Author: ITPulse

The Lagos State government today announced the launch of a data centre in a bid to drive it smart city agenda. The Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, who made the announcement via his official Facebook Page, noted the date Centre is in line with the “Technology” and “Making Lagos a 21st century economy” pillars in its T.H.E.M.E.S agenda. “We invested in a new Smart City Data Centre. This center is a Tier III design, with 2N redundancy. It is also a fully mirrored system with independent distribution systems,” he announced. According to him, the Data Centre will support…

OneData, the brand name for Ciudad Infrastructure Limited, has restated commitment to driving broadband penetration in Nigeria and delivery of good quality of service to its customers. The fast-growing ISP made the pledge at its first anniversary just held in Lagos, where it highlighted its expansion trajectory in Lagos and Ogun states in the last 12 months of its operations. Within the period under review, OneData has registered robust presence in Lekki, Ikeja, Idimu, Ikoyi, Ogba, Ojodu and Yaba areas of Lagos State as well as Mowe in Ogun State. OneData is powered by Ciudad Infrastructure Limited which is a…

Nigeria’s premier financial institution, Firstbank has released activities to celebrate the 2022 edition of the Customer Service Week scheduled to be globally celebrated on 3 – 7 October 2022. The bank said the event themed: “Celebrating Service” will be marked across its FBNBank subsidiaries in over half a dozen countries which include FBNBank UK, FBNBank Ghana, FBNBank Senegal, FBNBank Gambia, FBNBank Guinea, FBNBank DRC and FBNBank Sierra Leone. “The Bank’s celebration of the 2022 Customer Service Week will include several activities considered integral to promoting a relaxed atmosphere whilst extending its participation to everyone, irrespective of where they are. The activities include…

Multinational technology company, Google has disclosed it will start the disbursement of the $1B investment commitment in Africa by building a new Google Cloud region in South Africa that will help users, developers, businesses and educational institutions across Africa to move more information and tools online, improve access options for customers and in turn, create jobs. Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai made the $1bn investment commitment last year. The Director of Google Cloud Africa, Niral Patel, who disclosed this yesterday at the second Google for Africa event in Lagos, noted that research by AlphaBeta Economics commissioned by Google Cloud, revealed that…

Google’s Subsea cable, Equiano launched earlier this year is set to raise Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which is present $440.1 billion to USD10.1 billion in 2025, the Multinational technology company announced yesterday at the second Google for Africa event in Lagos. Apart from boosting the GDP, the subsea cable running through Togo, Nigeria, Namibia  and South Africa is expected to deliver faster, lower-cost internet to the continent by connecting St. Helena, Togo, Nigeria, Namibia and South Africa with Europe. “A recent economic impact assessment conducted by Africa Practice and Genesis Analytics found that by 2025, the cable is set…

As a way of reinforcing its commitment to providing affordable yet quality devices that address the daily needs of consumers, Samsung Nigeria earlier today in Lagos officially launched the Galaxy A04s into the Nigerian market. The smartphone, which is packed with 4G/64 GB & 4G/128GB storage variants expandable to 1TB, runs on a One UI Core 4 and supports Dual SIM, built with a glass front and plastic back with a side-mounted fingerprint sensor. It also comes in attractive color variants of Black, Green, Copper and White. “Today is quite remarkable as we introduce Galaxy A04s, ‘The Eagle’. People want…

Business subject matter experts are warming up for the 2022 Africa Tech Alliance Forum (AfriTECH 2.0) scheduled to hold on Wednesday, November 09, 2022, at Oriental Hotel, Lagos at 9:00 am (WAT). Mr. Chike Onwuegbuchi, the co-Convener of AfriTECH, said that the high-profile speakers who will be unveiled soon will delve into the nitty-gritty of ‘Sustainability and the Company of the Future, as many businesses are still responding to changes in the business environment brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Reserve a space here: https://registration.africatechallianceforum.africa/. According to him, the global crisis introduced the necessity to innovate, forcing many to rethink…

The Federal Government has ordered the continuation of the prosecution to a logical conclusion of one Benjamin Joseph, owner of Citadel Oracle Concepts Limited, an Ibadan-based ICT retail firm and alleged accuser of the Zinox Chairman, Leo Stan Ekeh, for malicious falsehood over an alleged N170m fraud. The order was communicated via a letter dated 6th June from the office of the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami to the Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba and communicated to the courts by the IGP on 26th September 2022. This was confirmed in a statement by Matthew Burkaa, a Senior…

The 2022 Global payment Innovation Jury Report titled: “Payment Innovation: Myths and Realities” released by Interswitch in partnership with the World Bank and Global Processing Services (GPS) comes with ten key takeaways for all decision-makers in the digital payment ecosystem. The report also revealed some surprising insights from senior decision makers across the industry and explores several key areas where payment innovation is currently focused, including A2A payments and BNPL, what actually drives innovation, and which areas of innovation are most overhyped, amongst other incisive global payment themes.  Some of the report’s key findings include:  Market share of account-to-account (A2A)…

I have followed with interest the case of what appears to be attempted blackmail by your client, Mr. Benjamin Joseph of Citadel Oracle Concepts Limited, an Ibadan-based ICT retail firm against the Zinox Chairman, Mr. Leo Stan Ekeh, his wife, TD Africa and staff and Access Bank Plc. for some time now as a disinterested observer. However, I was recently moved to take an interest in the case after a lawyer friend of mine went to great lengths to verify the facts on the ground from the respective authorities. Now, I am moved to comment following what I consider an…