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Social messaging platform, Facebook and one of Nigeria’s leading e-commerce firm, Jumia have partnered to offer Nigeria’s 18 Million Facebook users the ability to get their own personal Jumia shopping assistant (Bot) directly on Facebook Messenger.

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The Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) has formally unveiled the Address Verification System (AVS) and other digital products to mark the 2017 World Post Day and kick-start its own re-invention to become more responsive to a market that has been altered by technology trends. Apart from the AVS, NIPOST also unveiled the International Postal Service Track and Trace System, Mobile Electronic Stamp, and a new suite of financial inclusive services targeting Nigeria’s vast population in the rural areas.

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The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) is aiming to save the country about $2 billion (about N720 billion) lost as capital flight as a result avoidable importation of foreign technologies into the country, Director General of NITDA,

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Nigerian government will be launching a N100 billion free video-on-demand online channel to accelerate the country’s Digital Switch Over (DSO) program, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has said while commissioning the ultra-modern Digital Set Top Box manufacturing plant inside the Calabar Export Free Zone in Cross River State.

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Nigerian government will be launching a N100 billion free video-on-demand online channel to accelerate the country’s Digital Switch Over (DSO) program, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has said while commissioning the ultra-modern Digital Set Top Box manufacturing plant inside the Calabar Export Free Zone in Cross River State.

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DHL Express, the world’s leading international express services provider, has recently announced its partnership with MallforAfrica, which will facilitate selling of made-in-Africa products to customers in the United States. Businesses can do so via the eBay platform powered by MallforAfrica. Through this partnership, DHL locations will serve as drop-off points for products destined for consumers in the United States. This will be the first time businesses in Africa can sell their locally manufactured products directly on eBay.

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The Director General of the National Automotive Design and Development Council (NADDC), Mr. Jelani Aliyu is confident that 60% of vehicles sold in Nigeria will be produced locally by 2021, four years from now.

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The premier financial institution and Nigeria’s most valuable bank brand, First Bank of Nigeria Limited has been named the first financial institution in Nigeria and the West-Africa sub-region to issue 10 million cards to customers across the country. This makes FirstBank the second bank in Africa to achieve this feat.

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Adeola Adesanya, one of the directors at PML, a Yaba, Lagos based professional service firm, providing services and solution in audit, tax, advisory and software speaks on the convergence of information technology and financial services industries. In this interaction with IT Edge News, Anthony Nwosu, in Lagos, Adesanya says he believes SMEs are pivotal to sustaining the client scheme of financial technology services companies and with cloud, the business case is stronger.

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GTS-Infotel, one of the leading licensed VAS providers in the country, now positioning as the first Mobile VAS Network Operator dedicated to Businesses (B2B MVNO), has unveiled its disruptive “GTS Network” at the recently concluded Nigeria.Com expo and conference in Lagos.

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Nigeria telecom market remains the most attractive on the continent for high returns on investment (RoI) with its huge, largely untapped market for legacy voice, converged and broadband services, the country’s telecom regulator Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta has said in a remark at the official opening of Nigeria Pavilion @ ITU Telecom World 2017 in Busan, South Korea.

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Youtap has launched Youtap Cloud, a payment processing platform delivered as a cloudservice for mobile money and payment providers in developing markets.
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DStv to rework pricing as TStv excites market with lower cost

DStv is reworking its market strategies as a big competitor TStv announced plan for a formal entry into Nigeria’s payTV market by October 1. TStv is coming to market with low entry and subscription costs as well as a pay as you watch option that may put DStv at the losing end of the competition. TStv also has a 20g wifi carrot for subscribers to push Nigeria’s consumers’ television experience further into the IoT (Internet of Things) realm.
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The Nigeria government through the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) will be promoting ten startups at this year’s Gitex technology expo and conference holding in Dubai from October 8-12. The country’s tech-ambassadors were carefully selected after a highly competitive process anchored by the Office for ICT Innovation & Entrepreneurship (OIIE) which is an arm of the NITDA.

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Federal coffers, in the last two years, had enjoyed a N133, 426,062,786 revenue boosts from the Nigeria’s telecoms regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to underscore the increasing value of the telecom market to Nigeria’s economy.

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The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) will be focusing on mobilising global attention on the investment potential of Nigeria’s IT sector and promotion of local tech-entrepreneurs at this year’s GITEX 2017. This year’s Gulf Information Technology Exhibition (GITEX), the premier technology event in the Middle East, Asia and Africa is expected to host over 185, 000 visitors from more than 140 countries. Read>>> https://itedgenews.ng/2017/09/21/nitda-seeks-investment-promotion-local-technology-entrepreneurs-gitex-2017/

A new indigenous company, Telecomsat Ltd. (TStv) is set to challenge the monopoly enjoyed by South African Multichoice’s Digital Satellite TV (DStv) in Nigeria’s payTV market.

