Author: ITPulse

Pan-African ICT company, CWG Plc has rejigged its bills presentment, aggregation and payment platform, BillsnPay as part of an effort to address some of the teething challenges of Small, Medium Enterprises in Nigeria.    According to CWG, the challenges this solution will address among the SMEs are the lack of data for business insight, late and nonpayment of bills by their customers and high cost of operation and maintenance.    Others include late delivery of bills to their customers and delay in the reconciliation of payments made against the Bill. These challenges, CWG argues have impacted negatively on the revenues…

With route optimization software you’ll spend much less time planning – and the routes produced will be far superior to manually created routes. For a mobile workforce, route optimization is the process of determining the most efficient routes, in terms of cost, resources and time. All other relevant factors such as order and driver restrictions, as well as the various workflows of a particular business are also factored in. The aim is to maximize efficiency and fulfil more orders: getting to more addresses with fewer resources. This allows businesses to save time, costs and ultimately increase their revenue. With route…

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) innovator and entrepreneurs in Nigeria are set to receive supports that will turn their ideas into products and prototypes. The support will be coming from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), who has embarked on the building of six Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Parks to promote the socio-economic transformation of Nigeria. In a statement signed by the Director of Public Affairs at NCC, Dr. Henry Nkemadu, the ICT Parks are to provide Innovation Labs and Digital Fabrication Laboratories (Fablabs) for use by technopreneurs. Nigeria’s independent telecoms regulatory authority believes the Parks will provide a Commercial…

Nemo, a Warri based mobile app development firm has developed a local application that identifies and displays the distance between a user location and a COVID-19 affected area. The App tagged Covid2geda, which was developed as part of the firm’s efforts to support the Nigerian government in tackling the menace of the COVID-19 pandemic, which is presently ravaging the world, also gives a constant update of how many people that have been affected by the virus, figures of those who have died as a result of the Virus and those who have recovered from the Virus. “Apart from giving Nigerian…

By Hashim Suleiman Let me start this piece with borrowed words from His Excellency Kashim Shettima, former Governor of Borno State who posited that “when you give power to a dull person, he gets chased by his shadows and sees everyone as his enemy”. These are the kinds of situations that weaken institutions in our climes and we are struggling to see a functional lot of them. When weak and dull people assume a position, two things come into play, one is getting drunk over it and the second is not understanding the reality of its transience and so rather…

Digital Economy Media Support Volunteers’ (DEMS Volunteers’), a non-governmental Advocacy group of media and telecoms practitioners creating awareness on the digital economy, has described it as strange, the resent social media onslaught on the telecommunications infrastructure deployment in parts of Lagos. The Volunteers’ said it was regrettable that purveyors of fake news have chosen this period of Coronavirus pandemic to misinform millions of internet users in the country, particularly as regards unfounded cases of 5G fibre optic cable deployment in Lagos and other parts of the country. According to a statement released on Friday and endorsed by the Director-General, Prince…

The advent of the novel coronavirus disease, also known as COVID-19, into the country seems to have destabilized our social norms and behaviour. Nigeria, like all other countries of the world where this pandemic has visited, has responded by both treating the people who have contracted the disease and putting some preventive measures in place to minimize the rate to which her citizens get infected. Some of the measures the government has put in place to forestall transmission of the virus include the restriction on movement, closure of schools, ordering some cadres of the employees to stay home for some…

Nigeria’s premier bank, FirstBank said it has recorded approximately 2.5 million withdrawals which amount to N35 billion across its ATMs over the last week. The Bank in a statement signed by its Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Adesola Adeduntan, yesterday also said in the last one week, its 53,000 agents across the country have processed over 5 million transactions with differing values. “We’ve recorded approximately 2.5 million withdrawals which amount to N35 billion across our ATMs over the last week.  Our larger corporate customers have done over 1,700 successful transactions worth N6.8 billion on our e-bills platform during this challenging period,”…

The Special Adviser to Enugu State Governor, Rt. Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi on Information and Communications Technology (ICT), Mr. Nnaemeka Ani, has urged youths in Nigeria to acquire digital skills to remain relevant in the future economy. According to Ani, since 60 percent of the country’s population identified as young people, acquire digital skills will prepare them to face the emerging digital revolution and ultimately, boost the Nigerian digital economy pursuit. Ani said the labour market of the future will require new skills including digital fluency, creative thinking, problem-solving, collaboration, empathy and adaptability. The SA on ICT to Enugu State Governor…

One of Nigeria’s crowd-funding platform, Giving.ng, has announced a fundraising campaign to support health workers who are on the front-line of the coronavirus pandemic.  Tagged Health Workers Fund, this initiative is sourcing from the public a sum of One Billion Naira (N1, 000, 000, 000) to be disbursed to frontline medical workers as Hazard Allowance. This, the organization believes will boost the health workers Hazard Allowance from N5, 000, which they currently earn a month. “We are delighted to call for support for our amazing health workers, who toil day and night to keep this pandemic out of Nigeria. We…