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(Nigeria)  Old and new subscribers to telecoms service provider, Globacom, will benefit from a new MiFi and Router offer which connects up-to 32 Wi-Fi-enabled devices including smartphones, tablets, laptops, smart TVs and game consoles at once. The offer gives subscribers FREE 60GB and 180 GB data upon purchase and activation of a MiFi and Router respectively According to the company, the devices ensure faster downloads, faster music and movie streaming, faster gaming experience and seamless video calls on various smart devices can be used by Students, corporate employees, small and medium scale businesses or by individual subscribers on the go seamlessly. “ Nigerians can purchase the devices from any of our Gloworld one-stop shops or partner outlets.  All they need to do is insert a registered Glo SIM into the MiFi or Router device to access the free 60GB and 180 GB once the device is switched on”, Globacom stated in a press release on Wednesday. The ...

*Nigerian senate (Nigeria) The Senate on Wednesday passed the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency Bill 2022. The passage of the bill followed the consideration of a report by the Committee on Aviation. Chairman of the Committee, Senator Smart Adeyemi (Kogi West), in his presentation, said the bill seeks to repeal Nigerian Airspace Management Agency Act 2010 for the purposes of providing effective air navigation services in Nigeria. He added that the NAMA bill is one of the six Aviation Executive Bills referred to the Committee by the Senate which are related to crucial matters of regulation, training, management, and safety of the Aviation Industry. “The issues that surround the Bill are significant in ensuring safe air travels and are part of efforts at enhancing the health and profitability of the overarching aviation sector and public benefit,” he said. He observed that the Act establishing NAMA came into effect on May 26, 1999, and has been in operation for twenty-two years. ...

*Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi in Enugu State  (Nigeria) The government of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi in Enugu State through the Enugu Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, SMEs, Centre has initiated a 7-month programme on Cyber Security Learning for young people of the state. A statement by the Special Adviser to the Governor on SMEs Development and Director General, Enugu SMEs Centre, Arinze Chilo-Offiah, said the centre is partnering with CyberSafe Foundation and Ping CyberTalent to organize the programme.  Chilo-Offiah disclosed that the ICT-driven initiative was championed by Governor Ugwuanyi to help tackle the issues of cybercrime and youth unemployment in the state. Recall that Governor Ugwuanyi’s administration through the Enugu SMEs Centre recently trained additional 500 youths in Programming and Product Design, and has commenced the processes for training another set of 500 young people as part of its concerted efforts to create employment opportunities for about 5,0...

*NCC corporate head office in Abuja (Nigeria) The Senate on Tuesday received a request to confirm the nomination of Professor Mansur Auwalu Bindawa as Non-Executive Commissioner of the Nigerian Communications Commission. The request was contained in a letter dated January 10, 2022, and read on the floor by the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, during plenary. President Buhari in the letter explained that the request was made pursuant to the provision of Section 8(1) of the Nigerian Communications Act. In another letter date January 4, 2022, President Buhari requested the chamber to confirm the nominations of Nnamonso Ekanem (Akwa-Ibom) and Mahmud Magaji (Niger) as members of the Federal Judicial Service Commission. Ekanem and Magaji are expected to represent the South-South and North-Central zones, respectively. The letter reads in part: “In accordance with the provision of Section 154 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigerians (as amended), I hereby prese...

*Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (Nigeria) With more room to redefine the exchange for international competitiveness and the largest concentration of young people in the primary market, Nigeria is in a better position to advance its capital markets locally and globally, says Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN. He made the disclosure in his keynote speech on Tuesday,  in Abuja at the first Capital Market Conference of the Nigerian Exchange (NGX) Group. Later in the day, the VP presided over a virtual meeting of the National Economic Council where the Council composed of all State Governors, FCT Minister, Central Bank Governor, and Federal Government officials endorsed a memo on the Finance Bill for 2022. Highlights of the bill was presented to the Council by the Minister of Finance, Budget, and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed who explained that the proposed bill is intended to be passed alongside next year's budget. According to the Minister, some of the proposed legislati...

*Mr Sunday Dare, Minister of Youth and Sports Development (Nigeria) Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Mr Sunday Dare has reiterated the need to have more youth  trained in digital skills in order to address the problem of unemployment. The Minister made this assertion at the 2021 Annual Luncheon of Government College, Ibadan, Old Boys Association, GCIOBA,  held in Ibadan on Sunday. The Minister who spoke on Digital Literacy, a Panacea for Youth Unemployment, emphasized  the need for improved  digital education  among the youths. According  to him,  "There have been focused efforts to close the digital skills  gap through a number of digital capacity building initiatives. Some are ongoing as we speak . Also, ongoing is the implementation of the Nigerian Youth Investment Fund. Mr President listened to our arguments about the need to make our Youth develop   their Enterprenuership  spirit.  Despite the competing needs for ...

*Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State (Nigeria) Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State will, on Tuesday, August 3, at the Government House, Enugu, by 1pm, receive the young inventor, Master Emmanuel Chukwu, an indigene of the state and student of Government Technical College, GTC, Nsukka, who manufactured a hand-made aircraft. Governor Ugwuanyi will also on Tuesday, at the Government House, Enugu, by 2pm, swear in all the 68 Development Centre Administrators whose nominations were recently confirmed by the Enugu State House of Assembly. A statement by the Commissioner for Information, Nnanyelugo Chidi Aroh, said the governor’s decision to meet with the young aircraft inventor was “in pursuit of his administration’s commitment to encouraging scientific and technological innovation in Enugu State”. Aroh disclosed that the parents of the student, the principal of GTC, Nsukka, the Commissioner for Education, and the Chairman of the Science, Technical and Vocational Education Ma...

*Nigerian Senate (Nigeria) The Senate on Wednesday said that the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy has established a centre for artificial intelligence and robotics to deploy the use of robots and artificial intelligence in combating crime and criminality in Nigeria. The revelation came to the fore when the upper chamber considered a report on ‘the spate of growing insecurity in Nigeria’ by the Joint Committee on Legislative Compliance and Communications during plenary. The Chairman of the Joint Committee, Senator Adelere Oriolowo (APC, Osun West), in his presentation, further revealed that the SIM registration exercise by the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy, which makes the provision of the National Identity Number compulsory, has drastically reduced the use of phones by kidnappers for the purpose of negotiations. According to him, the earlier successes of the SIM registration were compromised by the numerous agents recruited by the communications com...