Author: ITPulse

  CWG Plc’s bill presentment, aggregation and payment platform, BillsnPay has been adjudged the best Innovative Solution/Product of the Year, at the Beacon of Information and Communications Technology Awards, in Lagos on Saturday at Eko Hotel & Suites. The organizers of the awards, Communication Week Media, said BillsnPay was recognized as the Best Innovative Solution/Product of the Year as the product has simplified the process of bills presentment alongside payments for Service Providers with the previous challenges of recurrent / one time billing since its unveiling few years ago. Commenting on this, the Group Head, Brand & Marketing Communications at CWG…

ESET has emerged the Best Information Security Company of the Year at Beacon of ICT awards 2018, duly for the dedication to developing high-performing security solutions for home users and corporate customers, predicting, preventing, detecting and remediating all known and emerging forms of cybersecurity threats.   The Company took home the prestigious award two years in a row after topping other challengers during the online voting, the BoICT Awards organisers said.   ESET is notable for her extensive line of solutions which protect across all types of environments and platforms from computers and servers to mobile devices, helping their…

  With football being the uncontested favorite of the crowd, UBC365 offers each football lover a VIP experience doing what they love with fully Air-conditioned, conducive and comfortable environment, extensive options of football leagues around the world. One doesn’t have to walk for long before finding in their numbers– straight-faced young men– whose concentration would pass them for betting employees. Unarguably, this is so because online betting has quickly become a norm among Nigerians both old and young. And the birthing of this norm could easily be attributed to the enticing offers that almost numb the sense of loss. However,…

The Ecuadorian Ambassador to Nigeria, Ambassador Leopoldo  Rovayo in company of his wife Mrs Lucia, recently visited some select ladies during one of the special class sessions, where he applauded the Elbativeni Foundation/Elbativeni Impressions and Consult’s ‘Project Loop Her’- a free six months ICT training programme. The free six months ICT training programme for select ladies empowerment program was  launched at the last edition of ‘The Generation Next Youth Empowerment Summit’ organised by the trainers in collaboration with the Embassy of Ecuador in Nigeria, the Nigerian Communication’s Commission (NCC), Nanet Hotels and other partners. Ambassador Leopoldo  Rovayo who is…

By Kester Omu Telecommunications infrastructure servicing company, Medallion Communications Limited has been adjudged the best ICT Clearing House of the Year, at the Beacon of Information and Communications Technology Awards, organized by Communication Week Media, in Lagos on Saturday at Eko Hotel & Suites. Reacting to the award, the Chief Executive Officer of Medallion Communications Limited, Mr. Ikechukwu Nnamani, said as a company, it is exciting because receiving the award goes to show the ICT industry recognizes Medallion’s contributions to the industry, which reports says is presently contributing 10 percent to the country’s Gross Domestic Product. “We are happy…

  Vodacom Business Nigeria has been honored with three major accolades at the Beacon of ICT (BoICT) Awards 2018. The awards include Enterprise Solutions Provider of the Year, an award conferred on the company consistently since 2013; Internet of Things (IoT) Focused Company, owing to its pioneering and visionary endeavors in this area in the past two years and Enterprise Broadband Services Provider of the year. The BoICT awards is a merit based celebration organised by Nigeria’s leading technology publication, Nigeria CommunicationsWeek, which aims to recognise outstanding contributions to the growth and development of ICT in Nigeria. This year, over…

By Martin Ekpeke The combination of federal government’s inability to work out a subsidy agreement with licensed infrastructure companies (InfraCos) and the refusal of some states to grant ‘Right of way’ approval have been seen as the twice evil delaying the rollout of infrastructure by the two companies, licenced two years ago. This was noticed in a recent response of Prof. Umar Danbatta, the Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), while responding to questions to why the rollout of infrastructure is being delayed, during a media interactive session in Lagos. A visibly worried Danbatta believes that…

  The Centre for Cyber Awareness And development (CECAD ) has called on the Federal government to take urgent steps in reviewing the current high cost of internet services. The non for profit organization made the call through its Executive Director, Mr. Hilary Damissah, while speaking as a panelist at the Internet Freedom Forum 2018, held at the Nigeria Airforce Conference Centre, Abuja two days ago. Mr. Damissah pointed out that, the cost of internet services in Nigeria remains too exorbitant and unaffordable by the minority of the citizenry. He argued that if the minimum wage is N18, 000, 2…

  By Martin Ekpeke A new report on the operational and fund management analysis of the Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF) has recommended that the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) should rework its regulatory framework to drive more investments in rural telephony The report, launched in Abuja yesterday at the ongoing Internet Freedom Forum by BudgIT, noted that reworking of the regulatory system is critical for the development of the rural telephony to add to the overall contribution of the country’s telecom industry, which it says contributed a whopping N8.6trillion to Nigeria’s economy in 2017. BudgIT believes that there is a…

  JC International, a leading Inspection, Rope Access and Training company has appealed to organisations to adopt an inclusive Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) workplace strategy that allows employees to play active roles in preventing and mitigating workplace accidents. In a statement signed by the Managing Director of the company, Engr. Austin Joseph, in commemoration of the 2018 World Day for Safety and Health at Work, stated that safety requires active commitments of all concerned parties. Mr Joseph also urged all Nigerians to make conscious efforts toward ensuring safety at home and workplace, noting that most accidents happen as a…