Author: ITPulse

As part of its corporate social responsibility, Hewlett-Packard (HP) has committed to educate 100,000 across Africa in the next three years through the HP Foundation’s HP LIFE (Learning Initiative for Entrepreneurs) program. The PC maker, which announced the new commitment at the Global Citizen Festival: Mandela is doing this by opening the HP LIFE Center for Entrepreneurship in South Africa, which it said is aimed at supporting entrepreneurs in the continent, where 32percent of the population under the age of 30 will be regarded as the largest working age population by 2035. The commitment, it said, is its pledge to…

  An information technology company, TechnoTrend Platforms Nigeria Limited, yesterday rewarded some Nigerians who participated and won in the company’s ongoing Mega Games Promo with various prizes ranging from Smartphones and cash. Specifically, 16 Nigerians went home with Smartphones, while five were rewarded with N1million cash each. Speaking after presenting the prizes, the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Technotrend Nigeria Limited, Mr. Doyin Adesina, said the promo, which is only available to Airtel subscribers is one of the ways the company is rewarding its customers that had remained loyal to the brand. “We designed the programme to empower and enrich…

  The Managing Director of Nigeria’s owned Galaxy Backbone, Mr. Yusuf Kazaure has stated that the essence of the Customer Appreciating Week is to celebrate its customers, whom he said have been with the company through the years in good times and tough times. At the just concluded event in Abuja, series of events took place to thank the company’s customers for the continued patronage of Galaxy’s services over the years. “We thank our customers for their partnership, support and encouragement,” he said. A major highlight of the Customer Forum was having Customers share their experiences using services from Galaxy…

As part of the effort to rejig its operations to effectively push its advocacy across Africa, the African ICT Foundation, an Africa based leading Information and Communications Technology Foundation has launched a multi-lingual website. The website, according to the Foundation will help to remove barrier and seamlessly formulate, evaluate, and promote policy solutions that accelerate innovations and boost productivity that will spur growth, opportunity and progress across Africa. “The essence of launching the multi-lingual website is to avoid barriers in terms of language in our effort to push our advocacy across Africa. With the multi-lingual website, non-English speaking Africans can…

  In recent times, Nigeria has been agog with the term Fintech and CWG Plc, Nigeria’s largest ICT Conglomerate has stated that it is actively pparticipating in the Financial Technology ecosystem by creating platforms that enable financial service providers deliver services to a large number of people seamlessly. The Group Managing Director of CWG, Mr. James Agada stated this on the sideline of a Fintech Meet-Up event, tagged ‘Fintech Tuesday’; which was attended by various stakeholders, including students and hosted by CWG Plc at the CWG Academy in Lagos this week. He noted that as a company focused on developing…

  Search engine giant, Google last night in Lagos-Nigeria announced the winners of the first Google Impact Challenge, where twelve non-profits and social enterprises were each awarded a share of $2m in grant funding. Three out of four winners were chosen by the judges, they include – The Cece Yara Foundation,  HelpMum,  Project Enable Africa and the final winner chosen by the general public was Vetsark.  All four winners will receive $250 000 each, while the eight runners up will each receive $125 000. The funding will be allocated in tranches, to be assigned to each enterprise as they reach…

  Eset Nigeria last week Friday held its next edition of Security Day, where the leader in cyber-protection, provided a common platform for the business owners, decision makers and end-users to interact with security experts and senior management from ESET. The Security Day, which is well-known globally as a gathering of independent and ESET security experts with IT professionals, business people and the general public draws the attention of business owners  to discuss the security landscape in their Organizations and country as a whole. More than eight thousand people around the world already attended with positive feedback on how beneficial…

  Vodacom Business Nigeria, one of the leading Pan-African total communications solutions provider, today announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft (through its 4Afrika initiative) and Descasio. The deal, according to Vodacom is to build capacity and help improve operational efficiency among its customers using the suite of Microsoft Azure Cloud platform services, an open and flexible cloud platform which will enable customers to rapidly build, deploy and manage its applications, data, runtime and more in the cloud. Speaking on the deal, Managing Director for Vodacom Business Nigeria, Wale Odeyemi noted that the platform allows users to leverage existing skills using…

  The federal government through the Ministry of Education in partnership with Coderina Education and Technology Foundation has concluded plans to introduce Robotics, Coding and project based learning to all Federal Government schools across the country. Already, a ministerial committee that will execute the project has been set up, with a number of schools selected from across Nigeria’s six geopolitical zones in a bid to ensure that the program can be scaled up along these geopolitical zones. The teachers from the selected schools converged in Abuja on the 8th of November for a 2-day hands on experiential training. According to…

  An Africa based Information and Communications Technology Foundation, the African ICT Foundation has started what it described as re-branding and re-engineering process, which it believes will help it to formulate, evaluate, and promote policy solutions that accelerate innovations and boost productivity that will spur growth, opportunity and progress. The group in a statement in Lagos, signed by its Executive Secretary, Mr. Emmanuel Bassey, the Foundation, which is an independent, not-for-profit, and non-partisan empowerment and educational organization, noted that the Foundation intends to positively impact on the African economy, tackle attended challenges and avoid potential pitfalls. Part of the re-branding,…