Author: ITPulse

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…

The Nigeria Tech Innovation and Telecom Awards (NTITA) has recognised Infobip Nigeria, a cloud communications company as the Innovative Cloud Communication Partner of the Year for 2021. This award coming after it won ‘best Communication Solution Provider of the Year’ in July cements Infobip’s position as a leader in innovative communication solutions “We are honoured to receive this prestigious award from this most celebrated industry awards programme. We have worked hard to build our business in the West African region, and this accolade shows that our efforts are paying off,” said Infobip Nigeria country manager, Olatayo Ladipo-Ajai. He noted that…

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has warned unsuspecting Nigerians, particularly millions of Nigerian telecom consumers that “Davido Airtime and Data Giveaway” scheme, which has gone viral is fake. In a statement issued and signed by its Head of Public Affairs, Dr. Ikechukwu Adinde, the telecom regulator noted the scheme is initiated ostensibly syndicated to swindle unsuspecting members of the public, particularly millions of Nigerian telecom consumers, by capitalising on the generosity of David Adedeji Adeleke, widely known as Davido. Davido, a music star, songwriter and producer recently announced he would donate 250 million naira to various orphanage homes across Nigeria.…

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has continued to receive recognition and awards for its role in midwifery the telecom revolution in Nigeria in the last twenty years of Global System of Mobile Communications (GSM). The latest award is the ‘Outstanding Telecom Regulator of the Year’ award, won at the  the Nigeria Tech Innovations & Telecoms Awards (NTITA) 2021 in Lagos last week Friday, where its Executive Vice Chairman, Prof. Umar Danbatta, was also honoured with the ‘Telecoms Industry Leader’ award. A week earlier, at another event organised by the Association of Licensed Telecoms Operators of Nigeria (ALTON) and the Association…

Mr. Ikenna Nzewi, the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Releaf, a Nigerian based agritech startups has emerged the runner-up of the Africa’s Business Heroes (ABH) competition, a flagship philanthropic programme organised by the Jack Ma Foundation. As a runner-up, Ikenna also win $250, 000 funding to strengthen and expand Releaf’s operations in Nigeria and across Africa. This year’s top three Africa’s Business Heroes are: 1st – winning $300,000 – Khadija Mohamed Elbedweihy – Founder, PraxiLabs (Egypt) 2nd – winning $250,000 – Ikenna Nzewi – Co-founder and CEO, Releaf (Nigeria) 3rd – winning $150,000 – Navalayo Osembo-Ombati – Co-founder and…

As part of its commitment to make life better for Nigerians, Airtel on Saturday unveiled the newly renovated WARD-A Block of the prestigious and important tertiary health institutions in West Africa, the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH). The renovation, which cost the telecom company over N200 million see the WARD-A Block of the hospital equipped with connectivity technologies and solutions. Speaking at the commissioning/handover of the renovated LUTH Ward, Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director, Airtel Nigeria, Mr. Surendran Chemmenkotil, said Airtel the renovation of the building is part of Airtel’s commitment to explore more partnerships with governments at various…