Amid Backlash: Delta Gov's aide offers Comfort Emmanson ₦500k job - ITREALMS

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The Senior Special Assistant on Media to Delta State Governor Sheriff Oborevwori, Mr. Ossai Ovie Success, offer to Comfort Emmanson, the Ibom Air passenger recently released from Kirikiri prison, a job with a monthly salary of ₦500,000 and an all-expenses-paid trip to Delta State is receiving a heavy backlash, reports ITREALMS.

According to Ossai on his Instagram page, the package includes a monthly salary of ₦500,000, flight tickets to and from Delta State, accommodation in a five-star hotel, a guided tour of Delta State's attractions, and a ticket to attend the Delta Social Media Summit on August 28, 2025, in Asaba.

Connect with Speed: Konga offers 50% off Starlink kits and free delivery - ITREALMS

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... Kicks off 30-day promo!

To enhance internet accessibility and quality across Nigeria, Konga, the country's leading composite e-commerce group and authorized Starlink retail partner, is offering an exclusive 30-day promotion on Starlink kits. 

For a limited time, customers can purchase the Starlink Gen 2 kit at an unprecedented price of ₦467,995, representing a significant 21% discount from the standard price of ₦590,000.

Dangote offers transport-free deliveries of PMS, diesel. aviation fuel to all marketers, petrol dealers - ITREALMS

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… Analysts say the initiative will reduce inflation and create jobs

A recent initiative by the Dangote Petroleum Refinery, which includes the distribution of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) and diesel to marketers, petrol dealers, manufacturers, telecommunications companies, the aviation sector, and other large-scale users across the country, with free logistics support to enhance the distribution network, has the potential to reduce inflation, create employment opportunities, and lower the prices of petroleum products.

Experts said that the refinery’s decision to deploy 4,000 brand-new Compressed Natural Gas (CNG)-powered tankers could also dismantle the monopoly held by intermediaries and contribute to a cleaner environment.

Konga Jara offers joy to shoppers with 50% discounts - ITREALMS

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Konga's annual Jara campaign has sparked excitement among Nigerian shoppers, offering timely discounts of up to 50% across various product categories. The initiative, themed "Confam New Year Deals," has emerged as a vital lifeline for consumers navigating the financial challenges typical of January.

Market analysis shows a significant surge in essential household purchases, with electronics, home appliances, and FMCG items leading the sales charts. Data from the first two weeks of the campaign reveals that home appliances and electronics account for 45% of total sales. Groceries and FMCG follow closely at 30%, while fashion and lifestyle products make up 25% of purchases.

Menxtt TechNG offers comprehensive support service for Nigerian businesses - ITREALMS

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The Menxtt Technology NG, a fast-growing indigenous technology start-up, is expanding its portfolio of tech services to include a comprehensive Tech Support Service for organizations. Specializing in web and software development, Menxtt Technology NG is now offering businesses an eco-conscious and efficient solution for managing and repairing their tech devices, helping reduce electronic waste (e-waste) and lower carbon footprints.

With growing concerns about e-waste and its harmful environmental impact, Menxtt Technology NG’s new Tech Support Service provides organizations an opportunity to extend the lifespan of their devices through repair and maintenance, rather than discarding them prematurely. This initiative not only supports sustainable practices but also aligns with the global movement to reduce carbon footprints by reusing and fixing devices instead of contributing to the increasing problem of e-waste.

BBS Tech offers tailored solution - ITREALMS

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The MENA region has recently experienced remarkable progress in digitalisation within the economy, marked by significant achievements. Simultaneously, this advancement has led to an increased vulnerability to growing cyber risks. Especially noteworthy is the growing use of artificial intelligence technology by cyber attackers, along with an increase in state-sponsored cyber-attacks due to escalating geopolitical tensions.

This has emphasised the critical need for companies of all sizes and industries to prioritise cybersecurity.

Makinde offers free shops to 700 traders, Soludo applauds - ITREALMS

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The Oyo State governor, ‘Seyi Makinde, has declared that 700 street traders displaced by the Agodi Gate Junction Improvement Works will be given free stalls in the new market built in the area as part of the project.

The governor stated this on Friday at the commissioning of the Idi Ape, Civic Centre, Agodi Gate Junction Improvement Projects, noting that the projects will reduce the number of man-hours spent by residents commuting roads in the city.

Meta offers new protections for Teens on Facebook, Instagram - ITREALMS

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As part of efforts at improving Child Online Protection, the Meta Platforms, has introduced new guidelines to give the Teens more age-appropriate experiences, reports ITREALMS.

Some of the takeaways in the new offering for teens include the ability to hide more types of content for teens on both Instagram and Facebook.

