Historic leadership transition as Shell bids farewell to Marno de Jong, welcomes Elohor Aiboni - ITREALMS

Shell Companies in Nigeria on Tuesday night hosted a rousing sendforth to honor outgoing Executive Vice President Nigeria and Country Chair, Marno de Jong, while formally welcoming Elohor Aiboni, who returns from an international assignment to take up the role, reports ITREALMS.

The high-profile event saw stakeholders from government, the energy industry, professional bodies, and diplomatic circles join in celebrating the achievements of de Jong, who led Shell’s business in Nigeria for more than six years. 

Lagos: ADC welcomes new members in Amuwo Odofin as party prepares for 2027 general elections - ITREALMS

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The African Democratic Congress (ADC), Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area chapter, in Lagos State, recently held a proclamation and affirmation ceremony for new coalition partners who have joined the party, reports ITREALMS.

The event, which took place on Saturday, August 23, 2025, at White Field High School in Mazamaza, Lagos, was part of the party's preparations for the 2027 general elections.

Idris welcomes MoU for establishment of PR degree academy, election of Ibietan @APRA - ITREALMS

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The Federal Minister of Information and National Orientation, Alhaji Mohammed Idris, has welcomed the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed between the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations and the Global Alliance for Public Relations and Communication Management, for the proposed establishment of a degree-awarding academy for public relations practice in Nigeria, reports ITREALMS.

This is coming as the Federal Civil Service now has 'Information and Public Relations Officer' designate.

Niger: Tinubu welcomes ECCAS support for ECOWAS - ITREALMS

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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has praised the solidarity of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) on the political impasse in the Republic of Niger. 

The President spoke when he received the Special Envoy of President Ali Bongo Ondimba and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Gabon, Mr. Hermann Immongault, at the State House in Abuja on Tuesday.

PIN welcomes DRC's adoption of digital rights laws - ITREALMS

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The Paradigm Initiative (PIN) has welcomed the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC’s) adoption of various regulatory laws relating to digital rights, reports ITREALMS.

These, ITREALMS gathered, include the Ordinance-Law N•23/008 of March 10 2023, authorising the ratification by the DRC of the African Union Convention on Cybersecurity and Personal Data Protection (Malabo Convention), Ordinance-Law N•23/010 of March 13 on the Digital Code in the DRC, which addresses cyber security as well as the adoption at the National Assembly level of Law No. 23/009 of March 13 2023, laying down the modalities for exercising freedom of the press, freedom of information and broadcasting by radio and television, written press or any communication medium in the DRC.

oneM2M welcomes Ireland, others as IoT accelerates - ITREALMS

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The global standards initiative for Machine-to-Machine technologies, oneM2M has welcomed the National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI) and others into its fold, saying its membership has continued to grow as Internet of Things (IoT) accelerates, reports ITREALMS.

oneM2M, ITREALMS gathered, covers requirements, architecture, API specifications, security solutions and interoperability for Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and IoT technologies.

This, ITREALMS reports that cybersecurity specialist, research institutes, service providers and Ireland’s official standards body are among the latest companies to join the global Internet of Things (IoT) standards initiative oneM2M as it evolve universal framework to empower mass adoption of the IoT across a range of sectors. 

The newest additions to oneM2M’s vast membership which is made up of vendors, operators and national bodies – highlights the wide relevance of oneM2M’s work across the globe, with the new members coming from Canada, America, Europe and Asia. 

The National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI) opted to join oneM2M as part of the Irish Government’s strategy to prepare networks for the digitalisation of key processes, including the future industrial revolution – Industry 4.0. 

“We are joining oneM2M at a pivotal time as we have just kicked-off our standards development programme for ‘IoT & Future Networks’ which will feed into the Irish Government’s National Industry 4.0 Strategy,” said Geraldine Larkin, Chief Executive of the NSAI. “Membership will give our experts the added advantage of having access to and contributing to Technical Specifications which are being created outside of the mainstream standards organisations, as well as the opportunity to collaborate with industry and research institutes from various backgrounds.”

oneM2M’s common service layer can be embedded within hardware and software to create a common language between IoT devices, enabling vertical interoperability, best-in-class security and interworking with legacy IoT standards.

Friedhelm Rodermund, Founder and Director at IOTECC, another company to join oneM2M this year, said: “As a company which focuses on IoT standards consulting, IOTECC joined oneM2M to understand how it is evolving further to cover the needs of more and more verticals, and how it enables interworking between oneM2M and a growing number of IoT technologies and standards.”

