The Senate, on Tuesday, gave the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy a 48-hour ultimatum to account for the N13.9 billion it collected from service-wide votes from 2017 to 2021. The ultimatum given by the Senate Committee on Public Accounts to the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, William Alo, followed his failure to tender documentary evidence on how the N13.9 …

An engineer has developed a security robot that can remotely launch a gun attack during a robbery invasion. The Head of the Electrical Engineering Unit, Emmanuel Wireko-Brobby, who is also a senior clinical engineering manager at a teaching hospital, disclosed that he built the four-feet robot from waste plastic. Wireko-Brobby revealed that the ”RoboSniper” has an inbuilt surveillance camera, a …

A young Nigerian has stirred reactions on social media after building a local car with condemned iron. In a video posted on Instagram on 15th December by @onlynuelpls, the young man was seen driving around the car in a highway in his town. In the video, the locally made car which was made completely with iron was seen without a …

A robot lawyer is going to make legal history by appearing in a United States court for the first time. The robot is said to be powered by AI intelligence and is expected to help defendants fight their cases in court. The social media space has been engulfed with a series of reactions after it emerged that a robot” lawyer …

A technology-focused job placement and career management brand, Bullseye Digital Manpower is to train Nigerians on software development and quality assurance, UI/UX design, data science, as well as digital marketing. The Founder, Lanre Ayoola said that Bullseye enrollees would be placed in technology jobs with organizations across different industries. ‘’Already, the institution is set to admit the first stream of …

Chinese business magnate Jack Ma, who created both Alibaba and Ant Group, will no longer be in charge of the fintech subsidiary. The new company’s structure will reduce Ma’s voting rights to 6.2 percent, according to an announcement on Saturday, CNN repors. Before the restructuring, Ma held 50.52 percent of voting rights at Ant via Hangzhou Yunbo and two other …

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the deployment of advanced surveillance technology to address insecurity and crime in Imo and other South Eastern states. Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma told to State House correspondents after a closed-door meeting with the President at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Tuesday that the President’s approval would usher in the use of advanced surveillance …

By 2023, smartphone users will be able to utilise their mobile service underwater or in remote areas. This is due to a partnership between Elon Musk’s satellite business SpaceX and network operator T-Mobile. According to reports, SpaceX, the parent company of internet operator Starlink, and T-Mobile are collaborating to leverage their services to enable smartphone customers to use their mobile …

The Federal Government, through the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), has introduced virtual National Identification Number (NIN) tokens known as “Tokenisation”. A statement by the commission explained that the NIN Tokenisation is to protect people’s data privacy through the use of an encrypted, coded version of the NIN, instead of the actual NIN which is used for everyday transactions. The …

Mobile internet subscribers in Nigeria rose from 139 million in October 2021 to 152.71  million in October, this year, accounting to recent update of telecoms industry statistics posted on the website of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). This implies that about 12.17 million additional subscribers were added to the service providers’ networks within the last one year. Global System for …