Author: ITPulse

In a bid to get a 100 per cent grip of the African digital solution market and position as the largest independent fibre network provider in emerging markets globally, Liquid Intelligent Technologies said it has achieved a 100,000 km fibre network milestone. Disclosing this today during a virtual press conference, Mr. Nic Rudnick, Group Chief Executive Officer at Liquid Intelligent Technologies, said this milestone was moved from 89,989 km at the beginning of 2021 and is presently connecting 14 countries, primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa. While urging customers to explore opportunities in Africa and across the US, Asian and European markets…

Nigeria’s premier financial institution, Firstbank has denied media reports suggesting its branches in the South Eastern part of Nigeria are temporarily closed. In a public announcement, the bank said its branches in South East are fully open, asking the general public to disregard any news to the contrary. “This is to inform the public that our South East branches are fully open for business. Please disregard any news making the rounds that are contrary to this,” the announcement signed by Folake Ani-Mumuney, Group Head, Marketing & Corporate Communications said. First Bank of Nigeria Limited (FirstBank) is the premier Bank in…

By Filip Filkovic Digital technology has not only profoundly altered the way we live our lives, but also changed the pace of communication and commerce, allowing us to do everything, immediately. While this has effectively impacted every aspect of our lives, it also inevitably changed the way we are targeted by fraudsters. Along with the world transforming to digital, so has crime. According to an Accenture report published in 2019, the total value at risk of cybercrime over the next five years is an estimated $5.2 trillion. The average cyberattack costs $13 million, according to the same report, with phishing,…

Canon Central and North Africa have launched a new SI-VAR programme to train, empower and support their partner Systems Integrators (SI) and Value-Added Resellers (VAR) in Nigeria and indeed other African countries. The programme, which is a component of Canon’s broader strategy to get closer to their customers is designed to enable business partners to achieve greater success, incorporates a loyalty programme, product training and business strategies that equip their partners to confidently offer their customers Canon’s superior solutions and services. Canon launched the SI-VAR programme in Egypt and Nigeria earlier this year and is currently extending to other countries…

The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, has lauded 9mobile for its support in the ongoing fight against COVID-19 at the Health Workers recognition event, organized by the telco to celebrate health workers at the National Hospital in Abuja during the weekend. According to the minister, who was represented at the event by the Director of Hospital Services, Federal Ministry of Health, Dr. Adebimpe Adebiyi (mni), the gesture by 9mobile to celebrate frontline health workers by recognizing and rewarding the most outstanding health worker would go a long way to boost the morale of the recipient as well as other…

KPMG Nigeria has launched what it tagged ‘Know Your Customer (KYC)’ tool that will be used by the financial service industry to reduce the menace of money laundering, terrorist financing and other financial crimes. According to KPMG, the launch of the tool is necessitated by the fact that the Financial Services (FS) industry is pivotal to the development of economies as it facilitates financial flows within and across borders. This industry, however, is also exposed to abuse as criminally-minded individuals, corporations and States can exploit the financial industry to facilitate bribery, money laundering, sponsoring of terrorism and other financial crimes.…

With global IT spending expected to significantly recover and hit over $4trillion in 2021, Software and hosting/cloud projects are forecast to account for more than 50 percent of total IT budgets this year, data presented by AksjeBloggen.com has revealed. This is a result of many companies being forced to increase their IT budgets to adapt to new operational requirements and set up their employees to work from home going by the restrictions that were occasioned by the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic. Last year, hardware projects accounted for a third of IT budgets among business technology buyers, with differences depending on the…

The President of the Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON), Mr. Chinenye Mba-Uzoukwu, has been slated to give a keynote at the 2021 edition of the Nigeria DigitalSENSE Africa Forum on Internet Governance for Development (IG4D), billed for Thursday, June 10, at the Golden Tulip Hotels Essential, International Airport Road, Lagos. Confirming this in Lagos, the organisers through the Lead Consulting Strategist and Group Executive Editor, ITREALMS Media inc, Mr. Remmy Nweke, said that ISPON president would be exploring the role of Nigerian software in the digital economy within this year’s main theme which centers on Digital Cooperation: Enhancing Multi stakeholders Governance…

The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), has recommended seven steps that will help Nigerians defeat the likely malicious email campaign that will be undertaken by the hacking group- NOBELIUM. The recommendations, according to the IT regulatory body are: Turn on cloud-delivered protection in Microsoft Defender Antivirus or the equivalent to cover rapidly evolving attacker tools and techniques. Run EDR in block mode to enable antivirus to block malicious artifacts (EDR in block mode works behind the scenes to remediate malicious artifacts that are detected post-breach.) Enable network protection to prevent applications or users from accessing malicious domains and other malicious content…

The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta has attributed the current 80 million broadband users to the thorough implementation of the National Broadband Plan (2020-2025). Danbatta, who stated this last week in Abuja, while receiving a delegation from Autoridade Reguladora Nacional (ARN), the Telecom National Regulatory Authority of Guinea-Bissau, noted that the National Broadband Plan (2020-2025), also target the provision of Point of Broadband Access (PoA) in all the 774 local government areas (LGAs) of the country within the plan period. “Through the implementation of various policy initiatives, particularly the National Broadband Plan (2020-2025),…