Author: ITPulse

  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…

A prominent development economist, Mr. Mukoro Okotete had commended the contribution of the telecoms sector to the nation’s economic growth and development. Speaking at a seminar in Lagos with the theme “Nigeria: Sustainable Growth After Recession” Okotete noted that the impressive growth of the telecoms sector would be enhanced by the planned sale of 9Mobile.  He, however, cautioned that for the sale of 9Mobile to yield the desired dividends, it has to be done transparently.  He expressed dismay that some vested interest had sought to derail the sale by announcing the emergence of a preferred bidder.  That the preemptive…

  The Nigerian Senate has expressed concerns over the widespread of usage of Crypto-currency in the form of Bitcoin in Nigeria, warning that Nigerians seem not to be aware of the consequences with the way it is openly marketed across the country on the local television and radio stations. In a motion, sponsored by Senator Benjamin Uwaiumogu (APC, Imo North), the upper legislative chamber expressed concern that Nigerians are freely advised, and even persuaded to invest in crypto-currency as it promises quick returns, in certain instances, a triple or quadruple of the invested sum as profit within days. Uwaiumogu noted…

  By Kester Omu The Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) has posited that it would be wrong for the  Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to suspend some Interconnect houses, over the allegation of call masking without making available evidence to show that call masking emanated from their end. The President of ATCON, Mr. Olusola Teniola, who spoke to the Punch Newspaper, also argued that the affected interconnect houses, who are members of ATCON are only responsible five per cent of all calls routed in the telecom industry, while the remaining 95 per cent passed through network operators. “To the…