KongaTv to debut Nov. 6, offers dangles free adverts to credible merchants, slash prices - ITREALMS

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After weeks of meticulous planning, testing, and eager anticipation, Konga TV, Africa's pioneer 24-hour Buyers and Sellers TV platform, is gearing up for its much-anticipated public launch scheduled for Monday, November 6th, 2023, coinciding with Konga Yakata, Nigeria's biggest Black Friday sales event.

Konga TV is a groundbreaking platform designed to offer the best deals and competitively priced products from a wide spectrum of sources, including manufacturers, distributors, merchants and resellers. It is dedicated to bringing these offers to millions of savvy shoppers in Africa's largest market.

Malawi offers free internet @public facilities - ITREALMS

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The government of Malawi has commenced roll-out of scheme to provide free internet access in all public facilities in the country, under Digital Malawi Programme, reports ITREALMS.

The Deutsche Welle also reported that in the city of Blantyre in southern Malawi, the lack of universal internet access created long-standing issues that could be felt everywhere, including in schools: Accessing teaching and learning materials online was a major struggle for learners at public schools.

@11: Konga promises shoppers mouthwatering offers - ITREALMS

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Nigeria's leading composite e-commerce giant, Konga, is gearing up to celebrate its massive customer base and other Nigerians with an extraordinary 11th Anniversary Sale. This three-week event tagged 'Thrills, Deals & Trust,' promises to delight shoppers with mouthwatering deals and exciting offers.

From Monday, July 17 to Monday, August 7, 2023, Konga aims to make this anniversary sale an unforgettable experience for its customers.

9mobile offers special roaming package for Hajj pilgrimage - ITREALMS

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The acclaimed innovative and customer-centric telecommunication network, 9mobile, has rolled out a special hajj roaming offer for Nigerian pilgrims so that they can enjoy an affordable roaming experience for voice calls, SMS, and data while on pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

The Hajj Special roaming offer, which is available till August 31, 2023, will enable 9mobile customers to enjoy massive, discounted charges on calls, data, and SMS transactions with an extra value of free incoming calls when roaming in Saudi Arabia (on the Zain network) during the Hajj period.

Samsung: Konga extends discounts, free delivery & installation offers - ITREALMS

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Konga, Nigeria’s leading composite e-commerce giant, has extended till Friday June 30, 2023 the special offers made available to shoppers during the recent exclusive one-day sale of Samsung products, including discounted prices, free delivery and installation as well as free installation kits for Samsung Consumer Electronics.

The development is a reaction to a deluge of requests from customers of the e-commerce giant, particularly those who missed out on the Samsung Brand Day hosted by Konga on Tuesday, June 13, 2023.

9mobile offers massive voice, data bonuses with 9Konfam - ITREALMS

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In line with its commitment to offer amazing value to Nigerian mobile telephone customers, Nigeria’s leading telecom service provider and youth-friendly brand, 9mobile, has announced the launch of 9Konfam, a tariff plan that rewards customers with generous airtime and data benefits upon SIM activation, and on every recharge.

According to the telco, 9Konfam empowers customers to connect and to do more with their airtime and data purchases.

Konga Food goes live, offers customers free delivery, other incentives - ITREALMS

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The management of Konga Food, the online food delivery arm of Nigeria’s composite e-commerce giant, has assured Nigerian food lovers of exciting times ahead, beginning with the offer of 14 days of free delivery to mark its formal entry into the market.

Konga Food is equally introducing the fastest delivery times in the online food delivery segment in Nigeria, in addition to a host of freebies and other incentives.

Festive season shopping: Konga Jara offers more savings - ITREALMS

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Konga, foremost composite e-commerce giant has raised the curtains on its final sales promotion of the year – Konga Jara, which offers shoppers massive discounts and huge savings on their festive season shopping.

Through the promotion, the management of the e-commerce giant promises her teeming customers best prices in Nigeria this season.

Internet Society Foundation offers $300,000 in grants - ITREALMS

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The new set up Internet Society Foundation (ISOCF) has issued its first set of medium and large grants (ranging from $12,000 to USD $30,000 each) to 13 ground-breaking projects that seek to spread the benefits of the Internet around the world, reports ITREALMS.

The Internet Society established the Internet Society Foundation to fund projects that will improve the quality of people’s lives everywhere. The Foundation awards grants to Internet Society Chapters as well as non-profit organizations and individuals dedicated to providing meaningful access to an open, globally connected and trusted Internet for everyone.

Of the more than 40 applications received this year, 13 projects were selected by a committee that evaluated projects based on criteria that included originality and innovation, community impact and sustainability and technical feasibility, among others.

