Author: ITPulse

As the globe marks World Backup Day, which was initiated by a hard drive company (Maxtor) that was later acquired by Seagate Technology, the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) said it has decided to join the public in celebrating the day as it aligns with its data protection policy.. Specifically, NITDA believes that this year’s event is timely because data protection is needed more than ever due to the sudden global shift to work-from-home. In a statement signed Mrs. Hadiza Umar, Head, Corporate Affairs and External Relations, the Nigerian IT capacity building agency disclosed that World Back-up Day aims…

The Association of Telecom Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) has pledged to work with its members to fully support the federal government one-dig policy being implemented by some of the states where ducts are shared by multiple operators. In a goodwill message, delivered by its President, Engr Ikechukwu Nnamani at the Anambra State Broadband Stakeholders Forum, organized by the state government, ATCON noted that the one-dig policy will help address complaints from the states that sometimes when fiber infrastructure is laid by the operators, the roads are not restored to the original state. “We believe that one-dig policy will address the…

New data presented by AksjeBloggen.com has shown that the year 2021 is expected to witness a downsizing trend in global tablet sales, with revenues falling by $2.4bn in a year. This is after the Covid-19 lockdown measures that forced people worldwide to switch to working and educating at home, helped to grow the entire market, which generated $39.9bn in revenue last year, slightly above the 2019 levels. Before the pandemic, tablets had been losing ground to smartphones for years in a row. In 2016, the entire market generated $44.6bn in revenue, revealed the Statista data. In the next three years,…

The duo of Bako Wakil and Oluwatoyin Asaju, both Directors at the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC),  have been conferred with the Fellowship of the Nigerian Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FNIEEE). In a statement issue and signed by Dr. Ikechukwu Adinde, Director of Public Affairs at NCC, the Directors received the Fellowship Award at the 8th Fellowship Conferment and Awards/Dinner of the Institute, held last week Saturday. While Wakil is the Director, Technical Standards and Network Integrity, Asaju is the current Director, Spectrum Administration Department at the Commission. They are both certified engineers, Bako Wakil holds a Master of…

The Internet Protocol Version Six (IPv6) Council Nigeria, has sealed a partnership deal with the Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) to host the 1st web seminar (webinar) on the state of IPv6 deployment in Nigeria. In a joint statement, signed by the Chairman of IPV6 Council Nigeria, Mr. Muhammed Rudman and President of ATCON, Engr. Ikechukwu Nnamani, the theme of the webinar scheduled to hold on Thursday, April 8, 2021, by 10 am, is “National IPv6 Migration: Challenges and Prospects for the Nigerian/Africa Digital Transformation”. The statement noted that the webinar is a veritable platform to discuss the…

Nigel Green, the Chief Executive Officer of deVere Group has explained how institutional investors such as Tesla’s Elon Musk and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey interest in Bitcoin will permanently hike the price. According to Green, Bitcoin has been on an epic rally since last October owing to the momentum that came from investors who are looking for alternatives to traditional currencies as central banks and governments continue to helicopter new cash into economies. “As Wall Street giants increasingly pursue crypto activities and as billionaire entrepreneurs such as Tesla’s Elon Musk and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey pile into the cryptocurrency, Bitcoin prices will…

As enterprises sharpen cloud migrations, SaaS vendors are predicted to boom significantly. Cloud migrations are often complex. Toss in a pandemic and a quick transformation to remote work, and 2021 becomes the year of clean-up. Looking towards 2021, there will be a massive uptick in cloud infrastructure implementations and spending to enable new remote workers to function efficiently outside the legacy office environment. The transformation to the cloud isn’t slowing down, but enterprises are tidying strategies to take complete benefit of a hot cloud moment. In 2021, firms are preparing for the cloud to trickle into all departments. Here are…

Nigeria’s premier financial institution, Firstbank is set to hold the fourth edition of the annual FirstGem Conference, tagged FirstGem 4.0. The 2021 event is themed ‘The Art of Negotiation’.  The conference, which is scheduled to hold on Wednesday, 31 March 2021 is being convened to provide women with insights on the secrets of wealth management, investment and savings. Participants are required to register via the link http://bit.ly/firstbankwebinar Announcing the conference in a statement, Mr. Francis Shobo, Deputy Managing Director, Firstbank said “The FirstGem 4.0 is the icing on the cake in the streams of initiatives and activities we have organised…

By Elvis Eromosele Numbers tell a story. If you can connect one story with another, you can make plausible inferences. Two reports released last week showed the power of these connections. The Nigerian Bureau of Statistics showed that the unemployment rate for the fourth quarter of 2020 hit 33.3 percent. This is an increase from the 27.1 percent recorded in Q2, of the same year. The Nigerian Protein Deficiency Report 2020 released in the same week indicated that cost and household income levels remain the major deterrents to adequate protein intake in Nigeria. According to the report, 45 percent of…

Nigeria is currently mired in the throes of a worsening unemployment tide. As you read this, the situation is so bad that out of every three Nigerians you encounter, one of them is unemployed. Numbers-wise, Nigeria’s unemployment profile currently stands at about 33.3%. The data above is backed up by the latest statistics released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The report released on Monday, March 15, 2021, Monday, March 15, makes for grim reading. It showed that Nigeria’s unemployment rate rose from 27.1 percent in the second quarter of 2020 to 33.3 percent in the fourth quarter of 2020.…