Author: ITPulse

  It’s that time of year – our planet has made its trip around the sun and as we close out 2018, we look ahead and think about the possibilities for 2019.  And we’re closing in on the next decade of innovation that takes us into 2030, where we at Dell Technologies predict we’ll realize the next era of Human-Machine Partnerships – where we will be immersed in smart living, intelligent work, and a frictionless economy. We made some bold predictions last year – some coming to fruition a bit faster than others…there’s still much to do in advancing artificial…

  A 90 percent Internet penetration that would be experienced in Nigeria and other Sub-Saharan African countries will be driven by the growing young population with increased digital skills. This is the prediction of world’s leading technology provider, Ericsson, in its latest Mobility report. According to the report, Middle East and North Africa will experience 5G subscriptions in significant volumes as from 2022 and in commercial deployments with leading communications service providers by 2019, and significant volumes in 2021. “As 5G now hits the market, its coverage build-out and uptake in subscriptions are projected to be faster than for previous…

  The President of the Nigerian Internet Registration Association (NiRA), Revd. Sunday Folayan has posited that Nigeria’s economy should at this stage be partly depended on revenue from the Information and Communications Technology and not majorly from oil. Folayan, who stated this at an event recently in Lagos, also argued that for this to happen, there must be concerted efforts in terms of legislation and policies, education and capacity building, open governance and enhanced accountability. You may also read: Why we conceived the idea of bloggers summit – NiRA “There is a need to rebuild our country leveraging on Information…

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is seeking the collaboration of the GSMA to foster innovation and growth in the Telecommunications Industry in the face of emerging and disruptive technologies. NCC said the collaboration is in consonance with its 3rd and 5th item of the 8-point agenda, which focuses on Optimizing Usage and benefits of Spectrum and Facilitating Strategic Collaboration and partnership. Speaking at a workshop at the Commission’s headquarter recently, the Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, Professor Umar Garba Danbatta noted that the objective of the workshop is to provide an avenue for Regulators, Operators, Investors as well as…

  Computer Science students across Nigeria under the auspices of the Nigeria Association of Computer Science Students (NACOSS) will on Friday this week at the Foundation Polytechnic Ikot Idem, Ikot Ekpene Akwa Ibom State hold what it has tagged ‘Who We Are Now’ conference. The 1-day conference, according to the National President of NACOSS, Abubakar Hassan Sadiq is targeted at reawakening the dead love for NACOSS amongst the students in Nigeria and re- orientate them to a paradigm shift in their viewership of the study of computer science as a course or profession. “Some percentage of students are faced with…

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…