The projects in Africa selected for grants are:

• $30,000 to create Wi-Fi access points and an off-the-grid Media Center within the Mamaila Tribal Authority, South Africa. The project will also build community capacity through training on cybersecurity, content development, entrepreneurship, and the construction, operation and maintenance of community networks. This aims to empower unemployed youth to organize themselves into cooperatives to advance their socio-economic aspirations and expand the planned network infrastructure.
• $12,322 will go towards creating community networks for 5,000 people in three remote farming communities and awareness-raising in Madagascar. The project will also provide technical training and basic Internet skills to a group of people who will train others to use the Internet to capture practical information for their economic development (such as on weather forecasts that can impact harvests and the prices of the agricultural products they sell).
• $30,000 to generate reliable statistical data on Internet use in Mali, in particular on the use/misuse of social media, which has become popular in both rural and urban areas. Most existing data has been produced by telecoms operators, for commercial ends, and results have not been made widely accessible. The results of this project, however, will be widely available through its publication and dissemination.

The Internet Society Foundation provides grants to the Internet community, Internet Society Chapters, non-profits and individuals working on one or more of the following program areas:

• Initiatives that build community capacity to access and benefit from the Internet (including digital literacy skills, reaching unconnected populations, awareness-raising and local content-production);
• Initiatives that respond to natural disasters;
• Opportunities for research across technical, economic and public policy topics;
• Initiatives that demonstrate innovative techniques to advance an Internet for all; and Local and regional projects supported by ISOC’s nearly 140 Chapters Beyond the Net.

The Internet Society Foundation will launch its next call for grant applications in early 2020. 

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Access Bank offers customers 'More Xtravaganza' rewards - ITREALMS

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Leader in retail bank in Nigeria, Access Bank Plc is offering customers more rewards to celebrate the yuletide season, under its ‘More Xtravanganza, campaign, reports ITREALMS.

The campaign, ITREALMS gathered would run from November 21 to December 31, 2019.

Speaking at the launch of the campaign in Lagos, Victor Etuokwu, Executive Director, Retail banking, Access Bank plc said “Access Bank is passionate about its customers and everything we do is centred around giving them more. This season, we have decided to launch this campaign to end the year on a high note in celebration of our customers. We appreciate them for their loyalty and support and this is our own way of saying thank you to them.

The More Xtravanganza campaign further demonstrates our promise to provide customers with the best banking products and services whilst rewarding them for banking with us. We will be rewarding 50 active and inactive Diamond Business Advantage customers with one-month free advert broadcast and production for signing up to the Ebony Life Access to Market package or reactivating their accounts respectively”. Victor said.

Commenting further on the campaign, Robert Giles, Head, Insights and capabilities, Access Bank Plc, said “Customers are the reason the bank is in business and they will always come first in our products, processes and services.

To show appreciation for their patronage, he said, they are going to feature three different DiamondXtra draws; Senior citizens draw, Women’s draw and the National quarterly draw this December.

"We will reward 19 senior citizens who are 50 years old and above, 10 Women in which one of them will win a shopping allowance of N100,000 per month for one year and 9 others will win N300,000 each and of course 1,016 lucky customers will emerge winners from our quarterly draw” he said.

Adaeze Umeh, Head, Consumer Banking, Access Bank Plc told ITREALMS that “In the spirit of this yuletide season we will be rewarding our first 100 premium savers with daily airtime when they maintain their account balances for 30days. 

"We are also going to reward the first 200 transfers on the mobile app with airtime. XclusivePlus customers who refer 3 new customers of their subscriber type will win one monthly/yearly plan. This reward will be for the first 200 customers. We will also reward our Early Savers with 20% bonus of their 13th savings for maintaining consistent savings over 12-month period.

To join our winning train, Adaeze explained that "all you need to do is to dial *901#, or walk into any Access Bank branch close to you to reactivate or open new account and start enjoying the More Xtravaganza benefits.”

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New Horizons offers scholarships @eBusiness Life Career Fair’19 - ITREALMS

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The outcome of the maiden edition of ICT Career Fair by eBusiness Life Communication Limited in Lagos, has seen the award of three scholarships to students by the premier IT training institute, New Horizons Nigeria, reports ITREALMS.

Founder and CEO of New Horizons, Mr. Tim Akano disclosed this in his speech at the event, noting that the best gift the adults can give youths of nowadays is an opportunity to get empowered in technology, as that is the global future.

Akano, who encouraged participants to be inquisitive and develop the knack to search out answers using technology tools, also charged them to seek to create and add value to humanity.

According to him, the teenage age is the most creative age because it is the age where concentration is not divided, but have adequate time to create and think out solutions. “You are living in a technology kingdom. The technology of the future will merge everything in a world of the Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence.”

The New Horizons boss, who during the presentation, asked the students varied questions, used the opportunity to award scholarships to students. The beneficiaries of the scholarship are Femi Odunubi, an SS3 Student from Kuramo College, a public school in Lagos; Opeoluwa Ogunfeitimi, SS2 Student from Peaklane International College; and Timehin Atsagbede, SS1 student from The Lagoon School.

