Tag: NIRA
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Breaking: Former NCC Director, Tony Ojobo becomes President of African ICT Foundation
Former Public Affairs Director of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Mr. Tony Ojobo has been appointed into the Board of Trustee (BoT) of the African ICT Foundation as President. TheNewsGuru (TNG) exclusively gathered the former NCC Director of Public Affairs was appointed President of the foundation alongside Dr. Ing Pierre-François Kamanou, who will serve as…
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Ministry restates commitment to provide online security
The Minister of Communications, Mr Adebayo Shittu on Tuesday in Abuja restated the ministry’s commitment to ensure adequate cyber-security in the country. Shittu said this at the 2018 Nigeria Internet Governance Forum (NIGF) with the theme: “Internet: An Enabler for Good Governance’’. He said that the ministry was putting in place necessary measures to check…
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Internet registrar decries low dotNG domain name registration
The Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA) has registered only about 100,000 .ng domain names since its inception in 2007. The President of NiRA, Mr Sunday Afolayan, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that Nigeria had yet to be where it should, in terms of .ng domain name. NAN reports that the .ng…
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Nigeria ends 2017 with 101,695 domain names
The Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA) said on Friday that 101,695 domain names existed in the country’s domain registry as at 2017, up from 76,907 names recorded in 2016. The President of NIRA, Mr Sunday Folayan, made this known in a statement in Lagos on Friday. Folayan said that in December 2017, 5,547 domain names…
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Etisalat transformation: 9mobile registers domain name
Etisalat Nigeria transformation is underway as the telecoms firm now known as 9mobile has registered a domain name with one of accredited domain name registrars of the Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA), WhoGoHost. The domain name is www.9mobile.com.ng that, however, still redirects to old brand website, www. etisalat.com.ng. Whois lookup on the new domain name…
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NIRA caps dotNG domain name registration at 90,000
Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA) first quarter report has capped the country’s domain name at 90,036 in total. The NiRA report reveals that the entire Africa’s continent has less than two million domain names. TheNewsGuru reports South Africa’s .za is having a total of 1,148,095; Kenya’s .ke a total of 61, 623 domain names. The…
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Only 80,000.ng domain registered in Nigeria – NIRA
President of the Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA), Mr Sunday Folayan has said only 80,000 dotng (.ng) domain names have been registered so far in Nigeria. Folayan announced the figure during the “NIRA 2017 .ng Awards, aimed at celebrating the achievements and innovation of Nigerian internet initiatives on Friday in Lagos. He said that the…