Author: ITPulse

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) said it has licensed 756 Internet Service Providers (ISPs) as of March 2022, out of which 188 ISPs are active, This is even as it argued that the National Policy on Digitization as well as the National Broadband Plan 2020-2025 can only be facilitated through Internet Service Provision. The NCC, who disclosed this at the Telecoms Sector Sustainability Forum, organized by Business Remarks at the City Height Hotel in Lagos last week, also noted that total subscribers for data services in Nigeria as of February 2022 stood at 144, 059,086. Giving a keynote address at…

The former Vice President, under the Chief Olusegun Obasanjo democratic government, (1999-2007), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, yesterday in Lagos win an award as Nigeria Digital Prosperity Enabler for championing the liberalization of the Telecom Sector at the eWorld Forum, organized by EWorld magazine. The Waziri Adamawa and presidential candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party ( PDP), also at the forum, where a book titled ‘Nigeria Drivers of Digital Prosperity’, was launched acknowledged the role he played as that administration’s Head of the Economy in ensuring that the ICT sector is set on a sound foundation to flourish. He pledged to continue…

Having shipped 73.6 million smartphones, representing 23.4percent of global smartphone shipments, Samsung has been rated as the most successful smartphone in the first quarter of 2022. According to Bankless Times analysis, the Samsung shipment volume is the largest volume from any Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) in the quarter.  “Samsung is renowned for creating attractive and innovative products that meet consumer needs. It has established a leadership position in the smartphone market due to its long-term strategy focusing on low and mid-tier models. In addition, its focus on end-user experience allows it to deliver a wide range of differentiated products generating…

An ESG study, ‘SOC Modernization and the Role of XDR’* commissioned by Kaspersky, has revealed that almost three-in-four (70%) respondent organisations struggle to keep up with the volume of alerts generated by security analytics tools. This results in a lack of resources for important strategic tasks and leads organisations towards process automation and outsourcing.  Thus, to streamline the work of a SOC and avoid alert fatigue, Kaspersky suggests enterprises check the following advice: Organise work shifts in your SOC to avoid overworking staff and ensure all key tasks are distributed across people: monitoring, investigation, IT architecture and engineering, administration and…

African business leaders have predicted that the telecommunications sector will remain the fastest growing business sector on the continent in the next five years, attributing improvements in internet connectivity as crucial to driving expansion in the wider economy. In a research conducted by World Mobile, three out of four, representing 75percent of senior executives pick telecommunication above the healthcare sector, which emerged as the second choice selected by 61percent of survey respondents as one of three industries that will see the strongest growth ahead of tourism at 44percent. Senior executives at companies with combined annual revenues of more than $6.75…

A new report from AI for the Planet Alliance, Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and BCG GAMMA has revealed that there is a strong appetite for using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to tackle climate change, but organizations face obstacles to achieving impact at scale. Specifically, the report, which noted that climate change will have significant impacts on environmental, social, political, and economic systems around the world, also disclosed that an 87percent of climate and AI leaders believe that AI Is critical in the fight against climate change. According to the report, titled ‘How AI Can Be a Powerful Tool in the Fight…

Starting this month, Grand Africa Initiative-GAIN and the Development Bank of Nigeria Plc (DBN) have announced a partnership to train two hundred young Nigerian Women in an entrepreneurship course titled “GAIN Entrepreneurship Masterclass for Women (Nigeria)”. The course is designed to equip selected young women entrepreneurs from across the country with entrepreneurial knowledge and skills to build and scale their businesses. The training will cover areas critical to the success of MSMEs including ideation, legal services, branding, marketing, communication, accounting, modeling, staffing, structure, etc. Describing the significance of the Women Entrepreneurship Masterclass, The Managing Director, DBN, Dr. Tony Okpanachi said…

Some marketing experts, who today attended a CMO Masterclass, organized by Eskimi, a global Adtech platform have harped on the need for mobile and online marketing, since more than half of Nigeria’s population are using mobile phones and, constantly online. The experts believe that today’s consumer is more connected than ever, with more access to and deeper engagement with content and brands, due to the proliferation of digital devices and platforms. Thus, content that was once only available to consumers via specific methods of delivery such as print, radio and broadcast television can now be sourced and delivered to consumers…

The Nigerian Communications Commission will on August 1-2, 2022 at Landmark Centre, Victoria Island-Lagos hold what it tagged as the maiden edition of the Nigerian Telecommunications Indigenous Content Expo (NTICE2022). The expo, according to a notice signed by NCC’s Executive Vice Chairman, Prof. Umar Danbatta, will promote the four focus areas of the National Policy on the Promotion and Implementation of indigenous content in the telecommunications sector (NPPIC), which are Manufacturing, Service and Software, People, Research and Development for innovation in line with the Presidential Mandate to diversify the economy. With the theme: “Stimulating the Development of Indigenous Content through…

In a move to expand its operations to Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire and other French-speaking African countries, Autochek, an automotive technology company has decided to acquire CoinAfrique, a platform for classified ads in French-speaking Africa. Disclosing this in a statement, Etop Ikpe, CEO and co-founder of Autochek, said CoinAfrique is a pioneer of the classifieds model in Africa and it has built an outstanding platform with many significant partnerships with car dealers, fintech platforms and other stakeholders in the Francophone automotive sector. “CoinAfrique is joining the Autochek family with many years of business and infrastructure development experience across Europe and Africa…