Author: ITPulse

The Innovative partnership is set to improve telemedicine by helping physicians examine and diagnose patients virtually beyond video consultations in Nigeria. It will advance telemedicine at home by accelerating the depth of clinical care that patients can get remotely in the country. Today, LaFiya Telehealth and Tyto Care have partnered to accelerate the depth of clinical care given through telemedicine in Nigeria. The partnership brings integration of their services to enable remote examinations with live streaming, information from Tyto Care Home kits and consequently allow for a more precise and detailed prognosis and early diagnosis. This level of care is…

Durojaiye Anthony Okodu is an unusually calm, friendly, stylish and very considerate staff of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). A man without negative airs, yet he carries himself with avuncular grace. His physical persona is marked by an exceptional gait that matches his physique. A man of naturally tall framing devoid of excess fat that makes him able to move swiftly and magisterially. Importantly, Okodu’s humility and affable disposition easily endear him to everyone. So, expectedly, last Friday, April 8, 2022, staff of NCC gathered at the imposing auditorium of the Commission’s Head Office Annex at Mbora District, Abuja, to…

The management of Pan African Towers (PAT), one of Nigeria’s leading telecom and digital infrastructure provider has appointed Azeez Amida as its new Chief Executive Officer. The appointment of Azeez, which took effect on April 1, 2022, will see him oversee the company’s business operations in its drive to strengthen its position as Nigeria’s largest indigenous Telecom and Digital Infrastructure provider. Reacting to the appointment, the Chairman of PAT, Mr. Oluwole Adeleke said “Amida is a young professional who brings with him expertise in the operation of telecom and digital infrastructure assets across markets in Africa. The Board of Directors…

The Director-General of National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Mal. Kashifu Inuwa has described the NANONASENI Technology and the NASENI CertVeri System in Nigeria as a timely intervention that will help push Nigeria’s industrial revolution pursuit. Mal Inuwa gave this description while giving the nod to the collaboration request by the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI); seeking to implement the NANONASENI Technology and the NASENI CertVeri System in Nigeria. Affirming the Agency’s readiness to collaborate with NASENI, Inuwa commended the organisation for coming up with the two innovative solutions. According to him, NITDA is empowered by section…

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has outlined what it termed ‘Eight Pillars’ that will drive the country’s digital economy policy and strategy that is being championed by the federal government through the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy. The eight pillars as contained in the NCC’s Strategic Management Plan 2020-2024 tagged Aspire 2024, are: . 1. Developmental Regulation: Effectively regulate the ICT & digital sector in a way that enables the development Digital Literacy & Skills: Providing policy backing for massive training of Nigerians in digital literacy & skills Solid Infrastructure: Development of fixed & mobile infrastructure to deepen broadband…

Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, it is safe to assume that remote working is here to stay. The new normal workspace, wherever that might be, has prompted organisations to identify tech gadgets that allow staff to deal with their workload more effectively. Logitech strives to empower people to do their work the best way they can, from wherever they are. Focused on innovation and quality, the company designs products and experiences that have a place in people’s everyday lives. Theresa Relihan, Head of Marketing at Logitech Sub-Saharan Africa, says, “We understand that for many Nigerian companies, deploying remote work…

It is true that money can buy all things with a price tag, but good health is priceless. Staying healthy has to be one of the happiest feelings in the world. Imagine having all the luxuries of life and lacking good health. One will feel like a king without a throne. Good health is a treasure that everyone craves, however, maintaining good health is challenging in the nation we live in today. Inadequate healthcare and poor medical equipment have caused many people to be victims of the wrong diagnosis and some have used their lives to pay the ultimate price.…

Business owner Ginger Sloan couldn’t be prouder to be counted among the women entrepreneurs from all around the globe who have shown tremendous resiliency and ingenuity throughout the past two years of pandemic-driven market disruptions. “During these trying times, women who are the backbone of so many families across the nation have taken the bull by the horns to provide and create their own opportunities for their families,” Sloan says. According to a new report, Women’s Entrepreneurship 2020/21: Thriving Through Crisis, from Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), about one in three growth-oriented entrepreneurs active in the world today are female and…

Juniper Research has disclosed in its new study that the use of digital documents globally, will experience a 50percent growth between 2022 to 2026 from 4.2 billion to 6.5 billion. This growth, according to Juniper Research is a result of the acceleration created by the Covid-19 pandemic and a reflection of the growing importance of digital identity in sectors such as government services. The new study defined a digital document as a digital representation of a physical identity document. Titled “Digital Identity: Key Opportunities, Regulatory Landscape & Market Forecasts 2022-2026”, the study found that ease and equality of access are…

The Nigerian government has insisted that telecom subscribers whose SIM cards are presently barred from making calls will not be unbarred by the service providers until they are linked with the National Identification Numbers (NINs) of the SIM holders. The government’s position is contained in a statement issued and signed by the Director of Public Affairs at the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Dr. Ikechukwu Adinde. The statement disclosed that the information becomes necessary in view of a viral weblink (https://bit.ly/NCC-Sim-Unbar-Gov-Ng) being circulated on social media and on some websites. According to NCC, the link and accompanying narrative represent patent misinformation…