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- 7 May 2025
Zamfara, Oracle Partner to Drive Digital Skills Development
The Zamfara State government has signed an agreement with Oracle to invest in youth development, workforce capacity building and the digital economy under Oracle University’s Skills Development…
- 8 Jul 2021
Insecurity: FG Approves Emergency Communications Centre in Zamfara
Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, minister of Communications and Digital Economy, says that an Emergency Communications Centre (ECC) has been approved by the federal government for Zamfara State to support…
- 5 Feb 2014
Teasy Mobile Money Opens Up Zamfara with 140 Branchless Banking Points
Teasy Mobile Money, has rolled out its mobile payment products in Zamfara State, having identified it as a state that has been significantly excluded by financial service provision but with which…
- 28 Nov 2021
Zamfara to Restore Telecoms Services Today
Zamfara State Government has announced the suspension of the ban on telecommunications services in the state from Monday, November 29, 2021. The announcement was made by Mr Bello Matawalle, the…
- 24 Jan 2015
INEC to Provide Telephones at Polling Centres in Zamfara
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Zamfara on Friday said it would provide emergency telephone lines at all the 2,516 polling units in the state during the general elections. NAN…
- 28 Jan 2021
Zamfara Test Runs Digital FM Station
The Zamfara Government on Thursday began the test transmission for the multi-million naira digital FM station. Confirming this to newsmen in Gusau, the Executive Chairman of the State Radio and…
- 25 Aug 2008
Zamfara Buys N110m van for Radio Station
Zamfara Government today inaugurated a N110 million outside Broadcast van for the state radio and television stations. Gov. Mahmuda Aliyu said at the inauguration in Gusau that the van would boost…
- 17 Nov 2020
FCC Director Jailed 14 Years for Defrauding Job Seekers
Alhaji Ahmad Balarabe, serving deputy director of the Federal Character Commission (FCC), has been sentenced to 14 years imprisonment by the State High Court 3 sitting in Gusau, Zamfara State, for…
- 6 Aug 2019
Kaduna, Delta Others Rank Best in e-Governance Report
The Centre for International Advanced and Professional Studies, CIAPS, ranks, Kaduna, Delta, Anambra States as the best in e-governance amongst others states in the federation. Even as Imo, Zamfara,…
- 26 Sept 2021
Bandits Using Nigerien Mobile Phone Services to Coordinate Attacks in Nigeria—Lawmaker
Aminu Almustapha Gobir, member representing Sabon Birni North Constituency in the Sokoto State House of Assembly, has said that bandits are now using the mobile phone services of Niger Republic to…
- 31 Aug 2010
Afribank Opens Model Branch in Gusau
As part of its overall business strategy to provide excellent banking services, get closer to customers and expand its business outreach, Afribank Nigeria Plc has opened a Model Branch in Gusau,…
- 3 Feb 2021
Telcos Fail NCC’s Quality Tests in 20 States
9mobile and Globacom have failed to meet key performance indicators stipulated by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the latest report by the industry regulator has shown. According to the…
- 22 Feb 2023
Supreme Court Adjourns Naira Redesign Policy Case to March 3
The Supreme Court on Wednesday fixed March 3 for judgment in the suits filled by some State Governors against the Federal Government over the cashless policy by the CBN in old Naira note withdrawal.…
- 12 Feb 2016
More Northern States Get MultiChoice Digital Resource Centres
MultiChoice Nigeria, leading provider of video entertainment services, has once again demonstrated its commitment to enhancing education in Nigeria with its resource center intervention, through the…
- 26 Sept 2025
Lagos Champions Nigeria’s Digital Future, Hosts ICT Commissioners, Stakeholders to Roundtable @GITEX Africa
Lagos State has reaffirmed its leadership in Nigeria’s digital transformation drive by hosting the ICT Commissioners Roundtable during the GITEX Africa conference. The event brought together…
- 8 Jun 2015
Ex-Govs Incur N1.58TRN Debt for 21 states
A month long investigations by Nigerian Pilot has revealed that 21 state governments in Nigeria owe an estimated debt of N1.58 trillion (domestic and foreign debts) as at May 29, 2015. Top on the…
- 29 Sept 2021
Kaduna to Shut Network Services over Insecurity
Nasir El-Rufai, governor, Kaduna state, has asked residents to prepare for a shutdown of telecommunication services. The governor stated this in a chat with some radio stations, saying the security…
- 19 Jul 2021
BBC Report Reveals Hydra-Headed Monsters Threatening Nigeria
Nigeria is up against five hydra-headed monsters threatening the lives and proprties of her citizens, according to recent report by British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). The report by Aliyu Tanko,…
- 11 Feb 2014
Reps to Review Criteria on Proposed NCC Spectrum Auction
House of Representatives has mandated its Committee on Communications to review the pre-qualification criteria on the proposed auction of 2.3 GHz Broadband Spectrum by the Nigerian Communications…
- 17 Jan 2024
Court Stops NBC from Imposing Fines on Broadcasters
Federal High Court in Abuja, Wednesday, declared null and void the provisions of the Nigeria Broadcasting Code authorising National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to impose fines on broadcast stations…
- 19 Nov 2013
African Exchange Holdings Delivers on Receipts System
Nigerian Strategic Grain Reserve (SGR) and Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) have conducted a technical walkthrough of a pioneering electronic warehouse receipt platform…
- 4 Sept 2013
AFEX, Ministry of Agric Pioneer National Warehousing Project
African Exchange Holdings (AFEX), a pan-African holding company founded by Tony O. Elumelu, chairman of Heirs Holdings, Nicolas Berggruen, chairman of Berggruen Holdings, and Jendayi Frazer,…
- 28 Sept 2010
Globacom Crashes Call Rates in 24 States
Globacom has introduced a new tariff plan called “Go Infinito” which offers the best rate of 25 kobo per second for calls to every network in Nigeria. A special tariff package with…
- 29 Jun 2015
FG Begins Probes of N3.8trn Missing Oil Money
A panel of four governors was, yesterday, constituted to probe the affairs of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), following revelations that the corporation withheld N3.8 trillion of…
- 30 Jun 2013
Experts Push for Artificial Intelligence to Curb Terrorism, Banditry
Experts in the technology, maritime and shipping sectors have called for the adoption of artificial intelligence in the fight against terrorism and to address the challenges posed by country’s porous…
- 20 May 2015
PDP, APC Govs Unite Against Jonathan, Asks FG to Account for $20Bn Oil Money
The Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) has asked , Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, coordinating minister of the Economy and minister of Finance, to account for $20 billion oil revenue. The governors insisted…
- 30 Jun 2015
Jonathan’s Govt Spent $2.1Bn in 7 months without Approval
National Economic Council, chaired by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, on Monday accused the last administration under ex-President Goodluck Jonathan of spending $2.1billion in seven months from the…
- 12 Oct 2015
2nd Ministerial List: Buhari Ponders over Nominees, to Calm Frayed nerves
President Muhammadu Buhari is reportedly weighing options on the next batch of nominees, as last minutes of intense horse-trading and lobbying are ongoing in the affected states. It was learnt that…
- 11 Nov 2015
Buhari Swears-in Ministers, Gives Them Portfolios
President Muhammadu Buhari at the swearing of 36 new ministers in Abuja today also assigned them portfolios. The President, who assigned to himself the Minister of Petroleum Resources, also pruned…
- 30 May 2013
Reps Angry over FG’s N6.4Bn “Spy Contact” to Israeli Firm
House of Representatives has begun probe into the controversial $40 million contract given to an Israeli firm by the federal government to spy on Nigerians who access to the internet. The House has…