Africa Registry launches gateway solution for domain names in Africa

Justice OkamgbaSeptember 4, 2018

Africa Registry

Africa Registry, part of the CentralNic Group, a leading provider of domain names for Africa, on Tuesday announced a solution from its gateway service RRPproxy. The solution, according to the company, will empower domain name vendors, registrars and resellers in Africa to sell domains using over 1,000 TLDs and to benefit from a $50 free […]

NIMC, NIPOST to verify NIN registrant’s address with DAS technology

Justice OkamgbaAugust 30, 2018

NIPOST

The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) is in talks with the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) to launch a digital addressing system (DAS) that will verify the addresses recorded by Nigerians during the National Identify Number (NIN) registration exercise. DAS will avail digital verifiable addresses to all Nigerians and legal residents, and help organizations ascertain the […]

Blockchain technology market to hit $2 billion revenue by 2022

Justice OkamgbaAugust 1, 2018

Blockchain

The blockchain technology market will hit $2 billion revenue by 2022 with a compound annual growth rate of about 51 percent, according to a report by Market Research Future. The report said the major factor that will drive the growth of market for blockchain technology is the growing demand for faster and secure environment for […]

Consumers vote Dangote Group ahead MTN as Africa’s most admired brand

Chukwuemeka ObiomaJune 14, 2018

Dangote group

Dangote Group, a leading Nigerian manufacturing firm, has emerged most admired brand, originating from the African continent. The firm was voted most admired by consumers ahead of telecommunication giant, MTN, in the 6th edition of “Brand Africa 100”, a ranking of 100 best brands on the continent organised by the South African based Brand Leadership […]

Glo adds 4m new subscribers in April 2018

Businessam StaffJune 12, 2018

Globacom, a Nigerian multinational telecommunications company, received a boost in its subscriber base as over 400,000 new customers joined the network in April 2018, according to report published on the nation’s communication commission’s website. Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, in the report released Monday revealed Globacom’s subscriber figure leapt from 39,042,979 in March to 39,523,811 in […]

Facebook still under fire over device data sharing

Businessam StaffJune 6, 2018

Facebook reportedly issued a second defence in as many days over its controversial data-sharing practices with device makers, after a US politician flagged the company’s relationship with Chinese vendors as dangerous. Francisco Varela, Facebook’s VP of mobile partnerships, told Bloomberg the company works with Huawei, Lenovo, Oppo and TCL, but said integrations on the vendor’s […]