Author: ITPulse

The federal government said it will carry out research that will unlock the challenge of Information Technology (IT) skills in Nigeria with a view to bridging the gap the shortfall would create and position the country to be competitively prepared for it. The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Umar Danbatta, who disclosed this said the research will be commissioned on behalf of the Federal Government by the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and will be conducted by Co-creation Hub within six months of its launch.  The Minister while speaking as the special guest of honour at the…

The Director General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Mal. Kashifu Inuwa has expressed delight over Nigeria’s preparation for this year’s Gulf Information Technology Exhibition and Expo, (GITEX), saying the annual event remained a veritable platform to showcase Nigerian youths to the world. Mal. Inuwa who stated this while inaugurating the Local Organising Committee, (LOC) that would ensure a successful outing for Nigeria at the event, believes that Nigeria has become a force to reckon with in the global tech innovations. Thus, GITEX provides a platform to showcase what they can do in the area of tech innovation.…

By Dare Okoudjou When I founded MFS Africa more than a decade ago, I set a simple measure of success for the business. To facilitate access for my mom’s honey business in Porto-Novo, Benin, to collect payments from her customers from across the continent – and to make the process as easy as a phone call. When it comes to Africa and financial empowerment, we must acknowledge that consumers have the same wants and needs as consumers everywhere else in the world. Africans on the continent want to order the latest clothes, and electronics and have them delivered timeously. We…

Infobip, a global cloud communications company for businesses and a leader in omnichannel customer engagement has said it is proud to celebrate six years of partnership with Smartz Solutions, a CCaaS and Employee Engagement software development company, even as the partnership has continued to create and manage seamless global communication experiences for customers. In celebration of the six years of partnership, Infobip has Smartz Solutions has fully integrated Infobip’s API through extensive collaboration to allow customers to leverage two-way SMS and WhatsApp in their business. “It has been a great pleasure to work with Smart Solutionz on various projects. The…

As Nigeria’s premier financial institution, Firstbank marks annual Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability week, the bank said it has promoted kindness across seven countries, offering opportunities for employees to give their time & resources to defined causes in line with the Bank’s CR&S strategic approach. The FirstBank Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability week is held in Nigeria and 7 other countries: United Kingdom, Ghana, DRC, Guinea, Sierra Lone, Senegal and Gambia; Since its maiden edition in 2017, the FirstBank CR&S week in 2017 is fast becoming a household name in the Bank’s host economies. The Fifth edition of its Corporate Responsibility &…

Konga, Nigeria’s leading composite e-commerce giant, has pioneered another exciting initiative, bringing together customers and senior company executives for a virtual interactive session – Chat with our Executive Management – to be held monthly. The maiden edition of the innovative interactive meeting holds on Thursday, August 25, 2022, at 1 pm. The session will be hosted via Zoom, with the live feed also broadcast across Konga’s social media pages on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. To be a part of the session, interested customers and other participants are expected to register with the link: https://form.typeform.com/to/ZYfukylG Once successfully registered, a link…

MTN Nigeria today said it will launch the commercial service of Fifth Generation (5G) in seven cities in Nigeria as part of the pilot unveiling of the service, which industry watchers and analysts believe will extend the reach and capacity of MTN Nigeria’s data network in Nigeria and enable much faster speeds and lower latency, giving customers near-instant access to the things they care about and downloads that take seconds, instead of minutes. The seven cities, according to a statement by Adia Sowho, Chief Marketing Officer, MTN Nigeria, are Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Ibadan, Kano, Owerri and Maiduguri.  With the…

In the vast, sprawling landscape of the internet, where content streams endlessly and notifications ping relentlessly, there’s a quiet but profound shift happening: our collective attention span is shrinking. You’ve probably felt it yourself – the quick click away from a slow-loading page, the impatient scroll past a wall of text, the immediate abandonment of an app that isn’t instantly intuitive. We are busy, overwhelmed, and constantly seeking the quickest path to value. For us as UX designers, this isn’t a problem to bemoan, but a fundamental reality to embrace. Our users are distracted, busy, and impatient. The challenge, and…

The Katsina State Government has commended the National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion (NOTAP) for its conceptualization of the Model Chemistry Laboratory Project for Secondary Schools. The Executive Governor of the State Rt. Hon. Aminu Bello Masari gave the commendation while commissioning the NOTAP Model Chemistry Laboratory at Government Science Secondary School Batagarawa, Batagarawa Local Government Council, Katsina State recently. The Governor who was represented by the Commissioner for Science, Technology and Innovation of the State, Engineer Mustapha Mahmoud Kanti Bello said the project will help nurture young talents in Research and Development (R&D) that will add value to…

The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, Prof. Umar Danbatta, has described the recent conferment of the Fellowship of the Nigerian Institute of Management, NIM on Ismaila Adedigba, a Director of Research Development as well-deserved. “No doubt, this is well-deserved elevation into the prestigious fellowship of the Institute, which obviously, was based on your unbroken antecedents to dedication to public service. Therefore, all of us at the Commission felicitate with you on the attainment of this prestigious status at NIM,” he said. Adedigba who is the Director of Research Development at the Commission has for many years been…