The Director-General, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Malam Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, has applauded the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) for launching its Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) Platform. The EDMS launched at the NIS Headquarters, Abuja on Tuesday is a key component of any digital transformation strategy and information governance effort, which uses automated techniques to transfer files electronically, manage records regardless of format, maintenance, use and disposition of records. Abdullahi noted that the NIS is lucky to have a visionary leader like the Comptroller-General, Muhammad Babandede, whom he described as a game-changer, who has the focus to move the…
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Google Cloud has announced the appointment of Niral Patel as Regional Director, Sub-Saharan Africa. Based in Johannesburg, Niral will be responsible for leading Google Cloud’s business across Sub-Saharan Africa. Niral’s brief shows that he will have overall responsibility for the company’s sales strategy and continued development of its go-to-market sales operations. He will be focused on supporting the growth and scale of Google Cloud customers across a variety of industries. Niral brings more than 20 years of tech sales leadership to this role and joins Google Cloud from Oracle, where he was the Managing Director for South Africa. Prior to…
To commemorate its 20th anniversary, and express its appreciation to its subscribers, MTN Nigeria has said that 20 customers will be gifted brand new Honda HRVs. In addition, the Telco will be giving free airtime and data to all its customers, while 68.9 million subscribers received 200MB of data, and their first call of the day was free for up to five minutes. Karl Toriola, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), MTN Nigeria, said the 20-year journey has not been the company’s alone. “Ours has been a classic case of ‘together in progress,’ and we are thankful to all Nigerians for standing…
Chairman, Zinox Group and a Serial digital entrepreneur, Leo Stan Ekeh, has been honoured with the highly coveted Forbes Best of Africa Leading Tech Icon Award. Ekeh was conferred with the prestigious award on Friday, August 6, 2021. The well-deserved accolade marks the latest in a long list of credible local and international awards and recognitions received by Ekeh for his over three decades of leadership and pioneering entrepreneurship in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) space in Africa, as well as his many enduring philanthropic and humanitarian legacies. The Zinox boss was singled out for founding the most integrated…
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Spotify has introduced Sylvia Saru, popularly known as Ssaru, as the latest artiste to join its EQUAL Music Program. EQUAL is Spotify’s global initiative to cultivate gender equality in music and support female artistes and podcast creators both locally and internationally. At just 19 years old, the Kenyan-born rapper and singer-songwriter is the youngest artiste to join the program. Ssaru first made her mark in the industry after her rap freestyle went viral. Following that, she released her first video ‘Nyama’ and has since worked with the likes of Benzema of the Ochungulo Family, one of the music crews instrumental…
Airtel Africa’s mobile money business has received its third big investment of the year, scooping up $200 million from an affiliate of Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund, according to a report in Finextra. Qatar Holding is making the investment in Airtel Mobile Commerce (AMC), the holding company for several of Airtel Africa’s mobile money operations, at a $2.65 billion valuation. In March, the Rise Fund, the impact investing arm of TPG, invested $200 million at the same valuation. Weeks later, Mastercard put $100 million into the business. AMC is working to own and operate the mobile money businesses across all of…
Google Cloud and SAP SE have announced an expanded strategic partnership to help customers execute business transformations, migrate critical business systems to the cloud, and augment existing business systems with Google Cloud capabilities in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Under this expanded partnership, Google Cloud will be a strategic cloud partner for the RISE with SAP offering. The two companies will partner to accelerate customers’ cloud migrations and business process migrations. In addition, customers can benefit from the planned global availability of multiple SAP® services and products on Google Cloud’s reliable, scalable cloud infrastructure and high-speed network, including…
SAP Africa has appointed Tracy Bolton as its new Chief Operating Officer for the Africa region. Bolton, a 25-year IT industry veteran who has held several leadership positions at SAP over the past nine years, will be squarely focused on customers’ success and on ensuring SAP delivers business value while helping industries digitally transform. In addition, Bolton will work to remove complexity from engagements with customers while ensuring the correct resources are engaging at the right time to help customers get the most value from their digital and business transformation efforts. Cathy Smith, Managing Director at SAP Africa, says Bolton…