What 2023 Elections May Look Like
The ruling party at the national level, the All Progressives Congress (APC) began to show signs of internal scuffles this year when they embarked on their party member registration at the ward level. Inconclusive registration, accusations, counter-accusations, violence among party bigwigs and their loyalists became the order of the day. Read more about Politics […]
Access Bank Partners Udacity For Scholarship Programs In IT
The online educational institution, Udacity, is collaborating with a commercial bank, Access Bank, to offer upskill training to Africans. Read more about Opportunities Scholarships will be handed out to qualifying participants in Nanodegree programs comprising Business Analytics, Intro to Programming, Product Manager, Digital Marketing, and Programming for Data Science with Python have been allocated […]
Continuous Voter Registration Positive As Registration Hits 1.6 Million
About 84 million people registered to vote in 2019; with a total of 26.45 million people voting at the elections. As the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) has begun afresh about 7 weeks ago, positive numbers are being recorded with the online version of the CVR nationwide drive. Read more about […]
How To Protect Your Devices From Overheating
Smartphone owners are more likely to have experienced their device overheating at least once in its lifetime. What is more concerning is that most times, smartphone users do not have an idea of what to do to curtail the overheating or how to prevent it from happening again. Aside from those who experience their […]
Aminu Kano’s Talakawa Philosophy
Aminu Kano was born in Kano on August 9, 1920, to the family of an Islamic scholar, Mallam Yusufu, a lineage known for producing judicial scholars, and Rakiya, a Fulata Borno family of Mamman Zara. Despite his near upper-class background, Mallam Aminu Kano lived an exemplary stoic life which toed the line of his […]
Decagon & Sterling Bank Wants Train Software Engineers With Pay-After-Learning Model
For the promise that Nigeria’s growing youth population offers, more companies are joining the ranks of Andela to cater to the training and development of software and tech talent in general. And since Andela changed course, in providing outsourced tech talent to foreign software companies, Decagon is trying again to reinvent an area Andela […]
ThrowBack Thursday: Tafa Balogun: The Ex-IGP That Went to Jail
When ‘super cops’ are named as a subsection of historical happenings in Nigeria, the name Tafa Balogun comes to mind even before the embattled Abba Kyari is mentioned. The current travails of Abba Kyari being instantly changed from leading the Inspector General of Police (IGP)’s crack Intelligent Response Team (IRT) unit to being hunted by […]
Effort in Top Gear to Pass Nigeria’s Startup Bill into Law
For the first time, a law that will give ample opportunity to startups in Nigeria to grow in nearing top gear between Executive, Legislature and the Nigerian Startup ecosystem. The Nigeria Startup Bill project began as a joint initiative by the private sector, Nigeria’s tech startup ecosystem and the Presidency to improve the fortunes of […]
How Assistive Technology Can Enhance Education for Nigerian Dyslexics
Technology has grown to become one of the tools needed to solve human problems. As EdTech (Educational Technology) is rising in its own right, individual tools that may help to enhance disabilities in learning are also springing up. While EdTech startups such as uLesson are working on delivering proper curriculum to willing learners beyond the […]
Buhari’s Medical Tourism and the Doctor’s Strike
Almost two weeks since Nigerian doctors resumed strike action, there has not been much progress on how to resolve the recurring issues bedevilling Nigeria’s health sector. The strike action by the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) lingers on without any respite in sight. Following a Memorandum of Action (MOA) signed in April by the […]
How To Disable Pop-Up Ads On Your Android Device
Pop-up ads are growing to be common with most mobile devices nowadays. This has become one of the reasons some smartphone users may never own an Android device just because of the pop-up ads embedded into the phone. Pop-up Ads really disrupts the ideal user experience in phone handling. And this is why smartphones such […]
ThrowBack Thursday: Revisiting The Oputa Panel (2)
The report of the Oputa Panel was never officially published by the Federal Government. However, the report became publicly accessible in some media as far back as 2005 when a Washington-based NGO, Nigerian Democratic Movement(NDM) & Nigeria-based Civil Society Forum(CSF), unofficially published a copy of the Human Rights Violations Investigation Commission online – two […]
Abba Kyari: From Hero To Villain
Abba Kyari was shot to fame in 2017 when the kidnap kingpin, Evans, was busted. He was that super cop who led the trailing of Evans to his affluent Magodo stowaway where he was finally arrested. Read more about Governance As the OC SARS in Lagos back then, he was reportedly dreaded in criminal […]
Ecobank And Microsoft Collaborate To Help Convert African SMEs To Digital Businesses
The realities of the pandemic and extended lockdown are already making business owners redraw their business strategies. Many are now considering approaching the market via online channels and solutions providers are helping these businesses achieve their aim with the assistance of tech. Read more about Tech The extended lockdowns particularly disrupted supply chains, shrunk […]
South West Governors Making An Important Call For Restructuring
For decades, there has been a lot of dust being kicked up on the matter of restructuring and devolution of powers in Nigeria for decades. Most of the agitations and demands in this line have not been so realistic enough. Read more about Politics But at the last forum held by the South West […]
Innovation: RxAll Tackles Drug Counterfeiting With Smart Devices
One of the ways technology has become useful is in its use as a tool for detecting drug counterfeiting. Read more about Tech It has been revealed that in Africa alone, counterfeit drugs kill as many as 100,000 people per year while it claims up to 1,000,000 people in the world. It is also […]