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President of Computer and Allied Products Dealers Association of Nigeria (CAPDAN), Ahmed Ojikutu, spoke with IT Edge News, Aanuoluwa Omotosho and Amole Olatunde, on the challenges of kitting CAPDAN members to be more responsive to today’s business environment. Inside Computer Village, Ikeja, Lagos, he affirmed to IT Edge News that: “we are in the industry to renovate, to build knowledge, to provide solutions.” Ojikutu believes CAPDAN members must reflect the dynamics of the ICT sector to best serve their customers.

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Stakeholders have raised alarm for government to meticulously protect the country’s critical National intelligence infrastructure and assets from foreign hands, even as the United States banned use of the Russian security software, Kaspersky by its public sector.

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The Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) has reinstated its commitment to bring an end to challenges affecting the Nigerian telecommunications industry as the commission inaugurates Inter- Agency Committee for the evaluation of research proposals from the academia which is aimed at finding local solutions to the challenges

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Over 11 billion naira is saved monthly by the federal government since the Treasury Single Account (TSA) was fully implemented, Accountant General of the Federation (AGF), Alhaji Ahmed Idris, has revealed. The TSA runs on the Remita software platform; it helps to manage public funds and consolidate all inflows from all agencies of government into a single account at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

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Internet images of Nigerians in Kano, northern Nigeria, marching for peace in Ibo attire, and online discussions favouring a ‘One Nigeria’ theme are engendering peace as tension rises over army-IPOB (Independent People of Biafra) clash in Umuahia, Abia state in eastern part of the country.

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Lagos State has this month re-ignited its CodeLagos Project, a second phase of an ambitious plan to develop IT capacity in one million young people by 2019 and position Lagos State as the technology hub in Africa. The initiative was first launched last year

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The Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON) is worried that strategic agencies managing the country’s data and other infrastructures that make up its national intelligence resources are being managed by foreign IT companies. ISPON’s President, Olorogun James Emadoye, tells IT Edge News, Oluwatobi Opusunju, that local content policy should entrench the principle of ensuring strategic interest projects are largely managed by local software companies, except of course, where such local knowledge are lacking. ISPON plans to change the narrative on software import and to make the country less depended on foreign solutions. It’s the country that will best benefit with lesser pressure on its FOREX portfolio and a thriving local software industry that would create more jobs and expand business opportunities. Emadoye shares with IT Edge News in Lagos.

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First Bank of Nigeria Limited has remained committed to empowering the Nigerian populace with the *894# Quick Banking service as part of its financial inclusion drive. The service is set to deliver the power to bank anywhere and at anytime. It is quick, convenient and easy to use and beneficiary accounts are credited instantly with alert notifications.

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The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has cancelled the 2016/2017 NITDEF Scholarship selection process owing to lack of fund. The agency said 2016/2017 NITDEF Scholarship selection process due to serious budget deficit experienced in NITDA’s 2016 budget year which the scheme was appropriated with money not released to fund the process.

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The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has cancelled the 2016/2017 NITDEF Scholarship selection process owing to lack of fund.  The agency said 2016/2017 NITDEF Scholarship selection process due to serious budget deficit experienced in NITDA’s 2016 budget year which the scheme was appropriated with money not released to fund the process...

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The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has issued a clarification on recent media statements insinuating that it warned consumers against using certain handsets that may lead to cancer. The commission says it did not make such a position and has distanced itself from it. See its official press statement below:

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Nigeria’s telecom sector remains a major contributor to the country’s economy despite FOREX and multiple tax hiccups. The sector beefed up the GDP with N1.549tn in the second quarter (Q2) of this year; a 6.68 per cent rise over the Q1 figure of N1.452tn – significantly helping Africa’s largest economy in its measured walk out of recession.

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India has invested over $10 billion in Africa in less than a decade as the sub-continent seeks to expand and consolidate trade and deals with Africa’s 54 countries particularly in ICT.

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In its first ever to be published Global ICT Regulatory Outlook 2017, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) affirmed that the days of “obligation-based regulation and a stovepipe ICT marketplace” are gone. That era, approximately tagged: ‘Generation 1’ no longer exists. Regulation is at Generation 4 and even some countries are already at Generation 5. Yes! There is a seismic shift that forces regulation and regulators to be ‘open, collaborative, flexible and consensus-based.

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As at April 2013, when IT Edge News first published an editorial on the worrying, meager investment in science, technology and innovation (STI), Nigeria’s total expenditure on security was nearly a trillion naira. Security budget has progressively gone up since then in reflection of the country’s security needs; conversely, funding of STI has dipped when inflation is put into cognizance.

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