Author: ITPulse

Nigeria’s CWG Plc has adduced reasons it decided to engage critical stakeholders in Cooperative Societies across Nigeria on how to manage a successful cooperative during the Covid-19 Pandemic era. Mr. Lateef Fadeyi, Product Manager, Unified Cooperative Platform at CWG, noted that interacting with the stakeholders become imperative as cooperatives in Nigeria are now facing the urgent issue of the financial crisis affecting their day to day operation. Thus, there is a need to engage them with a solution that can easily drive their operations on how to run a successful cooperative in the Covid-19 era. “Amid the current Coronavirus situation in…

By Olorundare James Kunle Billions of dollars may likely be needed to get a vaccine for coronavirus in order to save the world from economic collapse. And the result of this is expected to restore the several billion that may have been lost to the lockdown due to COVID-19. It is heartwarming that some African countries are in the race to get home-grown solutions. Madagascar has been promoting a homegrown solution called COVID ORGANICS. This is said to have cured a couple of COVID-19 patients while other symptomatic patients’ conditions are being ameliorated by the use Madagascar’s COVID Organics. It…

Pan-African Bank, Ecobank has disclosed that the essence of its agency banking scheme, also known as Xpress Points is to support Small and Medium Enterprises, let every Nigerian household have access to financial services and ultimately, promote financial inclusion in Nigeria.  The Bank said the Xpress Point enables eligible Agents to carry out financial transactions on behalf of Ecobank and earn commission on every transaction processed, emphasizing that the consumer experience is very good as customers can do the simple deposit, payment and transfers in their own neighborhood rather than travel for hours to a bank branch. According to the…

The latest global analysis of prices for mobile-voice, mobile-data and fixed-broadband services by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) suggests that affordability is not the only barrier to Internet uptake. In the new statistical report, titled ‘Measuring Digital Development: ICT Price Trends 2019,’ the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technology noted that prices for telecommunication services continue to decline but do not translate into rapidly increasing Internet penetration rates. The report revealed that on average, prices for mobile-voice, mobile-data and fixed-broadband services are decreasing steadily around the world, and in some countries even dramatically. The reduction in price…

Many things in Nigeria appear unfixable. Things that other countries take almost for granted we seem to struggle with, eternally. It is a characteristic that pervades nearly everything we do as a country. It continues to impact negatively on the nation’s growth. Take communications. Almost two decades after the liberalisation of the nation’s communications sector, operators and regulatory agencies still point to the same things as hindering the growth of the sector – multiple taxations and Right of Way (RoW) approvals. Right of Way is particularly contentious as it directly stalls the growth of the sector and impacts on the…

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, an estimated 2.7 billion people, or more than four out of five workers in the global workforce, have been affected by lockdowns and stay-at-home measures. Business and government leaders have been challenged to both respond to the crisis quickly and rethink their workforce strategies in real-time. It is important to realise that the recovery won’t be static. It will not occur on a specific date. COVID-19 is unlikely to end suddenly given the lack of available therapeutics and the uncertain prospects and timing of a vaccine. A typical crisis plays out over three-time…

By Austin Okere On May 04, 2020, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), in a report about poverty and inequality from September 2018 to October 2019 in Nigeria, said 40 percent of people in the continent’s most populous country lived below its poverty line of N137,430  ($381.75) a year. It said that it represents 82.9 million people. I had written this article about four years ago on Nov 15, 2016, about how society today is split more along the lines of those who are included and those left behind. This is even more true today with Businesses and Education moving…

The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Pantami has urged Lagos and other states in Nigeria, including the Federal Capital territory to emulate the government of Ekiti to reduce Right of Way charges. Pantami said this while responding to the report that the Ekiti State Government has signed an Executive Order reducing the Right of Way charges for telecommunications infrastructure from N4, 500 to N145 per meter, becoming the first state in Nigeria to comply with the National Executive Council approved Right of Way charges for broadband deployment. He said the reduction in the Right of Way charges…

The Ekiti State Government yesterday signed an Executive Order reducing the Right of Way charges for telecommunications infrastructure from N4, 500 to N145 per meter, becoming the first state in Nigeria to comply with the National Executive Council approved Right of Way charges for broadband deployment. In a series of tweets, the state government said the decision is part of the Governor Kayode Fayemi led administration’s bold and pioneering move to make Ekiti State the knowledge and innovation capital of Nigeria. The Executive Order signed by the Governor reduces the Right of Way charges related to laying broadband or any…

In my entire travels and research, I have never seen a society that relies so much on bandwagon, hear-say and clichés albeit for the most negative reasons. I cannot claim not to have been affected in the past; however, I was able to fizzle out of it by learning to look more critically into matters even though it was not easy doing so. It is like a tsunami that is capable of swallowing anyone no matter how high. The President has just appointed the new Chief of Staff in the person of Professor Ibrahim Agboola Gambari, a person with visibly…