Author: ITPulse

  With a great passion for creating a vibrant SME economy in Nigeria and Africa while also recognizing those who have made great achievements in the SME sector, braving it a most challenging business environment, Emvirtue, the organisers of the SME Economy Conference and Awards has announced ongoing plans on the third edition of the project which would be taking place on the 27th of October 2018 at the Ace Olivia Hall, Lagos City Mall, Onikan Lagos, Nigeria. As his Excellency the governor of Lagos State, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode rightly puts it, “There is a need to engage successful entrepreneurs…

MDXI Data Centre has strengthened its position as one of the leading Cloud Service providers in Africa demonstrating by attaining the Gold Data Centre certification from Microsoft. This means, the company is now positioned to meet to meet Microsoft’s customers’ needs, as the Gold Data Centre is the highest partnership level with Microsoft in Data Centre Competencies and is the pinnacle for Cloud Productivity in Microsoft’s Partner Network program. “Attaining Gold Partner status is an important step for MDXI in its drive towards supporting local companies face issues on digital transformation, particularly in relation to their Data Centre and computing platform…

  As a way of providing an alternative power source to the Nigerian energy sector, a major player in the Nigerian power backup industry, Simba, yesterday unwrapped range of KStar Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) systems to the market. At the unveiling of the UPS in Lagos, the company said unlike traditional Online UPS systems, the KStar products can handle a wide range of applications which have peculiar power needs, such as factory machinery, where power requirements at startup are huge, and where power failure can often lead to significant cost escalation, as machines need to cool down and be restarted.…

  The Halogen School of Security Management & Technology has called on the federal government to create an effective digital policy direction that would help combat the teething cyber security warfare in Nigeria. Academy Halogen made the call at its Lagos campus at the opening of a policy development session, noting that in today’s digitized world, cyber security has become a vital component of enterprise risks solution helping organizations to deliver their bottom-line. According to the Chief Operating Officer of the Academy, Dr. Wale, there is a need to trigger policy that would stimulate conversation in the digital world. Tagged ‘Digitizing…

  A technology education company, Edufirst, yesterday launched a campaign, it described as revolutionary that will help address the poor standard of education in Nigeria  leveraging the power of the Information and Communications Technology. Speaking at the launch of the campaign at the company’s corporate office in Lagos, Moses Imayi, the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Skool Media, Edufirst’s parent company noted that the campaign became necessary owing to the decay in the Nigerian educational system. He argues that the standard of education must be raised in Nigeria, so that its citizens can compete favourably among their peers globally.…

  The Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA), manager of Nigeria’s country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) on the Internet, has adduced reasons it conceived the idea of gathering bloggers together, to what it has tagged Bloggers Summit. NIRA, according to its President, Mr. Sunday Folayan said the Bloggers summit was conceived as a vehicle for increasing the avenue for Networking amongst bloggers, creating an environment to promote responsible blogging in this era of Fake News and Hate Speech. Other reasons he gave at the summit, which attracted bloggers, journalists and media enterprenuers are encouraging and rewarding stellar performances within the…

  By Martin Ekpeke A lot of Venture Capitals at the just concluded Gulf Information Technology Exhibition (GITEX) 2018 have picked interest in putting their money in Nigerian technology Startups, describing the startups ecosystem in Nigeria as having potentials and viable. These interests are as a result of a well-packaged investment forum organised by the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) at the global technology show, where the Nigerian delegation took turns to advertise huge potentials for investments in the country’s ICT sector to potential investors from across the world. For instance, a Mauritius Venture Capital, ArifSaiyad & Associados Ventures…

Blockchain Technology company, VaultBridge Global has expressed worries over the lack of enlightenment for the adoption of BlockChain Technology in Nigeria, saying this has compelled it to organize its maiden edition of a public enlightenment workshop on Blockchain Technology. The firm noted that pace of adoption of BlockChain technology is slow, and the workshop  will serve as a public enlightenment venture and a process to further engage in education, training and advocacy in order to bridge the gap of knowledge deficit of Cyber Security and Blockchain Technology. According to the organiser, the workshop will further unravel the benefits that government,…

Broadbased Communications Limited has won the Telecom Wholesale Company of the year 2018 award at the Nigeria Tech Innovation and Telecom Awards 2018 (NTITA), organized by InstintWave in collaboration with the Association of Telecom Companies of Nigeria (ATCON). Speaking after receiving the award, which was held in Lagos last week, the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Broadbased Communications, Prince Henry Iseghohi stated that the award is a testament to the company’s dedication to the open access, non- compete model, the goodwill of our esteemed Customer base, the hard work and dedication of the Staff of Broadbased Communications. Also commenting, Mr.…

  The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said it is set to come up with a redesigned regulatory framework that would ameliorate the risks associated with cybercrime, especially in the financial sector. This was disclosed by the apex Bank’s Deputy Governor, Mrs. Aishah Ahmad at a seminar organized by Risk Managers Association of Nigeria (RIMAN) in collaboration with the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN) in Lagos recently. According to her, the redesigned regulation becomes necessary as a result of the compelling need to address risks that may emanate from the new emerging and increasing modern class of financial…