Author: ITPulse

The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta has highlighted measures the Commission has taken and implementing to consolidate the gains of Information and Communications Technology revolution in Nigeria. The NCC Boss, gave the highlights in a lecture titled ‘Empowering the Nigerian Youth Through Information and Communications Technology’, which he delivered last week during the 10th and 11th Convocation Ceremony of Fountain University, Oke-Osun Osogbo. He said as a measure to consolidate the gains of the ICT revolution in Nigeria, the National Digital Economy Policy and Strategy 2020-2030 (NDEPS) and the National Broadband Plan (NNBP)…

Mrs. Ibukun Awosika, a serial entrepreneur and former Chairman, First Bank of Nigeria Plc., has hailed Konga, Nigeria’s leading composite e-commerce giant as a stretch factor that has taken on and surmounted huge challenges, while positively disrupting the face of e-commerce in Nigeria. She made the call on Saturday, January 15, 2022 at the Konga Group’s retreat held at the impressive Yudala Heights on Idowu Martins, Victoria Island, Lagos Awosika, who was one of the special guests at the half-year business review retreat organized by Konga, heaped praises on the e-commerce giant for bouncing back from a potential exit in…

The Lagos Chamber of Commerce & Industry (LCCI) has appealed to Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari to to create an enabling environment that supports global technology companies. The Director-General of LCCI, Chinyere Almona, while commenting on the ban of Twitter last year June and subsequent lifting of the ban last week by the Buhari led federal government, argued that creating enabling environment for global tech companies will boost the country’s Gross Domestic Products (GDP). “When an enabling environment is created for the tech companies to thrive, Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and revenue mobilisation will receive a boost through tax revenues…

Canadian Fintech firm, Periculum has officially launched its credit facility service in Nigeria with an ambitious plan to build credit assessment infrastructure across Africa, especially to Ghana, Kenya and Egypt before the end of this year. The company has also announced the appointment of a Managing Director, Damilola Aluede, to accelerate its business in Nigeria. According to the firm, the launch of its service is in tandem with the vitality of financial services such as banking, savings, debt and equity financing, investment management, and point-of-sale lending, which is largely dependent on the maturity of its domestic credit industry. “Africa needs…

President Muhammadu Buhari has established a N100 million Technology fund for youth empowerment that will nudge the emergence of world class technology experts in Nigeria, the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has disclosed. The Minister, who disclosed this recently during the inauguration of a Digital Nigeria Centre (DNC), a project executed by the Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF), an arm of NCC, at the Ijesa Muslim Grammar School, Ilesa, in Osun State, also disclosed that the Fund targets 2,000 youths in the next two years, who will be provided with devices for training in different areas such as software…

The Nigerian government has singled out the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) for doing a great job in the area of enhancing the digital skills of the Nigerian youths and implementation of various Information and Communication Technology skill acquisition programmes. The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, who gave the applauds during the inauguration of a Digital Nigeria Centre (DNC) in Ilesa, Osun State recently, also commended the NCC for timely and thorough implementation of the Digital Nigeria Centre project, saying he was confident that the project will promote the connection of public secondary schools to broadband internet in Ilesa community…

The Modibbo Adama University of Technology (MAUTECH), Yola in Adamawa State,  the University of Ibadan in Oyo State and the University of Calabar, Cross Rivers State are set host hackathon on Agriculture, Security and Logistics. Sponsored by the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), the hackathon is set to drive digital innovation and entrepreneurship by challenging Nigeria’s teeming youths to ideate and develop solutions from inception through to the market. “The hackathon is set to develop and grow a global network of IT experts, comprising Nigerian youths within the country and in the diaspora. It is targeted at inculcating entrepreneurship…

The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta has declared the adoption and utilisation of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is pivotal to the Socio-economic development of Nigeria. The NCC Boss, who delievered the 10th and 11th combined Convocation Lecture of the Fountain University at Osogbo, Osun State, noted that ICT is synonymous with empowerment, as it transforms processes efficiently acting as an enabler of effectiveness in operations in every sector of the economy, including commerce, agriculture, health, security and governance. “In all continents of the world, people, organisations and countries have continued to witness…

Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, has scheduled its first webinar in 2022 on how companies can effectively optimize their cybersecurity insurance. Cyber insurance is a form of cover designed to protect your business from threats in the digital age, such as data breaches or malicious cyber hacks on work computer systems. The webinar themed “What you can do to optimize your cyber insurance” is scheduled to hold on Thursday, January 20, 2022, from 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM GMT. Announcing webinar on Friday, Sophos said the cyber insurance market is changing fast while premiums are going up rapidly…

The Nigerian government said it spent a whopping N152 billion on digitalization in 2021, describing it as a quantum leap from the N9 billion spent in 2019 and 2020. “While we are targeting 2030 to have a paperless government operation, we will like to inform you that the government spent N152 billion on digitalization in 2021. This amount is a quantum leap from the N9 billion spent in 2019 and 2020,” the Minister of Communications and \digital Economy, Prof. Isa Pantami disclosed at the Champion Day and Closing of 2021 Service Wide Capacity Building program on e-Government in Abuja. According…