Author: ITPulse

  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…

  By Kester Omu Ahead of its Silver Jubilee celebration slated for later this month, Nigeria’s largest system integration company, CWG Plc has announced activities to mark its 25 years of existence as a company, operating in Nigeria and other West African countries. “We are in the 25th year of existence and have decided to make it a memorable celebration for both internal & external stakeholders. It is our intention to mark this event by having key CWG stakeholders come together for a Gala night.  CWG communicated this in a statement by the Group Head, Brand and Marketing Communications, Mrs.…

  By Martin Ekpeke The Nigeria Interbank Settlement System (NIBSS) has given a verdict that the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) technology platform has become the most accessible channel for financial and non-financial transaction in Nigeria. This is even as the provider of the infrastructure for automated processing, settlement of payments and fund transfer instructions between banks and card companies, disclosed that the banking hall transaction has declined by 25 per cent in the last one year, largely to the adoption of technology platforms by Nigerians. The Managing Director of NIBSS, Adebisi Shonubi, who made the disclosure at a Financial…

  The students of Lumen Christi International High School, Arue-Uromi, Edo State won this year’s SEPLAT Pearls Quiz competition. The annual competition is organised by SEPLAT Petroleum Development Company PLC, operators of the NPDC/SEPLAT JV assets, OML 4, 38 & 41. The winning school, represented by Kingsley Okafor, Cletus Ifedhor and Clinton Opara emerged after a keenly contested finale on Thursday, October 5 at the Unity Hall of the Delta State Government House in Asaba, the state capital. Each one of them walks away with scholarships worth N100,000 and N7 million for their school. This is the sixth edition of…

  By Martin Ekpeke The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), has denied circumventing due process in implementing the 2017 approved budget, as reported on the social media. The nation’s IT clearing house argues that the information being circulated is typical of disinformation aimed at discrediting the laudable efforts of the current management, headed by Dr. Isa Pantami, especially in the fight against corrupt practices within and outside the Agency. In a statement issued and signed by Dr. Agu Collins Agu, NITDA’s Director, Corporate Planning and Strategy, the agency described the report on the social media as corruption fighting back…

  The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Adesola Adeduntan has posited that Firstbank currently processes over 78 per cent of its customer transactions through self-service channels. This is even as Firstbank has emerged as the first financial institution in Nigeria and West-Africa to issue 10 million cards to customers across the sub-region. “Firstbank currently processes over 78 per cent of its customer transactions through self-service channels,” Adeduntan said in a statement in Lagos. He noted that this feats were achieved because customers have become more technology savvy, promising that Firstbank will continue to encourage this attitude…

  Nigeria’s based Signal Alliance has won Cisco Gold Certification, after meeting rigorous standards set forth by Cisco in networking competency, service, support and customer satisfaction. The systems integration company with expertise in cloud advisory, enterprise infrastructure, IT security, managed services and business applications announced this in a statement in Lagos. “We are very excited to receive Cisco Gold certification. Gold status reflects Signal Alliance commitment to working with Cisco and to bring top-notch technical expertise to our customers from design and architecture through to delivery,” said Adanma Onuegbu, CEO of Signal Alliance. The Cisco® Channel Partner Program provides a…