…increase is not imminent. He also clarified his recent comments on unlimited mobile data, saying they were taken out of context. Toriola, who spoke during an interview on TVC's Beyond the Headlines, said his remarks at MTN's Data on Trial public engagement were intended to explain the technical limitations of mobile ne…

GistReel A woman has expressed surprise at the reactions she received when she said she wanted a man to get her pregnant without pursuing a relationship. According to her, many men responded by saying they could not knowingly have a child they would not be involved in raising, regardless of the financial compensation s…

…of governance, planning, and economic management. In a statement on Tuesday, Mienye, a data scientist recognised among the world’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University and Elsevier in 2024 and 2025, said : “Every level of government has responsibilities, but Bayelsans must ask a simple question: after receiving sub…

Olympics: IOC provisionally lifts ban on Russian athletes who could be allowed to compete at the 2028 Los Angeles Games A ban on Russian athletes competing at the Olympics has been provisionally lifted by the International Olympic Committee; Russian athletes could compete at LA Olympics in 2028; IOC says it stands with…

…by lower equipment prices and cheaper service plans. Communications Authority (CA) data shows Starlink had 24,999 subscribers at the end of March, more than three times the 8,063 customers it reported nine months earlier. Although that represents less than 1% of Kenya’s fixed internet market, it is one of the fastest g…

…and response. The Minister’s Senior Technical Adviser on Information Systems and Data Analysis, Dr Abimbola Fasanu, said the nomination, which is for a three-year non-renewable term, was endorsed by the West African regional caucus under the coordination of Senegal in its capacity as Regional Dean and formally communic…

…Sani added that the exercise would also strengthen security by creating a comprehensive database of property owners across the state. “When people obtain the right approvals and titles, the government will know who owns every property. We will have their names and records. That will improve security in the state,” he s…

…“Not just crime. It could be infrastructure or issues about elections… basically report data in real time so that everybody has access.” Wahala App joins a crop of civic technology platforms that use software to solve public-facing problems, including Citizens' Gavel, which improves access to justice; BudgIT, which mak…

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…harmonises policies on internet platforms, artificial intelligence, online safety, data governance, and other cross-cutting digital economy issues. In December 2025, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) released a draft Internet Code of Practice that appeared to duplicate provisions in the National Information…

Nigeria is forcing its financial sector to repatriate one of its most valuable assets: data. Under a sweeping Central Bank directive, banks, fintechs, and payment companies must move their transactional data from overseas cloud servers to data centres inside Nigeria by January 1, 2027. The mandate sets in motion one of…

…Department official told AFP. Some were not necessarily controversial: requests to share data on known criminals, encourage people not to overstay their visas, work with the US to receive their own nationals slated for deportation. But it became clear that the best way to curb the restrictions was to take in third-coun…

…He spent months researching universities and eventually applied for a master’s degree in Data Analytics at Stiftung Universität, a public university in Hildesheim in Lower Saxony, northern Germany. Getting admitted was only the first hurdle. Long before Germany introduced newer immigration pathways, such as the Opportu…

…naira depreciated to N1,371 per dollar in the Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market, NFEM. Data from the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, showed that the indicative exchange rate for the market rose slightly to N1,371 per dollar from N1,370 per dollar last weekend, indicating N1 depreciation for the naira. Consequently, the ma…

…behind it, the command-and-control server, the staging server used for the stolen data and chose a victim," Clark said. The credentials used to break into the victim's database, he added, weren't harvested by the AI agent itself; someone obtained them separately, through a prior compromise, and handed them to the opera…

…or market in the name of an illogical jihad or some people brazenly hacking the database of the nation's electoral umpire. It could even be the effrontery of a National Assembly carrying out endless probes with the usual fat budget but failing to publish a single report or concluding any of those serial investigations.…

…aimed at reducing vandalism and infrastructure damage. Chief Executive of Open Access Data Centres, Dr Ayotunde Coker, said infrastructure sharing could significantly reduce deployment costs and improve long‑term sustainability. A pilot infrastructure audit conducted by ATCON's Fibre Cleanup Committee in collaboration…

…by N1.92 against the United States dollar at the official foreign exchange market. Data published on the Central Bank of Nigeria's official website showed the currency closed at N1,368.26 per dollar on Monday. The latest performance represented a 0.14 per cent appreciation compared with Friday's official closing rate o…

Praise Ifenna Okwuba, a data scientist working at the intersection of healthcare and artificial intelligence, has emphasized the growing role AI-powered diagnostics are expected to play in the future of healthcare, particularly in improving diagnostic accuracy and supporting better patient care. As artificial intellige…

…parametric drought insurance for farmers in Laikipia, Kenya. The partners used satellite data to track vegetation and rainfall and set predefined thresholds that would automatically trigger payouts, so farmers could receive compensation in RLUSD, Ripple's dollar‑backed stablecoin, instead of waiting weeks for tradition…

…AI-powered tools have transformed the way researchers search for literature, analyse data, organise references, improve writing and communicate findings. From postgraduate students to seasoned professors, researchers now have access to digital assistants capable of completing in seconds tasks that once required hours o…

…under former President Muhammadu Buhari's eight-year administration, an analysis of data obtained by The PUNCH from the World Bank has shown. The analysis showed that the World Bank approved loans worth $11.40bn for Nigeria between June 2023 and June 2026, compared with $14.59bn approved during Buhari's presidency from…

…diesel production over jet fuel could gradually help rebalance the aviation fuel market. Data from the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority showed that the Dangote refinery exported an estimated 1.66 billion litres of refined petroleum products in April 2026. This was during the mounting ten…

…should look beyond money alone. They must examine the cost of living in a disciplined, data-driven way, so the wage is tied to what workers actually need to survive. They must also consider fiscal sustainability, because a figure that states cannot pay will soon degenerate into arrears and fresh labour disputes. Furthe…

…issued on his behalf by his Senior Technical Adviser on Information Systems and Data Analysis, Abimbola Fasanu, on Sunday. According to the statement, Doro urged governments and development partners to maximise limited development resources by moving away from fragmented interventions towards coordinated, efficient and…