Author: ITPulse

Both the Executive Vice Chairman of Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta and the Commission itself, yesterday got three separate recognitions for keeping Nigerians and businesses connected since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic in the country. While Danbatta was awarded ‘Human Rights Telecoms Defender’ and ‘Icon of a Greater Nigeria’, the Commission as a corporate entity received the ‘Human Rights Guard’ award. The ‘Human Rights Telecoms Defender’ for the EVC and ‘Human Rights Guard’ for the Commission were presented by Wheel of Hope Human Rights Foundation (WHHRF), a frontline Nigerian Non-Governmental Organisation. While the ‘Icon of a Greater Nigeria’…

Leveraging technology has become essential for corporate growth and success in today’s fast-paced, technologically advanced society. In order to improve corporate operations, spur development, and enhance the entire customer experience, leaders must keep up with the most recent trends and tools. In this article, we’ll examine the major technological advancements and trends that can be used to advance a company. Experienced team leader in business analysis and project management Korede Titilayo Akinsanmi discusses knowledge gained from her work at Diamond Bank, where she successfully executed technology-driven initiatives that resulted in significant cost savings and improved productivity. Technology is critical in…

Mr. Chris Uwaje, the Founder and Chairman of Mobile Software Solutions Limited, has called on African nations to prioritize investment on Science and Technology, stressing that Africans now live in the Digital world and cannot continue to blindly steal the future of their children. Uwaje, who is popularly known as ‘Oracle’ took this position in a Keynote presentation at the ongoing 2020 virtual edition of the Digital Africa Conference and Exhibition. He said the digital battle of the future will be very fierce and fought with the greatest weapon known to man, which is knowledge, data, information, emotions and communications.…

One of Nigeria’s Internet Service Providers, Smile Communications Limited has decided to test the country’s smartphone market with a voice-over 4GLTE smartphone, which it tagged SM-A955Z that offers the best of 4G LTE mobile data and voice services. A check on the smartphone, which sells for N35, 000 shows that the phone is running on Android 9 Pie Operating System and was released earlier this month. The network type is 2G/3G/4G VoLTE and has a display of 5.45-inch, 1280 x 720 pixels resolution. Other key features in the phone are Helio A22 Processor with 5MP Selfie camera, 8 MP triple…

The Computer Professionals Registration Council of Nigeria (CPN) has aligned with the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and other stakeholders in the ICT industry in agreeing that having a fully digital economy in Nigeria is largely dependent on the adoption and deployment of 5G technology. In a 10-point recommendation from this year’s virtual IT Assembly with the theme ‘Adoption Of 5G in Nigeria: The Technological and Regulatory Challenges’, CPN insisted that the deployment of 5G in Nigeria is capable of fast-tracking Nigeria’s economic growth and migrating the country fully into a digital economy. “Deployment of 5G in Nigeria has numerous advantages…

The Nigerian telecom industry recorded 9,077 cases of service outages on their networks in the second quarter of the year, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has disclosed. These cases of service outage, the Commission noted resulted resulting in unexpected disruptions to operators’ network quality of service (QoS) delivery and intermittent quality of experience (QoE) by the consumers. Thus, it warned service providers against unwholesome practices and charged stakeholders on telecom infrastructure protection. In a presentation delivered during the first Virtual Telecoms Consumer Parliament (VTCP) hosted by the Commission recently in Abuja, the Executive Commissioner, Stakeholder Management (ECSM), NCC, Mr. Adeleke Adewolu…

KPMG Professional Services, will Tuesday next week release what it described as digital channels scorecard for retail banks in Nigeria, which will provide an industry perspective of how effective banks are delivering products and services to customers via digital channels. The professional service firm, who disclosed this today during a virtual press conference said the scorecard will be released at its upcoming webinar, themed: “Leveraging Superior UX on Digital Channels to Drive Retail Banking Growth,” which is set to hold on via Zoom virtual meeting. The scorecard, according to KPMG measures user experiences across a range of journeys for each…

Nigeria’s premier financial institution, FirstBank has partnered Unity Nigeria to become the lead sponsor of the TV reality musical talent show, The Voice Nigeria, Season 3, which is organised by UN1TY Nigeria to discover, nurture and bring to the fore musical talents amongst the next generation of Nigerian youth. According to FirstBank, Nigeria can expect to see the very best talents on stage in the course in the show, which will be produced for the first time in Nigeria and will be aired on DSTV channel (Africa Magic) Startimes and terrestrial TV channel (AIT), amongst other leading television stations in…

Eset Nigeria, one of the global internet security companies that offers anti-virus and firewall products has listed some of the potential consequences for non-compliance of the Nigerian Data Protection Regulation (NDPR), which was introduced by National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA. In a statement in Lagos, Eset noted that the maximum penalty for breaches of data privacy rights on international transfers can be up to N10million or 2percent of the annual gross revenue of the preceding year, whichever is higher and based on the number of Data Subjects dealt with. Other massive losses that non-compliance could cause are reputational damage…

A former Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Dr. Ernest Ndukwe, has urged Nigeria to leverage the emergence of 5G technology and compete favourably among other nations. Ndukwe, who is also the current Chairman of MTN Nigeria, insisted that the deployment of 5G will give Nigeria an opportunity to be part of the $3.5 Trillion markets and 22 million jobs expected to be generated, stressing this will ultimately, boost the Nigerian economy. “We have to be careful about how far we go about talking about not deploying 5G. If we don’t deploy, we miss out from the…