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Cloud and digital solutions provider, inq.Digital Nigeria, has joined the global call for increased involvement of the girl-child in ICT.
The call was made at this year’s edition of the International Girls in ICT Day, a day set aside by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) to build awareness about the gender digital divide, support technology education and skills training, and encourage more girls to actively pursue careers in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics).
Speaking at the event, held recently, in Lagos, Managing Director, inq.Digital Nigeria, Valentine Chime, argued that while significant progress had been made in the area of the number of girls participation in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), the gender gap in ICT still remains unacceptably wide.
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Operatives of the Lagos Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested four suspected Internet fraudsters.
The suspects are Nnaemeka Udozor Joseph, Udor Peter Emmanuel, Olowo Opeyemi Abdulrazak and Oritayo Blessing Deji.
EFCC, in a statement made yesterday, said they were arrested, on Tuesday, in the Ajah area of Lagos, following credible intelligence received by the Commission on their alleged involvement in computer-related fraud.
According to the agency, “The suspects will soon be charged to court.”
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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and financial sector experts have called for collaborative efforts among microfinance banks (MFBs) to promote the expansion of microinsurance as a tool for deepening financial inclusion.
Making this call in Lagos at the 6th annual symposium of the Nigerian Microfinance Platform (NMP) organised by the Microfinance Learning and Development Center (MLDC), with the theme, ‘Expanding The Frontiers of Financial Inclusion: The Microinsurance Option’, the experts averred that microfinance banks are instrumental to the expansion of microinsurance services among the populace.
Addressing participants at the symposium, Deputy Governor, Financial Sector Surveillance, CBN, Mrs Aisha Ahmad, said there is a need for a collective strategy to re-emphasize the importance of micro-insurance as a financial service and re-align it as a vital tool in attaining a higher level of financial inclusion within the Nigerian Microfinance sub-sector through the secur
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When the Presidency expressed solidarity with the embattled Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami, over calls for his sack due to alleged links to terrorist groups, many were taken aback to see a government claiming to be fighting terrorism taking such a position.
President Muhammadu Buhari, speaking through his Senior Special Assistant, Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, had insisted that Pantami’s past notwithstanding, the Gombe State-born Sheikh is now “born again,” hence, the decision to “stand resolutely with him because of his work for Nigerians.”
In its usual fashion of always shifting responsibilities and blaming others for its woes, Buhari blamed ICT companies in the country for being behind a alleged campaign against the minister.
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FOR any student of Nigerian history or close watchers of its current affairs, the country’s lugubrious ranking on the inaugural Chandler Good Government Index (CGGI) released last week by the Singapore-based Chandler Institute of Governance could not have come as a surprise. In fact, it tracks the country’s ranking on similar indexes over the years by, for instance, the Berlin-based Transparency International (TI). More to the point, the country’s ranking of 102 out of 104 countries for which data were collected on a range of indicators accords with what ordinary Nigerians feel, know, and experience about their country on a daily basis.