Promoting Universities and Tech Industry Collaboration, by Inyene Ibanga       The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has brought significant transformation to the learning process and transfer of knowledge across the globe. It has affected every sector, with unimaginable consequences that would be felt for years to...

A Rejoinder on Call On Pantami to Resign, by Mohammad Dahiru Lawal         It was in July 2019 when the Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) convened a maiden Social Media Influencers Summit in Kano, where media managers, experts, influencers, online publishers and entrepreneurs from...

Pantami: The Imperative of Fact-Checking In New Media Reportage, by Inyene Ibanga     It is not news that a Daily Independent newspaper story with the headline, “Disquiet As America Places Nigerian Minister On Watch List”, claimed that the Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Pantami, had been...

GITEX 2020: NITDA Creates Big Data Platform To Scale Up Investments In Digital Economy         As the global economy is rapidly transforming through creative innovations, Nigeria has created Big data platform to improve data gathering for service delivery. The Director General of National Information Technology Development Agency...

Fact-Checking in an Age of Smart Technologies By Inyene Ibanga       Fake news has always been an integral part of every society. The emergence of the mobile phone or the smart phone has made it very easy for individuals to browse and access the internet while on-the-go....

That National Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in Nigeria By Inyene Ibanga         The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has again achieved another milestone with the launch of the National Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (NCAIR) as part of its contribution to the successful...