Author: ITPulse

  Details have emerged from the recently sealed partnership between Nigeria’s leading health management organization, Avon HMO and Piggy Bank. ng, an automated savings platform that gives Nigerian Millennials the opportunity to save money periodically towards a target. This partnership will provide health insurance plans to users with flexible monthly payments, as the companies collaborate to create a unique health care plan called AvonFlex, which is focused on affordability and flexibility for Piggybank.NG users. Nigeria, home to over 67 million youths has less than 5 percent of its population with any sort of healthcare cover. But with Piggybank.NG widely trusted…

Smartphone maker, Samsung Electronics said it will start the sales of its silver-coloured Galaxy Note 9 this week . A move industry watchers and analysts see as an attempt to promote the device amid the launch of new iPhones and other rival products. According to ET Telecom, the new colour , which will also be released in the US adds to the existing portfolio of blue, black, purple and copper variants. “Industry watchers said the new version seems to be aimed at competing with LG Electronics Inc.’s V40 ThinQ, which will be introduced this week, along with Apple Inc.’s latest…

Following the abrupt departure of Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger from Facebook, the Social media giant has announced the appointment of Adam Mosseri, as Head of its photo sharing arm, Instagram. ET Telecom reports that Mosseri began his career as a designer, managed his own design consultancy, and then joined the Facebook design team in 2008. “We are thrilled to hand over the reins to a product leader with a strong design background and a focus on craft and simplicity, as well as a deep understanding of the importance of community,” Systrom and Krieger wrote in a blog post late…

  The  Lead Strategist at DigitalSENSE Africa Media group, Mr. Remmy Nweke has called on media owners and digital rights defenders-based civil society organization to take proactive steps that will checkmate the rising Internet shutdowns across Africa. Nweke made the call, while speaking at the at the 2018 Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa (FIFAfrica2018) which held at La Palm Beach Resort, Accra, Ghana. He noted that no matter how small the size of a media organization, it is expedient for such organization to have what he described an online regulatory desk and regulatory officers, who should ordinarily interface with…

  Local television broadcast audiences will now have access to 13 new free-to-air (FTA) channels delivered as a multi-channel bouquet branded ‘PREMIUM.FREE’. The bouquet’s launch channels will be supplied by AfricaXP and delivered via SES satellites at 28.2 degrees East, SES announced on Thursday, September 25, 2018. AfricaXP is the leading independent African channel network, content distributor and producer, which owns and operates over 20 different themed channels supplied to major African broadcasters and African diaspora platforms worldwide. This new bouquet of FTA channels includes premium channels, which are custom-made for African viewers and blend premium African programming with top-flight…

  By Martin Ekpeke The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has called on telecommunications consumers in Nigeria to report the local numbers through which they receive foreign calls as masked calls to the Commission for proper tracking. The telecom regulator’s Executive Vice Chairman, Prof Umar Danbatta made the call at the 85th edition of the Telecom Consumer Parliament in Lagos last week. Danbatta noted that the call is part of numerous avenues it is seeking to tame the menace of call masking, which the Commission has described not only as an embarrassment, but a threat to national security and the country’s…

  The management of Koborise technologies Limited has unwrapped an online raffle draw platform, which it said has been strategically designed to alter the way online gaming is done in Nigeria. Tagged ‘Ekojara,’ the platform, which was officially launched yesterday has the approval of the Lagos State Lotteries Board (LSLB) and can be downloaded on iTunes iOS store and Android version from Ekojara.com. Unveiling the platform in Lagos, the Co-Founder/CEO of Ekojara, Mr. Hillary Nwaukor, an auctioneer, disclosed that the game is the Company’s means to add value to millions of Nigerians, adding that the platform gives users an opportunity…

  The Board and Directors of Global InfoSwift Technologies Limited have appointed Mr. Afolabi Kehinde Oke as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer. Oke, who was hitherto Executive Director of the company will replace Mr. Solomon Edun who has served the company excellently well in this capacity since inception. According o  statement issued by Global Infoswift in Lagos, Mr. Oke is highly experienced, result driven and well–regarded business leader with an extraordinary passion for excellence. He will be leading the organization through the next stages of growth. As a Director and one of the  founders of Global Infoswift which   is…

  The Nigerian government, through the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), has finalized plans to showcase six Nigerian technology Startups painstakingly selected from the six geo-political zones of the country at this year’s Gulf Information Technology Exhibition (GITEX 2018). The six Startups, according to a statement signed by Mrs Hadiza Umar, Head, Corporate Affairs and External Relations are Arone (SE), a technology, transport and logistics company to solve the problem of lack of accessibility to medical supplies; Beepower (NE) – a product that allows the use of one single source to power up multiple devices with different power requirements.…

  By Martin Ekpeke The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has admitted that the perpetrators of call masking and refilling have continued to undermine all the regulatory efforts it has deployed to tame the menace, which it described as posing serious threats to the nation’s economy and the security. The Executive Vice Chairman of the Commission, Prof. Umar Danbatta, admitted this yesterday in Lagos, while reading his opening remarks at the 85th edition of the telecom consumer parliament, with the theme ‘Overcoming Challenges of Call Masking/Refilling: Task ahead for the Telecom Industry.’ “Despite the regulatory actions, masking of calls has persisted,…