Author: ITPulse

A leading African retailer, Pick n Pay has selected  Clickatell, a mobile communications and chat commerce to manage their WhatsApp customer communication channel. With this, customers can easily access Pick n Pay services by sending “Hi” to +27 60 070 3037, leading to an easy way to navigate menu then allows shoppers to choose which action they want to perform. The Pick n Pay WhatsApp channel currently hosts catalogues, COVID-19 FAQs, store locator, Smart Shopper card services and other customer services options. “We are constantly looking to improve our customer service and to make it easier for our customers to…

Creditswitch, a company committed to providing the best of VAS Aggregator services in the Telecom and IT industry space in Nigeria, has won Unified VAS Solutions Provider of the Year award.   The award was conferred on Creditswitch at 2021 edition of the prestigious Nigeria Tech Innovation & Telecom Awards (NTITA) held at Oriental Hotel on November 19, 2021.   The company’s world class technical infrastructure and resources enables it to be the most preferred VAS provider for various businesses within the country and beyond.   Creditswitch has flexible business model, the technology and expertise and serves B2B and B2C customers from…

The growth of phishing attacks mimicking e-payment pages was spotted in the run-up to the Black Friday period. The total number of financial phishing attacks disguised as e-payment systems more than doubled from September (627,560) to October 2021 (1,935,905), indicating a 208% increase. This was disclosed by the latest findings from Kaspersky’s ‘Black Friday 2021: How to Have a Scam-Free Shopping Day’ report. The sales season attracts the attention of shoppers and retailers; however, it is also a favorite of cybercriminals who do not hesitate to cash in on online shoppers by creating fake pages mimicking the biggest retail platforms…

Ethnos IT Security Solutions Limited, an indigenous company with focus on cyber security marks their ten years in the Nigerian IT ecosystem offering robust cyber security solution and advisory services to their clients across the nation. The company used that opportunity to unveil their new logo that would reflect their new business vision and how they have come to serve their numerous customers better. Speaking to the media, Peter Ejiofor, the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ethnos IT Security Solutions Limited looked back at the years and recalled how far they have come and what has made the organization…

Zinox Technologies Limited has been crowned the pioneer 2021 Technology Company of the Year by the Nigeria Computer Society (NCS), the umbrella organization of all Information Technology professionals, interest groups and stakeholders in Nigeria. The ICT giant was accorded the award at the National Information Technology Merit Awards (NITMA) held at the Muson Centre, Onikan, Lagos on Thursday, November 18, 2021. The well-organized event had the crème of personalities in the Nigerian tech sector in attendance, including the Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat who represented the Lagos State Governor at the event. The Deputy Governor was also…

Owing to challenges posed by air travels in the country, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has decided to extend the submission of bid for the 3.5 Gigahertz Spectrum Band auction to Monday, 29th November, 2021. The telecom regulator had earlier fixed the deadline date for the submission of bids and Initial Bid Deposits (IBDs) for Wednesday, 24th November 2021. But in a statement signed by its Director of Public Affairs, Dr. Ikechukwu Adinde, NCC stated that the challenges posed to air travels as witnessed recently and considering that it may have some impact on intending bidders regarding the submission of…

A new research by NordPass has found out that Nigeria has the highest number of people who use words related to religious to create their passwords. According to the research, words such as  christ”, “pastor”, “church”, “jesusislord”, “heaven”, “godisgood”, “divine”, “goodness”, “jesus1”, “blessed”, “jesuschrist”, “prayer” are commonly used by Nigerians as passwords. The research also found out that Nigerians often use Loving and positive words, such as “success”, “iloveyou”, “lovely”, “mylove”, “mother”. Meanwhile, the top 20 most common passwords in Nigeria are 123456, password, favour, 123456789, 12345, school, Emmanuel, blessing, computer, Sunday, Samuel, Nigeria, mylove, 1234567, lovely, 12345678, success, Damilola,…

A new mobile app that offers a modern design, easy navigation,and exciting new features to deliver a top-notch and seamless digital banking experience for its existing and prospective members has been launched by Crowdyvest Limited, Nigerian fintech company. This is coming even as the go-to digital wealth management and savings platform has also introduced Crowdyvest Yield, a catalogue of alternative offers that include commodity-specific projects and discretionary plans available to members ranging from short to long term tenors across a wide range of sectors. The features will give its members a variety of suitable plans to help build a saving…

Nigeria’s leading after-sales service provider, TD Plus has flagged off a campaign, offering free device support to all customers. This free offer is in partnership with TD Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa’s foremost distributor of technology and lifestyle products. Customers with defective items purchased from TD Africa from October 1st, 2021 would have such items fixed for free (for the first time only). This means devices purchased from TD Africa before October 2021 do not qualify. Items covered in this free offer include mobile devices, electronics and computers (Laptops & Desktops). Equally important, the offer includes all out-of-warranty defects for mobile devices…

The second edition of the prestigious Chief Information Officer (CIO) Awards is set to hold in Lagos this Friday, November 26, 2021. The Awards ceremony, which is being organized by Edniesal Consulting Limited, an enterprise governance and business consultancy firm, is scheduled to take place at Lagos Oriental Hotel, Lekki. According to the organisers, the objective of the CIO Awards is to recognise and celebrate the outstanding work by CIOs, CTOs – Chief Technology Officers, CDOs – Chief Digital Officers, and other leaders in the Information Technology ecosystem across various business sectors of the economy. “These are the unsung heroes…