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- 11 Apr 2015
New Best Practices Guide Aim at ATM Malware
The ATM Industry Association has published a new best practices document to help the ATM deployers prevent malware attacks on their terminals, according to a press release from the association. "Best…
- 25 Sept 2022
AAAN Announces 17th Edition of LAIF Awards
The 17th edition of the Lagos Advertising and Ideas Festival (LAIF) tagged ‘All ideas are welcome’ will hold on 26 th November 2022. This was announced at a press conference held at the Association…
- 23 Jan 2017
Samsung to Disclose Cause of Galaxy Note 7 Fire Today
Samsung Electronics said, over the weekend, it will announce today, Jan. 23, the reason why its Galaxy Note 7 smartphones overheated and caught fire. The announcement, according to Associated Press,…
- 31 May 2015
Buhari Declares Assets to signal Graft Fight
President Muhammadu Buhari has publicly declared his assets, in a move that is a far cry from his predecessor’s adamant refusal to do so. Garba Shehu, Buhari’s spokesman told Associated Press (AP)…
- 20 Mar 2015
Elections Coverage: Foreign Journalists Claim FG Reluctant to Issue Visas
Nigeria’s general elections will be held next week, but scores of foreign journalists have yet to receive their entry visas to cover the March 28 contest that will determine who rules the West…
- 29 Jul 2013
UK Confirms 3,000-pound Bond for Nigerians, Other ‘High-Risk’ Visitors
Britain’s Home Office confirmed Monday it will demand a 3,000-pound ($4,630) refundable bond for visas for “high-risk” visitors from six former colonies in Africa and Asia — a pilot scheme that has…
- 17 May 2023
The Emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Challenges of Modern Newsrooms: Implications for Nigerian Journalists
By Felix Elele The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) is one of the outcomes of the digital disruptions of this era. The disruptive effects of sundry technological…
- 13 Dec 2022
ALDAPCON Calls for Data Protection Legislation
The Association of Licensed Data Protection Organisations of Nigeria (ALDAPCON) has advocated the need for the principal data protection legislation law to be put in place as the country pursues its…
- 19 Jul 2021
HURIWA Slams NBC over Attempt to Gag Terrorism Reporting
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), rights advocacy group has condemned the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), for what it called its attempt to muzzle press freedom in the…
- 24 Jul 2025
FintechNGR Rejigs Nigeria Fintech Week with Multi-location Model
With the fast-evolving financial technology ecosystem, FintechNGR plans to restructure the model of Nigeria Fintech Week (NFW) coming up between October 7–9, 2025, with a next-level, bold experience…
- 24 Jun 2015
Global Cash Demand Outstrips Economic Growth - Report
The ATM Industry Association has published a study indicating that global cash demand is increasing more than three times faster than worldwide economic growth. According to a press release from the…
- 12 Aug 2015
ATCON to Launch National Telecoms Advisory Council
Association of Telecommunication Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) has disclosed plans to launch a National Telecoms Advisory Council (NTAC), an assembly of very eminent personalities with great…
- 4 Jun 2025
DSO: STBMAN Accuses NBC of Contempt, Seeks Presidential Intervention
Association of Set-Top Box Manufacturers of Nigeria (STBMAN) has accused the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) of sidelining indigenous manufacturers and flouting a subsisting court order in its…
- 31 Jan 2025
HURIWA Condemns Benue Government over Closure of Joy FM
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has strongly condemned the forceful invasion and closure of Joy FM 96.5, Otukpo, by the Benue State Government, calling it a brazen assault on…
- 30 Aug 2013
Microsoft to Officially Launch MSN Portal in Nigeria
Microsoft Nigeria is on top of plans to officially launch its flagship MSN portal for Nigeria, Nigeria CommunicationsWeek can report. The portal, although already live is scheduled to be commissioned…
- 9 Jul 2013
Nigeria Eyes Chinese $1.1Bn Loans to Rebuild Battered Infrastructure
Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Coordinating minister for the Economy and minister of Finance has said that President Goodluck Jonathan’s visit to China will finalize $1.1 billion in low-interest loans for…
- 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 Jun 2013
Chevron Corp. Sells Nigerian Oil Blocks over Regulatory Uncertainty
Chevron Corp. said that it plans to auction off the rights it has to two offshore oil fields near Nigeria’s coast, the latest foreign oil company moving to divest from the country as regulatory…
- 7 Nov 2013
Oracle Opens Abuja Office
Oracle Corporation celebrated the opening of her temporary satellite office in Abuja with the company senior executive saying that the public sector is a key industry for the corporation. The…
- 16 Feb 2024
OpenAI unveils Sora, a tool that uses AI to generate videos
The maker of ChatGPT on Thursday unveiled its next leap into generative artificial intelligence with a tool that instantly makes short videos in response to written commands. San Francisco-based…
- 26 Mar 2013
MEND Threatens Reign of Terror over Okah’s Sentencing
Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), largest militant groups in the Niger Delta region, has threatened to unleash mayhem over the sentencing, yesterday of Henry Okah, leader of…
- 1 Dec 2021
Nigeria Found First Case of Omicron in November- NCDC
Nigeria has detected its first case of the omicron coronavirus variant in travelers who arrived from South Africa in the past week, the country’s national public health institute said Wednesday,…
- 1 May 2024
US Newspapers Sue OpenAI, Microsoft Over AI Chatbots
Eight US newspapers sued OpenAI and Microsoft in a New York federal court Tuesday for violating their copyright to train the technology behind the ChatGPT and Copilot chatbots. The newspapers, which…
- 12 Mar 2015
Microsoft Joins Google, Apple in Fixing "FREAK" Security flaw
Microsoft has joined Apple and Google in fixing the "FREAK" security flaw that may have left millions of people vulnerable to hacking while surfing the web on their devices. There's no evidence so…
- 18 Dec 2015
FedEx Profit Surpasses Forecasts, Helped By Online Shopping
FedEx shares rose Wednesday as the shipping company said that quarterly profit rose 4%, helped by growth in online shopping and lower costs in its core express-delivery business. The latest results…
- 11 Feb 2017
5 Jobs Artificial Intelligence Will Likely Make Redundant
Artificial Intelligence is simply intelligence exhibited by computers. With the momentum that AI is gathering, some jobs will become redundant or very few hands will be required to do same jobs. In…
- 10 Jul 2013
President Jonathan in China, Inks $1.1Bn Loans
Goodluck Jonathan, Nigerian President and Xi Jinping, Chinese President presided Wednesday over the signing of accords between their governments to facilitate $1.1 billion in low-interest loans for…
- 21 Jun 2013
Nigeria Loses N2.4Bn Daily to Shut Oil Pipeline
Nigeria may face severe financial difficulties in the months ahead as crude oil production has dropped further by 150,000 barrels per day due to the shut of the Trans Niger Pipeline (TNP) following…
- 18 Apr 2019
HURIWA Accuses Buhari of Witch Hunting AIT, Others
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has claimed that President Muhammadu Buhari was using security agencies, especially the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to…
- 6 Feb 2024
Group Condemns Internet Shut-down in Senegal
Paradigm Initiative (PIN) has denounced, in the strongest terms possible, the order for Internet shutdown by the Senegalese authorities shortly after President Macky Sall postponed the nation’s…