Category: Technology

NCC receives Cybersecurity Award, Votes for Safer Internet

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The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) at the weekend in Lagos, received a cybersecurity promotion award at the maiden edition of Cybersecurity Merit Awards hosted by the Cybersecurity Experts Association of Nigerian (CSEAN) which enumerated several steps taken by it to promote a safer Internet.   The award, which was conferred on the Commission, ahead of other contending organizations, listed its sterling contributions to the protection of telecom consumers from all forms of cybercrimes.   Director of New Media and Information Security of the NCC, Dr. Haru Alhassan, who received the…

Broadband: Pantami woos State Governors, Obaseki shares experience

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The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, today, in Abuja, told a gathering designed for State Governors that the potentials of broadband were so enormous that if made available for citizens, will be the best gift for their economic emancipation.   Pantami told the state governors and their representatives including other industry stakeholders at the maiden edition of Broadband Technical Awareness Forum for Governors (BTAF), organised by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), where Governor of Edo State,Godwin Obaseki, gave an impressive report card about what…

Pantami launches partnership for digital skills programme with Coursera

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In furtherance of its digital capacity building initiative, the Federal Government of Nigeria has entered into partnership with Coursera, a global online digital skills acquisition platform, to empower twenty four thousand Nigerians, with digital and developer skills in various fields over a three year period.   Declaring the training open on behalf of President Muhammadu Buhari, today Wednesday, October 19, 2022, the Honourable Minister of Communications and Digital Economy Professor Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami), noted that “we are championing a paradigm shift of prioritizing hard, soft and social skills over…

Governors Assemble for Broadband Awareness Forum

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All Nigeria State Governors are set to discuss how to empower the citizens with latest telecoms technologies as they partake in the maiden edition of Broadband Technical Awareness Forum for Governors, BTAF, put together by the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, and slated for Thursday in Abuja.   The programme, which takes place at the Congress Hall of the Transcorp Hilton, Hotel in Abuja on October 20, 2022, and themed: “State Broadband Coordinating Councils: Potentials and Possibilities”, will appraise the Nigerian National Broadband Plan (NNBP) 2020-2025, which targets 70 per cent…

NCC disowns circulating “Certificate of Site Ownership for Mass Transmission Antenna”

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The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has discovered, through social listening and environmental surveillance that a fraudulent letter, titled: “Certificate of Site Ownership”, for clearance of “Mast Transmission Antenna”, are being circulated by some unidentifiable individuals, and purporting that the letter was issued by the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC.   The fraudulent letter claimed that the Commission had conducted an inspection on a certain site which is for “9-Mobile Telecommunications Company G.P.R.S”. The fraudsters also gave conditions that the unsuspecting recipient of the letter would meet to make the certificate valid…

Telecom Infrastructure Critical to Successful 2023 Elections – NCC Boss

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The Executive Vice Chairman,Nigerian Communications Commission, Prof. Umar Danbatta, has said telecom infrastructure remained critical to successful 2023 elections, called on Nigerians in every community should join hands in protecting it for the benefit of the country.   Danbatta, who was special guest at the 6th Edition of the Annual Conference of Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) in Lagos at the weekend, with focus on the forthcoming election and the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu in attendance, said with the planned transmission of…

Blackbyte Ransomware abuses Legit Driver to Disable Security Products ,says NCC-CSIRT

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The Nigerian Communications Commission’s Computer Security Incident Response Team (NCC-CSIRT) has flagged a high-impact threat to Windows operating system, the Blackbyte Ransomware, which has the capacity to bypass protections by disabling more than 1,000 drivers used by various security solutions. The NCC-CSIRT said the BlackByte ransomware gang, which is using a new technique that researchers called, “Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver,” is exploiting the security issue that allowed it to disable drivers that prevent multiple Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) and antivirus products like Avast, Sandboxie, Windows DbgHelp Library, and…

Leaving your Smartphone with young children increases your vulnerability to cyber attacks – Onadipe tells parents

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The founde/CEO of Internet Safety Magazine, Mr. Rotimi Onadipe has told parents to avoid leaving their smartphones with young children because it exposes them to all kinds of cyber crimes.   He stated this in Ibadan on Saturday October 1st, 2022 at a weekly awareness program on cyber security, tagged “Say NO to internet abuse, say YES to internet safety”.   Onadipe noted that many parents left their smartphones with young children, particularly those within the age of four to ten to play games, watch videos and chat on social…

BREAKING: Nigeria Re-Elected as ITU Council Member

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In clear recognition of the critical role Nigeria is playing on the global telecom stage, the country was re-elected earlier today as a Council member of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations specialised agency that oversees global telecommunication operations. Nigeria will serve on the Council again from 2023-2026. The election of Nigeria and other countries, on Monday, October 3, 2022, into different regional groups that constitute ITU Council, was the highpoint of the Plenipotentiary Conference 2022 (PP-22) ongoing in Bucharest, the capital city of the Republic of Romania.…

NCC, NLRC inaugurate committee to strengthen consumer protection

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The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and the National Lottery Regulatory Commission (NLRC) on Thursday in Abuja set up a committee to work towards the protection of the interest of telecom consumers against malpractices that may attend mobile lotteries in the country.   The Committee, which was inaugurated at the NCC Head Office in Abuja, was tasked with the responsibility of articulating measures to address mutual regulatory issues, including the review of revenue-sharing formula between Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) and lottery operators.   The NCC’s Executive Commissioner, Stakeholder Management (ECSM), Barrister…