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Interswitch will support the roll-out of ACI’s revolutionary Enterprise Payments Platform in key African Markets ACI Worldwide), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, and Interswitch Group, Africa’s leading integrated payments and digital commerce company, today announced a new frontier in their 20-year-old relationship which consolidates Interswitch’s relationship with ACI from reseller to strategic partner status across multiple markets in the Sub-Saharan Africa Region. The partnership will enable banks, fintechs and other financial institutions in the region to progressively transform and modernize their payments infrastructure through ACI’s revolutionary Enterprise Payments Platform. On the back of this partnership, Interswitch will…

A cybersecurity expert, Mr. Adetokunbo Omotosho has advised that collaboration between the public and private sectors is crucial to tackling the N2 trillion losses to cybersecurity breaches that the Nigerian financial sector recorded in 2022. Mr. Omotosho who gave the advice recently at a media briefing in Lagos, noted that such collaboration will ensure sharing of threat intelligence and responding effectively to emerging cyber threats. “Constant monitoring and analysis of cyber threats provide valuable intelligence for national security agencies. There must be a collaboration between the public and private sectors to share threat intelligence and respond effectively to emerging cyber…

Data presented by OnlyAccounts has revealed that Instagram, the third-largest platform in the social media space is the favorite among social media users, even though Facebook and TikTok convincingly lead in the number of users, Instagram. According to the data, almost 16% of social media users named Instagram as their number-one social media platform, 2% more than Facebook, and double the share of TikTok. The data shows that the number of Instagram users has swelled over the past few years. According to Statista data, the photo and video-sharing social networking app is expected to hit 1.3 billion users in 2023,…

The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Dr. Aminu Maida has tasked chief executive officers in the telecom industry to hold on to their role as enablers of Nigeria’s digital economy. Maida gave the charge at an interactive session with the CEOs in Lagos, stressing that quality of service in the telecommunications sector is non-negotiable even as he solicited industry collaboration to make this a reality. “We appreciate that you have a very important role to play in the industry to consolidate on the achievements already recorded in the sector, which is an enabler of Nigeria’s digital economy,”…

By Lukman Oladokun The Director General of the National Information Technology Development Agency, (NITDA) Kashifu Inuwa, CCIE has predicted that Nigeria’s digital transformation future would be “brighter and also offers hope of being prosperous.” The NITDA’s boss expressed this optimism in Lagos while delivering his keynote address titled “Implementing a National Digital Transformation Agenda” at the ongoing Global Tech Africa 2023 with the theme “Facilitating Investments in Africa’s Digital Economy. The conference which provides a platform to bring together African and international stakeholders in technology to unlock growth opportunities for all, and build the tech ecosystem in Africa was put…

A new report by Sophos, a global leader in innovating and delivering cybersecurity as a service has found that, telemetry logs were missing in nearly 42% of the attack cases studied. Also in the report Active Adversary Report for Security Practitioners, it was found that In 82% of these cases, cybercriminals disabled or wiped out the telemetry to hide their tracks. The report covers Incident Response (IR) cases that Sophos analyzed from January 2022 through the first half of 2023. Gaps in telemetry decrease much-needed visibility into organizations’ networks and systems, especially since attacker dwell time (the time from initial…

Three top films screened at AFRIFF Competition winner received $5000, LG OLED TV LG OLED, NEFTI audience choice award winner received $2000 Cheyi Okoaye, Hassan the Kreator and Joanna Okey Ogunjiofor emerged winners As the curtain rose on the 4th NEFT Emerging Film Talent International (N.E.F.T.I.) competition, a wave of cinematic joy and festive excitement swept through the radiant Landmark Event Centre, Lagos. The NEFTI competition, originally developed by NEFTI Founder Paul Robinson with NEFT VODKA, aims to challenge aspiring filmmakers across Nigeria to showcase their innovative and creative skills while embracing their uniqueness. With this spirit, the LG OLED…

Bolt, an African ride-hailing operator has unveiled the Top 20 finalists who have been inducted into the two-week Bootcamp phase of Bolt Den marking a significant milestone in empowering drivers on their entrepreneurial journey. A move, which has been described as a monumental leap toward entrepreneurial excellence. “As we celebrate the drivers who have made it this far, we recognise that drivers are the force behind the wheel, navigating the future of mobility. We are excited to witness the evolution of your ideas as you learn, unlearn, and relearn through the process of ideation” said Ewoma Jerry-Ogeme, Public Policy Specialist…

The Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) has set machinery in motion to enforce data subjects’ rights and promote trust in Nigeria’s digital economy ecosystem. In its Guidance Notice titled: GUIDANCE NOTICE ON THE FILING OF  DATA PROTECTION COMPLIANCE AUDIT RETURNS (CAR), the Commission advises data controllers and processors to file compliance audit returns or risk being excluded from the National Data Protection Adequacy Programme (NaDPAP) Whitelist. The data controllers and processors comprise banks, telcos, hospitals, schools, ICT companies, data centres among others. It will be recalled that the National Commissioner/CEO, NDPC,  Dr. Vincent Olatunji recently disclosed that the Commission is…

Technology company, Zoho today holds its Zoholics Nigeria 2023 event, the company’s annual user conference in Lagos, where it announced a 50 percent growth in its Nigerian operations in 2022. Apart from the 50 percent growth, it also announced a strategic partnership with #StartupSouth, an organisation that works towards the development of startups from South and South-East Nigeria and the Zoho contract management solution, Zoho Contracts, free for three months to help businesses improve compliance to the Nigeria Data Protection Law. Speaking to Journalists on the sideline of the conference, Ali Shabdar, Regional Director, MEA, Zoho, noted that Zoho’s growth…