Month: December 2021

Data Centers are foundation of digital transformation – Huawei

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Data centres as critical infrastructure for the actualisation of digital economies have been described as the “foundation of digital transformation”.   Speaking during the release of “Top 10 Trends of Data Center Facilities” white paper recently, Mr. Fei Zhenfu, President, data center facility domain of Huawei Digital Power Product Line, said “in the new era, opportunities and challenges will coexist. Only by gaining deep insight into future trends, we can lead the future effectively.”   Till today, together with industry guests, media friends, and operator partners to discuss the trends…

COVID-19: WHEN WILL THE WORLD APOLOGIZE TO GOVERNOR YAHAYA BELLO? By Abdullahi Haruna (Haruspice)

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First off, this intervention is not to deny the existence of COVID-19 or the various efforts august scientific bodies and allied global organisations have been making through vaccine production and other means to help curtail the spread of the dreaded virus.   Yes, there’s COVID-19 with its various variants, the latest being the Omicron, which was first discovered in South Africa, there is no doubt also that the virus that has been wreaking havoc on the world since last year when it was first discovered in Wuhan, China.   Due…

5G: Mafab, MTN emerge Winners in Nigeria’s 3.5GHz Spectrum Auction

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After 11 rounds of bidding that lasted eight hours, Mafab Communications Ltd and MTN Nigeria Plc, have emerged the two successful winners of the 3.5 gigahertz (GHz) spectrum auction for the deployment of Fifth Generation (5G) technology to support the delivery of ubiquitous broadband services in Nigeria. The two winners emerged in a keenly contested 3.5GHz Spectrum auction conducted by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy. The event took place at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja on Monday, December 13,…

IGP appraises policing activities in year 2021, sets agenda for 2022

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The Inspector General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba has ordered Commissioners of Police in the thirty-six (36) States of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), their supervisory Assistant Inspectors General of Police, and other Heads of Police Formations, to strengthen their leadership capacity and operational strategies in dealing with crimes associated with the end of the year in their Areas of Responsibilities (AoRs). The IGP gave the charge to the Strategic Police Managers, today, 13th December, 2021 during the December edition of his monthly meeting with Senior…

Buhari’s ill-fated Lagos Trip and the new theme song By Haruspice

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The north started bleeding long before now, the blood-shedding dates back to yesterday when money meant to procure arms were callously shared amongst the elites. The people that spearheaded this financial jamboree hails from Sokoto, today’s helpless epicentre of terrorism. What we witnessed in Borno and Yobe with splashes to Adamawa was a enough signal for prevention, alas! We continued to live in borrowed illusion. It started in Zamfara, instead of Katsina and Sokoto to be on full alert, we went to sleep and today the result is what we…

9th Assembly most successful in lawmaking since 1999 – Lawan

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The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan said on Monday that the current National Assembly remained the most successful in law making since the return to civil rule in 1999. Lawan made the remark as a guest lecturer at the first Distinguished Parliamentarians’ Lecture Series which was facilitated by the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies. He spoke on “The Legislature, Legislative Mandate and the People – The Reality and the Public Perception.” The Senate President said the focus of the ninth National Assembly had been on legislations that…

Gov Sule urges National Refugee Commission to provide accommodation for IDPs …. flags off distribution of relief materials for 250 households

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Nasarawa State governor, Engineer Abdullahi Sule, has appealed to the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons, to provide accommodation for Internally Displaced Persons in the state.   Engineer Sule made the appeal while flagging off the symbolic distribution of assorted relief materials donated by the ministry to IDPs affected from recent communal crisis in the state, which took place at the Government House, on Monday.   According to the Governor, even though the state is presently enjoying relative peace, there is every need to prepare for the…

Huawei offers lowest 5G royalty cap of $2.5 to implementers

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Huawei has said its newly announced 5G royalty rate will help increase adoption of the technology because it offers a transparent cost structure that can guide their investments.   The company announced that it will “provide a reasonable percentage royalty rate of the handset selling price, and a per unit royalty cap at US$2.5.”   This is a considerable impact on the 5G implementation landscape because Huawei has the largest collection of 5G patents in the world, far ahead of rivals such as Nokia, Qualcomm, and Ericsson. But compared to…

Bisi Akande: Beatifying Buhari in a season of the butcherbird By Festus Adedayo

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As former governor of Osun State and pioneer Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande, got ready to launch his autobiography in Lagos last Friday, a day before the launch, one very unAfrican event occurred in Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso. Christophe Joseph-Marie Dabiré, the West African country’s Prime Minister, presented his letter of resignation to the country’s president, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré. It was accepted. Dabiré threw in the towel on the heels of persistent demonstrations against his government’s inability to stop the bloodletting Burkinabe faced…

Rep Akande-Sadipe commiserates with Ogbomosho over loss of Monarch

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The Lawmaker Representing Oluyole Federal constituency, Hon Tolulope Akande-Sadipe has commiserated with the family, people of Ogbomosho and the entire citizens of Oyo state on the passing on to glory of the highly reverred monarch, the Soun of Ogbomosho, Oba Oladunni Oyewumi Ajagungbade III.   Hon. Akande Sadipe in a statement issued today Monday 13th December, 2021, described the death of Oba Jimoh Oyewumi as a painful exit and a big blow to the Southwest and the entire people of Oyo state.   Akande-Sadipe, who Chaired the House Committee on…