Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has concluded arrangement to migrate Kano State terrestrial broadcasting to digital transmission before the end of October. The Director-General of the commission, Malam Balarabe Shehu Ilelah, disclosed the plans in Kano during a sensitisation workshop on Digital Switchover organised by the commission for information officers and media
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The nation’s $2.3 billion Presidential Power Initiative, PPI, project, has come under threat, following a sharp disagreement between the Federal Government and Siemens Energy over local content, automation and counterpart funding. Under the Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, signed between the government and its German ally, the initiative was originally conceived to
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BT and Toshiba have announced plans to build the world’s first commercially available, quantum-secured metro network in London. The network will connect sites in London’s West End, the City and the M4 corridor, providing data services secured using quantum key distribution (QKD) and post-quantum cryptography (PQC) encryption. Countering the growing threat
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The Nigerian Communications Commission has disqualified anyone below the age of 18 from registering and owning a Subscriber Identity Module in Nigeria. This is according to the draft copy of the modified Registration of Telephone Subscribers Regulations published on the commission’s website. In the modified regulations, NCC limited telecoms subscribers to only
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Engineers at Cornell University have developed cell-sized microrobots that can be powered and steered by ultrasonic waves through the human body. The robots could one day be used as a tool for targeted drug delivery. Professor Mingming Wu and her lab have, for more than a decade, investigated how microorganisms –
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The federal government has set up a committee comprising members drawn from the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) and the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) to certify meter installers in the country. Managing Director of the Nigerian Electricity Management Company (NEMSA) Mr Peter Ewesor, who spoke
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The Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria has charged estate developers and other operators in the construction industry to stop importing craftsmen and artisans at the expense of their Nigerian counterparts. COREN rather encouraged stakeholders in the construction industry to invest in indigenous artisans, adding that state governments should
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Hundreds of (vaccinated) attendees gathered in a Beverly Hills hotel ballroom as Code Conference returned after a year off. THE RETURN OF tech conferences began not with a bang, but a whisper. It was the first day of Code Conference, and Kara Swisher—one of the most prominent voices in technology criticism—had
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The Nigerian Institution of Environmental Engineers and the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria have called for the implementation and enforcement of the Presidential Executive Order 5 to improve local engineering contents across the country. According to a statement issued by the institute, the professional bodies spoke when the
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Britain's Prince William and former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, in a joint column are asking whether the Earth can be saved in light of what they call increasing "environmental devastation." "The environmental devastation we are witnessing – including record-breaking temperatures across the world; wildfires in the American West, Turkey,
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