The Minister of State for Transportation, Sen. Gbemisola Saraki, has clarified that the primary mandate of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) is to be the regulator of maritime safety sector and enhance security. In her speech at the final session of a five-day National Council on Transportation (NCT) held in the commercial city of Kano, she emphasized...

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has declared open the 33rd session of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)’s International Coordinating Council of Man and Biosphere (MAB-ICC) programme with a call to world leaders to conserve the earth’s biodiversity. Speaking at the opening ceremony today at the State House, Aso Villa, Abuja, he tasked world leaders to change their behaviours...

The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Pantami, has urged the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to prepare for “immediate and effective implementation” of the Fifth Generation (5G) Network Policy. The minister gave the tall order sequel to the approval of the National Policy on 5G technology deployment in Nigeria by the Federal Executive Council (FEC). Addressing top officials of the commission led by the NCC executive vice-chairman, Prof....

The National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion (NOTAP) has said it shelved the 2021 commemoration of the African Day for Technology and Intellectual Property, owing to the ravaging Delta Variant of the COVID-19 pandemic. The agency’s director-general, Dr. DanAzumi Ibrahim, explained that the move became necessary to protect secondary school students who are the major exhibitors at the event and per the protocols drawn up by the Presidential Committee on COVID-19....

Establishing an enabling environment with appropriate policies, regulations, institutions, and markets to drive the adoption of innovations is key to building agricultural resilience in Africa, said the executive director of African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF), Dr. Canisius Kanangire. He stated this at a panel session on ‘resilience and adaptation’ during the 11th African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) virtual summit 2021,...

As part of efforts to enhance entrepreneurship development among women in small and medium enterprises, the Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) has trained 40 women in marketing, digital sales, and business networking to help improve their brands.   The one-day 'Women in SMEs Workshop' organised by ACCI-BEST Centre was geared toward exposing women in business to strategies that would...

The director-general of National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Mallam Kashifu Abdullahi, has flayed to role of digital media which he described as one of the key enablers of digital economy, in creating awareness for the growth and development of any nation. Abdullahi said this when he hosted the commandant of the Nigerian Army School of Public Relations and Information...

Sequel to the approval of the Fifth Generation (5G) network policy by the Federal Government, the Nigerian Communications Commission has said it will publish an implementation roadmap for the deployment of 5G across the country with service roll-out obligations. Following the approval, the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Pantami, who announced the approval after the Federal Executive...

The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has alerted the general public to increasing risks of data breach through the mobile applications (apps) downloaded on phones. A statement by the agency’s head of cooperate affairs and external relations, Mrs. Hadiza Umar, said the issue had become more worrisome as current research revealed that large numbers of mobile health applications were...