigenes in Information…
- 11 Mar 2016
Forensic Audit of LAUTECH Staff Reveals Unapproved Recruitments -Govt
Government of Osun on Friday said it cannot act outside the outcome of a forensic audit of the staff of the Ladoke Akintola University Teaching Hospital Osogbo which has identified cases of…
- 28 Feb 2021
Nigeria’s DSO: Fresh Missteps Loom
By Dominic Omuedi Heartwarming, it was for me, to read reports of the press conference addressed on Tuesday by Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture, on the country’s Digital…
- 8 Mar 2019
Five Nigerian Destinations to Explore For Less Than $50
By Adeniyi Ogunfowoke, There is no gainsaying that Nigeria is endowed with lush green vegetation, faux and fauna, awesome tourist attractions, historical monuments and much more. Each Nigerian state…
- 9 Oct 2019
Female Banker Bags One Year Jail Term for Fraud
Yetunde Iyabo Adewunmi, a 51 year-old female banker, has been sentenced to one year imprisonment for conspiracy, aiding and abetting fraud. Adewunmi was convicted of the one-count amended…
- 7 Jan 2021
Customers Commend Polaris Bank on Dollars Payout
Polaris Bank said it has continued to receive plaudits from its customers since it commenced payment of US dollars to beneficiaries of money transfer in line with Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN)…
- 6 Apr 2025
University Don Seeks Ban of Smartphones, Social Media in Schools
Dr Saeed Olorunnisola, interim Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture at Al-Hikmah University in Ilorin, Kwara State, has urged the federal and state governments to prohibit the use of smartphones in…
- 4 Sept 2024
Nigeria Police Arrest Operator of Pirate Domain Streaming MultiChoice Content
The operator behind www.score808.com.ng , a website notorious for streaming MultiChoice content illegally, has been arrested by the the Intelligence Response Team (IRT) of the Force Intelligence…
- 7 Dec 2022
Pantami Harps on Digital Innovation, Entrepreneurship as Panacea to Youth Unemployment
Professor Isa Pantami, the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, has disclosed that the solution to youth unemployment in Nigeria is to focus on digital innovation and entrepreneurship.…
- 7 Sept 2015
Ayo Olopon Now Played On Mobile Devices
Ayo Olopon is one of the oldest local games among the Yoruba and has been in existence, since time immemorial. In the past, it is usually played by people, usually the aged, sitting face to…
- 17 Jan 2022
Danbatta Urges Youths to Embrace, Utilise ICT to Live & Lead in Future
Reckoning that 70 per cent of the new value to be created in the economy over the next decades will be based on digitally-enabled platform business models, the Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of the…
- 14 Jan 2022
Nigeria's Socio-economic Development Hinges on ICT Adoption, Utilisation - Danbatta
The adoption and utilisation of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is synonymous with empowerment, as it transforms processes efficiently acting as an enabler of effectiveness in…
- 31 Oct 2021
Ooni of Ife Commends MTN for its Effort in Promoting the Olojo Festival
The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, has commended MTN Nigeria for its role in making the 2021 Olojo Festival a success through its sponsorship of the event. He gave the…
- 9 Apr 2018
VDT Sponsors International Girls in ICT Day
VDT communications, a leading broadband communications service provider in Nigeria is one of the sponsors of this year’s International Girls in ICT Day. The Nigerian chapter of the event billed to…
- 2 Oct 2018
MTN Joins Ile-Ife Indigenes to Celebrate Olojo Festival
Leading Information and Communication Technology firm, MTN Nigeria has joined the Ooni of Ife, HRM Adeyemi Enitan Ogunwusi and indigenes of Ile-Ife in celebrating the 2018 edition of the Olojo…
- 25 Jan 2019
Spotlighting the Diverse Opportunities in the Nigerian Hospitality Industry
By Adeniyi Ogunfowoke The global hospitality industry is a trillion dollar industry. This is because everyone at some point in their lives has been part of contributing to the fastest growing…
- 15 Apr 2021
NURTW to Use eTracking to Combat Highways Crimes
National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) said it will track members’ vehicles electronically to address the spate of kidnapping and insecurity on expressways. The union during the National…
- 6 Sept 2019
NCC Moves to Protect Nigeria against Cyber Attacks
Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has disclosed plans to establish mechanisms to control the use of internet to protect the nation's cyberspace against attack. The commission said the…
- 4 Jun 2020
11 Interesting Things You Should Know About Africa
Africa Day was celebrated on 25 May, and YouTube and ViacomCBS Networks Africa organized the “Africa Day Benefit Concert At Home”, which was streamed on the MTV Base Africa YouTube channel . …
- 25 Aug 2020
FG Pushes for Private-Sector-Driven DSO
Alhaji Lai Mohammed, minister of Information and Culture, has said with the planned settlement of outstanding debts, the Digital Switch Over (DSO) in broadcasting will transit to a…
- 28 Aug 2020
FG Says No More Subsidies on DSO
Federal Government has said there will be no more subsidies, either of set top boxes or signal carriage as it plans to resume the rollout of Digital Switch Over (DSO), a transition from analogue to…
- 12 Jan 2022
NCC Boss, Danbatta, to Deliver Fountain University's Convocation Lecture
Apparently spurred by the vision, objectives and successes of policies, programmes and projects instituted by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to bridge the digital divide and encourage…
- 15 Sept 2008
Odu'a Chamber Demands Subvention from FG
The Odu'a Chambers of Commerce and Industry (ODUCCIMA) has demanded the allocation of annual subventions to it from the Federal Government. ODUCCIMA, which comprises the five South-Western States of…
- 23 Jul 2017
Pre-Registered SIM Cards Criminal, Threat to National Security – IGP
Ibrahim Kpotun Idris, Inspector General of Police, has described the sale and use of pre-registered SIM card as a severe threat to security sector and governance. He stated this, at the one-day…