Author: ITPulse

ESQ Nigeria Legal Awards, touted as the biggest legal event of the year has recognised the legal team of MainOne, a connectivity and data center services provider as the “Telecom In-House Counsel of the year”. Receiving the award, MainOne’s General Counsel, Abayomi Adebanjo expressed delight with the recognition, saying, “Receiving the Telecom In-House Counsel of the year award is truly an honour and testament of the hard work the legal department continues to put in consistently. It means a great deal to us that the legal industry recognizes our work in MainOne and I am very proud of our incredible…

Konga, foremost composite e-commerce giant has raised the curtains on its final sales promotion of the year – Konga Jara, which offers shoppers massive discounts and huge savings on their festive season shopping. Through the promotion, the management of the e-commerce giant promises her teeming customers best prices in Nigeria this season. The 2021 edition of Konga Jara, which commenced on Monday, December 13 is set to run through Friday, December 31 across all of Konga’s platforms, including online @ www.konga.com, offline in every Konga retail store nationwide and on Konga Bulk. Konga Jara is an annual year-end shopping campaign…

Interswitch has said it sponsoring this year’s Lagos Transport Fest, scheduled to hold tomorrow at the Civic Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos. Speaking on the essense of sponsoring the event, integrated payments and digital commerce company said it is part of its commitment to improving lives using technology to shape Nigeria’s Transport Sector amongst others. “The Lagos Transport Fest is a great platform and opportunity for Interswitch to showcase its existing technology infrastructure and seamless payment solutions alongside other valuable offerings which will help drive economic growth, especially in the transport sector,” said Chinyere Don-Okhuofu, Managing Director, Industry Ecosystems (Indeco) at…

In what was tagged Cyber Africa at 10 Forum/Cyber Africa Digital Economy Awards, the management of Cyber Africa, one of African converged legacy Information and Technology news platform, last week in Lagos celebrated digital innovations across all sectors of the African continent. The event was called together by the organizer to celebrate the huge digital transformation that has taken place across Africa, where virtually every sector of the economy is being driven by digital tools. Thus, many organisations and individuals, who are transforming Africa in their own class in the areas of cyber security, eGovernance, startups, innovation, policy, infrastructure, finance…

After nearly eight hours and 11 rounds of auctions for the 3.5GHz spectrum, the duo of MTN and Mafab Communications yesterday in Abuja emerged winners of the two slots of the spectrum available for the deployment of Fifth Generation (5G) network in Nigeria. The two companies ended up biiding for $273 million each for the last round, beating Airtel Nigeria that quit at the eleventh round when the bid was $270m.  The three eligible bidders that participated at the mock and main auctions, were MTN Nigeria, Mafab Communications and Airtel Networks Limited. With this, the provisional licence would be given…

The world of crypto in 2021 was buoyed by a number of high profile institutions and businesses investing in crypto at far greater scale than previously seen, driving crypto’s evolution into what is now a multi-trillion dollar asset. Bitcoin and Ethereum, the two largest cryptocurrencies by market cap, recorded new all-time highs and El Salvador became the first country to adopt crypto as legal tender. Marius Reitz, Luno’s GM for Africa, provides an overview of the important milestones during the year. Luno is South Africa’s homegrown crypto platform now operating in over 40 countries. All-time highs The Bitcoin price burst…

Hero MotoCorp, the world’s largest manufacturer of motorcycles and scooters, has launched ‘Super Oga’ campaign, which can be regarded as the first of its kind motorcycle campaign in Nigeria.   The campaign invites customers and enthusiasts to participate and attempt to cover the distance of 25,000 kilometers in 60 days on the Hero Hunter motorcycle. The first two riders, in each state, to achieve this milestone will receive four new Hero Hunter motorcycles and wear the ‘Super Oga’ crown.   The campaign will be hosted in five states of Nigeria including Oyo, Ondo, Ekiti, Kwara and Gombe with 20 contestants…

Infobip, a global cloud communication company for businesses and a leader in omnichannel customer engagement, last week at this year’s CIO Africa Golf Day, launched a virtual WhatsApp-based golf bot named “Rafiki” – which means “friend” in Swahili. At the event held at the Royal Nairobi Golf Club situated in Nairobi, Kenya, which attracted a multitude of CEOs, CIOs and heads of IT from across the East African region, the virtual WhatsApp-based golf bot was used for a variety of functions, including the registration of attendees for the golf day. Explaining the rationale behind the golf bot, Andrew Egan, Sales…

A strategic partnership deal that will allow over 1.6 million passengers using the CMS Taxi and Motor Nigeria Limited (CMS T&M) in Lagos to leverage digital transportation has been sealed with pioneer shared mobility platform, Treepz. The partnership is part of Treepz’s mission to provide commuters with convenient and affordable means of transportation within cities and across Africa. Thus, these passengers will have access to a more convenient payment option and predictable travel times. Speaking on the partnership, Mr Onyeka Akumah, CEO & Co-Founder Treepz Inc, noted that the technology provided by Treepz will allow the CMS T&M management to…

One of MTN Nigeria Limited, Mafab Communications Limited and Airtel Networks Limited, will on Monday emerge as the successful bidder of the 3.5 gigahertz (GHz) spectrum auction for the deployment of the Fifth Generation (5G) network in the country.     This follows a successful mock session for the spectrum auction by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) today at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja, in preparatory to the main auction scheduled to take place at same venue. In a statement issued by the Commission, the conduct of the simulation exercise was in line with the requirements stipulated in the Information…