Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy.
Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683)
Hon. Rotimi Amechi “Government must not be for one section of the Society.It must be for the rich and the poor,emphasizing the upliftment of the poor...”
Investors from Brazil, South Africa, India and the United States of America. will soon be in Plateau State to invest in agriculture, health and ICT, Governor Jonah Jang said. Jang said at a news conference in Jos that the coming of the investors showed that peace had returned to the state. “The ICT Department in [...]
MTN Nigeria is leading other GSM operators in the country on subscriber basis, The Tide investigation revealed. According to Operator Quarterly Data posted on the website of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), MTN had a total of 51,274,654 subscribers in the first quarter of 2013. The figure showed additional 3,853,663 subscribers or a growth of [...]
The Director General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Benjamin Dikki has described the guided liquidation process adopted for the sale of NITEL/MTEL as the best option since the liabilities of the telecom companies far outweigh their value. Dikki in a Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria Phone in Programme, Radio Link recently said any [...]
Bayelsa State Government has taking the initiatives to train many unemployment youths that will fill the gap in its middle manpower needs and the technicians that would be engaged in some of the companies coming to the State. Towards achieving this objectives, 250 youths are to be trained in different vocations such as automotive technology [...]
Paradigm Initiative has stressed the need for an enduring internet freedom in Nigeria in its policy brief. Contrary to Federal Government’s plan to curtail internet privacy, the non-governmental organisation (NGO) said in the policy brief that internet freedom was needed because more than 45 million internet users in Nigeria were on the verge of losing [...]
Country Marketing Manager, Google Nigeria, Mrs Affiong Osuchukwu, says that businesses in Nigeria will benefit immensely if local contents become more accessible through the Internet to the world. She said in Lagos that besides business growth, social change was achievable through the same strategy. “If Internet users are able to access more of our local content, [...]
To contain the increasing security challenges in Nigeria, the use of Wireless Fidelity (Wi-fi) in the dissemination of information, especially among security operatives, has been advocated. The managing director Brain Box Matrix Services Limited, Engr. Samuel Kwelle who spoke with The Tide in Port Harcourt, Wednesday said Wi-fi which enables wireless access to deliver voice, [...]
NATO defence ministers are to meet in Brussels to discuss on the alliance’s post-2014 operations in Afghanistan, cyber defence and providing Libya with security assistance and training. The talks came a day after alliance members decided to send a team of experts to Libya “as soon as possible’’ to assess ways of providing assistance, NATO Secretary-General [...]
The police on Tuesday in Abuja arraigned a mobile phone recharge card seller, Ibrahim Aliyu, 19, of no fixed address in a Karu Upper Area Court for allegedly being in possession of a stolen blackberry phone. The prosecutor, Cpl. Fedelis Ogundele, told the court that on May 3 at about 3 a.m., the police patrol [...]
To give optimum value to users of Smart Mobile devices, Samsung has introduced its new Galaxy Star Smartphone into the Nigerian telecommunication market. The affordable solution which is targeted at the younger generation of mobile phone, users features a dual-sim functionality and is powered by an A5 IGHz processor as well as the latest Android [...]
