Author: ITPulse

The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), has alerted Nigerians that there are existing fake websites in circulation, trying to capitalize on the COVID-19 pandemic to defraud unsuspecting Nigerians. The federal government agency that coordinates general IT development and regulation in the country, said the Agency’s Computer Emergency Readiness and Response Team (CERRT) identified the number of websites using various phishing tricks to attract Internet users in its effort at ensuring safe and secure Nigerian cyberspace. NITDA revealed that one of such tricks is misinforming the public that the Federal Government has approved the disbursement of funds under a fictitious…

The SBTS Group Inc has unveiled Health Outbreak Manager (HOM), a full ITTC (Identify, Track, Trace, and Contain) solution that works as a primary tool to support and aid users in an outbreak and also helps officials and health organization handle outbreaks from start to finish. The HOM is a solution that is powered by the SBTS Group, the company that innovated the first Ebola outbreak system. The solution helps governments, health care organizations, facilities, businesses and citizens manage outbreaks before, during and after a pandemic.  It comes handy as the world begins to return to a new normal from the effects…

In compliance to the social distancing policy of the government as a result of the Covid-19 Pandemic, the Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) has decided to virtually induct new members to the society during its International Conference on Emerging Applications and Technologies for Industry 4.0, scheduled to hold August 11th – 13th, 2020. Those to be inducted are applicants, who have been registered after successfully completing all requirements for membership of the Nigeria Computer Society, but have not been officially unveiled and issue membership certificates. For those not registered but willing to inducted, NCS in a notice urged them to visit…

Imagine a world where an unseen threat emerges, spreading silently across the globe. In December 2019, such a scenario unfolded as COVID-19 began its relentless march. Amidst the initial uncertainty, an AI-powered system, specifically BlueDot, a Canadian AI company, detected unusual clusters of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China. This early anomaly detection, days before official acknowledgments by global health organizations, exemplified AI’s potential as an early warning system and its pivotal role in the initial response to the pandemic. The unprecedented COVID-19 crisis dramatically accelerated the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) across the healthcare spectrum. This period marked a significant…

In a bid to drive one million students in Lagos State to e-learning, one of Nigeria’s foremost financial institutions, Firstbank has presented 20,000 units of e-learning devices to the Lagos State government to be distributed to school children. Receiving the items at the State House in Marina, the Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu said the government knew when it was developing the vision to change the face of education in Lagos that it cannot achieve much progress in improving the quality of learning without using technology as a strong enabler. Thus, he thanked FirstBank, describing the bank as a real…

A data and analytics company, GlobalData has posited that the Covid-19 outbreak, which has forced employees in almost all IT and IT-enabled services to work from home will ultimately, have a multiplier effect in terms of reducing costs of both employer and employees. GlobalData added that the new work culture adopted over the last three months has positively impacted productivity and if sustained over the long term, will lower traffic congestion, lower pollution level and decrease the number of workplace accidents. “It’s a win-win situation for both employers and employees and a boon in disguise for some. On the one…

The latest research from Counterpoint’s Refurbished Smartphone Tracker, has indicated that despite the 1 percent decline in the global market for refurbished smartphones, Africa remained one of the regions that still experienced growth. This, Counterpoint believes is a result of the nascent stage of the continent’s economy, where the market remained underpenetrated with many users looking for affordable devices to come online. “Despite a decline in the overall global market, there were several growth markets like Africa,  India and Latin America,” the Counterpoint tracker disclosed. Commenting on these emerging regions, Varun Mishra, Research Analyst at Counterpoint Research, noted the transition…

An Information and Communications Technology specialist, Mr. Olatayo Ladipo-Ajai has been appointed a new country head for Nigeria by Infobip, a global cloud communications platform that enables businesses to build connected customer experiences over customers’ preferred channels. With the appointment, Ladipo-Ajai will spearhead the company’s strategy and bolster communications in the Nigerian region. Ladipo-Ajai boasts of over 15 years’ experience in guiding blue-chip, multinationals, small and medium enterprises in West Africa to acquire cutting-edge technologies and implement them. Coming from a solid IT background, Ladipo-Ajai until recently held the position of executive director for sales at BCX in Nigeria. Prior…

‘A hunter does not have mercy on a sick animal’ (an Akan adage) The thought of the above adage is illustrated by the case of the private university sector in Ghana. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the survival of the universities in this sector, which employs thousands of Ghanaians, was heavily dependent on admission numbers and students’ ability to pay fees. Worse yet, several of these universities were even struggling for students due to the dwindling number of international students coming to study in Ghana. To add insults to injury, they faced a fierce competition from their counterpart public universities who…

The importance of bureaucracies cannot be overemphasized in the workability of any nation, this is even as highlighted by President Muhammadu Buhari in his democracy day speech of Friday, June 12, 2020 wherein he said “ The Public Service of Nigeria remains the bedrock for the formulation and implementation of policies, programmes and projects in the country. This accounts for why it continues to evolve especially as new socio-economic challenges emerge for Government to address”. For people like us who have traversed both the private and public sectors in Nigeria, we have been able to appreciate the fair understanding of…