Author: ITPulse

The Chief Executive Officer of Jaiz Bank, Hassan Usman has hailed the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) for its effort at making telecom services affordable to Nigerians. Usman, who stated this at the Commission headquarter last week, noted though Nigeria has not reached the promised land of telecom regulation, the NCC deserves commendation for its regulatory efforts in ensuring a telecom reality that can easily be benchmarked against what is happening in other countries. “NCC must be applauded for its efforts in ensuring effective regulations aimed at protecting the rights and interests of consumers of telecom services as well its efforts…

Some Civil Society Organisations in Nigeria have identified some key issues embedded in the Social Media Bill, which is presently being debated by the National Assembly. The key issues, according to the organisations comprising of Paradigm Initiative, Media Right Agenda and Enough is Enough Nigeria are the transmission of a false statement of facts, jamming the Internet and criminalization of misrepresentation of facts. Transmission of a false statement of facts: the societies interpret it you must not make false statements that diminish public confidence in the performance of any duty or function of or in the exercise of any power…

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has identified the lack of electricity and fibre as some of the challenges that may hinder the deployment of Fifth Generation (5G) across Nigeria. “While 5G deployment will enhance the speed of the broadband Internet and change the business environment, electricity and inability to get fibre to home and offices across Nigeria will frustrate the acceleration of 5G,” said Engr. Bako Wakil, NCC’s Director, Technical Standard and Network Integrity at a special session on “Fifth Generation (5G) Networks Deployment: Socio-economic Benefits and Challenges at the ongoing Social Media Week. Wakil explained that the current electricity…

The organizers of the annual Nigeria Corporate Services Conference, NiCoS, TenticP Communications Nigeria Limited has announced a partnership agreement with Think Big Freelance Consulting on the 2020 and the second edition of the programme. The partnership, which was announced during the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU by the management of both organisations. According to the Founder and the Lead Strategist, TenticP Communications, Nahimah Ajikanle-Nurudeen, the partnership is to form a synergy between both organisations for a hitch-free conference. She said NiCoS conference 2020 rides on the success of the maiden edition of the event held in May last…

…. Organisers blame technology failure By Martin Ekpeke A middle-aged woman, simply referred to as Janet has narrated how her sister was allegedly defrauded via the Better Life Billionaire Promo, organized last year by NNB Capital and Investment Limited, a subsidiary of Eczellon Capital, an investment and advisory firm. Narrating the story to ITPulse via email, she said the sister, whom she refused to reveal her name, citing security implication emerged as one of the winners of Better Life Billionaire Promo weekly draws and ought to have been paid N2million cash prize. She disclosed that up till now the money…

By Samantha Naidoo African telco operators face a landmark five-year period as they strive to reimagine their business models and build new capabilities that will ensure their future success. Currently, non-traditional market entrants are putting pressure on telco operators’ profit margins, forcing them to look at ways of quickly delivering new services to meet customer demands. The introduction of telco operator -enabled IoT networks and the upcoming rollout of 5G is also creating a new battleground for connecting a sensor-based world. The potential benefits to telco operators for 5G rollout are immense: total revenue from 5G is expected to reach…

The TV and video industry continues to grow as a medium. Thus, getting the marketplace more fragmented, eMarketer, research company focused on digital transformation, has released its 2020 TV and Video trends report, displaying where viewers are going to be spending their time. The report highlights 8 trends that will guild marketers deciding where to invest their video marketing efforts with a special focus on cable TV, connected TV, over-the-top, social media video platforms. The report advised that understanding the reasons for these trends will help any marketer to make better decisions on where to spend their video ad dollars…

In an effort to strategically implement the federal government digital economy initiative, the Director-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Mr. Kashifu Abdullahi, is seeking the partnership of Nigeria’s leading e-Commerce companies. The NITDA boss solicits for the partnership when the Chairperson of Jumia Group, Ms. Juliet Anammah paid him a courtesy visit in his office in Abuja today. According to Abdullahi, it is time for the e-Commerce companies in Nigeria to come together and form a strong and viable entity that can work with the government so as to achieve the dream of digitalising  Nigeria’s business activities.…

The role of micro, small and medium scale enterprises (MSMEs) in areas of promoting inclusive growth, increasing the country’s gross domestic product (GDP), creation of employment opportunities and wealth creation, the world over, can never be overemphasised. Their immense contributions to the growth of their micro and macroeconomics is the reason countries, developed and developing, highly regard their MSMEs sector.ording to the International Council for Small Business (ICSB), MSMEs make up over 90 percent of all firms and account for an average of 60 to 70 percent of total employment and 50 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of any…

Technology is reshaping the world in unbelievable ways and a look around simply buttresses this fact. Disruption occurs almost every other minute and African countries, particularly Nigeria must also be prepared, so as not to be left behind in this era. Come February 27, 2020, by 12:30pm at the Oriental Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos, Taiwo Fajolu and Chukwuemeka Fred Agabta, Jnr. “CFA” are set to launch their co-authored book titled, “Technology Disruption; To Wrestle or To Unleash” The central theme of the book launch is: “Re-imagining Enterprise through Effective Deployment of Innovation for Growth and Leadership” and Mr. Wale Ajisebutu,…