Author: ITPulse

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.…

The United Nations Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development has advocated for a deliberate building of an inclusive post-COVID digital future with impactful partnerships with various stakeholders, which will ultimately, make the best use of broadband Internet. The Commissioners of the Commission, who made this advocacy, noted that there is a need for innovative financing mechanisms, impactful partnerships, bold decision-making and holistic approaches to capacity and content development to make the best use of broadband Internet. Gathering at their spring annual session, more than 50 commissioners, who comprise government leaders, heads of international organizations and private companies, civil society and academia, discussed…

The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Pantami has highlighted some of the progress made so far in the implementation of the Nigerian National Broadband Plan 2020-2025. The Minister, who gave the highlights yesterday at a virtual structured engagement with key stakeholders in the Nigerian Telecom & ICT sector on the new national broadband plan 2020 – 2025, organized by the Association of Telecom Companies of Nigeria (ATCON), noted that the journey is encouraging with significant progress made in realizing some of the targets set in the new Broadband Plan. He said though, most of the challenges are…

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has given reasons why as part of its regulatory roles, it has always advocated for what it described as responsible use of the Internet. According to the telecom regulator, its advocacy for the responsible use of the technologies, especially the Internet is hinged on its drive to help address the country’s socio-economic, cultural and national security challenges. Giving a goodwill message at the ‘Quarterly Public Lecture of the National Institute for Cultural Orientation (NICO) yesterday, the Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta, noted that aside from driving ubiquitous access to telecoms services, NCC…

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…