Author: ITPulse

  Vodacom Business Nigeria has been honored with three major accolades at the Beacon of ICT (BoICT) Awards 2018. The awards include Enterprise Solutions Provider of the Year, an award conferred on the company consistently since 2013; Internet of Things (IoT) Focused Company, owing to its pioneering and visionary endeavors in this area in the past two years and Enterprise Broadband Services Provider of the year. The BoICT awards is a merit based celebration organised by Nigeria’s leading technology publication, Nigeria CommunicationsWeek, which aims to recognise outstanding contributions to the growth and development of ICT in Nigeria. This year, over…

By Martin Ekpeke The combination of federal government’s inability to work out a subsidy agreement with licensed infrastructure companies (InfraCos) and the refusal of some states to grant ‘Right of way’ approval have been seen as the twice evil delaying the rollout of infrastructure by the two companies, licenced two years ago. This was noticed in a recent response of Prof. Umar Danbatta, the Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), while responding to questions to why the rollout of infrastructure is being delayed, during a media interactive session in Lagos. A visibly worried Danbatta believes that…

  The Centre for Cyber Awareness And development (CECAD ) has called on the Federal government to take urgent steps in reviewing the current high cost of internet services. The non for profit organization made the call through its Executive Director, Mr. Hilary Damissah, while speaking as a panelist at the Internet Freedom Forum 2018, held at the Nigeria Airforce Conference Centre, Abuja two days ago. Mr. Damissah pointed out that, the cost of internet services in Nigeria remains too exorbitant and unaffordable by the minority of the citizenry. He argued that if the minimum wage is N18, 000, 2…

  By Martin Ekpeke A new report on the operational and fund management analysis of the Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF) has recommended that the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) should rework its regulatory framework to drive more investments in rural telephony The report, launched in Abuja yesterday at the ongoing Internet Freedom Forum by BudgIT, noted that reworking of the regulatory system is critical for the development of the rural telephony to add to the overall contribution of the country’s telecom industry, which it says contributed a whopping N8.6trillion to Nigeria’s economy in 2017. BudgIT believes that there is a…

  JC International, a leading Inspection, Rope Access and Training company has appealed to organisations to adopt an inclusive Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) workplace strategy that allows employees to play active roles in preventing and mitigating workplace accidents. In a statement signed by the Managing Director of the company, Engr. Austin Joseph, in commemoration of the 2018 World Day for Safety and Health at Work, stated that safety requires active commitments of all concerned parties. Mr Joseph also urged all Nigerians to make conscious efforts toward ensuring safety at home and workplace, noting that most accidents happen as a…

  Mr. Olusola Teniola has been returned unopposed as the President of the Association of Telecommunication Companies of Nigeria (ATCON), in yesterday National Executive Council election held in Lagos. Meaning, Olusola who has served one term will serve another one term of two years starting from yesterday. After the election, Teniola thanked the members of the association for the confidence reposed in him. He said the new NEC will work towards leading ATCON to advocate fairly for its members. Speaking on what the new NEC intends to do, Teniola said digitizing the association’s secretariat , coordinating processes for erecting a…

  Lagos residents, especially those in the Lekki neighbourhood are about to witness shopping, entertainment and fun as has never been witnessed before, as a result of the 1stLekki shopping festival tagged “ShopfestLekki 2018.” The ShopfestLekki 2018, which is being organized by Shopfest is a 2-day premium shopping experience. It will hold from 28 – 29 APRIL 2018, at  The Atrium, Admiralty Way, Lekki Phase 1, Lagos. Shopfest will use the festival to showcase the uniqueness of their brand essence, product offering, superior service and price advantage. “You will find incredible deals on fashion, gold jewelry, perfumes and more and…

By Martin Ekpeke The Chief Executive Officer of CWG Plc, Mr. James Agada has debunked the insinuations in some quarters that since 2013, when the company got listed on the floor of the Nigeria Stock Exchange, CWG’s operations has not been stabilized, leading to several management restructuring in the last five years. Agada, in an interview, insisted that going public has not affected the operations of the company. Rather, it has been a source of strength which has helped CWG to set institutions and begin to set Corporate Governance structures that have today boosted its Operational practices. He said,…

  There are strong indications that the real reason Google overhauled its Gmail is to lure business from Microsoft Corporation’s dominant Office workplace software suite Google had a few days ago unveiled its first Gmail redesign since 2013, capping what the company says was an expensive overhaul two years in the making to adopt security and offline functionality and better resemble Microsoft Outlook. With Gmail, Google said it restructured email storage databases, unified three dueling systems for syncing messages across devices and upgraded computers underpinning the service. That shift to Google’s self-developed Tensor processing chips enables smart-assistant features such as…

  By Martin Ekpeke The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has posited that national roaming and active infrastructure sharing in the Nigerian telecommunication industry must be encouraged, noting such initiatives have the capacity to boost telecom services. The Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta stated this today while delivering a welcome address at a stakeholders’ forum on national roaming and active infrastructure sharing at the Digital Bridge Institute, Lagos.  According to him, national roaming has the potential of promoting seamless communication of subscribers as they will be able to roam on the network of other service providers where their…