Author: ITPulse

The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has urged Nigerian universities to adopt automated financial management systems to curb revenue leakages, strengthen accountability and improve institutional efficiency. The Director-General of NITDA, Kashifu Inuwa, said technology-driven financial management was critical to ensuring transparency and responsible utilisation of institutional resources, particularly as universities enjoy greater financial autonomy. Inuwa made the call while presenting a paper titled “Strengthening Financial Governance and Risk Management in Nigerian Universities” at an engagement organised by the Committee of Vice Chancellors Training Institute (CVCTI) at the Committee of Vice Chancellors of Nigerian Universities Secretariat, Abuja. Represented by the…

Zoho has unveiled a major upgrade to its Zoho Campaigns marketing platform, introducing native WhatsApp marketing, enhanced email editing tools, AI-powered content creation and support for AI agent workflows to help businesses streamline digital marketing activities. The upgrade brings email, SMS and WhatsApp marketing into a unified campaign management environment, enabling businesses to coordinate customer communications, automate repetitive tasks and gain better insights into campaign performance. For Nigerian businesses increasingly relying on digital channels to reach customers, the enhanced platform offers tools to manage multiple customer touchpoints, personalise communications and improve marketing efficiency from a single interface. Kehinde Ogundare, Country…

Moniepoint Microfinance Bank has enabled customers to check their eligibility for the Federal Government’s ₦50,000 National Emergency Relief and Stabilisation Intervention (NERSI) and receive the funds through its USSD banking channel. The initiative, spearheaded by the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction, is designed to provide direct financial assistance to vulnerable Nigerian households to help them meet essential needs and cushion the impact of prevailing economic pressures. As one of the financial institutions selected by the Federal Government to facilitate the disbursement, Moniepoint is leveraging its digital banking infrastructure to simplify access to the intervention. Customers can check…

By David Orovwiroro Sending $200 back home to Africa costs an average of 7.2 percent, according to IFAD’s “Sending Money Home 2026” report. This figure sits well above the Sustainable Development Goal target of under 3 percent, representing a massive drag on a continent where remittance inflows have reached roughly $124 billion. The problem is even more pronounced when we look at intra-African commerce. Intra-continental trade accounts for a mere 15 percent of Africa’s total trade, compared to around 60 percent in Asia. A primary culprit behind this sluggishness is the outdated plumbing of our regional financial architecture. Intra-African payments…

Digital Realty has received three prestigious awards at the 20th Anniversary Excellence and Legacy Awards of the Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria (IXPN), in recognition of its contribution to the growth of Nigeria’s internet infrastructure and local interconnection ecosystem. The company, which operates Medallion Data Centre, was the only organisation to receive three awards at the ceremony held last Friday, underscoring its longstanding relationship with IXPN and its role in developing Nigeria’s digital infrastructure. The awards included the Strategic Data Centre Partnership Award and the IXPN Founding Members Legacy Award, both presented to Digital Realty, while its Chief Executive Officer,…

Nigeria has ranked 15th among 56 Commonwealth countries in a new Youth AI Readiness Index, emerging as one of only three African nations to meet the study’s benchmark for young people’s preparedness to benefit from artificial intelligence (AI). The country scored 54.5 out of 100 in the inaugural Ayre Index: 2026 Commonwealth Youth AI Readiness Index, placing it just above the benchmark of 53 points. Mauritius, ranked eighth with 64.4 points, and South Africa, ranked 13th with 56.8 points, were the other African countries to meet the threshold. The ranking places Nigeria among 15 Commonwealth countries considered to have the…

By Abigail Mbah Nigerian health technology company, Helium Health, has secured a $2.5 million (approximately ₦3.4 billion) grant from Google.org to deploy artificial intelligence (AI)-powered clinical solutions aimed at improving maternal healthcare delivery and reducing pregnancy-related deaths in Nigeria. The initiative is expected to strengthen primary healthcare services by helping medical personnel identify pregnancy complications earlier, improve clinical decision-making and connect expectant mothers to appropriate medical care before conditions become life-threatening. Helium Health was selected as the only Nigerian organisation among 15 global recipients of the $30 million Google.org Impact Challenge: AI for Government Innovation, which supports organisations working with…

By Abigail Mbah The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has partnered with the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) to prevent counterfeit, cloned and substandard mobile phones and other communication devices from entering Nigeria and connecting to local networks. The partnership is part of an enhanced Type Approval Compliance framework designed to ensure that communication devices imported into the country meet approved technical standards before they are sold or connected to telecommunications networks. Edoyemi Ogoh, NCC’s Director of Technical Standards and Network Integrity, disclosed this during a media briefing in Abuja, explaining that the collaboration would enable the commission to identify and intercept…

By Martin Ekpeke An estimated 6.3 billion people, representing 76 per cent of the world’s population, are using the Internet in 2026, but about two billion people remain offline, highlighting the persistent global digital divide, according to a new report by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The report, Facts and Figures 2026, released by the ITU, shows that global Internet usage increased from a revised estimate of 6.1 billion people, or 74 per cent of the world’s population, in 2025. Despite the steady growth in connectivity, the report warns that significant disparities remain across income groups, gender, age and geographical…

We are taught that building well starts with designing well. Get the strategy right, get the structure right, and the rest will follow. I have grown wary of that idea, because it asks you to be right before you have learned anything. The whole idea fits on one page: two questions and four lines. No framework, no diagram. It looks too simple to be a strategy, and that may be exactly why it works. The first question: what is the cheapest, quickest experiment that would teach me something important? The second: what can I subtract, aggressively, to remove what clearly…