GigaLayer acquires Registeram.com, strengthens domain, hosting services market dominance - ITREALMS

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Prominent player in Africa’s cloud infrastructure and domain services sector, GigaLayer, has strategically acquired Registeram, a pioneering Nigerian domain registration and hosting firm, reports ITREALMS.

This move marks a significant consolidation in the regional tech ecosystem, as GigaLayer accelerates its aggressive expansion strategy to dominate digital infrastructure markets across Nigeria and the broader continent.

TD Africa hosts Checkpoint delegation, strengthens partnership to advance cyber security adoption across Nigeria - ITREALMS

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Tech powerhouse TD Africa, on Tuesday, 11th November, hosted senior delegates from Checkpoint, one of the world’s leading cybersecurity solutions providers, in a strategic meeting aimed at expanding the channel ecosystem and enabling more corporates and institutions across Nigeria to adopt Checkpoint as their preferred cybersecurity solution.

The high-level engagement underscored a central message: as digital transformation accelerates across industries, cybersecurity has become an indispensable foundation for every modern organisation. The discussions focused on strengthening market penetration, empowering partners, and driving greater awareness around proactive cyber defence in an era of evolving digital threats.

Comptroller Atuluku strengthens ties with sister agencies in Rivers - ITREALMS

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In a renewed push for inter-agency synergy, the Comptroller of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Port Harcourt Area I Command, Comptroller Salamatu Atuluku, has paid courtesy visits to key sister agencies in Rivers State, the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), reports ITREALMS.

According to a statement signed by the Command’s Public Relations Officer, ASC I Barilule Aanee, the visits were aimed at strengthening collaboration in border control, anti-smuggling operations, and trade facilitation.

UK Minister for Africa strengthens ties with Nigeria in strategic partnership visit - ITREALMS

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The United Kingdom's Minister for Africa, Lord Collins of Highbury, concluded a three-day visit to Nigeria focused on deepening the UK-Nigeria strategic partnership, reports ITREALMS.

Discussions were centered on mutual economic growth, prosperity, security, and migration, whereas Lord Collins reaffirmed the UK Government's commitment to strengthening trade and investment ties.

CBN strengthens diaspora ties to boost Nigeria’s economy – ITREALMS

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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has strengthened diaspora ties to boost the nation's economy, reports ITREALMS.

This followed CBN-led top-notch stakeholder's engagement with the Nigerian Diaspora community in Houston, Texas, United States of America, at a forum titled: “Optimizing Remittances to Nigeria: A Vision for the Future.”

Lagos SAT visits Isolo LCDA vice chair, strengthens primary healthcare services - ITREALMS

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The Lagost State Advocacy Team (SAT) of the AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB) Malaria (ATM) Networks, has paid a courtesy visit to the Vice Chairman, Isolo Local Council Development Area (LCDA) Hon. Sadiq Shakir Adeola in efforts to strengthen the health care services in the community, reports ITREALMS.

Leading the team, the State Coordinator on Tuberculosis (TB) network, Mrs Ifelunwa Aipoh said the courtesy visit has become imperative to bring to the fore the project's being implemented by ATM, which are AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria targeted at the total health beings of the people and State of the facilities in their domain.

Paradigm Initiative strengthens lawmakers with inter-regional digital rights workshop - ITREALMS

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As part of efforts at strengthen policymakers’ capacity to handle digital rights and related issues, Paradigm Initiative has hosted an Inter-regional Policy Workshop on Internet Rights from 7-8th October 2019 in Nairobi, Kenya, reports ITREALMS.

The workshop, which is targeted at Parliamentarians from East and Southern Africa, including representatives from the two Regional Economic Communities (RECs), is part of a series of interventions aimed at complementing existing capacity of policy makers in developing human rights respecting Internet legislation.

The workshop seeks to foster dialogue among the delegates, further enhance their capacities to address digital rights and offer them an informed awareness of issues, best practice and mechanisms that other countries utilise, which can be adapted for implementation in their respective jurisdictions.

