E-Business
KITS to Address Critical Data Centre Challenges

Taofeek Okoya, director of Business and Strategy, KITS Technologies a Data Centre Infrastructure Service Provider, said the company plans to ensure that Data Centre landscape in Nigeria takes a giant leap with a massive injection of knowledge of best practice Data Centre Design and Operation Management, in an efficient, secure and reliable manner.
Okoya stated this recently during a Data Centre Design, Cloud computing and audit seminar held in Lagos. According to him, this would be done through a massive and aggressive capacity building necessary to equip personnel in charge of data centre build and management.
With the emergence of big data and the growing complex operational decisions being faced by Data Centre managers that involve power, cooling, rack space and CPU availability in today Data Centre, this knowledge will surely ease the pains of the Data Centre Managers.
“Data centre managers face an enormous challenge in managing the day to day efficient running of the Data centre. Lots of confusing concepts abound in the industry of how best to design, build and run a datacentre. Most data centre nowadays prefers to cool the whole Computer Room, but recent studies and research had shown that this norm is rather not efficient and promotes costly but avoidable data centre operational expenditures (Opex).
One essential area often ignored but ranked most significant issues that can ease Data Centre managers headaches are standard Policies, procedures and strict adherence to standardization. In addition, managing facility infrastructure components such as UPS devices, PDUs, chillers, HVACs, generators, branch circuits are one of the numerous tasks that Data Centre Managers face on a day to day basis,” he explained.
Okoya further affirmed that KITS plan to put behind Data Centre managers biggest operational challenge – power and cooling through their world class capacity building empowerment scheme which runs all year round wherein in-depth insight of energy efficiency methodology would be exposed.
KITS would be hosting banks, Telcos, Infrastructure companies, conglomerates with existing data centers in an intensive capacity building workshop slated for November 25th 2013.
E-Business
Transcorp Hotels Delivers Stellar H1 Results, Declares Over ₦1Bn Dividend

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.
E-Business
Microsoft Servers Hacked by Chinese Groups

Chinese “threat actors” have hacked Microsoft’s SharePoint document software servers and targeted the data of the businesses using it, the firm has said.
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”.
E-Business
NIMC Warns Nigerians of Fake NIN Website

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