Author: ITPulse

One of the world’s premier digital industrial companies, GE has given reasons why it decided to launch an e-learning portal at the recently concluded Lagos Garage Week 2018. The company said it is in line with its commitment to skills development and the empowerment of entrepreneurs in Nigeria that it launched the Lagos Garage advanced manufacturing training program with the objective of extending the training program’s reach to thousands of Nigerians across the country. “Our goal is to empower Nigeria entrepreneurs with the relevant skills required to compete on a global scale. I’m happy to say that so far, over…

  The Director General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Dr. Isa Pantami has claimed that the Information and Communications Technology industry in Nigeria is presently contributing 13.63 percent to the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Pantami, who made this claim at a Startup event, organized by NITDA in Abuja, also stated that revenue from Startups in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector berthed at $101 million in the third quarter of 2018. “As a country, we should be excited that the burgeoning ICT sector is growing in leaps and bounds. I’m happy to report to you…

  The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta has been scheduled to give the keynote address at the Fourth and last  in the series of this year’s Nigeria Information Technology Reporters’ Association (NITRA) Quarterly Forum. The Forum with the theme “Achieving Last Mile Connectivity Through Affordable Broadband,” is expected to address broadband challenges, especially last mile connectivity, which industry watchers argue has remained a setback in the country’s broadband penetration quest. The Forum is billed for December 14, 2018, at the CitiHeight Hotel, Opebi Link, Ikeja, Lagos. In a statement in Lagos signed by…

A Nigerian lady, Blessing Jonah on Monday this week drove home a Toyota Corolla worth N2.5 million, courtesy Ekojara.com, a leading online gaming platform, making her the first person to win an automobile since the unveiling of the brand rare feat. Congratulating Blessing, the Chief Executive Officerof Ekojara, Hillary Nwaukor disclosed that Blessing had won the Toyota Corolla vehicle with just N2,500 after an online raffle draw that was characterized by probity and transparency was drawn. “Remember, everybody stands a chance to win. Someday, we imagine that people will have a fair chance to win big items such as…

  It’s that time of year – our planet has made its trip around the sun and as we close out 2018, we look ahead and think about the possibilities for 2019.  And we’re closing in on the next decade of innovation that takes us into 2030, where we at Dell Technologies predict we’ll realize the next era of Human-Machine Partnerships – where we will be immersed in smart living, intelligent work, and a frictionless economy. We made some bold predictions last year – some coming to fruition a bit faster than others…there’s still much to do in advancing artificial…

  A 90 percent Internet penetration that would be experienced in Nigeria and other Sub-Saharan African countries will be driven by the growing young population with increased digital skills. This is the prediction of world’s leading technology provider, Ericsson, in its latest Mobility report. According to the report, Middle East and North Africa will experience 5G subscriptions in significant volumes as from 2022 and in commercial deployments with leading communications service providers by 2019, and significant volumes in 2021. “As 5G now hits the market, its coverage build-out and uptake in subscriptions are projected to be faster than for previous…

  The President of the Nigerian Internet Registration Association (NiRA), Revd. Sunday Folayan has posited that Nigeria’s economy should at this stage be partly depended on revenue from the Information and Communications Technology and not majorly from oil. Folayan, who stated this at an event recently in Lagos, also argued that for this to happen, there must be concerted efforts in terms of legislation and policies, education and capacity building, open governance and enhanced accountability. You may also read: Why we conceived the idea of bloggers summit – NiRA “There is a need to rebuild our country leveraging on Information…

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is seeking the collaboration of the GSMA to foster innovation and growth in the Telecommunications Industry in the face of emerging and disruptive technologies. NCC said the collaboration is in consonance with its 3rd and 5th item of the 8-point agenda, which focuses on Optimizing Usage and benefits of Spectrum and Facilitating Strategic Collaboration and partnership. Speaking at a workshop at the Commission’s headquarter recently, the Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, Professor Umar Garba Danbatta noted that the objective of the workshop is to provide an avenue for Regulators, Operators, Investors as well as…

  Computer Science students across Nigeria under the auspices of the Nigeria Association of Computer Science Students (NACOSS) will on Friday this week at the Foundation Polytechnic Ikot Idem, Ikot Ekpene Akwa Ibom State hold what it has tagged ‘Who We Are Now’ conference. The 1-day conference, according to the National President of NACOSS, Abubakar Hassan Sadiq is targeted at reawakening the dead love for NACOSS amongst the students in Nigeria and re- orientate them to a paradigm shift in their viewership of the study of computer science as a course or profession. “Some percentage of students are faced with…

As part of its corporate social responsibility, Hewlett-Packard (HP) has committed to educate 100,000 across Africa in the next three years through the HP Foundation’s HP LIFE (Learning Initiative for Entrepreneurs) program. The PC maker, which announced the new commitment at the Global Citizen Festival: Mandela is doing this by opening the HP LIFE Center for Entrepreneurship in South Africa, which it said is aimed at supporting entrepreneurs in the continent, where 32percent of the population under the age of 30 will be regarded as the largest working age population by 2035. The commitment, it said, is its pledge to…