Digital Economy

February 10, (THEWILL) - Navigating through an unprecedented challenging environment, FBN Holdings Plc, the parent company of the country’s oldest bank, FirstBank of Nigeria, is expanding its loan book to support the economy, data from its unaudited 2023 financial...

January 25, (THEWILL) - The Federal Government has reaffirmed its commitment to enhance Nigeria's participation in the global technology trade over the next four years. The Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Dr Bosun Tijani, stated this at...

October 22, (THEWILL) - The new Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Dr. Aminu Maida, has said he would align the Commission’s regulatory focus to achieve the vision of a digital economy under Nigeria’s new...

September 13, (THEWILLL) - Ex-militant leader, Chief Ebikabowei Victor-Ben, aka BoyLoaf, has congratulated President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, over his wins at the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal (PEPT), insisting that the past 100 days of the Tinubu administration has shown...

September 03, (THEWILL) - The ban on imports of Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards has created businesses in excess of N55 billion for local manufacturers, Executive Vice Chairman, Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, Professor Umar Garba Danbatta has said. Danbatta, who...

August 30, (THEWILL) - Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has said his administration has embraced technology through the e-Governance system, leading to the archiving of seven million government documents in readiness to transit into paperless government operation from September...

Once again, we are back to this conversation about the conditional cash transfer scheme. If you have been engaged in a bit of social listening since the announcement of a proposed payment of N8,000 to the most vulnerable in...

March 22, (THEWILL) – The Federal Government has excluded the digital economy sector from the five per cent excise duty proposed earlier in the 2022 Finance Act. The Government had earlier suspended the proposal pending the outcome of the...

January 25, (THEWILL) - The Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) says it will commence the digitalisation of its operations to ensure fast and effective service delivery. The Director General, Mallam Farouk Salim, disclosed this during the opening ceremony of the...

December 05, (THEWILL) - In a determined effort to deepen the long-standing bilateral relations between Nigeria and Vietnam, both countries plan to work together more, particularly in the areas of the digital economy, telecommunications, agriculture and trade, among others,...