No Smartphone Or Internet? No Problem; AI-Backed Phone Has The Answers

No Smartphone Or Internet? No Problem; AI-Backed Phone Has The Answers

The AI device was targeted at the world’s poorest and remotest communities and is being expanded to Pakistan, India, and Tanzania after being first launched in Zambia. Subscribe to Notifications LAGOS: Visually-impaired Nigerian Kehinde Olutubosun is a geography and animal enthusiast who struggled to find information because he has no smartphone. But that is changing, …

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Lagos, Kaduna, others top Nigeria’s internet users

Lagos, Kaduna, others top Nigeria’s internet users

The National Bureau of Statistics has listed the top ten states with the most internet users in the country. A check on the NBS database on Sunday revealed that the number of internet subscribers stood at 163.8 million as of December 2023. It added that as of the end of the fourth quarter of 2023, …

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Solar Fans: Simple But Transformative

Solar Fans: Simple But Transformative

Lawal Sheriff Olakunle with his solar fan. Ayoola Tolulope Temidayo / Sun King. Living in Lagos, 33-year-old Lawal Sheriff Olakunle is used to electricity shortages. He considers 10–15 hours of electricity a day to be stable power. But the two-month blackout he experienced in 2022 was something else. Even before then he’d been hearing about …

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