Global tech pioneers and innovators are preparing to supercharge double-digit business growth across Africa, as they eagerly anticipate the debut of the continent’s largest and most inclusive tech and start-up event in Marrakech, Morocco. GITEX Africa will open doors for the first time from 31 May-2 June 2023, welcoming 500 […]
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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 […]
Tech giant Google has launched its Bard chatbot as competitor on OpenAI’s popular ChatGPT, which seeks to make up lost ground in the race to commercialise generative artificial intelligence technology. The rolling out of AI chatbot Bard will only be available to certain users over the age of 18 in […]
The Federal Government has announced the removal of excise duty for telecom sub-sector after six months of intense deliberations. Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, disclosed this Tuesday in Abuja at a briefing to provide updates on the status of the 5 per cent excise […]
The Federal Government of Nigeria is ready to conduct its first ever digital census, 17 years after last exercise in 2006 with an approval of N2.8 billion ($5.4 million). The exercise, originally scheduled for March 29 but postponed to May 2023 due to the rescheduled gubernatorial and state House of […]
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has implemented modern technology to improve the process of vehicle registration and make motor licenses seamless by making it stress-free, as well as the management of its transportation sub-sector which should be one of the goals of a working government. The introduction of […]
OpenAI an American artificial intelligence research laboratory has released GPT-4, a powerful new image- and text-understanding AI model after months of anticipation. The new model can respond to images – providing recipe suggestions from photos of ingredients, for example, as well as writing captions and descriptions. It can also process […]
The Federal Government of Nigeria has launched a $672 million tech fund in a bid to support the tech and creatives ecosystems for young entrepreneurs which will ease capital funding. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo launched the $672 million fund under the Digital and Creative Enterprises Programme (DCEP) in Abuja recently […]
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Platforms Inc., Facebook and Instagram’s parent company is exploring strategies to create a new social media app in its effort to dislodge Twitter as the world’s “digital town square” which will be built on a parallel structure that powers Mastodon, a Twitter-like service that was launched in […]
As part of its activities to commemorate the 2023 International Women’s Day, The Director General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Kashifu Inuwa CCIE, has stated that the Federal Government’s strategic objective of bridging the digital gender gap, in line with the implementation of the National Digital Economy […]