Author: ITPulse

Microsoft Africa Development Center, the premier engineering center for Microsoft is organizing a free virtual event as part of its ADC’s user group series themed Azure Developers Connect for Developers and Software Engineers in Africa scheduled to hold on the 24th of February, 2022. The event which would be held virtually is targeted at Azure user groups & communities, developers, engineers, working professionals; Tech communities in West Africa and Kenya in a bid to expose them to the many capabilities of Azure for building next-gen apps and driving global transformation as a developer or software engineer in Africa. Microsoft Azure…

The latest Allianz Economic Outlook report has revealed that Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) will grow by 2.3 percent, even as the report disclosed that Africa will register mild growth in 2022 (+3.5%). This is coming as the report also noted that Africa was the slowest growing region in 2021, occasioned by the fact vaccination rates remain very low (32% in the overall continent but only 4% in Sub-Saharan Africa) According to the report, GDP growth expectations for other countries on the continent are as follows: Senegal (6.1%), Kenya (5.6%), Ivory Coast (5.5%), Ghana (5.4%), Egypt (4.6%), Mozambique (4.6%), Namibia…

Foremost information technology company,21st Century Technologies Limited has struck a new deal with Germany-based energy company, Siemens Energy to build a 2 X 10MW SGT 400 turbine power plant for its data centre facilities. The turbine plant will be stationed at 21st Century’s Data centres sited in Ikeja and Lekki, Lagos. According to the ICT company, the power project which will be ready for installation and commissioning by Q4 2022, will run on gas, diesel and hydrogen, to complement other sustainable energy sources on the facility. Speaking on the deal which was consummated at 21st Century Technologies corporate headquarters in…

5G and edge computing are opening a world of new revenue opportunities across manufacturing, transport, gaming and mission-critical services. Combined they enable new services requiring low latency, high bandwidth and capabilities such as device processing and data offload. Edge computing consists of five technology areas including edge infrastructure, -user plane, -routing, -orchestration and exposure. Exposure makes network capabilities, such as location and quality of service, and data easily available for the ecosystem to innovate on to improve existing services or create new services. Edge exposure is a function with enriched APIs specifically for edge applications requiring quick API responses and…

Verve cardholders on First City Monument Bank (FCMB), Union Bank, United Bank for Africa (UBA) and Zenith Bank will be rewarded with over N50million cash and other prizes in the company’s Good Life Promo 2.0. The Group Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, Interswitch Group, Cherry Eromosele, who disclosed this in a statement said the promo is part of the company’s plan to spread love to cardholders this season to enable them to live the good life. “We are rewarding loyal cardholders with exciting gifts and cash prizes during the promo. Hence, we urged cardholders to take advantage of the promo…

Rarely in this part of the world would you find a man like Leonard Nnamdi Stanley Ekeh, better known as Leo Stan Ekeh. For starters, Leo Stan, as he is fondly addressed, is not your regular fellow. He ranks well and truly as an unusual entrepreneur, one who is not only absolutely outstanding at what he does, but a man who also stands head and shoulders apart from his peers. The story of technology in Africa and in his native Nigeria would decidedly be incomplete without a mention of the many pioneering roles Ekeh played in this domain. But it…

The Director-General of National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) Mal. Kashifu Inuwa has explained that all the regulations being put out by the agency are not efforts to stifle innovation. Rather, they are being implemented to level the field for innovations to thrive in an IT dynamic market. “NITDA’s regulation is not to stifle innovation or to be a constraint to businesses but to level the field for innovations to thrive,” Inuwa said while receiving the Managing Director/CEO of AIRTEL Nigeria Mr. Surendran Chemmenkotil and his management team on a courtesy visit to the Agency’s headquarters in Abuja. He argued that the…

The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta, has assured that the availability of broadband insufficiency was non-negotiable and irreducible in the nation’s strategy towards delivering pervasive telecom services. The NCC boss, who was speaking during an in-house interview at the Commission’s Head Office in Abuja recently, also reiterated that Federal Government’s focus on providing ubiquitous, accessible and affordable broadband services in Nigeria cannot be questioned. ”The fact is ubiquitous broadband connectivity is key in Nigeria’s pursuit for a wholly digital economy. Hence, the ambitious move by the government to have broadband sufficiency across the…

In a bid to further develop translational genomics research capacity across Africa, 54gene, a health technology company has decided to award a total of $64,000 in scholarships to four PhD candidates in Nigeria, Uganda and South Africa. The four candidates are Rejoice Gomera – University of Pretoria, South Africa; Christopher Kintu – Makerere University, Uganda; Abimbola Onyia – Covenant University, Nigeria and Chisom Soremekun – Makerere University, Uganda. According to a statement by the firm, the money, which will be disbursed by the African Centre for Translational Genetics (ACTG), will cover all expenses of the recipients during their postgraduate study.…

Forbes, a renowned media company has rated Konga as a champion in Africa’s e-commerce space. In a special feature published in its Forbes Africa edition late last week, Forbes hailed the remarkable growth trajectory that has seen Konga become the first African e-commerce player to hit profitability. The media firm equally referenced the various thriving subsidiaries that have transformed the Konga Group into a formidable, flourishing e-commerce ecosystem, while also highlighting the pivotal role of KongaPay, a Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)-licensed fintech platform as a leader in the Nigerian e-wallet space. Following its 2018 acquisition by the Zinox Group…