Author: ITPulse

The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, the Executive Vice Chairman of Nigerian Communications Commission, Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, the CEO of MTN Nigeria Plc, Mr. Ferdinand Moolman, and the Executive Vice Chairman of Globacom Limited, Mrs. Bella Disu, have been named among the “Top 10 Tech Leaders in Nigeria 2020”, a recognition program of the annual World Digital Exhibition (Worldex). Worldex is a technology trade fair, which is organized annually by Alford Conferences Limited. It seeks to link up Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) with the rest of the global technology community. The annual event is…

The Nigerian government through the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), has in the last five months assessed and cleared 62 Information Technology related projects worth over a trillion naira. The Director-General of NITDA, Mal. Kashifu Inuwa disclosed this in a speech, which was delivered by the Director IT Infrastructure Solutions, Dr. Usman Abdullahi, at a virtual meeting organised by a subsidiary of the Agency, Office for Nigerian Content Development (ONC). According to Inuwa, the assessment shows that about N64, 878,725,488 were for software and software-enabled projects. An indication that shows that more can be achieved with a deeper collaboration…

You scoured the internet. You found the item you wanted. You typed in your info. You clicked purchase, and just like that you… have no idea what happens next until your package arrives. More often than not, it isn’t the wait for a package that frustrates customers — it’s the lack of communication between the time of purchase and the receipt of their item. For business owners, providing tracking can boost customer satisfaction and drive repeat sales. Thankfully, package tracking is easy. You just need the right tools, and we’ve compiled a concise list of precisely what those tools are…

“We cannot trample upon the humanity of others, without devaluing our own….He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down” – Chinua Achebe This great Nigerian Novelist put out this statement many years ago but long after he has been gone, we seem to still haven’t learned that we will never become more in any way we look at it if we keep looking for ways to use our tribe, colour, authority or status to bring our fellow human beings down. I sometimes wonder the sort of satisfaction it brings to…

Tech enthusiasts, who are providing Banking-as-a-Service are gradually taking over the Fintech ecosystem by inventing a new revenue stream—here’s how incumbents can follow suit, Business Insider Intelligence revealed. In its recent report, Business Insider noted that Banking-as-a-Service providers use these best practices to gain a competitive advantage, stressing that Banking as a Service (BaaS), has been implemented by a relatively small number of innovative financial services providers over the last five years. Although regulations don’t require banks to offer BaaS, tech-savvy incumbents are now turning to this business model as a ‘can’t beat ’em, join ’em’ strategy to get ahead…

To fill the gap in market demand for the Internet and to keep up with the rapidly increasing demand for IP resources, IP leasing has been suggested to be the bona fide solution needed to sustain the integrity of the network and prepare it for future technology development. Vincentas Grinius, the Chief Executive Officer of Heficed, which provides full-range services for IP lease, monetization, and management services, put up this argument, stating that the internet needs to adopt a new governance model. He argued that the current internet infrastructure was never meant to withstand the onslaught of modern-day users: the…

The effect of Covid-19 Pandemic will force consumer spending on IT devices and data center systems to set to witness the most significant drop of $108bn in one year, data gathered by United Kingdom-based LearnBonds has revealed. The significant drop is largely attributed to the Coronavirus outbreak with thousands of companies cutting their technology and service budgets and financing only essential IT costs. “The global spending on IT devices is forecast to plunge by $108bn year-on-year, falling to $590bn in 2020,” LearnBonds announced Revenue Crashes 15.5% in 2020 In 2012, consumers worldwide spent $676bn on IT devices, including PCs, ultramobiles,…

With 2.7 billion people out of the global population playing games, the industry is expected to generate $159.3 billion in revenue with mobile gaming accounting for 48 percent at $77.2 billion in 2020. According to Finbold’s research, which overviewed the projected revenue from the gaming sector in 2020, under mobile games revenue, gamers on tablets will spend $13.7 billion accounting for 9 percent of the entire revenue generated, while Smartphone games whose revenue is projected to stand at $63.6 billion accounts for 40 percent of the global revenue. Meanwhile, game consoles are set to generate the second-highest revenue in 2020…

The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), has alerted Nigerians that there are existing fake websites in circulation, trying to capitalize on the COVID-19 pandemic to defraud unsuspecting Nigerians. The federal government agency that coordinates general IT development and regulation in the country, said the Agency’s Computer Emergency Readiness and Response Team (CERRT) identified the number of websites using various phishing tricks to attract Internet users in its effort at ensuring safe and secure Nigerian cyberspace. NITDA revealed that one of such tricks is misinforming the public that the Federal Government has approved the disbursement of funds under a fictitious…

The SBTS Group Inc has unveiled Health Outbreak Manager (HOM), a full ITTC (Identify, Track, Trace, and Contain) solution that works as a primary tool to support and aid users in an outbreak and also helps officials and health organization handle outbreaks from start to finish. The HOM is a solution that is powered by the SBTS Group, the company that innovated the first Ebola outbreak system. The solution helps governments, health care organizations, facilities, businesses and citizens manage outbreaks before, during and after a pandemic.  It comes handy as the world begins to return to a new normal from the effects…