Author: ITPulse

In recent years, Enterprise resource planning (ERP) waves have penetrated the business environment, especially the Financial Services Industry, with every small and large enterprises now desiring to implement an ERP. The belief is that innovation through ERP can make any company work smarter, faster, and ultimately achieve more results. And this is true! Since its introduction, ERP has been known to eliminate disparate systems and consolidate independent systems, creating operational harmony across any organization making use of it. Trust me, a good ERP will help to drive overall process efficiencies and innovation while reducing operational costs. But just before you…

The President of Medallion Communications Limited, Mr. Ikechukwu Nnamani was last week at the Titans of Tech Awards in Lagos crowned ‘Nigeria’s Telecom CEO of the Year 2019’, an award many stakeholders hailed, considering Nnamani’s contribution to the telecom industry since the liberalization in 2001. Giving the award to Nnamani at the prestigious Oriental Hotel, the organizer of the awards, Technology Africa, described the founder of Medallion, a company fondly addresses as Nigeria’s TeleHouse as one of the pillars of telecommunications in Nigeria, having pioneered the offering of public and private interconnection services through its carrier and Data Centre neutral…

Olukayode Kolawole For most people living outside Africa, they imagine the continent as the home of poverty, corruption, internet fraud, infrastructure deficit, and everything that describes under-development, marginalization, oppression, bad leadership, insecurity, diseases, and many more. Although the continent is truly beset with some perennial development issues, some of these notions are preposterous and not entirely peculiar to Africa. No doubt, for a continent that is richly blessed with numerous natural resources, the economies of the countries within it should be enviable and have the capacity to truly compete with the First World countries. Home to 54 countries, with Nigeria…

Cliptize is an awesome assignment tool that gives educators the superpower, to convert any online video or webpage to a class assignment by attaching their own questions to it. Students have to watch the video or read the content of the webpage before attempting the questions. Also, teachers do not need to go through the stress of scoring students one after the other and analysing the class performance as students are automatically scored and their performance automatically analyzed. Their results are constantly updated and sent to the teacher. One big advantage of this type of assignments is, Educators can share…

New devices can come with pre-installed bloatware that reduces performance and violates the privacy When you buy a new device, you expect it to come in a pristine state and work perfectly. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. Devices can come with pre-installed bloatware that reduces performance and violates your privacy. “Bloatware is software you don’t want that burdens and slows down your device,” explains Daniel Markuson, a digital privacy expert at NordVPN. “These are programs that are preinstalled on new devices, come bundled with other downloads, or are injected into your system through malicious sites.” According to NordVPN’s…

Having quick access to information is something that has become a part of our daily lives, so being able to represent data in the real world in a way that is easy to understand is increasingly important. This is why there is a growing need to understand charts and how data is represented on them. Charts make it easier to present and understand complex data sets; however, because there are so many different types of charts to choose from, it can get a bit confusing understanding which is which and which is best for what. There are a variety of…

Arising from a one-day conference, participants at the 2019 Nigeria DigitalSENSE Forum on the Internet Governance for Development (IG4D) and Nigeria IPv6 Roundtable, have called on the President Muhammadu Buhari to initiate an Executive Order to fast-track migration of digital networks in Nigeria to IPv6. A communiqué from the forum organized by DigitalSENSE Africa Media, a certified ICANN At-Large Structure) in collaboration with the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), identified the proposed Executive Order as a matter of urgency. Participants in the communiqué under the chairmanship of the former Institute of Software Practitioner of Nigeria (ISPON) Chief Chris Uwaje and endorsed…

Nigerian telecom regulator, NCC said it has considered it important to review the national Numbering Plan in the spirit of ensuring that the country’s telecom ecosystem is regulated in tandem with the demand of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. NCC’s Executive Vice Chairman, Prof. Umar Danbatta stated this in a remark he made yesterday during the Fourth Edition of the Information Communication Technology & Telecommunications (ICTEL) Exhibition, organized by the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) in Lagos. In the remark, Danbatta, who was represented by Ismail Adedigba, Head, Information & Reference, Consumer Affairs Bureau at NCC, disclosed that it…

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), yesterday said it has always strived to ensure implementation of harmonized Right of Way (RoW) charges in state and federal government highways at the cost of N145 per linear meter. This, it noted, will encourage faster rollout of telecoms infrastructure across the country, where stakeholders have always complained of excessive charges from federal and state governments in the deployment of terrestrial fibres. The Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta, who disclosed in a remark he made during the Fourth edition of the Information Communication Technology & Telecommunications (ICTEL) Exhibiion, organized by the Lagos…

Conscious of the fact that the services and technologies that will characterize Fourth Industrial Revolution, will ride on a robust telecommunication infrastructure, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has called on all stakeholders in the private and public sector to support the country deployment of a pervasive broadband network. The Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta made the call yesterday during the Fourth edition of the Information Communication Technology & Telecommunications (ICTEL) Exhibiion, organized by the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) in Lagos. According to Danbatta, though, the telecom regulator is working tirelessly to collaborate with necessary…