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ITPulse is a wholly information technology communication (ICT) news website, with a special focus on the African continent. The website provides up-to-date biz-tech news, analysis and comprehensive and thorough insight into the continent's ICT terrain

  The chief executive officer of Medallion Communications, MR. IKECHUKWU NNAMANI shares in this exclusive interview with ITPulse’s MARTIN EKPEKE why the ICT industry needs interconnect settlement scheme to address the challenges of delay in payment of interconnect charges.  He also shares his experiences why companies should host their servers locally. What has Medallion Communications been doing since the beginning of this year? What are the plans for the remaining part of the year? We have been focused on providing efficient services for the industry and growing our subscriber base in terms of clients. We are also making sure we…

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  Mr. Lucky Ofuafor shares in this interview the ideas that have kept Rolof Computers alive in the past two decades, making the company to expand into computer education in Delta State and beyond. He also revealed what every entrepreneur needs to succeed in Nigeria. He spoke with ITPulse’s Martin Ekpeke in his Warri office, South-South Nigeria.  How will you rate the performance of Rolof Computers and Academy in 2014-2015. What are the targets in the remaining part of the year? For 2014, we did very well in the computer industry for Rolof Computers and the Rolof Computer Academy. We…

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  MUHAMMED RUDMAN is the chief executive officer and managing director of Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria, the country’s first neutral IXP. In this interview with MARTIN EKPEKE in Lagos, Mohammed believes that there is a need for Nigeria to start hosting content locally because of the benefits involved. How will you rate the use of internet in Nigeria in 2015? The use of internet in Nigeria is about 80 percent mobile. This is excellent, but we need to go beyond mobile. We need to start talking about high speed internet access that can make us to be more productive…

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  AUSTIN OKERE is the Founder of CWG Plc, the largest Systems Integration Company in Sub-Saharan Africa & Entrepreneur in Residence at CBS, New York. Austin also serves on the World Economic Forum Business Council on Innovation and Intrapreneurship. In this interview with the Association of Nigerian Technology Bloggers, he revealed many challenging issues in the Nigerian ICT Terrain, including how some local IT firms put themselves at a disadvantage position when negotiating with their foreign partners. He also provides solutions that can boost the operation of SMEs in the country. ITPulse’s MARTIN EKPEKE was there. CWG has been around…

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  By Martin Ekpeke The Executive Council Members of the National Association of Computer Science Students (NACOSS), have sealed a mentorship deal with Programos Foundation, the Corporate Social Responsibility arm of Programos Software Group. The agreement was sealed today when NACOSS executives paid a courtesy visit to the company’s corporate headquarters in Lagos. Speaking on the choice of Programos Foundation, Comrade Okoro Emeka Louis, the National Public Relations officer of NACOSS said Programos Foundation was deliberately chosen because of its antecedent of moulding the youths for the future challenges, especially in the area of software design and development. He posited that…

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  Over 100 million accounts riding on the Huawei’s mobile money service platform across Africa will henceforth have access to WorldRemit’s international money transfer service. This follows partnership deal sealed by Huawei and WorldRemit, a leading digital money transfer service provider. The partnership, which was announced at the GSMA’s Mobile 360 conference, held in Dar es Salaam, will enable Huawei to add a ready-made solution for remittances, a growing mobile money product offering – to its existing suite of services. The deal is also expected to will improve access to mobile money remittance for millions of people that are currently…

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  Nigeria’s premier bank, Firstbank Nigeria Plc has appointed Abdullahi Ibrahim, its former  Group Executive, Retail Banking North as an Executive Director. The bank in a statement issued earlier today, said the appointment is in line with its strong corporate governance credentials and best practice, which has won the bank recognition both locally and internationally. A brief profile of Abdullahi Ibrahim on FirstBank’s official website shows that he was previously Group Executive, Technology and Services overseeing the Bank’s Information Technology and Services Functions. He also served as Group Executive Retail banking North from December 2012 up until his appointment as…

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  In a bid to strengthen the digitalization in Africa, Angola Cables, a Multinational telecommunications company, today announced it has started the construction of its South American data centre, located in Fortaleza, Brazil. The data centre is an important next step in the company’s roll-out of promoting the digital inclusion and empowerment of Africa by the use of subsea internet cable connecting Africa to the Americas and providing high speed internet at some of the lowest latency speeds between the two continents. Angola Cables was launched in 2009 with the mission of becoming the leading driver of digital enablement in…

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  The July 2017 Edition of CFA’s Startups Hangout will come up on Friday next week being July 14, 2017 by 5:00pm, even as the organizer announced ITPulse, a wholly Information And Technology Communication (ICT) news website, with special focus on the African continent as one of their partners. The hangout will have in attendance, for the July 2017 edition, two outstanding Entrepreneurs in the tech ecosystem and they will be downloading the experiences they encountered while growing, and still growing their businesses. They are  Bolaji Finnih, CEO, TechPreneur Africa and Ommo Clark, CEO, iBez Solutions. Past editions of the…

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  By Kester Omu The GSMA has urged government in Africa, especially in the North countries of Algeria, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia to develop their mobile tax reforms, saying that would improve access to mobile connectivity. In its latest report ‘Delivering Mobile Connectivity in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)’, the GSMA provides an overview of key general taxes, such as VAT, corporation tax and import duties, as well as additional sector-specific taxes and regulatory fees applied to mobile operators in the MENA region. The report also estimates the potential impacts of tax reform to illustrate how it may…

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