Speaking on the development Honourable Thoko Tembo from the Parliament of Malawi noted that the expansion of Africa’s digital landscape means that the Internet is fast becoming a human right and affects a lot more people. “As a policy maker, I am extremely excited to attend this workshop. The knowledge and awareness obtained will help formulate the right policy that will ensure citizens enjoy digital rights, he said."

The seminar underscores the critical role of Parliamentarians across the globe in the Internet Governance multi-stakeholder ecosystem and an equally critical role in formulation of Internet policies, regulation and legislation.

According to Google Policy Fellow for East Africa, Rebecca Ryakitimbo, “this workshop will help set precedence for regional frameworks around digital rights and freedom bearing in mind the trends and similarities in these countries”.

The convening is expected to culminate into the development of an Inter-regional Advocacy Framework for addressing digital rights and freedoms.

Meanwhile,Bulanda Nkhowani- Google Policy Fellow for Southern Africa applauded the initiative, “this is timely for the two regions faced with similar threats on internet freedom in form of internet taxes, repressive cyber laws and massive detentions of activists and internet users in countries like Uganda, Zambia, Malawi and Tanzania”.

Participants will leave with deepened and up-to-date insights on the status of digital rights in the two regions and in Africa, as well as empowered with the requisite tools to establish human rights-based cyber laws and ultimately contribute to establishing coordinated best practice in Internet public policy on the continent.

Nenye Dom/Editor

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PFS attains CMMI-DEV rating, strengthens trust

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One of the nation’s leading software powerhouse, Precise Financial Systems (PFS) has scaled through the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) appraisal, reports ITRealms.

This, ITRealms reports would strengthen the information and communication technology [ICT] sector of the economy with achievement of CMMI level 3 by PFS.

General Manager, Nihilent West Africa, the company that performed the appraisal, Shohel Noor said, PFS invested efforts and tools in institutionalizing the Maturity Level 3 practices. Stressing the adoption of CMMI by PFS “is strengthening Nigerian ICT sector’s trust in the CMMI framework and in Nihilent as a partner”.

Also speaking, the Managing Consultant and CMMI Lead Appraiser, Nihilent Technologies Ltd., Pune, Deepak Manjareka, said that PFS is one of the fastest growing software companies in West Africa, hence the company demonstrated the best use of various software engineering tools for better security, delivery, and institutionalization of Maturity Level 3 practices.

“CMMI is applied to create a process improvement solution that is appropriate to the context of each unique organization. It provides a path for an organization to achieve its performance goals. A CMMI-driven improvement project delivers a framework to standardize processes, ensuring that a business’ best practices are captured, shared and adopted so that it can move staff around the organization and those who leave the organization would not take business critical information away with them,” he said.

Competition is driving significant interest in CMMI. Development companies, service provider, and acquisition/outsourcing organizations are adopting CMMI as a differentiator and enabler to enhance performance. Competing companies are leveraging CMMI for industry best practices, and have adopted the approach to meet customer demands and competition. The growing popularity of CMMI in the market is also a big reason of adoption of this practice by companies.

CMMI is a process improvement training and certification programme, marketed by Carnegie Mellon University. Government agencies and many organizations required CMMI for software development contracts. It has 25 different process areas that cater to comprehensive business process improvement and solution. Each CMMI process area has two goals, two practices, and many educational information to help management make the right strategies.

The certification applies to sub-contractors that provide custom software to companies or create solutions for the government. These companies must follow CMMI or be covered by their clients.  Parts of the software product delivered to the government must follow CMMI in the supply chain.

MD/CEO, PFS, Yele Okeremi said the CMMI appraisal has a global impact on the company since software firms are no longer competing locally, but globally. He added that Nigeria needs to conserve foreign exchange and one of the ways to do this is by developing world-class solution, “this is what the CMMI has helped PFS to achieve”.

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