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- 29 Jul 2026
Elon Musk Launches Invite-only X Money with Visa Debit Card
Elon Musk’s social media company X, formerly known as Twitter, launched its own bank account-like product where users can send money to one another. The service, known as X Money, is not a new bank.…
- 24 May 2013
Lagos Hosts Last Audition of Glo X Factor
The last audition to select aspiring singers who will compete for Globacom’s N24 million prize money for X Factor will be held in Lagos this weekend. According to a statement released in Lagos by…
- 8 May 2020
Vantage Capital Exits Vumatel
Vantage Capital, Africa’s largest mezzanine debt fund manager, has announced that it has fully exited its investment in Vumatel, the largest fibre-to-the-home network provider in South Africa. The…
- 16 Sept 2016
Sophos Launches Next Gen Anti-Exploit & Anti-Ransomware Technology
Sophos, a global leader in network and endpoint security, today announced Sophos Intercept X, a next-generation endpoint security product that stops zero-day malware, unknown exploit variants and…
- 30 Jun 2026
Bank of Industry Appoints Kuramo Capital as Manager of Dice Fund of Funds
The Bank of Industry (BOI), the Implementing Agency for the Investment in Digital and Creative Enterprises (iDICE) Programme of the Federal Government of Nigeria, has announced the appointment of…
- 14 Jan 2024
Insecurity: Security Agencies of not Using NIN-SIM to Track Criminals- Pantami
Isa Ali Pantami, former minister of Communication and Digital Economy, has accused the Nigerian Police Force and other security agencies of refusing to use the NIN-SIM policy to fight insecurity in…
- 21 Jan 2024
Kuda Customers React to Revelations of How They Spent Their Money in 2023
Kuda Microfinance Bank’s Spending Report feature has been a highlight of the month for the bank’s customers. The report Launched on January 8, 2024, details how customers spent their money in 2023,…
- 3 May 2018
Samsung, iPhone & Huawei lead Worldwide Smartphone Shipment Market
International Data Corporation (IDC’s) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker shows that smartphone vendors shipped a total of 334.3 million units during the first quarter of 2018 (1Q18), resulting…
- 6 Oct 2020
NSE Marks World Investor Week 2020
The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE or The Exchange) joins the International Organisation of Securities Commission (IOSCO) to celebrate World Investor Week (WIW) 2020 from Monday, 5 October 2020 –…
- 28 Apr 2026
EFCC Declares Tejuosho, City Boys Movement’s Women Leader Wanted over "419"
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC,) has declared Halimat Adenike Tejuosho, a women leader of the City Boys Movement, wanted. Halimat Adenike Tejuosho, A notice issued by the EFCC on…
- 26 Oct 2017
Okere X-Rays Fintech Challenge And the New Face of Banking
Financial technology (FinTech) is clearly signifying that the digital revolution has arrived in the financial services sector and Mr. Austin Okere, founder, Computer Warehouse Group (CWG Plc) and…
- 29 Jul 2020
Xiaomi Launches Redmi 9, Entry-level Smartphones
Xiaomi has officially launched the Redmi 9, Redmi 9A and Redmi 9C as part of the Redmi 9 series of entry-level smartphones. The Redmi 9 series succeeds the Redmi 8 series by Xiaomi and aims to offer…
- 17 Nov 2015
Mobile Money: Next Global Communications Platform
Mobile money is on a journey. What started as a simple way of paying people using a phone is on the cusp of becoming the next global communications platform. Not just a means of buying goods and…
- 29 Dec 2017
Banks Set Up Fund to Fight e-Fraud
Nigerian banks have set up a multimillion-naira fund to fight scammers as the banking sector continues to record rising cases of electronic fraud. Part of the funds will be deployed in massive…
- 31 Jan 2017
Concerns over FG’s "Eavesdropping" Satellites
The federal government has said that it will go ahead to build and launch two new satellites, despite an alleged loss of about $10 billion to foreign geospatial information sourcing firms due to what…
- 21 Jul 2022
Sophos Launches Sophos X-Ops to Help Organizations Better Defend Against Complex Cyberattacks
Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, has announced Sophos X-Ops, a new cross-operational unit linking SophosLabs, Sophos SecOps and Sophos AI, three established teams of…
- 26 Jun 2025
ChatGPT-mimicking Cyberthreats Surge 115% in Early 2025, SMBs Increasingly Targeted
In 2025, nearly 8,500 users from small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) globally faced cyberattacks where malicious or unwanted software was disguised as popular online productivity tools,…
- 5 Mar 2025
83% Nigerian Women Consider themselves an Entrepreneur
Nigerian women are embracing entrepreneurship at an extraordinary rate, with eight in ten (83%) women consider themselves an entrepreneur—far higher than the regional average of 51% across Eastern…
- 20 Mar 2015
CommunicationsWeek Taps Willie Obiano as Digital Governor of the Year
Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State has been listed to be honoured as the Most Outstanding Governor in usage of ICT ‘4’ Development, especially for using Drone Technology for Mapping Purposes;…
- 5 Feb 2013
Beacon of ICT Lecture/Awards Series Gets April 20 Date
Communication Week Media Limited, organizers of Beacon of ICT Distinguished Lecture/Awards Series said the 4th edition of the industry wide event aimed at charting the way forward and rewarding best…
- 30 Mar 2014
Orji, NSIA Boss to Keynote BoICT Lecture
Uche Orji, managing director/chief executive officer, Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) has agreed to deliver this year’s Beacon of ICT Distinguished Lecture Series, raising the stakes in…
- 22 Apr 2016
Shittu Leads Industry Heavy Weights to Today’s BoICT Lecture/Awards
Barrister Adebayo Shittu, minister of Communications, as the special guest of honour, will lead other industry stakeholders to this year’s Beacon of ICT (BoICT) Distinguished Lecture/Awards Series…
- 4 Apr 2016
Dr Ndukwe Chairs BoICT Lecture/Awards 2016
Dr Ernest Ndukwe, national coordinator of Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI), Nigeria and former executive vice chairman and CEO of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) would chair this…
- 25 Jan 2016
Online Voting For BoICT Awards 2016 Begins
Beacon of Information and Communication Technology (BoICT) awards series, widely regarded as the most prestigious annual event available in the ICT industry in Nigeria, has opened its portal to the…
- 8 Apr 2013
Ndukwe, Others for Star-Studded BoICT Lecture/Awards-13
Communication Week Media Limited, publishers of Nigeria CommunicationsWeek , has announced Dr. Ernest Ndukwe, father of modern Nigeria telecom and former executive vice-chairman and chief executive…
- 2 Apr 2015
Ekeh, Zinox Boss to Chair BoICT Lecture/Awards 2015
Mr. Leo Stan Ekeh, chairman of Zinox Group, has accepted to chair this year’s Beacon of ICT (BoICT) Distinguished Lecture/Awards Series, widely regarded as the most prestigious annual event…
- 27 Jan 2017
Most Smartphone Users Spend Nothing on App - Gartner
Over half of smartphone users spend no money on smartphone apps (paid-for downloads and in-app transactions) *, according to a new survey by Gartner, Inc. However, end-user spending on in-app…
- 4 Nov 2025
ZachXBT, Crypto Investigator Lists Nigeria, Others as Worst Jurisdictions for Scam Victims
ZachXBT, scam survivor turned Blockchain investigator, has named Nigeria, India, Canada, UK and Russia, as the hardest places to help crypto scam victims. ZachXBT cited stagnant legal systems and…
- 21 Apr 2025
EFCC Clarifies SCUML Certificate Misuse amid CBEX Ponzi Scheme Scandal
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has dismissed the claims that the defunct digital asset trading platform, CBEX, was registered with its Special Control Unit against Money Laundering,…
- Business28 Aug 2026
MoMo PSB Appoints Bode Abifarin as CEO
MoMo Payment Service Bank (MoMo PSB), the fintech subsidiary of MTN Nigeria licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria to provide digital financial services, money transfers and bill payments via mobile devices, is pleased to announce the appointment of Bode Abifarin as its Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, effective 1 September 2026.