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- 21 Nov 2017
Obaseki Hails TV Inventors, Counts Impact @ World Television
Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has commended the inventors of television, who rose to the occasion when industrial revolution displaced traditional means of communication in Europe and America…
- 6 Apr 2017
Minister Commends Nigerian TV, Film Content Producers
Alhaji Lai Mohammed, minister of Information and Culture, on Wednesday hailed Nigerian TV and film content producers for their impressive work in deepening the industry, but challenged them to do…
- 15 Oct 2019
Four Nigerians Make Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative Top 10 Finalists List
The Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative (ANPI) has identified the top 10 finalists for its grand finale event taking place in Accra, Ghana on 16 November 2019. Among them are four Nigerian…
- 26 Feb 2016
Samsung Restates Commitment to Quality, To Unveil New Products
Leading consumer electronics company, Samsung Electronics West Africa (Samsung) has reiterated its commitment to innovation, quality and service. Addressing journalists during the recent annual…
- 7 Dec 2012
The Quadrant Company Launches Qlichy.com, New Business Portal
The Quadrant Company, Nigeria’s first full service public relations consultancy, has launched an innovative business portal to link people searching for up-to-date information on businesses and…
- 9 Apr 2014
Alabi Named 2014 Yale World Fellow
Biola Alabi, immediate Africa Managing Director of M-Net, has been named a 2014 Yale World Fellow. She joins 15 other World Fellows selected this year from thousands of applicants across the…
- 24 Nov 2014
Wana, Popular Radio Personality, Anchors “Touching Lives”- Airtel
Airtel Nigeria, leading telecommunications services provider, has announced popular On-Air Personality (OAP), Wana Udobang, as anchor for its new CSR programme, Touching Lives, a reality…
- 23 Apr 2012
IP: Secret Ingredient to Economic Growth -HP Conference
A HP roundtable discussion has emphasized the vital role of intellectual property (IP) as a catalyst for economic, social and cultural prosperity as diverse panel urges consumers to respect…
- 1 Mar 2010
CFC’s Broadcasters Roundtable Raises Questions on Safe Motherhood
In demonstrating its commitment to helping Nigeria achieve one of the Millennium Development Goals on maternal health, Communicating for Change (CFC) recently organised a television broadcasters…
- 23 Nov 2015
Iyanda Becomes First African Woman to Bag Fellowship from UK Varsity
Funmi Iyanda, Nigerian media entrepreneur, will on Wednesday, November 25 receive an honorary fellowship from the University of Cumbria in recognition of her significant global contribution to human…
- 29 Feb 2016
FG to Partner with Creative Industry to Fight Piracy
Federal Government has said it will work with relevant bodies to fight the piracy of intellectual property in the country, while saying the establishment of a National Endowment for the Arts will…
- 20 Jul 2013
10 African Millionaires Under 40
Nothing beats being young and rich. While most people attain multi-million dollar and billion dollar fortunes in their 40s and 50s, a few savvy entrepreneurs hit the big time while in their 20s and…
- 31 May 2020
How Nigeria can Turn Almajiris to Digital Millionaires – Ekeh, Zinox Boss
Leo Stan Ekeh, serial digital entrepreneur and chairman of Zinox Group said that Nigeria can turn the poor, nomadic children popularly called Almajiri into millionaires, employers of labour or even…
- 6 Feb 2012
Effective Frequency Management And Broadband Penetration
Spectrum, otherwise frequency is a scarce resource and the extremely rapid technical developments in mobile communication services have resulted in a boom in demand for use of radio frequencies.…
- 22 Dec 2008
Africast 2008 was Positive for Nigeria – Bolarinwa
Yomi Bolarinwa, director general, National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has said that Africast Conference and Exhibitions held in Abuja last October was a positive development for Nigeria, as…
- 20 May 2014
MultiChoice Pledges more Value to Subscribers
MultiChoice, Nigeria’s leading provider of premium pay-TV entertainment, has made good its promise to continue to dialogue with its customers in order to serve them better. The company hosted DStv…
- 15 Sept 2008
Ericsson Launches New IMS IPTV
Leading Internet Protocol TV technology providers have integrated their consumer devices, content protection solutions, video servers and applications software with the new Ericsson IPTV solution, an…
- 15 Sept 2010
Nigeria, Africa’s Largest Online Audience --Idaresit
Abasiama Idaresit, managing director, Wild Fusion, a Lagos based digital media company has disclosed that Nigeria is the largest online audience on the African Continent and the 10th largest in the…
- 1 Apr 2016
NiRA@10 Focuses On Youths As Bedrock of Nation’s Development- Folayan
It has been a beehive of activity in the last few weeks, as stakeholders celebrate NiRA at 10. Some of the activities lines up for the anniversary were a Youth Empowerment Programme and the NiRA…
- 21 Sept 2009
Experts Task Government on Electronic Sphere
Experts in the information and communication technology space have called on the government to play active role in the electronic frontier by formulating the right policies for information technology…
- 7 Sept 2009
Integrating Challenged Group in Universal Access Effort
One section of the Nigeria society that seems not to have been carried along in both services and programmes such as promos by telecommunications operators is the Challenged Group. Challenged group…
- 20 Oct 2016
NBC Boss Says Africast 2016 will Change Negative Perceptions about Nigeria
Malam Is’haq Modibbo-Kawu, Director-General, National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), has assured that Africast 2016 conference would change any negative perceptions about the image of Nigeria at the…
- 11 Oct 2019
African Culture in Focus as 2019 Glo-sponsored Onitsha Ofala Begins
The imitation of life and culture by arts came to the fore again as activities marking the 2019 edition of the Globacom-backed Ofala commenced on Wednesday evening with the Oreze International Arts…
- 6 Feb 2017
Why “Think Breakfast Series (tBs)” is Different?
Nigeria has to become a thinking Nation, if we must survive the coming, disruptive revolution which is upon the world. This is one reason; I believe that Think Breakfast Series (tBs) is indeed a…
- 16 May 2017
Minister Seeks Digitalization of Indigenous Languages
Alhaji Lai Mohammed, minister of Information and Culture, has advocated the digitization of indigenous languages in order to avoid them going into extinction. Speaking yesterday in Kaduna at the 2017…
- 8 Dec 2009
Zaku, at AIT InfoTech Awards Reels Importance of ICT
Dr. Alhassan Bako Zaku, minister of Science and Technology has acknowledged the importance of communication and urged the professionals in the sector to form themselves into a vanguard of making sure…
- 12 Oct 2009
AIT Infotech Network Counts Achievements at 10
AIT Infotech Network celebrates 10 years of x-raying people, organizations and issues that have shaped the ICT sector in both within and outside Nigeria. The programme is arguably the…
- 11 Jan 2010
Beacon of ICT Awards
ICT MAN of THE YEAR Bolarinwa: Steering Nigeria to Digitization Yomi Bolarinwa, Director General, National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) is steering the emergence of a truly sustainable Broadcast…
- 15 Nov 2013
NBC Makes Case for Broadcast Training Schools
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has blamed inadequate training schools for the lack of professionalism in the broadcasting profession in the country. Mrs. Franca Aiyetan, Zonal…
- 9 Feb 2022
NBC Grants TV Broadcast Licence to NYSC
The National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, has granted operational licence to the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, to begin Direct Satellite Broadcasting (BSB); as well as Internet Protocol…