Author: ITPulse

According to StatCounter, Huawei has a market share of around 2 percent in Nigeria (it has a 10 percent+ market share in entire Africa, though). This means that the recent developments of the US-China trade war are unlikely to affect a large number of smartphone users here. The fact that Google quickly responded by suspending Huawei’s license to use its services – the Play Store, Google Maps, Google Drive, Gmail, and YouTube, among others – turns this into a worrisome piece of news. After all, pretty much every Android phone relies on these to download apps, handle email, video streaming,…

——- Irene Charnley, Founder of Smile, now Deputy Chairman Smile Telecoms, a Pan-­African telecommunications group with operations in Nigeria, Uganda, Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has announced the appointments of Mr. Ahmad Farroukh as Group Chief Executive Officer and Ms. Irene Charnley as Deputy Chairman, respectively, effective 1 June 2019. Ahmad Farroukh, who currently serves as Smile’s Group Executive Director, Operations, is a seasoned and experienced telecoms executive with a distinguished record of commercial and operational success. Mr. Farroukh’s vast experience extends to executive management positions at Investcom Holdings and the MTN Group (where he served as…

Following Google’s back out from supporting Huawei device, analysts have said the world’s second-largest handset maker could be forced to suspend the rollout of new devices from both of its handset brands — Huawei and Hono. This is despite Huawei’s assurance that it will continue to sell handsets from its existing stocks and supports the ones that are in use. “Huawei could look at using Android Open Source Project (AOSP) with a third-party marketplace, but that marketplace won’t have millions of apps, and it won’t be as secure as Google, besides compatibility of apps with devices will also be a…

By Martin Ekpeke The Acting Group Chief Executive Officer of CWG PLC, Mr. Adewale Adeyipo last Friday at the Company’s Corporate Headquarters in Lagos, engaged the media on his 2019 plans and prospects for CWG. At the media engagement, which lasted over two hours, Adewale disclosed that, though his plans were not far from what CWG has always been known for, he will work closely with his team to continue to grow and improve the CWG’s competency framework on services leveraging the existing customer base to scale-up to service other sectors and verticals. “Today, we have over 200 resources supporting…

What are the main types of backup operations and how can you avoid the sinking feeling that comes with the realization that you may not get your data back? Ddaniel Cunha Barbosa writes As humanity’s use of all kinds of technology has grown, terms like backup are no longer unfamiliar to the majority of people. Of course, the concept of a backup existed long before it came to be named as such. Whenever any important document or information was copied and stored in a place separate from the original for the purpose of ensuring the information would not be lost,…

The Lagos State Governor-elect, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu has expressed satisfaction over the launch the Africa Development Centre by the software giant, Microsoft, noting that technology is a new economy. Sanwo-Olu, who attended the launch of the centre on Friday in Lagos, said his excitement is borne out of the incoming government’s determination to use technology as a major driver of government activities. “Congratulations to the Microsoft Nigeria team on the launch of the Microsoft Africa Development Centre in Lagos. I am excited because the significance of technology in the 21st Century cannot be over-emphasised,” he said. He stated that he…

The inaugural Global Index of Economic Openness (GIEO) by Legatum Institute, a London-based think-tank has excluded Nigeria, while Rwanda, India and China have been added as the countries showing more improvement in an Economic Openness index. The (GIEO), which ranked 157 countries’ openness to commerce, with analysis of what enables or hinders each country’s ability to trade domestically and internationally, noted that the likes of Rwanda, India and China are spreading global trade, innovation and prosperity, while countries like Nigeria remains stagnant in the quality of Governance Hence, this stagnation is acting as a brake on Economic Openness and poses…

Did you know it’s World Telecommunication & Information Society day (WTISD) today? Probably not. And as it might sound boring, it’s actually very exciting. Right now 56% of the world population has access to the Internet. This means that more than 4 billion people, over half of the world’s population, are without any internet connection. The growth potential is huge. A fully connected world is not just a noble cause, but also the dream of every marketer and tech-company. Which means companies like Google, Facebook and SpaceX are jumping right in. Elon Musk’s space internet Serial entrepreneur Elon Musk does…

The Senior Special Adviser to the President on Information and Communication Technology [ICT], Lanre Osibona, has disclosed that the present government has put strategic measures in place to harmonize all silo identity agencies in the country. Osibona disclosed this, while delivering a keynote address at the Lagos Fintech Week. He said there is an initiative in place by the federal government to set up an independent Data Protection Agency, that will take care of all national identity. “This is currently in the National Assembly for final adoption before being signed into law,” he added. This also includes FEC’s approval of…

The Nigerian government has disclosed that it has a plan in place to make sure financial services get across to all citizens irrespective of class, status or location. The plan, according to the Senior Special Adviser to the President on Information, Communication and Technology [ICT], Lanre Osibona, is to bring affordable digital financial services closer to Nigerians who are unbanked or under-banked. Osibona, while delivering a keynote address at the Lagos Fintech Week, also noted that the Federal Government mulled the plan because digital financial services are critical to building a robust digital economy, assuring that government is determined in…