Author: ITPulse

After seven years of robust online publishing; Brand Times, a leading brand, marketing, business, and tech news platform, has launched its magazine ‘Brand Times Magazine’ to revolutionize magazine publishing in Nigeria and across the world. 7Skies Communications, publishers of the All Gloss magazine, in a statement, disclosed that the magazine was conceptualised to give readers rich and insightful content that is at the same time entertaining and educating and different from what already exists in the market. The magazine comes in hardcopy and e-copy which is accessible to any reader in the world via https://www.brandtimes.com.ng/bt-magazine/ It added that it is…

Medallion Data Centres Limited (‘’Medallion’’), Nigeria’s premier carrier-neutral data centre operator, today announced the opening of its second data centre (“LOS2”) in Nigeria’s largest city, Lagos. The new state-of-the-art facility will formally open for service on 24 October and will offer customers an additional one megawatt of IT capacity.   LOS2, located on Medallion’s Victoria Island campus, will be interconnected with Medallion’s existing LOS1 data center, currently rated as the most interconnected facility in the West African sub-region and the top peering point for the region. This makes the campus an ideal location for subsea cable, metro fiber, mobile services,…

The digital era has completely changed the way we shop, as it offers undeniable convenience for consumers and robust profitability for businesses.  However, this has also given way to an alarming surge in fraudulent activities. Among these threats, fraud rings loom large, posing a significant concern to the online retail industry.   To protect their businesses and customers, online retailers must understand the threat of online payment fraud and implement effective countermeasures.  What are Fraud Rings?  The Definition To effectively counter fraud, one must first understand how these criminal networks operate. Fraud rings consist of individuals who collaborate to commit…

Africa’s leading digital entrepreneur and Chairman, Zinox Group, Leo Stan Ekeh, has once again urged young business owners and startups in Africa to demonstrate a high level of integrity and diligence when executing government contracts as the quality of their country defines their future. Ekeh made this call during a recent mentorship programme with a select group of African foreign-based postgraduate students in the latest edition of an annual lecture series aimed at grooming the next generation of certified entrepreneurs. Speaking during the virtual session which was monitored online, Ekeh counseled the participants to shun the overwhelming temptation to treat…

Interswitch, an integrated payments and digital commerce company has reiterated its long-standing dedication to driving the growth of the digital payment ecosystem at the TechConnect 3.0 event recently held at The Lekki Coliseum, Lekki, Lagos recently. The TechConnect 3.0 event brought together eggheads across the fintech sector, banks, and other financial institutions who expounded on the theme “Adapting, Scaling, and Advancing with Fintech.” The event showcased a platform where industry players shared at varying lengths data-driven strategies, empirical expositions, projected trends, and forecasts to industry challenges, and weighed in on steps to be taken within the financial sector to nimbly adapt…

A technology enthusiast and the Chief Executive officer of Alpha-Geek Technologies, Oluwaseun Dania has posited that the appointment of Ms. Tola Odeyemi as the new Postmaster General and CEO of the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) marks a milestone in the era of technological advancement and policy innovation in Nigeria. Oluwaseun, who made this position in a statement he personally signed believes that the discerning decision by the Bola Ahmed Tinubu Administration to appoint Ms. Tola Odeyemi heralds a new dawn for NIPOST and is indicative of a future-forward governance approach. “Alpha-Geek Technologies extends heartfelt congratulations to Ms. Tola Odeyemi on…

The Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria (IXPN) has set an ambitious target of meeting 1 terabyte peak local Internet traffic by the end of 2024, even as it presently boasts of 500 Gbps from the 300Gbps it recorded last year in its infrastructure. Speaking to newsmen in Lagos, Chief Executive Officer of IXPN Mr. Muhammed Rudman said the target is set having achieved the milestone of 500 Gbps based on the connection of several global and local content providers exchanging traffic locally via the exchange point. He said IXPN has over 120 connected members, which includes some of the global…

The Nigeria Innovation Summit 2023 which was held on October 6th, 2023 with the theme: Innovating for the Future, was successfully concluded with the participation of delegates and stakeholders across the globe, who participated in the hybrid event. The Summit in its 8th year is an annual event that brings together stakeholders from different sectors of Nigeria’s economy, governments, investors, policymakers, and players in the tech and innovation ecosystem to discuss ground-breaking ideas, trends, and opportunities to innovate solutions that solve unique challenges within Nigeria, and the African continent at large. This year’s NIS explored topics such as Digital Opportunities…

By Elvis Eromosele   In Nigeria today, the monster of inflation is rearing its head with unrelenting intensity. Prices are spiraling out of control, and the average business owner and individual are grappling with the harsh reality of inflation’s bite. While this economic challenge is not unique to Nigeria, its impact is profoundly felt by those at the bottom of the pyramid.   According to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Nigeria’s annual inflation rate climbed to 25.8 percent in August 2023, from 24.08 percent in July, marking the highest rate since September 2005. Experts point out that the rate…

The quest for a reliable telecommunications infrastructure for the players in West Africa’s industry to deliver essential services and products in an interdependent ecosystem was the focus of discussion at the maiden edition of the West Africa telecoms Infrastructure Summit and Exhibition (WATISE). The event, which has as its theme: ‘The Future of Infrastructure, Connectivity And Services: A New Interdependent Ecosystem of Partners’ was hosted by TechnologyMirror, an ICT and Telecoms news website with support from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and IHS Towers Nigeria. In the lead presentation with the topic: ‘Telecoms Infrastructure Challenges: The Pains of Inter-Related Players…