Author: ITPulse

  By Martin Ekpeke One of Nigeria’s leading pan-African corporate connectivity and telecommunications provider, Vodacom Business Nigeria has urged Nigerian government at all levels to leverage Internet of Things, which is commercially available today to create efficient services that would benefit every citizen. Vodacom’s Executive Head of Operations (Ag), Olumide Idowu, while speaking yesterday at the Information Communications Technology and Telecommunications (ICTEL) Expo, 2018 organised by the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, noted that with IoT, a host of intelligently connected services such as efficient healthcare in rural communities will become possible a reality. “Leaders around the world are…

  As part of its resolution to establish Information and Communications technology Hub across the six geo-political zones in Nigeria, the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) yesterday commissioned an ICT Innovation Hub in Katsina State, the home state of Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari. According to a statement signed by Mrs Hadiza Umar, Head, Corporate Affairs and External Relations Unit at NITDA, the federal government whose part of its mandates is to build capacity said it decided to start with Katsina because it is one of the most populous states in the North Western region of Nigeria. Apart from that,…

  By Martin Ekpeke The Osun State government is on the verge of unveiling a technology solution that will help tackle issues of security and ultimately forestall any attempt to attack the state from the rampaging herdsmen. The solution, according to the Honorable Commissioner for Innovation, Science & Technology, Engr. Oluremi Omowaiye will be an unmanned aerial vehicle that will interface with the call centre through a short code, which has been provided by the Nigerian Communications Commission. The Commissioner explained that the unmanned aerial vehicles, which are attached to camera will ensure all live-stocks will have an ID, allowing…

  By Martin Ekpeke The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), today said about 10 million Nigerians have activated the ‘Do-Not-Disturb (DND) 2442 short code. This is huge compared to less than a million before the campaign, where 2017 was declared as ‘year of the telecom consumer.’ “Since the declaration of 2017 as, ‘year of the telecom consumer’, the level of activation of the ‘Do-Not-Disturb (DND) 2442 short code by consumers has climbed from half a million before the campaign to almost ten million currently,” Professor Umar Garba Danbatta said while receiving African Organization of the Year 2018 Award from the organizers…

  Facebook’s data-privacy crisis that prompted Congressional hearings caused some Americans to re-evaluate social media’s importance in their lives. A study by tech research firm Techpinions found 35 percent were using Facebook less since the scandal and 9 percent deleted their accounts due to privacy concerns. The controversy spawned discussions about flaws in Facebook’s system and problems in general with various social media sites. People want to know how improvements can be made toward better security and functionality as new sites pop up. “Americans have only recently become concerned that their most personal data is being collected by Facebook, Instagram,…

The internet was meant to make the world a less centralised place, but the opposite has happened. Ludwig Siegele explains why it matters, and what can be done about it. Has the internet failed? Sitting in his office at Christ Church, an Oxford college, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, has his answer ready: “I wouldn’t say the internet has failed with a capital F, but it has failed to deliver the positive, constructive society many of us had hoped for.” Two decades ago, he would have scoffed at the idea that the internet and the web…

  While law enforcement agencies are busy fighting cyber crimes, global cybersecurity company, Kaspersky has discovered yet another unusual means through which fraudsters make away with valuables from unsuspecting users of the Internet. This new scheme, according to Kaspersky lab experts is the distribution of an unusual fraudulent scheme that tricks users into parting with their time and their data, for no return. The fraudsters create fake websites for the free generation of gift cards, cybercriminals are able to “sell” users’ data to third party partner sites, to which they redirect victims.  The experts explained that websites that offer customers…

  Telecom, media and tech news and events company, TMT Finance has predicted that financial transactions made via the internet or a mobile phone are expected to grow from US$200million in 2018 to a whopping US$3billionn by 2020. This prediction, according to TMT Finance is based on the increasing demand for financial services via the Internet and the mobile phone.  “The increasing demand for payment transaction and lending services are attracting investment from mobile operators, banks and international funds, all jostling to position themselves across the continent. These new initiatives also achieve inclusive goals set by international development finance institutions,…

By Long Williams Esq. The recent scandal involving the ICT provider and one of the Presidential Candidates in the NBA 2018 election compelled Mr A.B. Mahmoud SAN, the President of NBA to summon a meeting  involving the National Officers, the Contestants and Major Stakeholders like the Past Presidents and Secretaries for consultation on the way out of the imbroglio. At these meetings, the majority of the participants saw everything wrong with the fact that one of the Presidential Candidates shares a relationship with the Chairman of Chams Plc,  the ICT Provider for the election. In a reply  sent to…

The federal government of Nigeria has fielded Dr. Abubakar Sadiq Hussani as its candidate for the position of Secretary-General of the African Telecommunications Union (AtU) in the forthcoming ATU Plenipoteniary Conference holding August 16-17, 2018 in Nairobi, Kenya. In the last one week, Nigeria signified its interest to compete for the exalted position of the Secretary General of the Africa Telecom Union (ATU), the African teleocm body for the period 2019 to 2022 through a diplomatic note verbale  No. A.90/2018 dated 13th July 2018 sent by the federal government and published by the ATU on its webpage, among other documents acknowledged…