ICT – InfoStride News

Tech Triumph: Saudi Arabia Claims Top Spot as ICT Hub in Latest Development Index

Temitope Nlewemchi — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 00:18:58 +0000

Infostride News reports that Saudi Arabia has secured the second position among G20 nations in the International Telecommunication Union’s (ICT) 2023 index, solidifying its status as a burgeoning technology hub poised to attract foreign talent. In the latest update from the ICT Index, Saudi Arabia achieved an impressive score of 94.9 points, demonstrating a significant [...]

Source from InfoStride News

ICT sector contributes 18.44% to Nigeria’s real GDP in Q2 2022

Temitope Nlewemchi — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 19:37:09 +0000

Information and Communications Technology (ICT) contributed 18.44% to Nigeria’s real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the second quarter of 2022. This is higher than its contribution in the same quarter of the previous year in which it represented 17.92% and higher than the preceding quarter in which it represented 16.20%. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) [...]

Source from InfoStride News

FG moves to leverage ICT, economic diversification for job creation

Temitope Nlewemchi — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 22:20:09 +0000

President Muhammadu Buhari has established that his administration is ready to leverage Information Communication Technology (ICT) platforms to create jobs, while making sure that economic diversification creates more support to other emerging sectors this year. He made this commitment in a New Year address to Nigerians, urging them to have hope and envision a year [...]

Source from InfoStride News

MPC urged to maintain status quo amid inflation, fragile economy

Temitope Nlewemchi — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 19:28:45 +0000

Economy. Photo/financialexpress As the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meets, experts have called on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to keep monetary policy rates at current values while strengthening intervention initiatives in critical sectors of the economy. According to experts, maintaining the status quo and strengthening intervention initiatives would be the most expedient decision to [...]

Source from InfoStride News

ICT Can Tackle Poverty In Africa – Femi Gbajabiamila

David Folami — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 22:38:43 +0000

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila has said that the proper use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) tools in rural areas would assist rural dwellers and improve economic activities in Africa. He disclosed that by having access to the proper and the right information, the poverty rate in these areas can be [...]

Source from InfoStride News

Nigeria, China Set To Sign $328m Agreement On ICT

David Folami — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 17:09:04 +0000

Garba Shehu has said that Nigeria and China have completed arrangements to sign 328 million dollars agreement on the National Information and Communication Technology Infrastructure Backbone Phase 11 (NICTIB 11). Shehu, who is the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, disclosed this in a statement in Abuja on Saturday. The presidential [...]

Source from InfoStride News

Nigeria’s Post Master General Retires | #Nigeria

Wale Adebayo — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 12:55:21 +0000

Ibrahim Baba Ibrahim Baba on Tuesday retired as the Post Master General of the Federation from the Nigeria Postal Service. Speaking to journalists in Abuja, Baba said that non-usage of postage stamps by financial institutions made the country to lose N1 trillion every year. He added that NIPOST, under his leadership, was able to intercept [...]

Source from InfoStride News

MainOne CEO Annoyed By ICT Ratio

Jide — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 04:51:07 +0000

MainOne CEO, Funke Opeke, is strongly annoyed with the gender ration in ICT world. The ratio which was 7:3 male to female has caught the worrying eyes of the Former MTN Chief Technology Officer. In her reaction towards such outrageous imbalance, Ms. Funke Opeke has highlighted the need for commitment toward submarine cable which was [...]

Source from InfoStride News

Why Not e-Government in Nigeria?

Jide — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 04:40:53 +0000

Hi there, the world is moving at smart and unimaginable rate where everything is turning out to clear physicality, where your presence is not necessary, and you might as well stay in your house in Lekki or Garki and earn that huge amount of money. Obviously we have not had e-slap. While we have e-friends, [...]

Source from InfoStride News

Juniper Networks Innovative Solutions Chosen by Italy's Leading Telecommunications and ICT Group Telecom Italia

Brian Johnson — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 08:50:37 +0000

SUNNYVALE, CA–(Marketwired – Jun 19, 2014) – Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), the industry leader in network innovation, today announced that Telecom Italia, a leading infrastructure telecommunications company, offering fixed, mobile and Internet services and solutions in Italy with operations also in South America, has adopted Juniper Networks® MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routers on its [...]

Source from InfoStride News