Author: ITPulse

The immediate past Director General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Dr. Isa Pantami was yesterday given the portfolio of the Minister of Communications. Pantami, who was given the portfolio by President Muhammadu Buhari during yesterday federal cabinet meeting, replaced Barr. Adebayo Shittu, who has held sway in the last four years. About Pantami. Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami was born on October 20, 1972 in today’s Gombe State. He schooled at the traditional Islamic School for memorizing the Qur’an, called ‘Tsangaya School; Pantami Primary School; Government Science Secondary School, Gombe; Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, University (ATBU), Bauchi where…

The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, at the opening of Conference of African Telecommunications Regulators on Consumer Affairs, (CATCO), urged telecom regulators in Africa to see protection of consumers as their first priority. Danbatta, who was represented at the 3-day Conference by the Director, Public Affairs, NCC, Dr. Henry Nkemadu, Danbatta, noted that this is important going by the daily exposure of consumers to new digital services and solutions with potential for the telecom consumers to be short-changed by service providers if adequate regulations are not put in place to protect the…

Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari appointed Mr. Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi as the fifth Director-General, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA). Abdullahi’s appointment was announced in a press statement by the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media & Publicity, Garba Shehu. Abdullahi is replacing Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, who was last month appointed Honourable Minister Designate and may likely be given a portfolio today. Until his appointment, Abdullahi has worked at Galaxy Backbone as Network Engineer, IP Network Field Engineer, Senior Network & Lead, IP Operations Team, and Senior Solution Architect & Lead, Technical Solution Design Team between…

StartConFest, a platform where passionate industry players, businessmen and leaders foster collaboration through networking, learning and fun is set to hold its 5th edition from the 26th – 28th of September 2019. According to the organizer, this year’s edition with the theme “Create The Future”, is expected to have over 5000 attendees, and will feature workshops, innovation zone, experience zone, Music zone, creativity stage and a marketplace for vendors to exhibit their products and services to attendees. Speaking on what is expected at the event, Tony Onuk, the co-convener of the festival noted: “In the interest of the future of…

FleetPartners Leasing Limited has extended its corporate car and staff- bus sharing services to more cities across the country. Announcing the extension in a statement, the Chief Executive Officer of FleetPartners, Samuel Ajiboyede, said the extension is necessitated by the increasing demand and success of the two premium services to take the services to more cities. Ajiboyede said the corporate car sharing service which allows executive car owners to offer their cars for rent on FleetPartners platform is present in 10 cities while its newly launched staff-bus sharing service is in Lagos and Abuja. “Due to the increasing demand on…

It is dangerous when users just grant mobile apps limitless permissions into their contacts, photos, private messages, and more. Doing so allows the app makers possible, and even legal, access to what should remain confidential data. When this sensitive data is hacked or misused, a viral app can turn a source into a loophole which hackers can exploit to spread malicious viruses or ransomware. As such, online users should always have their thinking caps on and be more careful when it comes to the internet and their app habits including: Only download apps from trusted sources. Read the reviews and…

One of the world leading anti virus solution providers, Kaspersky has disclosed that the proliferation of mobile phone, which is forecast to reach4.68 billion of which 2.7 billion are smartphone users in 2019 is the reason mobile device security threats are on the rise. It also attributed this to unsecured Wi-Fi connections, network spoofing, phishing attacks, ransomware, spyware and improper session handling, making the mobile devices easy target. “So, if you are looking for a target, it certainly makes sense to go where the numbers are. Mobile apps are often the cause of unintentional data leakage,” it says adding that…

The semi-finalist judging panel for this year’s Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative (ANPI) have been announced. The ANPI is a prize competition for African entrepreneurs spearheaded by the Jack Ma Foundation. For the next ten years, the ANPI will be hosted across Africa culminating in an annual finale where ten finalists will compete in a pitch competition. The ANPI aims to support and inspire the next generation of African entrepreneurs across all sectors, who are building a more sustainable and inclusive economy for the future. Applications for the first ANPI officially closed 30 June 2019 and nearly 10,000 applications from 50 African…

It is looking up for Fintech startups in Africa as Transsion Holding, owner of TECNO, Infinix and iTel brands recently sealed a partnership deal with Wapi Capital to invest $100, 000 into the early stage of some selected startups. Once selected, the startups will be housed in Transsion’s new tech hub dubbed Future Hub under Senior Investor Laura Li in Nairobi, where they will be tutored by Phoenix, Scoop and Boomplay to develop solutions that are suited into addressing the continent challenges, especially payment systems. At the end, Transsion Holdings and kenya’s Wapi Capital will select early-stage fintech startups from…

Chinese tech giant, Huawei has described the report by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) that it helps African governments spy on political opponents, including surveillance and distributing spyware, leading to arrests and other crackdowns as unfounded and inaccurate allegations. Several reports have quoted the Wall Street Journal alleging that Huawei’s employees crack down opposition politicians in Africa, using surveillance cameras, phone tapping, and cracking encrypted communications with spyware. But, Huawei in a response said its code of business forbid any employee from undertaking any activities that would compromise the data or privacy of its customers or end users, or that…