Author: ITPulse

  By Kester Omu Nigeria’s based Information Technology solution provider, DEQNA International Limited has launched an online bookkeeping software, strategically designed to manage business accounting records for businesses in Nigeria, especially the SMEs. According to the Managing Director/CEO, DEQNA, Femi Abimbolu, the bookkeeping software will address the challenges usually faced by SMEs in accessing some of the available funds, and will also help them in keeping financial records. “The major problem with the SMEs segment of the Nigerian economy is that they are not organized, hence do not have the wherewithal to keep financial records,” Abimbolu argued at the launch…

  There is no doubt that Nigeria has one of the largest Telecom markets in Africa as the sector attracts considerable foreign investment. Over The Top Players, OTTPs, such as WhatsApp, BlackBerry Messenger, Telegram and many others, have significantly affected the average revenue per user of Telecom subscribers and this has adversely affected the overall revenue of the industry. Questions that are begging for answers includes, ‘where does the industry go from here, having invested billions of dollars?’ ‘How does the Television compete with OTT players who have very little investments in overheads?’ I recently had a chat with Jane…

  Learning how to optimize your blog can be a tedious process, but the profit potential can a be very high. In today’s affiliate educational newsletter, we look at the six ways to monetize a blog with Affiliate marketing. Know your target audience You need to understand the characteristics of your visitors. What do they search for on your website and what do they hope to achieve on your blog. You need to know your audience to understand what they want. This means as an affiliate marketer, you need to get the right audience to see the right offers in…

  By Emmanuel Osie A new KPMG report has disclosed that following the reported coming out of recession by Nigeria, Consumer Goods, Financial Services, Telecommunication, Media & Technology and Oil & Gas sectors are the most sort after sectors by foreign investors, saying these sector accounted for about 80 per cent of recent inbound investments into the country. The new KPMG report titled, ‘Doing Deals in Nigeria – Key Insights from Deal Makers’ was presented to the public at the KPMG Nigeria office in Lagos. The report is the result of a survey of 50 senior business executives based outside…

  More players in the ICT, Banking and FinTech sectors of the Nigerian economy have continued to throw their weight behind the Third Quarterly Forum of the Nigeria Information Technology Reporters Association (NITRA) billed for Friday, October 13, 2017. The latest to declare their support for the flagship ICT reporters association quarterly seminar are Global Accelerex, an effective and secure payment solutions provider; Yudala, fast rising e-commerce operator and Nigeria’s first ever composite online and retail chain; and CWG Plc, a total ICT solutions provider. Others are three of Nigeria’s leading IT-driven commercial banks namely, Fidelity Bank Plc, Wema Bank…

  By Kester Omu The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), yesterday insisted that there would be consequences for any network operators that fail to comply with the Commision’s long standing position on the registration of SIM Cards. The Director of Public Affairs at NCC, Mr. Tony Ojobo, reiterated the position, while delivering a paper titled, TRACKABLE IDENTITY AND THE EASE OF DOING BUSINESS IN NIGERIA, at the Special Independence Edition of the annual Conference of Directors and Heads of Public Relations organised by the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) in Lagos. Ojobo argued that the registration of SIM Cards has…

  The famous University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), has commissioned what can be described as  Nigeria’s first indigenous (University) laptop assembly complex. The complex, which was commissioned last week during the University’s Founders’ Day, has a capacity to produce 100,000 laptops a year was delivered by Crestsage Limited a Lagos-based indigenous Technology company under a management arrangement with BOC (Benefitting Our Community) Innovations Limited. According to Charles Emembolu, the CEO of Crestsage, who is also an alumnus of the University, the Lion laptop project will deliver local content in the billion-naira industry by value substitution of components with locally available…

  By Martin Ekpeke The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) is presently working out some modalities with Nigeria’s legislators that would ensure tax holiday for startups in the country. The Director General of NITDA, Dr. Isa Pantami, who disclosed at the on-going on the GITEX technology expo and conference holding at the Dubai World Trade Centre, United Arabs Emirates (UAE), said a tax holiday for startups would promote local production of IT products and help to save the country about $2 billion (about N720 billion), which is lost to the importation of foreign technologies into Nigeria. Pantami, who led…

SEAMFIX, Nigeria’s leading provider of identity management solutions, has announced plans to unveil an innovative data management solution to the Nigerian market. Tagged BioRegistra, the solution is a state of the art, KYC (Know Your Customer), online platform provided as-a-service. It was developed primarily for individuals and corporate organisations with the goal of enabling them to easily and effectively capture any kind of data, store this data, and have access to the data at any time as they may desire. Commenting on the solution ahead of the launch, Chimezie Emewulu, Managing Director of SEAMFIX described BioRegistra as a game changer…

  The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has notified Network Service Providers of the Postponement of the upcoming changes to Root Zone Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) by the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The Commission notified the Network Service Providers via a Public Notice statement, it issued yesterday and signed by Tony Ojobo, Director, Public Affairs. The statement noted that ICANN had to postpone the root zone rollover of the KSK, which was originally scheduled to take place on 11th October, 2017 due to some recently obtained data that showed that a significant number of resolvers…