Digital commerce is becoming the fastest-growing commerce in the Nigerian market, as immense growth has been recorded in this sector in recent years. This growth is driven by the increasing adoption of technology and the rise of online payment platforms in Nigeria. According to statista.com, the e-commerce sector of the Nigerian economy is expected to peak at $9.02bn in 2023 with an annual growth rate of 11.74 per cent, resulting in a projected market volume of $14.06bn by 2027. Although the Nigerian e-commerce industry faces several challenges including poor infrastructure, payment infrastructure, a general lack of trust in online transactions,…
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Infopercept Consulting Pvt Ltd, a global cybersecurity solutions and services company, has announced the appointment of Jitendra Bulani as Chief Marketing Officer. Bulani brings to his new office, 15 years of global marketing experience at cybersecurity companies. He will be responsible for driving awareness and demand for Infopercept’s offensive security, defensive security, and security compliance solutions as well as services globally. Prior to joining Infopercept, Bulani was at Sophos for more than 14 years where he was responsible for public relations and communications in India and SAARC, Middle East and Africa. Bulani was also one of the pioneering members of…
The National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA has commenced the training of another 75 farmers under the National Adopted Village for Smart Agriculture, (NAVSA) to be adopted on the platform. This is in furtherance to the Agency’s resolve at deepening the Digital Transformation Pillar of its Strategic Roadmap and Action Plan, (SRAP) 2021-2024, under the Agricultural value chain. The training holding at the University of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital began during the weekend with the registration and profiling of the beneficiaries and will culminate on Friday, February 17th with the presentation of seed funding and digital tools they leverage…
Director General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Kashifu Inuwa has called for robust partnerships with Nigerians in the diaspora to drive the Agency’s initiatives toward the development of the nation’s economy. The NITDA DG made the call during a courtesy visit by the Continental Chairman of Nigerians in Diaspora Organization, Europe (NIDOE), Dr. Bashir Obasekola, to the Agency’s Corporate headquarters in Abuja. As a very dynamic personality who has led the agency in attaining giant strides in different areas of its mandate over the years, Inuwa believes that fostering partnerships with Nigerians in the diaspora would enable…
By Inioluwa Shittu Picture this: it’s 9:45 p.m. on a Monday; your team’s Slack is quiet, inactive, even. You’ve just pushed a major update to production, using your CI/CD pipeline, and your stomach does that little swerve all DevOps Engineers know too well when nervous. ‘The deployment should be fine,’ you tell yourself. But then again, we both know, ‘fine’ isn’t good enough when it comes to the cloud. According to a 2024 State CI/CD Report, CI/CD is particularly aligned with improved delivery performance. While 40% of developers not using CI/CD platforms reported a code lead time for performance changes…
Accessibility has long been treated as a parallel track in product development: a checklist of alternative features built for “other” users. But this approach often stigmatizes and isolates. The future of accessibility is invisibility, experiences where neurodiverse users can thrive without needing a “separate door.” BOLUWATIFE SOKUNBI has been an advocate for this way of thinking, building products where accessibility happens naturally as part of the experience. His fundamental belief: if it’s inclusive, it works for all, not just the folks it was designed for. For example, when designing onboarding flows, Boluwatife has led the way in practices reducing cognitive…
To help victims of the recent earthquake in Turkey, Samsung has announced that it will donate $3 million to Turkey and offer other help, such as free repairs and appliances. The South Korean firm will donate $1.5 million in cash to Turkey Disaster and Risk Management Agency, according to a report on its website. In addition, the company will donate home appliances for temporary shelters for earthquake victims, and portable ultrasound diagnostic devices that can be used at disaster locations. It will also donate free Galaxy tablets for the education of the children in the affected families, and free home…
Yahoo plans to lay off more than 20% of its total 8,600 workforce as part of a major restructuring, according to a BBC report on Friday. The veteran tech company is reorganising its advertising unit, which will lose more than half of the department by the end of the year. Nearly 1,000 employees will be affected by the cuts by the end of the week. Yahoo is the latest tech firm to announce job losses as firms struggle with a downturn in demand, high inflation and rising interest rates. “These decisions are never easy, but we believe these changes will…
For the Nigerian delegation to the 2nd edition of the LEAP Technology Exhibition in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, it was a moment of national pride and excitement as two Nigerian startups emerged winners in different categories at the Rocket Fuel Pitch Competition. The two Nigerian startups are coming home with a combined total prize of $300,000 (Three Hundred Thousand Dollars). Nigeria’s delegation to the event was led by Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Professor Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami), who was accompanied by Director General of NITDA, Kashifu Inuwa; Executive Vice Chairman, Nigerian Communication Commission, Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta; and Managing…
The past few years have seen huge breakthroughs in the use and application of artificial intelligence (AI) — and AI holds major promise for people around the world. AI already powers Google’s core products that help billions of people every day. Here are nine ways we use AI, today, to make our products even more helpful, including some of our recently announced features: Search: When Google was founded, most searches happened on computers in homes, computer labs, or libraries. Twenty-five years later, AI is making it possible to search in new languages, with new inputs (like searching with your camera…