Author: ITPulse

Infopercept Consulting Pvt Ltd, a global cybersecurity solutions and services company, today announced the appointment of Jitendra Bulani as Chief Marketing Officer. Bulani brings 15 years of global marketing experience at cybersecurity companies. He will be responsible for driving awareness and demand for Infopercept’s offensive security, defensive security and security compliance solutions as well as services globally. Prior to joining Infopercept, Bulani was at Sophos for more than 14 years where he was responsible for public relations and communications in India and SAARC, Middle East and Africa. Bulani was also one of the pioneering members of the global marketing team…

 I’ll start on this by referring you to an earlier piece I had written on 17 April 2021 about  Kperogi when he attempted to hoodwink his readers and Professor Pantami that he was the latter’s friend but still went ahead to disparage him by spewing lies and supposed private matters on the Professor, the piece can be read here: https://swiftreporters.com/kperogi-the-fake-friend/. At that point, I had just switched from being his ardent fan to seeing him for who he really is, a propaganda merchant who thrives on the docility of Nigerians to cash out. Kperogi had to acknowledge that article as…

National Commissioner/CEO of the Nigeria Data Protection Bureau (NDPB), Dr. Vincent Olatunji, will be joining other regulators including the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), and other industry leaders to stake out the sector’s opportunities and challenges at the Top 50 Digital Economy Enablers 2023. Nigeria’s Top 50 Digital Economy Enablers 2023 holds February 14, 2023, at the prestigious Providence by (Mantis) in Ikeja GRA, Lagos as a gathering of regulators and operators as the industry recognises its champions and discusses its future in a changing global economy. Designed to examine the challenges that have emerged…

The duo of RiceAfrica and Wicrypt, two Nigerian technology startups have won the sum of $150,000 each from the just concluded LEAP’s Rocket Fuel Pitch Competition in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. While RiceAfrika Technologies is a tech-driven agric optimisation startup that deploys IoT-enabled harvester and its FARMEasy mobile app for smallholder farming communities in Africa, Wicrypt is an innovative Tech startup decentralising internet globally. Over 10,000 Startups submitted applications from different countries. After rigorous scrutiny, the applicants were down to 220, and only 90 startups were selected to pitch their business ideas in the semi-final. Eight Nigerian Startups participated in the…

By Martin Ekpeke In the last seven years, Prof. Umar Danbatta as the Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has carted home several awards, recognitions and honours. A feat, which many industry watchers believe couldn’t come for free. A cursory check on the citations during some of these occasions, compared with the achievements of the former University lecturer, indicates that those awards, recognitions and honours are well-deserving. Of recent is the 2022 Vanguard Regulator of the Year Award, which was conferred on Danbatta in recognition of the EVC’s effective regulatory achievements through cutting-edge initiatives, especially during his first…

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said its next priority is the development of skills for Nigerians, including women, young girls and boys at all levels and across the 36 states of Nigeria and Abuja, Federal Capital Territory. The Commission’s Head of Digital Skills and Services, Mrs. Freda Bruce-Bennett, stated this yesterday, while hosting a tech-savvy Nigerian at the ongoing AfricaNXT tech event under a theme: ‘The NCC Mandate Towards Realization of Full Digital Economy in Nigeria’. She said the development of digital skills for Nigerians has become necessary following the creation of the Nigerian Office for Developing Indigenous Telecoms…

Experts in the Nigerian Telecommunications Sector will on 28th February 2023 converge to brainstorm on the impact, satellite broadband disruption will have on Nigerian internet space. The discourse, to be hosted by Business Remarks, will feature Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Infrastructure and Tower Companies, Network Operators and other telecom stakeholders at the upcoming third edition of the Telecom Sector Sustainability Forum (TSSF). Tagged “Starlink, A Threat or Prospect to the Sustainability of Nigeria’s ISPs, Infraco and MNOs”, the event is scheduled to hold in Lagos State. The event will see the telecom regulator, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) address front-burner issues…

The past few years have seen huge breakthroughs in the use and application of artificial intelligence — and AI holds major promise for people around the world.  AI already powers Google’s core products that help billions of people every day. Here are nine ways we use AI, today, to make our products even more helpful, including some of our recently announced features: When Google was founded, most searches happened on computers in homes, computer labs or libraries. Twenty-five years later, AI is making it possible to search in new languages, with new inputs (like searching with your camera or even…

The amount of queueing Nigerians have been subjected to in the last couple of weeks is unprecedented. It is equally unbecoming. It’s almost like the country had gone back four decades. Fights have broken out in queues at bank facilities, filling stations and INEC and LGAs offices across the country. There are trending videos of people stripping naked in protest inside banking halls, others hitting each other with queue dividers and one person has been confirmed dead inside a banking hall, somewhere in Asaba. Nigerians born in the 2000s, GenZs, should be forgiven for thinking the end of the world…

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said this year’s annual Information Communications Technology Innovation Competition and Exhibition, organized by its Research and Development Department will focus on three key areas. The Executive Vice Chairman of the commission, Prof. Umar Danbatta who stated this today in Lagos at the opening of the 3-day programme, stated that the three key areas are digital service development and promotion, indigenous content development and adoption and funding digital skills building and innovation in Nigeria. He said these areas were chosen because they are critical for developing indigenous businesses into world-class service providers and creating conditions…