Author: ITPulse

  By Martin Ekpeke As part of efforts to safeguard the Internet, especially among the Nigerian students, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and other well meaning Nigerians have called on fellow citizens, especially the students to be mindful of what they put online. The call was made, yesterday at a Cyber Security Awareness Forum, organized by the Center for Cyber Awareness and Development (CECAD), Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA) and the Nigerian Communications Commission in commemoration of this year’s World Safer Internet Day. This year’s theme, ’Create, connect and share respect: A better internet starts with you’ is in tandem…

  Search engine giant, Google, in collaboration with the National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB), has organised an interactive programme for over 150 students from 10 public schools and five private schools across the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria, Abuja, as part of plans to celebrate Safer Internet Day 2018. According to Google’s Policy & Government Relations Manager, Titi Akinsanmi, this year’s event, themed ’Create, connect and share respect: A better internet starts with you’, reflects Google’s aim to train and inform active internet users in Nigeria about the dangers of online technologies and how users can keep themselves…

  The Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) is expected to hold its Annual General Meeting and Election into the National Executive Council (NEC) of the Association by April this year. The umbrella body of all telecom operators in Nigeria, stated this in a statement signed by its Executive Secretary, Mr. Ajibola Olude. According to the statement, the election would lead to having new crop of National Executive Council that would be charged with the responsibility of piloting the affairs of the Association for the next two years starting from April ending 2018. It also said to uphold the…

  The United Nations has promised to award N1 million and a three months community membership at the Civic Innovation Lab (CIL) to any Nigerian winning team in its recently launched hacking challenge tagged: Hackathon in Bonn, Germany. The money, according to UN will be used to develop a tool for the rollout of the survey across the country and around the world, adding that the United Nations is interested in Nigeria’s best software skills that would contribute to citizens’ engagement with the SDGs and bring the voices of Nigerians to the government and the UN. “It is very exciting…

  By Martin Ekpeke The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has assured that the sales of 9mobile will be over within 30-40 days, even as it warned the general public to desist from relying on unconfirmed reports. Mr. Sunday Dare, Executive Commissioner, Stakeholder Management at NCC, who gave the assurance yesterday on the sideline of a forum on cost based study for the determination of mobile voice termination rate in Lagos, also disclosed that the speculations have had a downturn effect on the brand, losing over 4million subscribers in the last few months. “The controversy and unconfirmed reports have made 9mobile…

  An environmental support services firm, Breval Tulip has said that Lagos State Government will earn over N7billion annually from its proposal to the state on commercial waste bin branding. Executive Director, Corporate Services, BrevalTulip, Mrs. Busayo Binuyo said this recently during a presentation to the management of the Lagos State Signage Advertising Agency, LASAA on the untapped benefits of waste bin branding. Speaking at the meeting, Mrs Binuyo said her company is specifically focused on commercial and industrial waste bin distribution and branding and is hoping to help the state increase its internally generated revenue through branding of the…

  By Martin Ekpeke A new Interconnect rate is expected to berth in the Nigeria’s telecommunication space latest March this year. This was the position of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) yesterday, at a forum on cost based study for the determination of mobile voice termination rate in Lagos. According to Mr. Sunday Dare, Executive Commissioner, Stakeholder Management, the new interconnect rate is critical to the growth and development of the telecoms industry, stressing that it a key component of the commercial aspects of interconnection between the network service providers. “We are working and hoping that Nigeria would have a…

  By Kester Omu The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said it has no plan to revoke the license of any of the Interconnect Clearinghouse operators, who are presently being queried on the allegations of call masking and refilling. The Executive Commission, Stakeholders Management at the NCC, Mr. Sunday Dare, disclosed this yesterday, while speaking to Journalists on the sideline of a stakeholders’ forum on cost based study for the determination of mobile voice termination rate in Lagos. According to him, the worst that could happen to any of the Interconnect Clearinghouse operators found culpable is to sanction or suspend…

  Nigeria’s Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has disclosed that to achieve the digital national identity for all citizens, the National Identity Management Commission would need an additional $3.1 billion. The Vice President, who stated this at the stakeholder workshop on Strategic Roadmap for Digital Identity, Eco-system in Nigeria, also revealed that Nigeria spent $, based on the 1.2 billion since the 1970s on the project, on a World Bank research on 2015. “Nigeria will have to spend additional $3.1 billion to develop a full identity for all Nigerians,” Osinbajo who was represented by Senior Special Assistant to the President…

  The General Manager of the MainOne Data Center subsidiary, MDXI, Mr. Gbenga Adegbiji has debunked the perception that power hungry industries such as data centers cannot successfully operate in Nigeria. Adegbiji, who was reacting to media reports that power is the key challenge of the Data center operation in Nigeria, disclosed that the MDXi Data Center has enjoyed over 90 per cent power uptime since 2015 and is poised to achieve 95 percent availability in 2018, based on a growing partnership with a local power distribution company. “We recognized the crippling impact of downtimes, the peculiarities of the Nigerian…