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Cloud Solutions Transforming Africa’s Business Dynamics- Sanni

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Mr. Adebayo Sanni, country managing director of Oracle Nigeri
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Oracle Corporation has identified cloud-based technologies are transformational and changing the business climate in Africa.

Mr. Adebayo Sanni, country managing director of Oracle Nigeria, made the remark at this year’s Oracle Day held in Lagos.

During the event organized concurrently in 47 African countries, Sanni said that cloud remains pivotal to changing business dynamics for CEOs and organization faced with the present economic realities.

He reiterated that Cloud is driving digital trends in Africa such as downloads/uploads, web publishing, emails, amongst others, following infrastructural upgrade on the Continent.

The seventeen undersea cables (and four underway), terrestrial transmission networks doubled in the last five years, e-commerce expansions, e-payments, and others, have been made possible by exponential growth in mobility, social networks, Big Data and analytics.   

Meanwhile, the International Data Corporation (IDC’s) prediction that by 2018, at least half of IT spending will be cloud-based, reaching 60% of all IT infrastructure and 60-70% of all software, services, and technology spending by 2020.

To this, Sanni said that companies with clear-path to technological growth and open to cloud adoption will survive the daunting economic situation, competition and retain customers’ loyalty.

He added that Oracle in the past 10 years has focused on re-writing its solutions from on-promise to the cloud, revealing that about 75% companies that remain just on-premise environment are breached, even without their knowledge. 

“Global adoption of Cloud has recorded 61% year on year growth which is a significant increase and shows the dynamics cloud brings to businesses. In Africa, it is still in the early and experimental stage. However, the gains are enormous, from fighting crimes to smart city, smart metering, and eliminating some bottlenecks in the society”. 

“Why should businesses quickly adapt to this infrastructure? Of, course, customers’ expectations have changed. Companies need cloud based solutions to gather data, analyzing them for better service offerings. To get started, you need to identify key business requirements such as reducing costs, mobile interaction with customers; then, align your business and IT strategy. Oracle is always ready to aid companies achieve these needs,” he said

On his part, Mr. Olusoji Adeyemo, principal sales consultant at Oracle Nigeria, said that Oracle cloud is the place to be for both individual and corporate needs.

While outlining three kinds of cloud customers can take advantage of, including private, public and hybrid, he explained that private, for instance, has accompanying self-service, auto scaling, metering, charge back and capacity planning.

On the public cloud, he said, it comes with specialized, shared and standard portfolio, hence the customer either individual or corporate core interest may not be on where the infrastructure is located as long as such customer has service.

However, on the hybrid cloud, Adeyemo said, such customer would like to know where the data is located but on deployment strategy, hybrid has integrated Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to one premise, functional and PSR test.

In addition, he said that public cloud deployment comes with SaaS extensions, new applications, high On Line Transaction Processing (OLTP), new mobile apps, standalone web apps and Java and database (DB) sand box, while the private cloud comes with sensitive apps, among others.

 

 


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Transcorp Hotels Delivers Stellar H1 Results, Declares Over ₦1Bn Dividend

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Transcorp Hotels Plc has delivered a stellar performance in the first half of 2025, recording a 60% year-on-year surge in revenue to ₦47.57 billion, up from ₦29.72 billion in H1 2024. Gross profit climbed 71% to ₦36.21 billion, maintaining a strong 76% margin despite inflation and operational headwinds.

The hospitality giant, a subsidiary of Transnational Corporation Plc, also announced an interim dividend payout of ₦1.024 billion — offering ₦0.10 per 50 kobo ordinary share to shareholders.

In a bold move, the company unveiled Nigeria’s largest corporate venue — the 5,000-seat Transcorp Centre — staking its claim as the new leader in event hospitality. Chairman Emmanuel Nnorom described the results as proof of Transcorp Hotels’ transformative strategies and unwavering investor commitment. MD/CEO Uzo Oshogwe attributed the success to relentless execution and a resilient business model.

Transcorp Hotels, renowned for iconic assets like Transcorp Hilton Abuja and its digital platform Aura, says it isn’t just leading Nigeria’s hospitality sector — it’s redefining excellence across Africa.


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Microsoft Servers Hacked by Chinese Groups

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Chinese “threat actors” have hacked Microsoft’s SharePoint document software servers and targeted the data of the businesses using it, the firm has said.

Microsoft Servers Hacked by Chinese Groups

 

China state-backed Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon as well as China-based Storm-2603 were said to have “exploited vulnerabilities” in on-premises SharePoint servers, the kind used by firms, but not in its cloud-based service.

The US tech giant has released security updates in response and has advised all on-premises SharePoint server customers to install them.

“Investigations into other actors also using these exploits are still ongoing,” Microsoft said in a statement.

The firm said it had “high confidence” the hackers would continue to target systems which have not installed its security updates.

It added that it would update its website blog with more information as its investigation continues.

Microsoft said it had observed attacks in which hackers had sent a request to a SharePoint server “enabling the theft of the key material by threat actors”.

Charles Carmakal, chief technology officer at Mandiant Consulting firm, a division of Google Cloud, told reporter, it was “aware of several victims in several different sectors across a number of global geographies”.

Carmakal said it appeared that governments and businesses that use SharePoint on their sites were the primary target.

A number of adversaries who stole material encoded by cryptography were then able to regain ongoing access to the victims’ SharePoint data, he said.

“This was exploited in a very broad way, very opportunistically before a patch was made available. That’s why this is significant,” Carmakal said.

Carmakal said the “China-nexus actor” was deploying techniques similar to previous campaigns associated with Beijing.

Microsoft said Linen Typhoon had “focused on stealing intellectual property, primarily targeting organizations related to government, defence, strategic planning, and human rights” for 13 years.

It added that Violet Typhoon had been “dedicated to espionage”, primarily targeting former government and military staff, non-governmental organizations, think tanks, higher education, the media, the financial sector and the health sector in the US, Europe, and East Asia.

Meanwhile, Storm-2603 was “assessed with medium confidence to be a China-based threat actor”.

 

 

 


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NIMC Warns Nigerians of Fake NIN Website

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National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has issued a public warning that it is not associated with NINcard.com.

NIMC Warns Nigerians of Fake NIN Website

According to the commission, the website has been circulating online to offer services for Nigerians seeking National Identification Number (NIN) services.

NIMC, in a post on its official X account on Wednesday, said, “NINcard.com is not in anyway affiliated to NIMC. Stay vigilant!”

The warning was accompanied by screenshots of fake payment receipts and OTP request pages from the website, both of which were boldly stamped “FAKE” by NIMC to alert the public.


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