Author: ITPulse

By Martin Ekpeke A postcode may seem like a small detail, but it can have a significant impact on how a country delivers services, supports businesses and connects people to its digital economy. By making locations easier to identify, postcodes help improve mail delivery, simplify logistics and enable organisations to plan their operations more effectively. For Nigeria, the introduction of a National Digital Alphanumeric Postcode System presents an opportunity to address a longstanding challenge: the difficulty of accurately identifying physical addresses. Developed through geospatial mapping and collaboration involving NIPOST and technology partners, the initiative could become an important part of…

Verve, Africa’s leading domestic payment cards and tokens brand, has launched its tokenization solution in partnership with Wema Bank, with the pilot deployment enabling eligible Wema Bank customers with Verve cards to make contactless payments using their mobile devices. The launch marks an important step in Verve’s efforts to expand secure and convenient digital payment experiences, while opening its tokenization capabilities to other financial institutions across Nigeria. Through the solution, eligible Wema Bank customers with Verve cards can tokenize their cards within the Wema Bank mobile banking application and enable them for Mobile Tap-to-Pay at supported contactless terminals. Once activated,…

By Kehinde Ogundare Nigeria’s mid-market firms occupy an uncomfortable position. They are too large to rely on the informal flexibility that often keeps small enterprises afloat yet too small to command the capital, engineering talent, and pricing power that multinational competitors bring into the same market. This segment is expected to help scale local industry, yet it operates inside a macroeconomic environment that punishes scale before rewarding it. Persistent inflation, currency depreciation, and rising input and energy costs have become defining features of doing business in Nigeria. For firms with dozens rather than thousands of employees, this volatility squeezes already-thin…

Nigeria has launched a six-year agricultural entrepreneurship programme aimed at helping 143,000 young people secure dignified and fulfilling work across the country’s agrifood sector, with young women expected to account for 70 per cent of beneficiaries. The Youth Entrepreneurship for the Future of Food and Agriculture (YEFFA) programme, supported by the Mastercard Foundation in partnership with AGRA, was officially launched in Abuja on October 8, following a two-day stakeholder convening that brought together 150 participants, including 100 young people, government representatives, financiers, private-sector leaders and development partners. The programme will operate in the Federal Capital Territory and Niger, Nasarawa, Kaduna,…

…. Regulators, network operators, data centres and technology leaders to tackle local traffic, interconnection and the future of Nigeria’s digital infrastructure Nigeria’s Internet infrastructure is at a critical stage as regulators, network operators, Internet service providers, data centres and technology companies prepare to converge in Lagos for the 2026 Nigerian Peering and Interconnection Forum (ngPIF). The two-day forum, scheduled for October 28–29, 2026, will focus on strengthening Internet peering and interconnection, improving local traffic exchange and building the infrastructure needed to support Nigeria’s rapidly expanding digital economy. The forum is convened by the Nigerian Network Operators Group (ngNOG), in collaboration…

By Filip Filković Fan engagement is undergoing a pivotal shift. In a year when billions of fans are glued to the biggest football stages on earth, too many brands are still treating them as anonymous audiences instead of active participants in the action. What was once a one‑way broadcast model, with teams posting updates, brands pushing campaigns and audiences passively consuming content, has given way to a dynamic, conversational ecosystem where fans expect to react to moments instantly, ask questions, and be recognised across the channels they already use daily. You can see it in packed stadiums and living rooms…

The Leo Stan Ekeh Foundation (LSEF) has partnered with the Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) to provide mentorship, technical training and practical industry experience to 1,000 exceptionally gifted but indigent Nigerian students pursuing technology-related degrees in tertiary institutions across the country. The partnership, formalised through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), seeks to bridge the gap between academic education and industry requirements by equipping beneficiaries of the Foundation’s technology scholarship initiative with practical skills to prepare them for careers in the digital economy. The scholarship scheme, first announced by Leo Stan Ekeh, Chairman of Zinox Group, is designed to support students studying…

By Abigail Mbah Google has opened its SynthID Detector tool to the public, making it simpler for anyone to check whether images, videos or audio files carry invisible watermarks that mark them as AI-generated. The company announced the wider release on 7 October 2026. The detector is available globally in English through a dedicated website at synthid.com. Users can upload media and see if it contains SynthID watermarks applied by Google or several partners, including OpenAI, NVIDIA and Kakao. Support for Apple is expected soon. SynthID, first introduced by Google DeepMind in 2023, embeds digital signals that are imperceptible to…

By Abigail Mbah The University of Lagos has picked Swoop as one of just two food delivery platforms allowed to operate under a new three-month pilot programme on campus. The initiative aims to improve student safety and rider accountability while keeping food delivery accessible and affordable for students. The move comes amid growing concerns over the number of unregistered delivery riders entering the university grounds. University officials have linked the trend to risks around security, student welfare, and overall campus order. Under the new arrangement, only registered and identifiable riders working through the approved platforms will be permitted to make…

By Martin Ekpeke The Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria (IXPN) has sponsored students of Trinity University, Lagos, on a practical site visit to Open Access Data Centre (OADC), as part of activities marking its 20th anniversary. The initiative exposed students of the university’s Computer and Information Science Department to the workings of a modern data centre, giving them an opportunity to connect classroom theories with real-world digital infrastructure. During the visit, students were taken through various aspects of data centre operations, including data racks, cabling, network infrastructure and the systems required to ensure the reliable operation of critical digital facilities.…