Author: ITPulse

  By Omar Elloumi The first meeting of the new ITU-T Focus Group on Data Processing and Management (DPM) confirmed that “data is the new oil”, fast becoming powerful fuel to innovation in a wide range of industries and public-sector bodies. It also highlighted that cities are in clear need of guidelines to help them navigate a myriad of technologies, avoid “lock-in” to services offered by cloud or platform providers, and structure their overarching data-management strategies in a way that delivers value to citizens, businesses and application developers. The content of the meeting was “fresh” and appealing to cities, local…

  By Martin Ekpeke Google, the American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, has announced updates to some of its services. The announcement was made yesterday in Lagos, Nigeria during the Google for Nigeria event that attracted the company’s global top management staff, including the Chief Executive Officer, Sundar Pichai to Lagos, Africa most populous city. The services include Youtube Go, Street View and the Google Search. According to Google, Youtube Go has been reimagined to meet the needs of the next generation of users and is available for download in the Google Play Store. Built…

  By Kester Omu The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI), with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have announced a new global programme to advance research in digital finance and accelerate digital financial inclusion in developing countries. Tagged ‘Financial Inclusion Global Initiative’, the three-year programme, which focuses on three different “model” developing countries – China, Egypt and Mexico – and consists of two complementary operational and knowledge work streams is aimed at accelerating the connection of million of unbanked people to formal financial systems. The operational work stream supports each…

  With the support of a UK firm, entertainment and gaming company, Western Lotto Nigeria Limited entered the Nigerian market July 10 with five international lottery games and pledged to change the landscape of gaming in the country. Western Lotto is offering well-known European and American gaming brands on its platform. It is also luring customers to go entirely online, unlike the many other players in the land who offer sports betting on improvised boards for the urban poor. Games on offer at Western Lotto include Powerball, Euro Millions, Euro Jackpot, UK Lotto and Mega Millions. Powerball is an American…

  Nigeria’s most innovative bank, GTBank has released the 737 music video with a teeming and colorful scenes, groovy beats and a melody that you won’t forget easily. The video of GTBank’s 737 theme song 737 moments have all the staples of a hit. Its purpose, though, is not to climb into the charts and claim the number one spot (where it rightly belongs) but to highlight the simplicity of 737 and its availability to every Nigerian at every moment in time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZwHrpX8IBM 737 Moments is a celebration of every moment—at home, in the office or on the go—when the…

  Medallion Communications Limited, one of Africa’s leading interconnect exchange clearinghouses and DataCenter provider has won this year’s ‘Best Connectivity Provider in Africa.’ Medallion won the award at the 2nd  Africa Information Technology & Telecom Awards (AITTA), which was organized by InstintWave in Accra, Ghana recently. Speaking on the award, Mr Akin Naphtal,  CEO of Instinctwave  noted that AITTA is an accolade given to organizations, individuals and teams as a vindication of the hard work and innovation. He said Medallion, which has expertise in the establishment of carrier hotels and data hosting facilities, won the award not only for its…

The Tropika Summer Splash fair earlier scheduled to hold on the 29th-30th of July, will now take place only on Saturday, the 29th of July. This is due to inconvenience and concerns raised by a majority of the subscribed vendors, according to the event organizers, Qeturah.com. “We will no longer have the showcase and exhibition on the 30th of July. Qeturah.com sincerely apologises for any inconvenience to guests who had planned to attend on Sunday the 30th of July. Saturday will be surely packed so do make attendance to have a wonderful fun filled experience on the 29th of…

  By Kester Omu The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has disclosed that it decided to align with the Central bank of Nigeria in order to safeguard the interest of investors, subscribers as well the employee of Etisalat (Now 9Mobile), which is involved in indebtedness to a consortium of 13 banks in Nigeria. The Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian telecom regulator, Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta stated this yesterday in a statement signed by Tony Ojobo, Director of Public Affairs, when he received the Chief Executive of 9Mobile, Mr. Boye Olusanya, and Vice-President, (Regulatory Affairs) Mr Ibrahim…

  Top members of the new Management of 9Mobile (formerly Etisalat Nigeria) yesterday paid a courtesy visit to the Nigerian Communications Commission, the country’s telecommunications regulatory body.

By Kester Omu The 2017 edition of the annual Nigerian Communications Commission’s Lawn Tennis League will kick-off tomorrow at the National Stadium Surulere, Lagos. The kick-off, which will last for three days will see three teams compete for the 12th spot in the main event. The three teams are Team Anambra (Onitsha), Team Oluyole (Ibadan) and Team Police College (Ikeja). According to a statement issued by the NCC, the three teams dropped into the play-off event based on their collective team ranking.The Tennis League has a cap of 12 teams. Meanwhile, the International Tennis Academy (ITA), NCC’s organising partners…