The students are allowed to choose a course of training at any of the New Horizons study centes.

Mr. Akano also offered all the participating school that are interested in entering into a partnership with New Horizons, a special arrangement that will ensure that their students are trained to give them an edge above their peers to prepare them for a future that is technology-driven. While pointing out that the new world is a world of a shared economy, he to the students to prepare to compete with other countries like China and Japan that have advanced in technological feats.

According to him: “You are going to live in a multi-cultural world where the only thing that matters is what you can create with your mind.”

Also speaking at the event, the convener and CEO of eBusiness Life Communication Limited, Mrs. Ufuoma Emuophedaro encouraged the students to consider a career in ICT due to the global nature of the profession, creating opportunities in every facet of the economy and in every part of the world.

Pointing out further needs for the young students to expand their knowledge and skill in ICT, Mrs, Emuophedaro explained: “Even beyond careers, it is increasingly critical to encourage young people today to take STEM programmes and develop the kind of business, entrepreneurial and complex problem-solving skills that are required in today’s world. By becoming fluent in Information and Communication Technology, young people will learn to use the essential tools of the 21st century for whatever career they choose as science and technology are pervasive across occupations and critical to Nigeria’s growth, innovation and the knowledge-based economy.”

The Career Fair is one of eBusiness Life’s avenues of sensitizing and educating Nigerian youths on the need for self-development, which will lead to a greater need to contribute their quota in developing the country and impacting the world using ICT as a bargaining chip for global competitiveness. This year’s event was themed, “ICT Career: Laying The Blocks For The Future”.

e-Business Life Communication Limited is the publisher of e-Business Life Magazine, a monthly Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Magazine.

The company also run an online news portal for faster and wider-reaching dissemination of information and product/services advisory medium. It further organizes annual youth-centred events such as the International Girls in ICT Day and the International Girls Day events. In addition, the media organization is poised to encourage and help the Nigerian youths, especially the girl child, to have a better understanding and get interested in modern technologies, so that they could easily deploy these technologies to develop their communities and subsequently the society at large.

New Horizons Computer Learning Centre has grown to become the largest independent IT training company worldwide Since 1982, offering more courses, at more times and in more locations than any other computer and business training organization. Businesses and individuals can choose from hundreds of course offerings, delivered by experts, and offered in hundreds of convenient locations around the world. New Horizons Nigeria is an affiliate of New Horizons USA.

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Airtel offers six-month ‘Double Data’ on Infinix, Tecno, iTel smartphones - ITREALMS

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Leading telecommunications services provider, Airtel Nigeria, has announced a strategic partnership with Original Equipment Manufacturers, Infinix, TECNO and itel smartphones brand, reports ITREALMS.

Under the new partnership, customers who purchase a new Infinix, TECNO or itel smartphone will enjoy the exclusive Airtel ‘Double Data Offer’ for a six-month period.

                                                                                           

The Airtel ‘Double Data Offer’ allows customers to enjoy twice the value of any data plan they purchase on their newly acquired smartphones.

For instance, if a customer buys the One-thousand-naira monthly data plan on any of the aforementioned newly acquired smartphones, he/she gets 3GB instead of 1.5GB of data.

To enjoy the offer, which is available to both new and existing Airtel customers, consumers are required to send the key word, “GET” to SMS short code 141. Upon sending the SMS, a confirmation is sent to the customer for the ‘Double Data’ six months offer.

Commenting on the new partnership, Ag Chief Commercial Officer, Airtel Nigeria, Dinesh Balsingh, said the new offer will help deepen data penetration in line with Airtel’s positioning as the mobile Internet operator of first choice for telecoms consumers in Nigeria.

“This partnership will empower more Nigerians to fulfill their personal and professional endeavors and also help connect more telecoms consumers to their dreams. Airtel is committed to delivering innovative and affordable mobile Internet value propositions that will make life richer, better and more meaningful for Nigerians,” he said.

Also commenting on the partnership, General Manager, Transsion Holdings, Nigeria, Eason Duan, reiterated the Group’s promise in delivering the best-in-class mobile experience to every Nigerian: “A smart and connected world today is possible when everyone has access to mobile devices and good connectivity. With our goal of ensuring every Nigerian owns a smartphone, we are confident that Our partnership with telecoms giant Airtel will be beneficial for all our consumers as they continue to stay connected with whatever they love to do, for longer.”

ITREALMS gathered that after the six month offer period, customers can thereafter subscribe to their desired data plans and enjoy the double data benefit. The bonus and regular data have same validity.

The offer applies to smartphones never seen before on the Airtel network as at July 30^th, 2018.

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