NEWS

Nigeria readies ten startups for GITEX 2017

The Nigeria government through the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) will be promoting ten startups at this year’s Gitex technology expo and conference holding in Dubai from October 8-12. The country’s tech-ambassadors were carefully selected after a highly competitive process anchored by the Office for ICT Innovation & Entrepreneurship (OIIE) which is an arm of the NITDA. (more…)

NEWS

Are You Ready For The Indo-African ICT Expo 2017

The Indian Communications Minister will be leading a strong delegation of manufacturers, industry operators and government officials, and will be joined by the Nigerian Communications Minister, government officials, regulators, along with the Nigerian business community, leaders like yourselves. THE Governments of India  and Nigeria are set to forge closer cooperation in a determined effort to accelerate growth in Information and Communications Technology with a view to boost both countries’ economies through greater penetration and use of advanced technologies and servi

EVENTS

Pictures Of The Social Media Debate In Jos City With nHub, Tomruk, PAI…

The social media scene is ever growing and talks are been organized to keep the ecosystem friendly and calm, Jos, Plateau State is however not left out of the discussion.  In attendance kim coffee, the tech gurus from nHubs, tomruk , Pax Amor Initiative etc.   Read the keynote (excerpt) speech below... Earlier this year, 2017, the new President of the United States in an unprecedented move in immigration policies banned, for a period, citizens of certain countries largely from the Middle East as terrorist-potential danger to the United States. A couple of weeks ag

TECH

Google’s New App Policy Screams Bad News For The App Developers, Hello IOS

 Well, the fear of google is the beginning of wisdom.  So google can just wake up now day and destroy a family business over algorithms that were not needed in the first place.   Google has now said that the Play Store is going to automatically downrank apps with poor performance in search results. This would be achieved by “incorporating app quality signals in their ranking algorithms,” which means that there’s less of a chance of crashing apps or apps with low user ratings to rise to the top of the rankings.For the app developer, this news isn’t so great, because they hav