If you’re looking to build a career in Telecommunications Engineering, here’s an opportunity to study for an MSc programme at the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) in Zaria, Nigeria.

The Nigerian government has allegedly awarded a $40 million contract to an Israeli firm, Elbit Systems to monitor Internet communications, according to the online investigative newspaper, Premium Times.

One of the leading banks in Nigeria, Skye Bank has announced that it will be carrying out a scheduled system maintenance in its continued efforts to ensure improved service and functionality of its alternate channels. The maintenance expected to take place on April 21 and April 22, 2013 between the hours of 12am – 2am [...]

The world’s second largest PC manufacturer (by market share), Lenovo has introduced its Partner Network Programme in Nigeria to facilitate knowledge sharing. The programme, which is comprised of three membership levels – Member, Premium and Gold Partner – is designed to educate partners and potential members on the benefits of working with Lenovo. It also rewards loyal [...]

Nigeria’s fourth largest mobile network operator, Etisalat may be experiencing a major DNS poisoning attack which redirects some websites to other websites, Techloy has learnt.

After being inaccessible for about four hours on Wednesday, the website of Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, one of the most innovative banks in Nigeria experienced yet another outage on Friday afternoon. According to a tip-off notifying TechLoy, the website was down since early Friday afternoon, and when we checked at about 2:35pm (GMT +1), we noticed [...]

As part of its commitment to protect consumers’ devices and what they do online, Norton by Symantec has released the latest (Windows 8 compatible) versions of its award-winning core security products — Norton 360, Norton Internet Security, and Norton AntiVirus – engineered to make Windows 8 safer and faster when compared with running Windows Defender on Windows [...]

Google Chairman, Eric Schmidt reportedly paid a short visit to Nigeria over the weekend to discuss how the country could adopt innovation and possibly solve the world’s most challenging problems.

Research In Motion (RIM) has announced that its Secure Element Manager (SEM) solution for NFC (Near Field Communication) mobile payments has been approved by Visa.

The Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement System (GIPSS) is set to introduce an Internet-enabled payment system that will link local financial service providers with their counterparts in Nigeria and Francophone West African countries.

China’s domestic software industry has started to attract more local consumers, with revenues reaching $311 billion (USD) in the first ten months of the year, The Economic Times reports, citing Chinese official media.

One of Nigeria’s leading banks, Guaranty Trust Bank (popularly known as GTBank) has just released its mobile money app on the Google Play for Android users and on the Apple App Store.

Nigeria’s leading payment processing gateway, Interswitch now has its first WordPress plugin, thanks to a UK developer, Sean Barton.

Following its recent expansion into Africa, SkyVision, a leading global provider of IP connectivity over satellite and fibre optic systems, announced today that it will continue expanding its local presence across Africa.

Chinese giant, Huawei has launched a data centre in Cote d’Ivoire, reports China Daily. Citing the company’s  representative in Cote d’Ivoire, Ni Zheng, the project launched last Friday is being funded by the Chinese firm at a cost of $30 million. The data centre located in the southern town of Grand-Bassam is named Cote d’Ivoire’s e-government project and is expected to store crucial government information, thus helping the government to properly manage the number of its employees. [Source: China Daily]