Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built which was uncrewed, exploded and disintegrated four minutes after successfully blasting off at 8:33 am Central Time (1333 GMT) from Starbase, the SpaceX spaceport in Boca Chica, Texas during its first flight. The Starship spacecraft that will eventually carry crew and cargo had […]
MTN Nigeria has teamed with Apple Music, a digital music platform located in the United States, to provide free access to a premium selection of songs as part of its efforts to ensure consumers can enjoy quality entertainment on the move. Subscribers to MTN service will get access to […]
The Director-General of the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency (SMEDAN), Olawale Fasanya, says that more than two million businesses in the Nano, Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (nMSMEs) category died between 2017 and 2021 alone forcing more than six million Nigerians into the labor market. He explains through […]
Stanbic IBTC Bank, a subsidiary of Stanbic IBTC Holdings, has launched its @ease Savings Challenge which commenced 01 March 2023 and is set to run till 08 June 2023 where participants will have 100 days to save a minimum of N1,000 daily or N7,000 weekly in their Stanbic IBTC […]
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has been inundated with enquiries by the media on allegations of telephone “tracking” and “leakage” made against the Commission by some individuals and groups in the social and alternative media. In a press statement signed by the Director of Public Affairs of the Nigerian […]
The CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk and Apple’s co-founder Steve Wozniak, has joined several other technology experts in calling for the temporary halt of Artificial Intelligence experimentation in a statement titled “Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter,” with about 1,332 signatories of tech experts who called on AI labs […]
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has confirmed the evacuation of banknotes from its vaults to commercial banks across the country as part of a coordinated effort to ease the circulation of banknotes of various denominations and further directed all commercial banks to open for operation on Saturdays and Sundays. […]
The Minister of State, Budget and National Planning, Clem Agba, said the federal government would commence the installation of facial recognition technology at major airports in the country which is a solution to improve and incorporate automatic security measures around the airports and easily detect impostors. Agba expressed his happiness […]
The Federal Government has announced the removal of excise duty for the telecom sub-sector of Nigeria’s Digital Economy Industry in line with the recommendations of the Committee it constituted to review the applicability of the Duty to the telecom sector which is considered already overburdened with taxation and sundry […]