Author: ITPulse

In a bid to encourage all Smile subscribers to own and utilize the MySmile App, Smile Communications has decided to introduce a special 15% recharge bonus for customers who download the app and recharge. To fully benefit from the 15% Bonus on recharge as the campaign is called, all the customer needs is to download the App, activate it and recharge a monthly data plan using the App. Commenting on the package, Abdul Hafeez, Chief Marketing Officer, Smile Nigeria, encouraged Smile customers to empower themselves by installing the MySmile App on their mobile phones. He added that with the Smile…

P2vest, one of Nigeria’s lending platform that offers quick disbursement of loans and flexible payback plan where people can begin to have an ecosystem of lending and borrowing has hit 100,000 users with access to quick loans. The peer-to-peer lending application believes this achievement underscores its role in transforming the way people access credit and lend money by bringing borrowers and lenders together. “Since we launched, we have provided access to quick loans to over 105,000 Nigerians. This is a big achievement for us as we have availed people the chance to access loans for their different needs like setting…

As companies take stock and plan budgets for the new year, and as the pandemic continues unabated, companies will still need to factor in its ongoing impact on their business and daily operations; remote working, to some extent, will remain in place for many businesses, as does the economic aftermath of the COVID-19 crisis. To help businesses prioritise when planning budgets for the year, we have drawn on several observations from our recent research into the economics of cybersecurity and identified the following five considerations we believe business and security team leaders should keep top of mind: Last year, budgets…

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…