Author: ITPulse

The Chairman of the Specialised Exhibition Committee of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Mr. Leye Kupoluyi, yesterday in Abuja said the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has made Nigeria a reference point in the chronicle of the 4th Industrial Revolution. Kupoluyi stated this when he led a delegation from the Chamber on a courtesy visit to the Commission’s headquarters in Abuja. “The great impact of ICT and telecoms in all spheres of Nigerian life today has been heralded by the Nigerian Communications Commission,” he said, stressing that the country needs to take up the challenge of re-storying the gains…

Last year, Google announced plans to open a new AI lab in Africa. Now, Google AI Accra is open for business, and the team there is working on building AI-powered solutions to real-world problems, including helping communities in Africa and beyond to improve their lives. Google uses Machine Learning (ML) and AI in all of its products and AI and ML is used every day by people across the world, many of whom don’t even realise they’re using it. Machine learning is used for everything from filtering out the spam in your email to powering the Google Assistant on your…

Sophos global report has exposed Cyberattacks on Cloud Honeypots,  which reveals that cybercriminals attacked one of the cloud server honeypots in the study within 52 seconds of the honeypot going live in Sao Paulo, Brazil.  On average, the cloud servers were hit by 13 attempted attacks per minute, per honeypot. The honeypots were set up in 10 of the most popular Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers in the world, including California, Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Mumbai, Ohio, Paris, Sao Paulo, Singapore, and Sydney over a 30-day period. A honeypot is a system intended to mimic likely targets of cyberattackers, so…

Experts, under the auspices of the Cyber Security Experts Association of Nigeria (CSEAN) have urged the Federal Government to establish a National Cyber Security Centre, saying it will ostensibly tackle the menace of cyber crimes in Nigeria. They took this position as part of the resolutions reached at this year’s Cyber Secure Nigeria Conference, which was organised by CSEAN in Abuja, Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory. At the well-attended conference, which attracted security agencies and stakeholders from the public and private sector of the Nigeria’s economy, the experts advise that the National Cyber Security Centre shouldbe saddled with the responsibility of…

The President of the African Development Bank, Mr. Akinwumi Adesina has appealed with African government to embrace technology and invest in the jobs of the future, which he noted is just around the corner. Adesina made the appeal, while addressing the debate titled: The New Tech Era: Job-killer or Job-creator?, which was organised by Africa Report and Jeune Afrique as part of the 2019 Mo Ibrahim Governance Week in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. “Coding must be compulsory at all levels. The currency of the future is going to be coding. We must democratize technology,” Adesina said, adding that Information technology must…

By Anders Jansson CTO, JonDeTech New sensor technology can bring about new and more efficient presence detection in, for example, the construction and real estate sector. The solution is a small, inexpensive, battery-powered and IoT-caged sensor that will also be able to be connected very quickly with the help of the upcoming 5G networks. Anders Jansson, CTO at the Swedish IR sensor company JonDeTech, explains how. A rapid technological development within what is known as the Internet of Things (IoT) means that more and more things in our everyday life will be connected. The connection is made with the help…

The city of Gombe, Gombe State, North-East Nigeria has agreed to host this year’sh edition of the Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) international conference, which will take place from July 16 to 18, 2019. The Chairman, Conference Committee at NCS, Mr. Jide Awe announced this in a Facebook post. Recall the Governor of Gombe State, His Excellency, Alhaji Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo was represented at the 27th National Conference of the Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) by the Honourable Commissioner of Science and Technology, Asma’u Iganus in Ibadan last. There, she confirmed Gombe State’s readiness and acceptance to host the NCS 2019 Conference,…

By Kester Omu Medallion Communications Limited has unveiled what it described as its 2019 plans, saying the priority is the creation and expansion of Data Centre infrastructure in six cities across the six geopolitical zones in Nigeria. Touted as Nigeria’s Tele House, Medallion said the aim of the expansion is to help operators localize their content at the states and regional basis to improve the quality of service to subscribers, and to ensure everybody in the ecosystem from the operator to the subscriber is getting good telecom service delivered to them at affordable prices. “The plan for 2019 is to…

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) says it has the capability to drive the process of achieving 70 percent broadband penetration in a couple of years if challenged by the federal government to do so. Prof Umar Garba Danbatta, the Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, stated this while delivering a goodwill message at an investment summit of Kaduna State Government, KADINVEST 4.0, saying the commitment of the agency toward taking the broadband penetration to the next level is optimistic. In his words: “When I was appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015, broadband penetration was only 8.5 per cent. It has…

By Kester Omu The Cyber Security Experts Association of Nigeria (CSEAN) has given reasons why the Cyber Secure Nigeria Conference, scheduled to hold in Abuja from tomorrow, being Tuesday to Thursday has turned into an annual gathering of all stakeholders, especially in the cybersecurity ecosystem. The President of CSEAN, Mr. Remi Afon adduced the reasons in a chat with ITPulse, ahead of the 3-day conference, which he disclosed will focus on implementing cybersecurity and data privacy practices in Nigeria. “We realise that cyber security has not been given adequate attention by organisations in Nigeria, which made them more vulnerable to…