Author: ITPulse

A combination of Sam Ogbole, CEO and Lead Trainer at Farm lab; Yewande Kazeem, Founder, Wandieville Media as well as Seyi and Seun Abolaji, Co-Owners of the Wilson’s Juice Company have been scheduled to speak at this year’s Stanbic IBTC Bank Youth Leadership Series. The event, which is scheduled to hold on Wednesday, February 12, 2020, with the theme “Techricuture – the evolution” is an annual event which is fashioned after the Business Leadership Series and is designed to engage young Nigerians, thus empowering them to become the future business leaders. The event presents an opportunity for the attendees to…

The training and capacity building arm of CWG Plc, the CWG Academy today resumed 2020 academic with about 70 students in attendance to go through the intensive practical learning experience from experts. The 2020 session, which will last for 14 weeks started with an orientation, where the Academy Director of Study Mr. Effiong Emmanuel takes the students on work ethics and other workplace experiences. He tasked them to see assignments given to them in the workplace as a special task. “Going to work does not mean you are working. When you go to work, ask yourself what you have done…

As technology continues to change the way organizations introduce, integrate and upskill new employees to their systems, a leadership development firm, Brunch & Brands has decided to launch a platform that will develop professionals to become exceptional and selfless human beings. This becomes necessary as the acceleration of automation, artificial intelligence (AI), and other cognitive technologies, digital transformation are continuously taking hold on all aspects of HR and people development. According to the Founder of Brunch & Brands, Mr. Chidi Okpala, though digitisation brings with it benefits for organisations and the people who work for them, it doesn’t exclude the…

Engr. Kings Adeyemi of the Technical Standards and Network Integrity (TSNI) Department of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has been installed as the Chairman of the Nigerian Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (NIEEE). Adeyemi, an Engineer and Principal Manager at NCC, was installed as the 19th Chairman of the Institute yesterday at the Institute’s ceremony in Abuja. The installation of Adeyemi has excited the NCC, especially the Executive Vice Chairman, Prof. Umar Danbatta, who described Adeymi installation as the right choice, saying NCC always encourages and supports staff to join professional bodies and participate in the activities of those…

In a bid to explore opportunities for collaboration and partnership for infrastructure deployment that will ultimately strengthen connectivity, enhance businesses and bolster citizens’ embrace of digital culture, the top Management staff of social media giant, Facebook yesterday paid what is considered a courtesy visit to the corporate headquarters of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). At the meeting, Facebook underscored the centrality of infrastructure to the flourishing of digital culture, stressing that Nigeria, as the most populous country in Africa, needs further telecom infrastructure expansion. The Facebook delegation, which was led by Ibrahima Ba, Network Investment Lead at Facebook Office in…

The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) is today, starting a weeklong critical public enlightenment event to underscore the importance of Data privacy in a digital economy. Disclosing this in a statement, NITDA said the public awareness programme becomes necessary owing to the impact of Nigeria Data Protection Regulation (NDPR) on Nigeria’s digital economy pursuit. Starting today, January 23, the event will end on the 28 and is aimed at increasing public awareness and support for the Regulation. According to the signed by Mrs. Hadiza Umar, Head, Corporate Affairs and External Relations at NITDA, the programme becomes more important considering…

By Tosin Aribisala India’s big three operators— Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and Reliance Jio – have, according to recent Indian news reports, asked the sector regulator to set up floor pricing for data services. The three carriers on the fierce rivalry that has recently brought price-cutting competition that has contributed to lowered ARPU for all the main operators blame this rather unusual proposal. The argument behind the proposal seems to be that none of the three carriers can voluntarily carry out tariff correction. The answer, it would seem, is floor pricing – a fixed lower limit on the price of a…

The United Kingdom has announced a range of partnerships with African countries that will support Nigerian leadership in setting an ambitious National Determined Contribution (NDC) to global emissions reduction targets. Specifically, it announced a £10m (over ₦4.7billion) UK Climate Finance Accelerator that will help Nigeria secure greater investments in green energy, increasing the availability of sustainable power and creating new jobs. Announcing the investment at the inaugural UK-Africa Investment Summit in London, British High Commissioner Catriona Laing, commented: “In the year the UK is set to host the UN climate summit, COP26, we put clean energy at the heart of…

Yesterday at its corporate head office in Lagos-Nigeria, Quickteller, a Pan-African integrated digital payment solution unveiled to the media a new Television commercial it tagged “Everything is Possible”. Unveiling the commercial, Olawale Akanbi, Group Head, Quickteller Marketing, noted that the new commercial demonstrates the importance of transacting on a platform that provides a vast number of services in the digital payment space. “It’s amazing to know that you can pay for almost anything on Quickteller. At Quickteller, we are committed to making all payments possible on our platform.  This is why we are continuously expanding the services available on Quickteller.…

Team Earth has emerged from the InterswitchSPAK 2.0 Innovation Challenge, which was organized to spark innovation among the youths, especially teenage students. Team Earth is a group of nine collaborated to identify a problem in the agricultural value chain in Nigeria leveraging technology. They were tasked with developing solutions to three salient socio-economic issues in the areas of Agriculture, the Electoral process and Financial inclusion. Team Earth, which was made up of nine SS2 students, proffered brilliant solutions to their given tasks by leveraging technology and were mentored by Paul Otu and Tolulope Adesokan and Opeyemi Adekugbe who are members…