Providus Bank, Polaris Bank join sponsors of QEDNG Creative Powerhouse Summit - ITREALMS

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Providus Bank and Polaris Bank have been announced as additional sponsors of the QEDNG Creative Powerhouse Summit.

They join First Bank of Nigeria, Nigeria LNG (NLNG) and Shell in supporting the landmark event.

DecemberIsSavyBe: FirstBank Sponsors 'Our Duke has gone mad again state play' - ITREALMS

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First Bank of Nigeria Limited proudly sponsored a remarkable stage play titled ‘Our Duke Has Gone Mad Again: A Biting Satire.’ This captivating performance was masterfully directed by the acclaimed Joseph Edgar, widely recognised as The Duke of Shomolu. The play received high praise for its creative ingenuity and sharp satirical brilliance, effectively delivering a meaningful message to its audience.

The much-anticipated performance took place on December 23, 2023, at the prestigious Shell Hall, MUSON Centre in Lagos. This staging was an integral part of the vibrant activities associated with the 2024 edition of FirstBank’s annual Initiative, ‘DecemberIssaVybe,’ which aims to support and promote the thriving arts and entertainment sector in Nigeria.

UBA sponsors Lagos International Trade Fair for sixth year, reaffirms support African SMEs - ITREALMS

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The Africa's global bank, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc is sponsoring this year’s edition of the Lagos International Trade Fair (LITF), which marks the sixth in the series as the official financial partner, reports ITREALMS.

The LITF 2024, ITREALMS gathered is the 38th edition organised annually by the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), and is scheduled to take place at the Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos, between November 1st to 10th, 2024.

The Nigeria Prizes: NLNG extols media contribution, sponsors new prize on energy reporting - ITREALMS

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Nigeria LNG Limited, over the weekend, celebrated the media for its contribution to the development of The Nigeria Prize for Literature and The Nigeria Prize for Science in the last 20 years, recognising media stakeholders for their dedication and commitment to the coverage of the Prizes.

At an event titled “Celebrating the Voices of Impact” held in Lagos, the Company also announced the sponsorship of a new prize category at the prestigious Diamond Awards for Media Excellence (DAME) called “The NLNG Prize for Energy Reporting.”

FirstBank sponsors maiden edition, Nigerian Fintech Festival in Lagos - ITREALMS

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The inaugural edition of the Nigerian Fintech Festival, sponsored by FirstBank is set to take place in Lagos on September 26, 2024. 

The Nigerian Fintech Festival 2024 will host over 1000 industry stakeholders within the fintech and financial service sector, with the aim to foster collaboration and partnership required to deepen digital payments and unlock value to drive sustainable growth for the business ecosystem in Nigeria.

FirstBank sponsors Timeless Concert by Davido - ITREALMS

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The much-anticipated timeless concert by David “Davido” Adeleke, unarguably one of Nigeria’s biggest music exports of all time, was an electrifying music showpiece that further reiterated the lofty height and growth that has defined the Nigerian Music industry in recent years as Nigeria’s premier banking giant, FirstBank once again, threw its weight behind Davido.

The Timeless Concert in Lagos was the climax to the treble of concerts to complement the 31 March 2023 launch of his fourth studio album, ‘Timeless’. Before the Lagos concert, Davido performed at the Irvine Plaza in New York on 2 April 2023 and in London on 5 April 2023.

Zinox sponsors 2017 Geneva Global Internet of Things Summit

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In furtherance of its corporate philosophy and superior business principle to continue the acceleration and development of the digital revolution, ZINOX Technologies Group is sponsoring Chris Uwaje – the Oracle of the Nigeria IT Profession and industry and Past-President of the Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON) – as invited speaker at the 2017 Global Internet of Things in Geneval, Switzerland.

Uwaje, the Africa Chair on Communications and Publicity – GioT Geneva 2017- will be speaking as a panelist on Africa perspectives and challenges on IPv6.

With this sponsorship, ZINOX assumes fundamental leadership of national ICT Policy and strategy matters, where government should at all time be at the forefront. In the absence of this, and cognisant of the future requirements of 70% youths than makeup Nigeria/Africa Population, ZINOX is lighting up the way to the sustainable progress of the Nigerian nation the continent.

According to Dr. Leo Stan Ekeh, Chairman of ZINOX, Africa stands to gain immensely if she can leapfrog from her present deep slumber on ICT Ecosystem development and engage the values of Internet of Things (IoTs) - whose estimated market potential is valued at $19 trillion USD by 2020.

Uwaje is selected and invited to represent Africa and speak as a panelist of the Global IPv6 Forum on the state and challenges of Internet Protocol version 6 (Ipv6) at the 1st Global Internet of Things Summit (GioTS) in Geneva, Switzerland 2017).

Today, “IoT is rapidly evolving with the substantial risk of not paying attention to safety, reliability, privacy, security, and interoperability. Research has a fundamental role to enable a globally interoperable IoT and to make it right," said Sebastien Ziegler, General Chair and President of the IoT Forum.

According to Latif Ladid, Co-Chair and President of IPv6 Forum “GIoTS 2017 will attract experts from industry and research in current and emerging technologies such as 5G-based IoT, software defined IoT, IoT-centric Cloud Computing, including the Social Internet of Things” Dr. Antonio Skarmeta, TPC Chair said, “The selected technical topics seek some maturity in IoT across the board. There are many facets that need research and experimental pilots to put the pieces together and give IoT innovation a roadmap.”

GIoTS 2017 is supported by the IoT Week of the IoT Forum, The IPv6 Forum, the IEEE 5G subcommittee, the IEEE SDN-NFV subcommittee as well as the IEEE BiG Data TC. It will be collocated in Geneva with the IoT Week 2017, bringing together cutting edge research results, the IoT innovation community and the UN system with a unique worldwide outreach. 

According to the United Nations Development’s Programme (UNDP) Human Development Report of 2013 (UNDP,2013), Africa contributes 35 of the 45 poorest countries. Given these high poverty levels, most African governments (especially the Sub-Saharan Africa) are still struggling to provide basic needs (such as food, shelter, health, water and sanitation and education among others) and therefore technology innovations take a back seat. While the world’s Development Index stands at 0.694, the Sub-Saharan Africa’s one is at 0.475.

The IPv6 session will attract speakers from the 5 Continents to outline the deployment efforts of IPv6-based IoT research and best practices. The deployment in different countries is taking different shapes and forms considering the differing continental user requirements at this stage of deployment. This session will try to harmonize and draw a common roadmap for deployment of IoT networking capabilities and architectural definitions to make sure "Internet of Things" are scalable, inclusive of several communication media, secure, future proof and viable for businesses and end users.

Each representative is challenged to research his/her continent to outline the various IoT initiatives and industry showcases and various user requirements, challenges, security and privacy issues and obstacles that could enrich the discussion in this worldwide IoT session. 

ZINOX projections is that the world has just at the embryonic stage and process of the global digital transformation and beliefs that no other strategy is capable of securing the economic empowerment, massive Youth employment, future development progress and national security of Nigeria and Africa.

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