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The Bill will also increase punishments and fines for untrained journalists. For persons with a first degree in other courses, the new Bill will demand that they obtain a postgraduate certificate in Journalism, Media Art, Communication or related field from any other higher institution in Nigeria or elsewhere. Why this matters: The Nigerian Journalism space has been experiencing major shakeups in recent years. The media faces issues with fake news, dwindling revenues, and perceived creative government clampdowns. The likely impact: Although there’s not much data to support this, this rule ...

Jobberman appoints new CEO Twitter partners Google Cloud for data Last week Friday, Twitter signed a strategic multiyear partnership with Google Cloud. Twitter will move its offline analytics, data processing and machine learning workloads to Google’s Data Cloud. And this is supposed to take Twitter’s cloud data analysis to another level. In other words, you know this thing that Twitter does with your tweets, retweets, and likes, to determine what makes it to your timeline depending on your engagement and preference? Advertisement Yes, that decision will now be made via Google Cloud along...

Google Kenya $10m grant MTN Group fights 5G exclusion MTN Group, one of Africa’s largest telecom companies, is suing the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) to challenge its decision excluding it from bidding for 5G spectrums in the country. Advertisement Let’s back up as usual: 5G is becoming a big deal in Africa, and countries like Nigeria, South Africa, and Kenya, are testing 5G’s potentials with exciting trials. In 2019, MTN, the biggest in Nigeria’s telecom market, conducted 5G trials in the cities of Abuja, Lagos, and Calabar. Safaricom has also been con...