Over the weekend many telecom subscribers/consumers were unable to access their phone lines because of the inability of many telecom consumers to verify their National Identification Numbers (NINs) with their Subscriber Identification Modules (SIMs). This meant that their numbers were blocked by their telecom service providers in keeping with laws …

  A Nigerian scientist and researcher, Kafayat Aderonke Yusuf, has received multiple prestigious awards for her groundbreaking research on inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) and colon cancer at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City.  Yusuf, a PhD student in the Cancer Biology Department at the University, has been recognized …

Following recent undersea cable cuts that challenged connectivities in many countries in the West Afrcan region, Nigeria has called for a coordinated and multilateral approach by the region to protect shared telecommunications infrastructure, and diversify connectivity to ensure uninterruptible connections. Executive Vice Chairman of the  Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Dr. …