Author: ITPulse

The winner of this year’s MTN Nigeria spelling bee competition will get the opportunity to become the Chief Executive Officer of MTN Nigeria for a day. Announcing this in a statement, the telecom also said the top 20 winners will be rewarded with over N8 million in cash prizes, Laptops, smartphones, and more for student winners and their teachers, while the spelling bee champion’s school will be rewarded with state-of-the-art ICT devices. Speaking on this year’s edition, the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), MTN Nigeria, Adia Sowho said, “The mPulse Spelling Bee is designed to help students expand their vocabulary, engage…

By Olatayo Ladipo-Ajai Nigeria’s thirty-six federating states achieved a 38.5% Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) growth at the national level in the first three months of 2021, compared to the same period in 2020, which shows a clear push by the states to increase their revenues. This is according to figures released by Nairametrics, which revealed that this growth was led by Lagos, Abuja and Ogun states, which recorded the highest IGR per population in the first half of 2021, as economic activity started to rebound following the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The higher IGR recorded by some states is…

Courtesy of Konga Kares and Med-Direct, Nigerians can now enjoy free delivery of highly subsidised quality medicines to their preferred locations nationwide effective from today Monday, August 15, 2022. Konga Kares – a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) project spearheaded by Konga, Nigeria’s leading composite e-commerce giant in partnership with Med-Direct Community Pharmacy, a tech-driven online retail pharmacy are giving discounts of up to 12 percent for patients on managed health conditions and reliant on routine prescription drugs for diabetes, high blood pressure, cholesterol, asthma and arthritis, among others, while a 10 percent discount is available for regular medicines, nutraceuticals or…

A security expert at Kaspersky, Yanis Zinchenko has spoken on the modalities of the recently discovered ramsomeware, Yanluowang, saying though the malware has only been around for a short period, Yanluowang has managed to target companies from all around the world. He explained that the Yanluowang ransomware group breached the corporate networks of large organisations and extort them under the threat of leaking stolen files online, with victims across the U.S., Brazil, Germany, UAE, China, Turkey and many other countries. “This is not the first case of Yanluowang’s impudent attacks we have observed throughout the year. Yanluowang is a relatively…

CyberSafe Foundation’s NoGoFallMaga (NGFM) campaign on Friday, August 12, 2022, released its first Investment Scam handbook through its Community platform to align with this year’s World Youth Day. The foundation said the Investment scam Handbook is an essential tool that would protect individuals and businesses from investment scams, as it provides an in-depth look at the warning signs of Ponzi scams and offers tips on how to stay safe. “The objective is for the handbook to continuously educate people on these cybercrime tactics. The timely release of the Handbook is to align with the theme for this year’s World Youth…

By Hashim Suleiman  Let me take us back to the creation of NAFDAC in 1992 and then their headquarters was in Lagos till about 1995 to 1996 when Abacha ordered the relocation of MDAs from lagos to Abuja then  the headquarters moved to the Area 2 part of Garki in Abuja and subsequently the national headquarters ended up perhaps to their permanent Head office at Wuse Zone 7. In all these period, Nigerians barely knew what NAFDAC stood for until President Olusegun Obasanjo appointed Dr. Dora Akunyili the Director in 2001, the rest of how NAFDAC had since become entrenched…

By Sean Riley The start-up economy in Africa is booming, but all that noise makes it hard to get the correct message across to the right customers. In order to thrive, new businesses require the marketing skills relevant in our current digital age, and there has never been a better time to be a digital marketeer, capturing audiences and achieving business targets by curating campaigns and crafting narratives. Lagos has been ranked the best city for start-ups by StartupBlink, maintaining its standing as the continent’s sole entry, within the top 100 global destinations, to stake a digital business. Moreover, in…

Interswitch yesterday in Lagos engaged the developer community, where it unveiled its easy-to-integrate Application Programmable Interfaces (API) Platform to create digital products and solutions for Africans. While leveraging the event to introduce a referral initiative that will allow developers to earn 5 percent commission on transaction fees for up to five years, the digital payment company also intimate the developers with the benefits of integrating Interswitch APIs on their products. The API Platform comprises Internal APIs, Partner APIs, and Infrastructure APIs; designed to empower Africa’s digital ecosystem. It also serves as a one-stop shop for innovators in the tech ecosystem…

Nigeria is Africa’s largest ICT market, accounting for 82 percent of the continent’s telecom subscribers and 29 percent of internet usage. This is according to Wikipedia. It goes on to say that globally, Nigeria ranks 11th in the absolute number of internet users and 7th in the absolute number of mobile phones. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), has equally established that the telecommunications sector is the largest segment of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector. Today, Nigeria has one of the largest telecoms markets in Africa, contributing over 17 percent to the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). In…

Emirates Airlines has adduced reasons why it decided to invest over $ 2 billion US dollars to enhance its inflight customer experience, including a massive programme to retrofit over 120 aircraft with the latest interiors, plus an array of other service improvements across all cabins starting in 2022. Emirates is still flying on its brand promise of ‘Fly Better.’ According to Sir Tim Clark, President of Emirates Airlines, while others respond to industry pressures with cost cuts, Emirates is flying against the grain and investing to deliver ever better experiences to our customers. Through the pandemic, we’ve continued to launch…