Author: ITPulse

Ericsson’s Senior Vice President and Head of Market Area Middle East & Africa, Rafiah Ibrahim will be stepping down to take the job of an advisor to the Chief Executive Officer, Börje Ekholm. Rafiah Ibrahim has held her current position since April 01, 2017, but will assume in her new office effective August 31, 2019. Meaning, she will leave the Ericsson Executive Team effective the same date. In a press release, Börje Ekholm, President and CEO of Ericsson described Rafiah as a very important leader in the company’s sales and delivery organization. Ekholm disclosed that in Rafiah’s latest assignment, she…

Six Nigerian students, all from the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria will alongside other students from Tanzania, Kenya and Angola represent Africa on the global stage to compete for the world ICT title in Huawei Technologies’ flagship ICT development program set to hold in China, May 2019. The students, Abdulqadir Babagana Musa, Muhammad Mustafa Maihaja, Fahad Danladi, Shuaibu Abbas Usman, Kamaludeen Umar and Abdulqudus Adebayo Temidayo ranked number one leading to a dominant score of 790.4, followed by Tanzania with 745.6, then Kenya with 737 and Angola with 700.8 in the regional competition finals consisted of 14 teams (with 42…

  One of the Ghanaian leading telecom companies, Vodacom Ghana has rolled out over 200 LTE sites across the country with a view to launching commercially by next month. Yolanda Cuba, the company’s Chief Executive Officer disclosed this, saying it is in the final stage of its rollout preparation after it was awarded the LTE-suitable spectrum in the 800MHz band in January 2019. “We are in the final stage of LTE rollout as we already have over 200 sites installed across Ghana,” he emphasised. Vodacom Ghana in January this year secured 2×5MHz of spectrum in the 800MHz band with a…

  Rolof Computer Academy is set to organise its first matriculation ceremony by next week Saturday in Warri, Delta State – South-South Nigeria. In a statement issued and signed by the Founder of the Academy, Engr. Lucky Ofuafor, the first set of students that will be matriculated are seven and are studying courses such as Computer Hardware Engineering Technology, Computer Software Engineering, Multimedia Technology, and Networking and System Security. “The Rector, on behalf of the Governing Council, Management, Staff, and Students of Rolof Computer Academy cordially invite you to her first matriculation ceremony,” the statement reads. According to the statement,…

  At first glance, the case for investing in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) seems incredibly strong. In practically every business, no matter how large or small, employees spend many hours of their week on basic manual tasks—copying and pasting data from one system to another, capturing and rekeying data from the customer letters and emails, and so on. “It’s obvious,” we say to ourselves. “If we can automate those processes with RPA, we’ll save thousands of hours, and we’ll be able to focus on much more interesting, important and profitable work.” But there’s a catch. Among companies that have already…

The latest report from the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics indicates that there are an increase in broadband penetration and the number of subscribers in the country’s telecom industry. The report indicates that broadband penetration in Nigeria presently stands at 32.34 percent from 31 percent in December 2018 while, NBS’s data also shows that the number of active voice subscribers in the telecoms sector berthed at 172.82 million as of the end of the fourth quarter of 2018. The Nigerian Communications Commission had in its 2018 last quarter data disclosed that Nigeria had attained a broadband penetration of 31.48 percent. The…

  The Chief Executive Officer of OneFi, Chijioke Dozie has given reasons it secured $5million investment facility from Lendable, a technology-enabled funding provider to African consumer and SME lenders. Dozie said the facility will allow the Fintech startup to double its size within Nigeria before entering new markets in 2019. Secondly, the debt facility will be used to deploy more loans to Paylater customers, specifically through a suite of innovative new products. “Securing this investment from Lendable represents the first internationally-backed commercial debt transaction for us, marking an important stage of our company’s development as we look to serve the…

  Despite rising mobile phone penetration and increased data consumption, device affordability remains a significant issue for most Nigerians. This is the reason adduced by MTN Nigeria to unveil its N8,000 smartphone, which the telecom company believes would address the issues of smartphone penetration in the country. “We can assure you that the phones are available at all MTN outlets across the country. We also want to warn that it must not be sold above the recommended price of N8,000,” MTN’s Chief Marketing Officer, MTN Nigeria, Rahul De stated at the unveiling in Lagos. According to Rahul De, the phone…

  As part of the efforts aimed at building itself into a world-class pan-African financial institution specifically designed to meet the needs of retail and commercial customers, Africa’s based Vista Bank has chosen Temenos to power its Africa’s digital transformation and growth strategy. The decision to partner with Temenos, a banking software company to power its digital transformation journey is for Vista Bank to transform its IT systems using Temenos Infinity, a breakthrough digital front office and Temenos T24 Transact, the next generation in core banking. “Vista Bank chooses cloud-native, cloud-agnostic Temenos Infinity and Temenos T24 Transact to provide innovative,…

  Efforts to get Nigeria rid of all forms of Electronic Waste is gradually getting some tractions, as Nigerian U-Recycle Initiative, will join other countries around the world to celebrate Global Recycling Day. This is a move aimed at celebrating the power of recycling and make the world think ‘resource not waste. Thus, U-Recucle, a team of young people aimed at promoting a recycling culture in Nigeria, is set to host Nigeria’s first major Global Recycling Day event in Lagos. The event, which is an initiative of the Global Recycling Foundation, is part of multiple activities taking place in all…