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By Elvis Eromosele The COVID19 pandemic is not letting up. It continues to race and rage across the globe. With 92 million cases and almost two million deaths, one expects every hand to be on deck to curb the spread. The World Health Organisation (WHO) advises that if COVID-19 is spreading in your community, stay

We know you have been dreaming of Christmas, just like the ones you are used to. However, this time Christmas has a zing to it, Christmas is coming ‘Blue’. This year, it is the Verve Goodlife Christmas! As we draw closer to that exciting time of the year, everyone is set to bask in the

Verve International has fixed December 19, 2020 for the ceremony to present the grand prize to winners of its on-going ‘Good Life’ promo, which kicked off in September 2020. The event will hold in Lagos where Verve will reward two lucky cardholders with the grand prize of N1 million each. The Verve ‘Good Life’ promo

Smartphone shipments into Nigeria increased 13.7% quarter on quarter (QoQ) in Q3 2020 to almost 3 million units, according to the latest figures from global technology and consulting services firm International Data Corporation (IDC). The firm’s newly published Quarterly Global Mobile Phone Tracker shows that Nigeria’s smartphone market remained healthy in the third quarter as

Interswitch, Africa’s leading technology-driven company focused on the digitization of payments in Africa, has announced its partnership with Finastra, one of the world’s largest fintechs, to deliver innovative, world-class technology-based solutions for digital payments, corporate banking, treasury and trade finance, to financial institutions in Africa. Consistent with Interswitch’s market expansion strategy, the partnership will enable

L-R; Morolake Dairo; Product Marketing Manager, Verve Digital Tokens & Verve Life, Ajagbe Oluwaranti Isaac and Gideon Nnaji during the Verve Good Life Dummy Card presentation in Lagos State Verve International has rewarded 1,250 customers so far, after its sixth weekly draws in the on-going Verve ‘Good Life’ promo for Verve cardholders across the country.

At the AfricaTech Festival (international trade fair, Orange and its subsidiaries announced the commissioning and commercial launch of Djoliba, the first pan-African backbone. This infrastructure is based on a terrestrial fibre optic network, coupled with undersea cables, offering secure connectivity abroad from West Africa. This investment aims to support the digital ecosystem and meets the

L-R: Akin Naphtal, Chief Executive Officer, InstictWave; Prof. Umar Danbatta, Executive Vice Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC); Dr. Ikechukwu Adinde, Director, Public Affairs, NCC and Olusola Teniola, President, Association of Telecoms Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) during the 2020 Nigeria Tech Innovation and Telecoms Awards held at the NAF Conference Centre in Abuja. The

L-R: Abubakar Maina, Project Director, Broadband Implementation Steering Committee (BISC); Ubale Maska, Executive Commissioner, Technical Services, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and Chairman, BISC; Dr. Usman Abdullahi, Director, Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure, National IT Development Agency (NITDA) and Vice-Chairman, BISC; Kelechi Okonta, Managing Director, Zinox Technologies Limited; Ibrahim Dikko, Managing Director, Backbone Connectivity Limited at the

L-R: Hon. Unyime Josiah Idem, Deputy Chairman, House Committee on Telecommunications; Hon. (Prince) Akeem Adeyemi, Chairman, House Committee on Telecommunications; Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, Executive Vice Chairman/CEO, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), during the Committee’s oversight visit to the Commission Headquarters recently in Abuja The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar