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Manchester United star, Phil Jones partners with Antourage to launch exclusive metaverse club
•Phil Jones joins other Man United stars into the Metaverse | •Snoop Dogg set to share unreleased music as NFT
Are Buhari’s policies responsible for the digitalisation of Nigeria?
Last weekend, at the State House, President Muhammadu Buhari, fresh from a medical checkup in London hosted executives…
Filecoin hosts conference to lead conversations on decentralisation and Blockchain technology
Globally, the world is becoming decentralised at an exponential rate and Nigeria has become more introspective on leveraging…
Rwanda joins the WEF C4IR Network as the first African country
*C4IR Rwanda is officially the first centre in Africa, joining a network of more than 12 centres that spans four continents | *C4IR has since played a leading role in developing Rwanda's landmark data protection and privacy legislation while co-designing its national AI policy
Crypto investors lost almost $700m to Cybercriminals in Q1 2022 – Report
•According to the Atlas VPN report, crypto fraud reached $700 million |
•Crypto hackers took a total amount of $99 million.
FG outlines roadmap to successful 5G deployment
*Pantami called on Nigerians to support and accept the new technology | *The 5G policy is designed to ensure effective deployment of 5G to cover major urban areas by 2025
How Losode’s Aderonke Ajose-Adeyemi wants to become the queen of e-commerce in Sub-Saharan Africa
*Losode emerged in the top 3 positions on the leaderboard at a 2016 competition by the Richard Branson-led Virgin Media business pitch | *Losode aims to build infrastructures for trade including empowering the players, and becoming something like a gatekeeper of trade | *Losode is an e-commerce platform and a growth engine for small businesses
NIN-SIM Linkage: Telcos to bar outgoing calls on 73m unlinked lines today
This was disclosed in a statement by the Honourable Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Professor Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami today
Microsoft acquires process mining software, Minit – a pathway to digital transformation
*Microsoft acquires Minit to further its digital transformation moves | *Process mining is at the core of every digital initiative in the field of digital transformation
European Union Parliament bans anonymous crypto transactions
•EU committees voted to pass amendments related to non hosted wallets | •The bill is described as a breach of privacy and detrimental to market innovation | •There is an opportunity for the controversial legislation to be challenged and revised
