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  The fifth edition of the Nigeria Mobile Economy Summit & Expo featuring Nigeria Mobile Economy Awards, is scheduled to be held on October 11, 2018, the organizers have officially announced. In a statement in Lagos, the organizers said the new date for this year’s edition is in sync with Nigeria’s 58th Independence anniversary, which is celebrated every October. The statement signed by Mojisola Alabi, Co-ordinator of the event, noted NIMES, which was earlier scheduled for September 26 at the Oriental Hotel, Lagos, will now at the Protea Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos. “In commemoration of Nigeria’s 58th Independence celebration, we have…

  To accelerate the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, World Leaders through the Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development are advancing efforts that’s critical to connecting the 3.8 billion people around the globe who still do not have access to the Internet. The Global leaders who convene recently in New York City at the annual fall meeting of the United Nations Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development, noted that broadband must be leveraged to accelerate the sustainable development goals. The global group of key influencers and decision-makers met parallel to the 73rd Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations…

  By Cyril Ilayah A tech savvy gaming expert and lawyer, Mr. Fred Marioha has advised the Nigerian government at all levels to tighten regulation in the country burgeoning betting and gaming industry, stressing that it is only a well regulated industry that would attract investments. Marioha said the call on the government to expedient action on regulation is based on the fact gambling in Nigeria is still not well regulated, despite the fact there is the gambling law in place for the industry, which analysts and watchers estimated to be a N2bn+ a day business, still has a lot…

  The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has announced the change of Skye Bank name to Polaris Bank. The Governor of the apex bank, Mr. Godwin Emefiele also said a whopping sum of N786billion has been injected into the bank with the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria mandated to commence sale process of the bank from Monday. Details later….

  The board of Abuja Teaching Hospital, was today at the Corporate headquarter of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) over what it described as a Thank You visit. Specifically, the Board Chairman, Dr. Sam Sam Jaja, who led the delegation comprising the Chief Medical Director of the Hospital and Dr. Nicholas Baamlong, Chairman, Medical Advisory Committee, noted in his opening remark that they are compelled to pay a visit to the EVC/ CEO NCC to express their immense gratitude for the magnanimity accorded the hospital by the Management of NCC. “We are delighted and thought we should pay you a…

  By Martin Ekpeke The 2018 African Ministers of Education and Information Technology Summit, which is scheduled to be hold in Kigali, the Rwandan capital next week will be without a representative from either the Nigerian Ministry of Education or Information Communications Technology. African countries confirmed for attendance for the annual Ministerial Round Table (MRT) meeting at eLearning Africa, reputed as the continent’s largest conference on technology assisted learning and training are Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Congo, Djibouti, Egypt and Equatorial Guinea. Others are Gambia, Ghana, Lesotho, Liberia, Mali, and Uganda. In an email response to ITPulse’s queries why any…

  World Telecom Labs (WTL)  say it has passed  more than six billion calls lasting around ten billion (ten thousand million) minutes through its specialist VoIP switches deployed by five of Nigeria’s interconnect exchange carriers. The interconnect exchange carriers include  Breeze Micro, Exchange, ICN, Niconnx and Solid – to build new VoIP networks across Nigeria with local switching enabled at new POPs in Abuja, Lagos, Port Harcourt, Ibadan and Kano. According to World Telecom Labs, the carriers chose to build VoIP networks rather than legacy TDM as it was both quicker and cheaper – and, with the use of WTL’s advanced…

  Faced with the challenges of rising emissions, domestic energy resource constraints, ageing infrastructure and the growing demand and cost of electricity globally, the relatively new smart meter is anticipated to reach a whopping $10.4 billion market by 2022. This is the verdict of GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company in its latest report titled  ‘Smart Meters, Update 2018 – Global Market Size, Competitive Landscape, Key Country Analysis, and Forecast to 2022’, This is despite the significant challenges as high meter pricing, lack of supportive incentives, poor meter standards, regulatory shortcomings and resource management. According to the report, nearly…

  Vodacom Nigeria has called on telecommunication companies in Nigeria to seek improved collaboration aimed  at helping deliver more efficient service for users. Vodacom Business Nigeria’s Commercial Director, Mr. Solomon Ogufere made the call during a keynote presentation at the NigeriaCom 2018 Conference and Exhibition, organised by Informa Telecoms Group in Lagos. According to him, with 4 billion consistent internet users all over the world and more than a quarter of a billion new users accessing the internet in 2017 alone, there is no better time than now for businesses to begin to focus on new collaborative strategies to help…

  In the face of convergence, aided by the Internet, the Nigeria’s entertainment and Media (E&M) industry has been anticipated to generate a whopping $9.9 billion by 2022 representing a 21.5percent growth. According to PwC’s ‘Entertainment and media outlook: 2018 – 2022: An African perspective’, Internet access revenue will account for 89.6percent of this absolute growth, where the country saw a huge 25.5percent  rise in E&M revenue in 2017 to US$3.8 billion, although US$605 million of this US$764 million rise was attributable to Internet access. Much of these revenues re attributed to the once separated the entertainment and media (E&M),…