LG CNS, another new addition to oneM2M’s membership, has recently launched INFioT, an international standard which is based on oneM2M’s horizontal platform. LG CNS has also embedded the oneM2M standard into its recently launched smart city platform ‘Cityhub’ which collects and analyses data generated and sent by various city infrastructures via IoT technology.

New member CSEM will combine oneM2M’s platform with its secured, low-power IoT solutions to create autonomous and optimised interoperable platforms. GlenMartin will use its membership to explore the launch of a secure data exchange for IoT data.

The companies which have joined oneM2M since January 2018 include CSEM, GlenMartin, IOTECC GmbH, LG CNS, National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI), Telensa Limited and the University of Athens.

“This year has seen a great increase in membership which highlights that as momentum behind the global roll-out of the IoT gains pace, so too does the industry’s standardisation efforts,” said Fran O’ Brien, oneM2M’s Steering Committee Chairman. “This is leading to an ever-growing number of companies recognising the importance of seamless interoperability across all connectivity technologies as the foundation for a valued, future-proof IoT platform. As more IoT devices and applications emerge, this will only escalate and as a totally agnostic framework, we are confident the growth in oneM2M members will also continue.”

oneM2M will also address the adoption of the IoT at its Industry Day, which will be held during IoT Week Korea, on Friday, September 14, at the COEX Convention Center, in Seoul, Korea.

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$109bn market: Angonix, i3D.net in remote peering deal

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The Angola’s largest Internet Exchange Point (IXP), Angonix has welcomed i3D.net as its first remote peering customer, in anticipation of exploring the $109bn online gaming market, reports ITRealms.

i3D.net, ITRealms gathered is a managed hosting provider specialising in online gaming that hosts tens of millions of players for game publishers on the Microsoft Xbox and Sony PlayStation networks. i3D.net joined 17 other companies at Angonix, Africa’s third largest IXP.

The Project Manager at Angonix, Darwin Da Costa, said that with the ‘Remote Peering’ services from Angola Cables, online gamers in Angola will enjoy an improved gaming experience with a much reduced latency.

“It is the first phase as we look forward to eventually having i3D.net establish a local infrastructure in the country” Da Costa said.

ITRealms also reports that this year, global revenues in the games market including Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) games that support thousands of players at a time playing over the Internet – will total $109 billion, a growth of 56 per cent over the past five years.

This, industry observers noted accounts for the majority of the online gaming market, MMOs are expected to have a value of $27 Billion (USD) by 2025.

“Whether on smartphones, PCs or consoles, the growth of the global online gaming market is expected to consistently be above 10 per cent until 2023 with the availability of better gaming infrastructure as one of the primary drivers propelling the growth prospects of this market,” according to Technavio.

“i3D.net provides services to a variety of online video gaming publishers, aggregating a large number of games that can be played on our infrastructure. We are always working to bring content as close to the end user as technically possible and welcome the opportunity to partner with Angola Cables and the Angonix Internet Exchange Point. i3D.net continues to build a stronger presence in Africa as one of the few truly global providers with extensive local presence throughout the African continent,” i3D.net CEO Stijn Koster said.

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ATU welcomes Iridium as associate member

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History was made at the first-ever African Telecommunications Union (ATU) preparatory meeting for the World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-19) in Nairobi, Kenya as Iridium Communications Inc was welcomed into the ATU family, reports ITRealms.

According to ATU Secretary General Abdoulkarim Soumaila, Iridium has joined the ATU as an Associate Member.

ITRealms gathered that the new membership was climaxed by a meeting between the ATU Secretary General Abdoulkarim Soumaila and Iridium Executive Director, Regulatory, Tatiana Lawrence, at the Nairobi meeting.

Soumaila noted that ATU as a specialized agency of the Organization of the African Union (AU) in the field of telecommunications is leading the continent in fostering developments of information and communications technologies infrastructure and services.

ATU, he said, represents the interests of its Member States at global decision-making conferences and promotes initiatives aimed at integrating the region’s markets, attracting Information and Communication Technology (“ICT”) infrastructure investment, and building institutional and human capacity. 

Chief legal officer at Iridium, Thomas Hickey, the company is proud of its new membership in the leading telecommunications organization in Africa. 

“As a provider of connectivity across the African continent, we are very happy to be in a position formally to contribute to its important work over the years to come,” he said.

Iridium, ITRealms equally reports will be engaging with the organization on preparations for International Telecommunication Union (ITU) conferences and assemblies, which includes the World Radiocommunication Conference in 2019, as well as satellite policies and other relevant matters.

ITRealms further gathered that Iridium prides itself as the only mobile voice and data satellite communications network that spans the entire globe. 

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