ON Wednesday, January 30, Tanzania moved decisively closer to becoming a one-party state when parliament approved proposed amendments to the Political Parties’ Act that was first passed in 1992. That was the year that the country adopted multi-party democracy, after…
Mayowa Adeniran – A pan-African digital rights and inclusion advocacy organization, Paradigm Initiative, has urged Nigerians to adopt safer internet practices. The organization made the call during a media parley to commemorate the 2019 Safer Internet Day which held at…
The 7th edition of the Social Media Week Lagos, Africa’s largest tech and media gathering, will begin on the 4th through the 8th of February 2019 at the Landmark Centre. The conference theme for SMW Lagos 2019 is ‘STORIES: With…
Some stakeholders on Saturday in Lagos called on government at all levels to upgrade education curriculum and provide more technological hubs for students in tertiary institutions. The stakeholders made the call in interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)…
The five Anambra girls from Regina Pacies Secondary School Onitsha who represented Nigeria and Africa at the World Technovation Challenge in the Silicon Valley in San Francisco, US last night have won the Gold Medal in the contest. The team,…
Digital rights experts and stakeholders assessed the state of internet freedom in Africa at the just concluded 6th Internet Freedom Forum. The Forum organised by Paradigm Initiative at NAF Conference Centre, Abuja, between April 24 and 26, 2018. The experts,…
By Adenike Fagbemi – Over 500,000 young individuals’ resident in Nigeria are to benefit from the Basic Digital Education Initiative (BDEI), an Initiative of Tech4Dev and supported by Microsoft. This announcement was made at the official launch event held at…
Amid President Donald Trump’s ongoing public feud with Amazon, CNBC reports that the e-commerce behemoth has been fighting with UPS for the past few years. The argument seems to be over the United States Postal Service’s (USPS) cost structure, which has a direct impact…
It is widely believed that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Federal Government borrowed N6 trillion in its 16 years of reign while the current All Progressives Party (APC) government has borrowed N11 trillion in just three years. Tunde Bakare, General…
