Author: ITPulse

The Director-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) Mal. Kashifu Inuwa has asserted that broadband access should not be a luxury, but a necessity for economic and social development, stressing that broadband offers unprecedented opportunities for economic growth by providing access to information, connecting people to business and opening new markets. Mal. Inuwa, who was speaking at a virtual structured engagement with key stakeholders in the Nigerian Telecom & ICT sector on the new national broadband plan 2020 – 2025, yesterday, also asserted that real broadband must deliver data download speeds across Nigeria, with a minimum of 25Mbps…

Nigeria’s Plentywaka has sealed a partnership deal with Libra Motors Limited, a transportation company, with the sole aim of simplifying interstate traveling experience across Nigeria. The partnership deal will allow the two companies to combine technology and marketing in order to bring transport into one simple product, the Plentywaka mobile app. Announcing the partnership, Mr. Johnny Ena, Co-Founder, and President of Plentywaka, noted that the partnership will make the travel experience seamless for Nigerians. “The partnership with Libra Motors is great for our users especially at this time where a lot of Nigerians are traveling home for the Easter season.…

The Association of Telecom Companies of Nigeria (ATCON), today called on the private sector players in the country’s Information and Communications Technology industry to complement the government’s efforts in order to achieve the 70 percent broadband penetration target. The President of ATCON, Engr Ikechukwu Nnamani, who made the call at a virtual structured engagement with key stakeholders in the Nigerian Telecom & ICT sector on the new national broadband plan 2020 – 2025, said the call becomes necessary owing to the visible benefits of broadband, especially in a digital economy, which is vigorously being pursued by the federal government. “With…

The ASUS ZenBook Flip 13 UX363EA is set to be released commercially in weeks, but a firsthand review of the laptop, which comes with Intel® Core™ i7-1165G7 and Intel® Core™ i5-1135G7 processor, indicates that unlike other laptops in its class, the features embedded in the device makes incredible. Lightweight, sleek and fully connectable, the ASUS ZenBook Flip 13 UX363EA comes ready for the interest to artists and graphic designers as it comes with FHD OLED NanoEdge touchscreen, 178° wide viewing angle with 100% DCI-P3 color gamut, 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio; 0.2ms response time and 70% less harmful blue light than normal…

Want to achieve quick time-to-value on your digital transformation efforts while still building toward greater future capabilities? This is what you need to know. Organisations have experienced immense disruption over the past year. Many have had to reinvent their operating models, their product or service offerings and, in some cases, even their entire business model. In the face of such disruption, there is no single solution for every businesses’ ills. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on organisations was immediate and in many respects irreversible. As lockdowns confined office workers to their homes, organisations suddenly needed the agility to enable…

In a bid to speedily extend its fibre roll out to the South-East and South-South regions of Nigeria, Galaxy Backbone has partnered Interra Networks to ensure that Small Businesses and State Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies across the two regions can benefit from its service. Thus, the federal government-owned company is preparing the Staff of Interra Networks, a Network Communications and services company to help in selling GBB services across that region, by organising a One-day training that will help equip the Staff on the GBB Digital Services that are specific to Public sector companies and to Small & Medium…

Global connectivity solution provider, Ericsson has launched a new network programmability tool, called 5G Core Policy Studio. The tool enables communications service providers (CSPs) to more easily capture 5G revenue through offering differentiation. Also, the tool, which reduces complexity in network policy management handles the central management of all core network policies and is fully integrated with Ericsson’s dual-mode 5G Core, delivering up to 70 percent savings in policy configuration operational expenditures.  Speaking on how the tool works, Monica Zethzon, Head of Solution Area Cloud Packet Core, Ericsson, says: “Working at the core of 5G evolution, we see that 5G is…

Global cybersecurity company, Kaspersky has recommended seven guidelines that will help organizations and individuals to protect against cyber threats in the face of threats, which are classified as ‘local’, which means they are detected either on users’ devices or on portable data storage devices, such as flash drives. The seven guidelines, according to Kaspersky are: Do not follow dubious links from letters, messages in instant messengers or SMS Regularly install updates for the operating system and applications Install applications only from official stores Use complex and different passwords for accounts Regularly copy important data from your device to the cloud,…

The duo of VNTS and Schoola are among the five startups that will feature at this year’s Smart City Summit and Expo (SCSE), a professional tradeshow that provides opportunities for networking and marketing, which is organized annually by the Taipei Computer Association. The other three startups being sponsored to the show by the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) are LexChain, Powerstove Energy and Blieu Technologies. A statement issued and signed by Mrs. Hadiza Umar, Head of Corporate Communications Department, which quoted the DG of NITDA Mallam Kashifu Inuwa, explained that entrepreneurial activity does not happen in silos, hence the…

Edward Mekoma With the covid-19 pandemic still threatening global economies and altering hitherto established social orders, the world is looking to e-commerce as both today’s and tomorrow’s trade solution to overcome the drawbacks created by the pandemic. Last December, in the midst of the pandemic and its many restrictions on movement, the online purchase came in handy for my family. We had stocked up for the Yuletide but we needed to add more choice wines to our wine cellar and guaranty our power supply with a back-up generator. Having not been an e-commerce freak and still old-fashioned about shopping, my…