Author: ITPulse

A Nigerian e-Commerce website developed by a startup, Oaklinks.NG has launched its range of services into the market on the month that the nation is celebrating its 61 years of independence with a promise to offer Nigerians top range of goods and services, particularly gadgets. In a statement issued today, October 1st, to launch the e-Commerce website, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Mr. Olamide Adeyemi Kaka, said that his company wants to end the era when some people patronize mediocre outlets in order to get cheap and ineffective gadgets. He said: “People underestimate their freedom to choose quality and how…

Cloud Exchange, yesterday in partnership with telecommunications giant, Huawei officially launched what can be described as Africa’s first uptime institute tier IV modular prefabricated data center The launch of the data center is in line with Cloud Exchange’s expansion of its service offerings from systems integration, hybrid cloud infrastructure to Tier IV data center colocation, interconnects and cross-connects, managed network and security, private and public cloud services. Speaking during the event, which was held at the Oriental Hotel in Lagos, Chief Executive Officer of Cloud Exchange, Mr Glad Dibetso said Nigeria’s growing digital economy drove the development of the data…

The Nigeria Innovation Summit (NIS) 2021, the virtual edition, scheduled for Tuesday, October 5 and Wednesday, October 6 2021, has received the support of critical industry stakeholders. Nigeria Innovation Summit in its 6th year is an annual event that brings together stakeholders from different sectors of Nigeria’s economy to share ideas, trends, opportunities around technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship development in Nigeria. Through previous editions in the past six years, the Nigeria Innovation Summit (NIS) has attracted over 5,000 delegates, 100 speakers and panellists, 50 tertiary institutions and research centres, 25 government ministries and agencies, delegates from 27 states of the…

The two biggest and most robust stakeholders interest groups in the Nigerian telecom industry; the Association of Telecom Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) and Association of Licensed Telecom Operators of Nigeria (ALTON) have sealed a partnership deal with DigiVation Network, an awareness and digital solution firm to host an event to celebrate Nigeria’s telecom revolution at 20. The essence of the event, which is scheduled to hold November 11, 2011, in Abuja at the NAF Conference Center is to celebrate the impact GSM and Information Communications Technology have made across all sectors of the Nigerian economy in the last 20 years…

By Olatayo Ladipo-Ajai While the Nigerian government has placed extensive focus on politics, building infrastructure and supporting a host of “brick and mortar” projects, it has, like many other Governments across the world met with some significant challenges when it came to deploying effective customer experience platforms. This has made it difficult to meet the needs of citizens who – particularly during and following the impact of the pandemic –  want, and in many cases need to digitally engage with organs of state. As a developing nation, there is an urgent need for the government to address this gap and…

The 2021 Digital Quality of Life (DQL) research index has revealed that Nigeria as a country lacks internet affordability as it is 90 percent worse than the global average, explaining that people in Nigeria have to work the most time (more than 35 hours) in the world to afford the cheapest broadband internet (more than 35 hours). The research findings, released by Surfshark, VPN service company based in the British Virgin Islands cover 90 percent of the global population and index 110 countries by looking at five fundamental pillars of digital life – internet affordability and quality, e-infrastructure, e-security, and…

With so much happening in the telecommunications industry and the expectation of the Fifth Generation (5G) technology services in Nigeria, eBusiness Life Communication Limited has put things in place for an event that will draw stakeholders to review the gains and pitfalls of Global System for Mobile communication (GSM) in the past 20 years. The event will also preview the gains, expected challenges and building blocks to be put in place before the 5G licenses are granted. The event, which has now received the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) backing, is billed to hold on November  5, 2021, at the Oriental Hotel,…

The organizer of the annual Cyberchain Conference has disclosed it will reward five Nigerian youths, who will emerge from a hackathon competition that will be organised during this year’s conference scheduled to hold November 19-20 at the prestigious Oriental Hotel in Lagos. Disclosing this at a press conference yesterday, Mr. Jude Ozinegbe, Convener of the Cyberchain Conference, said the rewards range from $1,000 USD for the first position, $500 USD for the second position while the third position will go home with $300 USD. Meanwhile, the fourth and fifth positions will go home with smartphones. He said while the monetary…

By Ben Gossage  From Hello Fresh to Spotify, subscription services are now so commonplace they’ve almost become the norm. Subscriptions started life in the media world, with newspaper and magazine subscriptions dating back centuries. But in the last ten years, the subscription business model has exploded in popularity across consumer industries including fashion, food and beauty, creating what has been dubbed, the ‘subscription economy.’ The model, which promotes a more convenient, cheaper way of accessing goods, has revolutionising the way we buy and sell consumer products. It should be no surprise then, that it’s now transforming B2B operating models. In…

Infobip, a global cloud communication platform for businesses and a leader in omnichannel customer engagement, recently completed the implementation of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered Chatbot on WhatsApp for Nigeria’s leading financial institution, Zenith Bank. Zenith Bank has over 500 branches and business offices in Nigeria and a customer base of more than 1.6 million accounts. The solution, named ZiVA (Zenith Intelligent Virtual Assistant), enables the bank’s customers to perform financial transactions and enjoy real-time customer service from their mobile phones on a 24-hour basis. With the capability to respond to chats or queries anchored on the existing WhatsApp platform,…