Tag: internet
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Pastor Adeboye speaks on dangers of Internet marriage
Wife of the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor (Mrs) Foluke Adenike Adeboye has charged young adults to seek God first before deciding to marry someone they met on the Internet. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports Mrs. Adeboye, who also charged young adults not to marry on credit, made the charge during…
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Why right policies are need to fast-track digital growth in Africa
Prof. Umar Danbatta, Executive Vice Chairman, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has called on stakeholders in the telecommunication sector to put in place right polices to fast track digital growth in Africa. Danbatta made this call on Monday at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the Digital Bridge Institute Regional Human Capacity Building Workshop in Abuja.…
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Internet: 4bn people to be connected by 2020
By 2020, about 4 billion of the world’s 7.6 billion population will be connected leveraging on advancement in Internet of Things (IoT), according to EcoStruxure, a platform of Schneider Electric. Mrs. Viviane Mike-Eze, the company’s Marketing Communication Manager, said 30 billion things including businesses and organisations will also be connected, and that the whole essence…
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Be security conscious while using free Wi-Fi, IT expert warns internet users
An Information Technology expert, Mr Jide Awe, on Saturday urged members of the general public to be security conscious while using free Wi-Fi. Awe, the Conferences Committee Chairman, Nigeria Computer Society (NCS), made the plea in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. According to him, free Wi-Fi or even Wi-Fi…
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Authorities shut down internet in eastern Ethiopia amid regional violence
Authorities have shut down the Internet in eastern Ethiopia amid an outbreak of violence in the region, a local resident said on Wednesday. The resident, speaking from the city of Harar, some 100 km from Jijiga, the capital of the region of Somali, said the connection had been off for three days. Rights group Access…
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Nigeria Internet users record decrease
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) says Internet users in the country decreased to 102,805,122 million in June from the 103,152,726 million recorded in May. The NCC made this disclosure in its Monthly Internet Subscribers Data for June 2018 on its website on in Abuja. The data showed a decrease 347,604 subscribers in the country. The…
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Sales of answers online: WAEC in dire need of government’s intervention to battle exam malpractices
Issues of examination malpractices in Nigeria, especially those perpetrated via the internet have become a major concern that has troubled stakeholders and defied several correctional approaches put forward by different examination bodies. In the last concluded 2018 examination organised by the West Africa Examination Council, WAEC, there were several reports that revealed how students in…
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Kenya to use Alphabet’s balloons for rural internet
Kenya will use Alphabet Inc’s system of balloons to beam high-speed internet access in hopes of connecting more of its rural population to the web, its ICT Minister said on Thursday. Known as “Project Loon”, the technology was developed by Alphabet’s X, the company’s innovation lab. It was used by U.S. telecom operators to provide…
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Good governance: How Internet is greatest tool – Ezekwesili
Dr Oby Ezekwesili, the Senior Economic Advisor, Africa Economic Development Policy Initiative (AEDPI) says internet has become the greatest tool for citizens’ participation in good governance. Ezekwesili, former Education Minister, said this at the Nigeria Internet Governance Forum 2018 with the theme: “Internet; An Enabler for Good Governance’’ in Abuja on Tuesday. She was speaking…
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NCC says Internet users reaches 103m in May
Prof. Umar Danbatta, the Executive Vice Chairman, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) on Tuesday described the growth of the internet as enormous with the number of users reaching 103 million in May. Danbatta, who was represented by Mr Haru Alhassan, the Director, New Media and Information Security of NCC, said this in Abuja at the Nigeria…