Author: ITPulse

Engr. James Kunle Olorundare of the Technical Standards and Network Integrity Department of Nigerian Communications Commission, last week in Lagos won the ‘Best Regulatory Engineer of the Year’ at the Beacon of Information and Communication Technology (BOICT) Awards. The organizer of the Awards, Communications Week Media, said Olorundare won the award for his expertise and experience in the Nigeria’s ICT ecosystem, especially in Product Certification, Standardization, Project Management, Industry Regulations, Corporate Action Plan, Equipment Testing and System Auditing. “After an exhaustive search conducted by an independence team, we came to the conclusion that Olorundare should be awarded the ‘Best Regulatory…

TechEconomy.ng has started a “Broadband RoundTable” Thought Leadership Series; an all-inclusive opportunity for the telecoms Subscribers/Consumer, Service Providers, Investors and the Regulator to bare their minds with regard broadband infrastructure deployment in the country. Enextgen Wireless is also supporting the Thought Leadership Series, which is open to telecom industry stakeholder to make factual submissions (thought leadership piece) aimed at proffering solutions to identified challenges in the industry. Why are we doing this? Speaking on the rationale behind the initiative, the Editor of TechEconomy.ng, Peter Oluka, said that broadband infrastructure is no longer a “nice-to-have” amenity for Nigerian cities rather an essential need. Broadband…

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) said it is passionate about the promotion of local content, which will ultimately boost the activities of entrepreneur and reduce unemployment in Nigeria. The Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta, who spoke through the Felicia Onwuegbuchulam, Director Consumer Affairs Bureau (CAB) of the Commission at a reception for some top Management staff of the Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI), also stated that NCC is committed to partnering with all shades of stakeholders to promote local content input into the economy. The NCC’s comment was in response to an invitation from Tonia…

The Chief Executive Officer of the Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria, Mr. Muhammed Rudman yesterday emerged the President of the Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA). Rudman, who was announced the President at the 11th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of NIRA in Lagos, will replace Mr. Sunday Folayan, who has hitherto served as the President. Mr. Toba Obaniyi emerged as the Vice President, while Mr. Lawrence Olawale-Roberts and Mr. Sola Akinsanya are to serve as members of the Executive Board of NIRA.Other members of the Executive Board of Director comprised Mrs. Nkem Nweke, Mr. Murtala Abdullahi, Dr. Eugene Ohu, Mr. Chukwuemeka…

The D-Coder’ Initiative, which was designed to support CWG Plc and the Academy’s mandate of contributing its quota to nation building by teaching young holiday makers how to code may have come and gone, but the impact remains. This is so as the first session of 2019 ends, which lasted for two weeks has seen a total of about 45 young Nigerians participate, having gained the skills and knowledge to design codes since the initiative berthed a couple of years ago. Speaking at the closing session at the CWG’s Corporate headquarter in Lagos on Friday, the Group Head, Brand and…

By Martin Ekpeke An Information and Communications Technology expert, Dr. Krish Ranganath has drawn the attention of stakeholders in the ICT sector to the risk of limiting data and cloud services to Lagos and Abuja, which he stated is less than 10 percent of the population of Nigeria. Dr. Krish, who was speaking at  Data Center and Cloud Round-table, organized by Cyber Africa, noted that though Lagos is Nigeria’s most populous city and commercial nerve of the country, a fundamental ICT infrastructure such as Data Centre and Cloud must grow exponentially across if Nigeria for the set objectives to be…

The International Telecommunications Union’s organized 3rd Artificial Intelligence Summit will showcase how AI will accelerate sustainable development. ITU, a specialized agency for information and communication technology (ICT) and an arm of the United Nations, said the summit scheduled for next month in Geneva will look at how Artificial Intelligence (AI) h​as taken giant leaps forward in recent years, inspiring growing confidence in the AI’s ability to assist in solving some of humanity’s greatest challenges. “Leaders in AI and humanitarian action are convening on the neutral platform offered by the United Nations to work towards AI improving the quality and sustainability…

Connectivity provider, MainOne has announced it will land its submarine cable and Data Centre service in Cote D’Ivoire by October this year. This follows the issuance of a submarine cable landing license to MainOne by the government of Cote D’Ivoire few months ago. Kazeem Oladepo, MainOne’s Regional Executive, disclosed this during the company’s Annual General Meeting in Abidjan, where members of the Board of Directors of the Group visited the VITIB location to observe the on-going construction of the data centre and the cable landing station. The data centre and landing station will provide the necessary infrastructure to support the…

The Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON) has called for a deliberate policy that will boost the morale of indigenous software developers and grow the IT sector in general. ISPON made the call at its Presidential Dinner held in Lagos recently, noting that a critical look at Information Technology as a field of endeavor reveals that the most important ingredient for a successful (IT) industry is intellectual capital or knowledge and training of the population in the IT field. Thus, speakers at the Dinner unanimously agree that IT ecosystem should be for the country, the ingredients to having viable IT…

Nigeria Tele-House, Medallion Communications Limited has been declared the ‘ICT Hub of the Year’ at the 2019 Beacon of Information & Communication Technology (BOICT) Awards, held at the prestigious Eko Hotel & Suites yesterday.  The organizer of BOICT, Communications Week Media said Medallion won the award because it has the highest concentration of service providers on its foundational telecommunication infrastructure. Among the service providers Medallion is hosting are all the international fiber operators in Nigeria, long distance operators in Nigeria, metro fiber operators and all critical national content operators.  The organizer disclosed that Medallion currently has over 83 service providers…