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Rack Centre has announced been selected, alongside IXPN (Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria) and AF-CIX (a fast-growing African Internet Exchange), as the local hosts for the African Peering and Interconnection Forum (AfPIF), which will be held in Nigeria for the first time ever.   This milestone highlights Nigeria’s increasing prominence …

As the tech industry plagued by an economic downturn continues to experience huge staffing cuts in 2023, the least-expected cybersecurity workforce has been hit by layoffs. The report has revealed that Latin America (Brazil and Mexico) has seen the greatest cybersecurity layoffs, followed by Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates. …

By Dr. Nathaniel Atansuyi The cashless policy in Nigeria, implemented by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as a strategic move towards a more efficient and inclusive financial system, has gained significant momentum in recent years. However, along with the numerous benefits of a cashless economy, such as convenience, speed, …

For a decade and counting, the tech industry has morphed into a desirous space young people seek to be affiliated. Many of the reasons include; the future possibilities of a tech society, freedom in exploring technological creative expressions, disruption of the norm, birthing imaginable ideas, and, of course, the money. …

The African data center market is in the midst of a remarkable growth surge, according to new research released by Xalam Analytics (XalamAnalytics.com), a digital infrastructure investment consultancy. African data center providers have spent a cumulative US$2 billion in building data center facilities since 2017, bringing to market more than …

…Says Policy to Accelerate  Broadband Infrastructure Roll-Out Professor Isa Pantami, Nigeria’s Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, has disclosed that Nigeria is giving the final touches to its proposed National Dig Once Policy, hinting that there is a plan to unveil the policy before the end of 2022. Pantami made …

The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Professor Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami), is very excited to hear of the remarkable contribution of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector to Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the second quarter of 2022 (Q2 2022). The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) stated …

Africa Data Centres, a business of Cassava Technologies, a pan-African technology group, has drawn down the first tranche of USD 83 million out of the USD 300 million strategic investment from the United States International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) approved in 2021. This initial tranche is being applied towards expanding …

The Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS) has revealed that Nigerians digital transactions spending on utility bills including as electricity, Pay TV subscriptions, and other common utilities hit N1.69 trillion in the first seven months of 2022. This is an increase of 32.06 percent over the N1.28 trillion that was electronically …

Investments in the deployment of 4G network across African countries declined by seven per cent in 2020, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has said. The ITU in its latest report tagged “The Economic Impact of Broadband and Digitization through the COVID-19 Pandemic,” noted that the decline in 4G investments was …