Author: ITPulse

A telecom stakeholder group, the Nigeria Information Technology Reporters’ Association (NITRA) has attributed the staggering $77 billion investments to Nigeria’s telecom sector to the regulatory prowess of the Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta in the last eight years. The group in a statement signed by its National Chairman, Chike Onwuegbuchi noted Danbatta’s remarkable leadership and the unprecedented achievements in the nation’s telecom sector, catapulted the sector to the forefront of the nation’s economic landscape. “Under Danbatta’s visionary leadership, Nigeria’s telecom sector has witnessed an astounding transformation, transcending previous limitations and emerging…

The Africa E-mobility Week Conference and Exhibition being organized by Clean Technology Hub (CTH) in collaboration with the Drive Electric Campaign, Africa Climate Foundation (ACF), Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), Africa E-mobility Alliance (AfEMA), and the Energy Transition Office (ETO) will hold in Victoria Island Lagos on October 25. According to the organisers, The conference’s focal objective is to unite key stakeholders – EV producers, charging station developers, investors, and policymakers – exposing them to e-mobility, addressing the sector’s challenges, and delineating the subsequent steps for the sector’s advancement. The conference’s overarching theme is “ACCELERATING THE GREEN TRANSPORT REVOLUTION: POWERING THE…

This year’s Digital Nigeria Hackathon, scheduled to be held on 24th of October 2023 at the International Conference Centre (ICC), Abuja is targeted at promoting local content development, the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has announced. Announcing this in a statement issued and signed by Mrs. Hadiza Umar, Head of Corporate Affairs and External Relations, NITDA said the Hackathon will promote ideas that will be developed into products and homegrown solutions. Other targeted areas include leveraging young talented Nigerians to produce innovative ideas and products to solve socioeconomic problems and guide tech entrepreneurship to provide solutions to existing challenges…

A partnership has been sealed between Verve and adidas on the sixth (6th) edition of VerveLife, one of the biggest fitness festival series on the African continent. Announcing the partnership, Cherry Eromosele, Executive Vice President, Marketing and Communications at Interswitch Group said: “We are greatly delighted to welcome adidas on board as one of our partners for VerveLife 6.0. Year upon year, we continue to successfully deliver extraordinary experiences that transcend the expectations of fitness enthusiasts in these climes, with an unprecedented approach incorporating fitness, fun and healthy food, all intertwined in a format that leaves participants demanding more. In…

Data released by OnlyAccount has shown that X, formerly Twitter`s ad revenue is expected to drop by 30% or $1.3bn in 2023, making it the only social media platform among the top seven with an ad revenue drop. Since the taking over of Twitter by Elon Musk, the social media platform has been experiencing losses in advertising revenue. Industry watchers and analysts attribute this to changes to its content moderation rules, which turned away many users and advertisers. The platform has struggled to regain monthly traffic volume and income from social media ads. According to a Statista survey, Twitter`s ad…

In fulfillment of his earlier promise, the Minister of Communications, Innovation & Digital Economy, Dr. Tijani Bosun has today unveiled a 4-Year strategic Blueprint for 2023-2027 for the Ministry, which will be anchored on five pillars. Titled ‘Accelerating our Collective Prosperity through Technical Efficiency’, the Minister said the document is a critical launchpad in the journey towards a Nigeria that thrives in the digital age alignment with the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. “This strategic blueprint articulates a vision for Nigeria that builds on the transformative power of digital technology and innovation to diversify and deepen our…

Analyst firm, Gartner in its first Gartner Magic Quadrant for the Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) market has recognized Infobip as a communications platform Leader for its ability to execute and completeness of vision. This was disclosed in its Competitive Landscape CPaaS report. According to Gartner, the communications platform as a service market is evolving beyond APIs to encompass the entire customer journey. Existing conversational commerce use cases are broadening to become conversational everything. In the same report, the analyst recommended CPaaS providers must: “construct customer experience as a service (CXaaS) offerings to target the entire customer life cycle…

The duo of Check Point Software Technologies Cybersafe Foundation has sealed a partnership deal that will help to combat the ongoing cybersecurity skills shortage in Africa, especially among women. Part of the deal is that Check Point SecureAcademy is providing free education resources to Nigerian charities demonstrating its commitment to diversifying and futureproofing the cybersecurity industry. The collaboration with Check Point’s SecureAcademy program, which provides free cutting-edge cyber educational content through partnerships with higher learning institutions and non-profit organizations, will see its courses being used as part of Cybersafe’s programme CyberGirls a one-year free initiative designed to equip women between…

Two Nigerian teachers have been shortlisted in the top 50 shortlist for the Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize 2023 organised in collaboration with UNESCO and in strategic partnership with Dubai Cares, a UAE-based global philanthropic organisation. The teachers, Peace Sule, an ICT teacher at Akoka Junior High School in Lagos, and Stephanie Akinwoya, a physics teacher at Iju Senior Grammar School in Lagos were selected from over 7,000 nominations and applications from 130 countries around the world and will likely get the USD 1 million Global Teacher Prize, which is the largest prize of its kind. The Varkey Foundation Global…

The third edition of the Africa Tech Alliance Forum (AfriTECH 3.0) is scheduled to be held on the 8th of November 2023 at the Providence Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos, themed: “Technology-as-a-Service (TaaS) in Emerging Economy”. Similarly, voting has commenced for the Africa Tech Alliance Excellence (ATAEx) awards through the: https://vote.africatechallianceforum.africa/. Today, the boundary between hardware and software is blurring. Software is infiltrating more and more technology products that used to function only by mechanical rules and analog signals. Different models of driverless cars are navigating themselves with sensors and software. This trend is not stopping. Hardware-based technology companies often find themselves…