Author: ITPulse

  By Cyril Ilayah Nigeria is presently at an elevated risk of not meeting its targeted 30 present broadband penetration by the end of 2018. This is the verdict of a NigeriaCom report titled ‘Charting A Path To Fulfil Nigeria’s Broadband Potential;A Return To Growth,’ which was unveiled in preparation of its annual NigeriaCom event holding later this month in Lagos. The NigeriaCom’s verdict is hinged on the fact that 4G spectrum allocation remains inadequate, due to a slower-than expected process in awarding more 2.6GHz and 700MHz spectrum, along with a relatively inefficient use of the 800 MHz band. The report…

  The Internet Society, a global non-profit dedicated to ensuring the open development, evolution and use of the Internet has stated that the assured way to get the 60 percent of Africa’s offline population connected is to have network community. This way, it assured will add to the 450 million Africans who are already connected to the Internet and provide a sustainable solution to address the connectivity gaps that exist in underserved urban, remote, and rural areas around the world.  The concept of community networks, according to Internet Society is a situation where communications infrastructure are built, managed and used…

  As part of President Muhammadu Buhari’s 6-day official visit to attend the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) holding September 3 – 4, 2018, Nigeria and its host, China have concluded plans to seal a $328million agreement to develop Information and Communications Technology infrastructure in Nigeria. Details of the agreement, according to a statement issued and signed Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President (Media & Publicity), the agreement is on the National Information and Communication Technology Infrastructure Backbone Phase 11 (NICTIB 11) between Galaxy Backbone Limited and Huawei Technologies Limited (HUAWEI). The facility will be…

  Nigeria, through the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has inaugurated Local Organising Committee in preparation for this year’s Gulf Information Technology Exhibition (GITEX), holding Dubai, United Arab Emirates from October 14 – 18. The Director General of NITDA, Dr. Isa Pantami, who inaugurated the LOC, noted that this year’s participation is aimed at expanding Nigeria’s portfolio of technology opportunities, ensure startups from Nigeria are exposed to be competitive with their global peer. “We remain firm and committed to promoting technology deployment and building our local IT industry to world standard through participation in global events that further exposes…

  The Cyber Security Expert Association of Nigeria (CSEAN) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to assent to the Electronic Transaction bill, which has been passed by the Senate in May last year. Speaking to Journalists on the sideline of a Cyber Security Meetup in Lagos, the President of CSEAN, Mr. Remi Afon explained that the bill, which has been sitting on the President’s desk for some time now, will protect Nigerians in their financial transactions when finally sign into law. Apart from protecting the majority of Nigerians in their financial dealings, the bill will also protect the banks and…

  Search engine giant, Google has announced a new set of startups for its second Launch Pad Accelerator Africa, which it said is part of its ongoing efforts to support entrepreneurship on the continent. The 11 finalists from six countries, in alphabetical order, are: AppZone (Nigeria): AppZone builds Software as a service (SaaS) fintech software ecosystems for digital banks, allowing them to reduce operational costs while improving service delivery. Chalkboard Education (Ghana): Allows educational institutions to make their curricula available via mobile devices (USSD, SMS, and internet). It also lets those institutes gather insights about student learning patterns and helps…

  The Chief Executive Officer of MainOne, Funke Opeke has urged Universities in Nigeria to partner with leading companies, foundations and other research-intensive institutions, saying such partnership will help broaden innovations. Opeke, while delivering a speech with the themed “The Role of Electronic Devices and Instrumentation in National Development”, Public Lecture at the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, added that apart from transferring knowledge from lab to practice, such partnerships also provide critical funding for talented faculty and students to pursue foundational research on technologies that can solve local problems. “The absence of…

  The Chief Executive Officer and Founder of WebiMax, Ken Wisnefski, says the President Donald Trump’s statement accusing Google of showing bias in their search results is a reflection of an on-going debate on Google’s power and their ability to manipulate search results based on political or competitive influence. The United State of America’s President had tweeted, accusing Google of always playing negative news about him. The tweet read, “Google search results for ‘Trump News’ shows only the viewing/reporting of Fake News Media. In other words, they have it RIGGED, for me & others, so that almost all stories &…

  The International Telecommunications Union (ITU)’s regional workshop for capacity building, organized by the Digital Bridge Institute (DBI), the training arm of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC)in Abuja, couldn’t have come at any other right time. The 3-day workshop with the theme ‘Strengthening Capacities in Internet Governance in Africa’ came at a time when the Nigerian government through the telecom regulator, NCC is targeting digital ecosystem that would help to explore the country’s ICT potentials and ultimately propmote growth across all sectors of the economy. The workshop will help to strengthen the human capacity profile in the African region, which…

  nHub Nigeria, organisers of the HackJos 2018 has said the event in its fourth edition will focus on human capital development and youth empowerment. In a press statement highlighting activities for the event, touted as the premiier event to connect people and  ideas in northern Nigeria, Theodore Longji, HackJos event manager,  said the hackathon event –  software and apps competition, is designed to foster interest among young people in software development, entrepreneurship and the entire spectrum of ICT. “This year, we will be focusing and discussing methods and strategies for creating continuous drive for human capital development and youth…