Author: ITPulse

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…

TwentyTen Daily is celebrating its first anniversary, a milestone marked by many exciting moments with its own fair share of highs and lows.  Over the past one year, with its team made up of journalists, data visualization experts and media innovators. It has extensively published in-depth data driven stories and reports under a wide range of verticals including such as Featured Reports, Black box, Investigations, Health, Criminal Justice, Business, Economy, politics and more. TwentyTen Daily is an independent news media organization and data platform improving access to data for actionable decisions through the promotion of African data journalism, augmented reporting,…

By 12 midnight today, Nigerians will be able to log on to their Twitter app or browser without using VPN, following the lifting of the ban on their operation by the Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari. In a memo signed by Kashifu Inuwa, Chairman Technical Committee Nigeria-Twitter Engagement and Director-General National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA, the lifting of the ban is as a result of a a memo written to the President by the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof Isa Ibrahim. In the Memo, the Minister updates and requests the President’s approval for the lifting based on the…

In a bid to connect, power and control device access within a Local Area Network (LAN), Sophos has decided to unveil the Sophos Switch Series, that features a range of network access layer switches. Unveiling the switch series, the global leader in next-generation cybersecurity said the new offering adds another component to Sophos’ secure access portfolio, which also includes Sophos Firewall and Sophos Wireless. “Sophos Switch seamlessly integrates with the Sophos adaptive cybersecurity ecosystem to extend connectivity across office LANs,” said Joe Levy, chief technology officer at Sophos. He noted that with the launch, Sophos is removing the complexities of…

Lack of expertise, meeting compliance requirements and efficiency in delivering cybersecurity solutions have been listed as the major reasons for engaging third-party security specialists in 2021, especially among the small and medium-sized businesses. This was revealed by Kaspersky Annual IT Security Economics Report. According to the report,  businesses were forced to accelerate their digital transformation by months, or even years, resulting in the rapid increase of complex IT infrastructure and related security risks. In combination with the shortage of cybersecurity specialists and a lack of capacity to develop talent internally, this situation has compelled companies to look for external support.…