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By Olubunmi Adeniyi Lagos. December 20, 2012: Gbenga Sesan, Executive Director, Paradigm Initiative (PIN) has encouraged Nigerian youth to get engaged in the implementation of the National Information and Communication Technology (ICT) policy to accelerate the country’s development process. Sesan made this statement on Monday at the Review of the Nigerian National ICT Policy event [...]
By Olubunmi Adeniyi Lagos. December 19, 2012: Airtel Nigeria has made a case for speedy implementation of the Mobile Number Portability (MNP) in the country saying that the process will promote healthy competition amongst mobile phone operators and improve quality of service. With the go-live of Mobile number portability (MNP), mobile telephone users will be [...]
By Ibrahim Olukotun Lagos. December 18, 2012: MTN Nigeria and Glo Mobile, the number one and two mobile phone operators by subscriber numbers in the Nigerian telecoms market have been ranked among Top 7 mobile telecoms powerhouses in Africa. According to recent African market subscriber information from ABI Research, MTN Nigeria ranks number one [...]
By Olubunmi Adeniyi Lagos. December 17, 2012: Ernest Ndukwe, co-Chair of the Presidential Committee on a National Broadband Strategy and Roadmap says the group will deliver an overall blueprint to ensure that Nigeria takes advantage of high-speed Internet services for economic development, “within shortest possible time.” Goodluck Jonathan, the President of Nigeria, recently set [...]
YEMI IBIRONKE Nigerian corporations have transitioned onto the world stage on several fronts with strategies, platforms and executions comparable to world-class firms but the adoption of accountability and sound Marketing Analytics by CMOs is required for realizing their marketing investments true potential. The new competitive advantage Marketing Analytics is the art of using [...]
By Ibrahim Olukotun Lagos. December 17, 2012: Phone dealers in Lagos have decried the rising influx of substandard China phones into Nigeria citing that the growing trend may undermine the user experience in the local telecoms market. Baring their minds on the issue in Lagos in separate interviews with Technology Times, Iyke Nwosu, President [...]
By Olubunmi Adeniyi Lagos. December 16, 2012: Nigeria’s personal computer ownership stand at an abysmal 4.5 percent of her teeming population, a major technology gap in the continent’s most vibrant telecoms market, a new government study has uncovered. This is pitted against official information showing that the nation’s telecoms market currently has over 100 million [...]
By Olubunmi Adeniyi Lagos. December 16, 2012: Key stakeholders in the ICT sector have agreed that the open access backbone should be assured by regulatory intervention and not necessarily by building new infrastructure. The growth of broadband, seen as the next phase of growth in the Nigerian telecoms sector after voice, has been hampered [...]
By Ibrahim Olukotun Lagos. December 16, 2012: The Delta State Government has partnered with National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) in training forty computer engineers and information technology graduates for its pilot website design training. The training, which is planned to be held twice a year, is set to equip engineering graduates in the state [...]
By Technology Times Staff Reporter Lagos. December 14, 2012: South Africa’s MTN Group says it is launching its latest multi-channel global brand campaign, which pronounces the mobile operator’s and owners of MTN Nigeria bold views on the potential of emerging markets. Titled, “Welcome to the New World”, the campaign launches tomorrow in selected countries [...]
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