Author: ITPulse

Third largest mobile operating system after Android and iOS, KaiOS said its next phase of expansion is Africa, which it described as the emerging market for its smart feature phone brands. Although, reasons have not been given for the decision, but it is not unrelated to the fact that the smart feature phone segment has reached a saturation stage in India, where it garnered 100 million users over the last few years. Africa, it is believed offers a more compelling proposition for KaiOS. According to Counterpoint Research, nine out of the top 20 countries with the highest potential for smart…

Jumia Nigeria has said its major successes as a company in the last seven years can be largely seen in the several jobs it has created and the empowerment it has given to many Nigerians, especially women. The Chief Executive Officer of Jumia, Mrs Juliet Annamah, stated this while highlighting the successes of the company as part of its 7th anniversary held in Lagos recently. Apart from jobs creation and empowerment, in the last 12 calendar months, Jumia Nigeria has recorded significant achievements in three major areas of its operations in the country: customer delivery experience, e-commerce reach and the…

By Martin Ekpeke One of Nigeria’s commercial banks, Fidelity yesterday said the essence of the Fidelity Bank SME Funding Connect is to expand the frontiers of SME funding and bridge the seeming gap between entrepreneurs in Nigeria and fund providers. Tagged ‘Entrepreneurs meet Capital’ and scheduled to start in Lagos on the 7th of August, 2019, the bank said the event will bring together 3000 participants, 60 founders, 60 fund providers and 12 million Naira in grants. Giving a remark at the press conference, which was held in Lagos at the bank’s head office, the Managing Director of Fidelity Bank,…

Nigerians, especially those residing in Lagos will henceforth have some respite as one of the country’s broadband Internet service providers, VDT Communications Limited, yesterday went live with its 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) service. The service, which already covered 80 percent of the Lagos geographical areaand hope to expand strategically to cover the entire Lagos State, and other leading cities in the key economic zones of Nigeria and the rest of the country in phases. It is launched strategically to help to address Nigerians’ data needs, as industry watchers and analysts described it as truly broadband services, capable of having…

By Yakubu Musa In his book, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, Yuval Noah Harari pertinently and repeatedly gives us a wake up call on the daunting challenges posed by the fourth industrial revolution. “It is, undoubtedly, however, that the technological revolutions will gather momentum in the next few decades, and will confront humankind with the hardest trials we have ever encountered. Any story that seeks to gain humanity’s allegiance will be tested above all in its ability to deal with the twin revolutions in Infotech and biotech,” he brilliantly observed. Yet in Harari’s eloquent summation, there seems to be…

The business leadership team of Vertiv, the global leader in designing, building and servicing critical infrastructure that enables vital applications for data centers and communication networks recently visited 21st Century Technologies Limited to explore possible partnership for the roll out of a Data Centre in Nigeria. The American, Ohio-based, provider of equipment and services for datacenters, Vertiv brings together hardware, software, analytics and ongoing services to ensure its customers’ vital applications run continuously, perform optimally and grow with their business needs. Vertiv’s team on the visit include; Noureddine Aouda reginal director, North West Africa; Pierre Havenga, managing director, Middle East…

The Central bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said, as part of its financial inclusion drive, it has set for itself a target of getting 100 million Bank Verification Number (BVN) registrations in the next five years. This is even as the apex bank revealed that it has successfully linked 38 million accounts with the Bank Verification Numbers. CBN noted that it foresees the increase largely to its partnership with the National Identity Management Commission will also enable integration between the two databases. “We have set a target of 100 million registrations in five years. What this means is that, we…

KPMG Nigeria, last week in Lagos launched what it described as KPMG Insights Centre, which is said to be the firm’s first and foremost Digital Centre designed to provide digital solutions to its clients to become more competitive in the industry. The Centre, which is located at the KPMG Tower in Lagos, Nigeria, brings together the firm’s collective capabilities across signal sensing, design thinking, data and analytics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), digital transformation, strategy, business process and technology. “With the rate and pace of disruption in the market, KPMG is constantly focused on making strategic short and long-term investments that address…

Nigeria’s WEMA Bank has completed the upgrade of its Finacle 10 core banking application. Its Information Communications Technology vendor, CWG Plc that aided the upgrade has revealed. The global upgrade is now completed within the financial institution’s banking system. According to CWG, the upgrade will further enhance WEMA Bank’s branch and e-banking service offerings to customers whilst reducing system downtime and improving access to banking services. This upgrade follows WEMA Bank’s upgrade to Finacle 10.2 in December 2011, which makes the bank the first insub-Saharan African financial institution to fully deploy the Finacle application, riding on CWG’s expertise. In a…

Nigeria’s TeleHouse, Medallion Communications Limited, last week in Accra-Ghana won the Best Data Centre Provider of the Year at the 4th Africa Information Technology & Telecom Awards. Reciting Medallion’s profile, the organizer of the award, InstintWave noted that Medallion has democratized Data Centre operations in Nigeria and indeed Africa. Thus, it deserved the ‘Best Data Centre Provider of the Year’ award. “After a thorough research by the Committee in charge of selection of recipients of this year’s award, it was concluded that Medallion with over 83 service providers connected to its Data Centre is the Best Data Centre Provider of…