E-Business
Konga Yakata Ends this Thursday
As the curtains falls on the 2019 edition of Konga Yakata – as the Black Friday sales of e-commerce giants, Konga is widely known – the company has revealed that there are no plans to extend the promotion beyond the December 12th closing date earlier communicated.
Widely regarded as the biggest sale of the year, Konga Yakata has unsurprisingly been a major hit this year. Bargain hungry shoppers have continued to throng Konga’s retail stores nationwide as well as the online platform @ www.konga.com since the promotion commenced. Konga Yakata kicked off on Monday November 11, 2019 and will run until Thursday December 12, 2o19.
There has been intense pressure on Konga to extend the month-long promotion. Equally important, the agitations had come mainly from customers, many of whom are yet to conclude their festive season shopping on Konga.
Nevertheless, Konga has instead urged shoppers to capitalize on the few remaining days of the promotion.
‘‘Konga Yakata comes to an end on Thursday, December 12th. Contrary to popular opinion, we will not be extending the deadline for the promotion which has run for one month,’’ disclosed Dave Omoregie, vice president, e-Commerce.
‘‘The decision was taken by Management in order to ensure that our other activities including the festive season-specific campaigns are not impacted. However, we urge our customers to take full advantage of the few remaining days of Konga Yakata to shop our best priced genuine products, all of which are available either online or offline in all Konga retail stores nationwide.
‘‘Till date, we have ensured same day delivery of more than 90 per cent of the items ordered during Konga Yakata. For the remaining three days of the promotion, our customers are bound to enjoy even more exciting incentives. This is our own little way of appreciating their patronage.’’
Further, Omoregie disclosed that the 2019 edition of Konga Yakata has lived up to projections.
‘‘Konga Yakata has lived up to the very ambitious projections we made before its commencement. The campaign has grown astronomically, especially from a numbers perspective. The volume of orders per minute also took a major spike in the course of Konga Yakata. It reached unprecedented heights, quite significantly on the first day of the promotion and also on other special dates during the Konga Yakata period.
‘‘Among our customers, we have also seen an increase in the volume of items shopped per customer. All of these point to the growing importance attached to Konga Yakata,’’ he declared.
Gartner predicts that by 2028, 75 percent of enterprise software engineers will use Artificial Intelligence (AI) code assistants, up from less than 10 percent, currently.
According to a Gartner poll of 598 global respondents conducted in the third quarter of 2023, 63 percent of organisations are now testing, deploying, or have previously implemented AI code assistants.
AI code assistants provide for more capabilities than only code development and completion, notes the research firm.
According to Gartner, the use of AI code assistants can lead to higher work satisfaction and retention, resulting in lower turnover costs.
Philip Walsh, senior principal analyst at Gartner, comments: “Software engineering leaders must determine ROI and build a business case as they scale their rollouts of AI code assistants.
“However, traditional ROI frameworks steer engineering leaders toward metrics centred on cost reduction. This narrow perspective fails to capture the full value of AI code assistants.”
Gartner notes that software engineering leaders must “reframe the ROI conversation from cost reduction to value generations”.
Walsh adds: “Calculating time savings on code generation is a good place to begin building a more robust value story. To convey the full enterprise value story for AI code assistants, software engineering leaders should connect value enablers to impacts, and then analyse the overall return to the organisation.”
National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has said that the planned national ID card will be issued to applicants by their banks.
NIMC said it is working with the Nigerian Interbank Settlement System (NIBSS) to deliver the cards to applicants.
“The card will be issued through the applicants’ respective banks in line with existing protocols with the issuance of the Debit/Credit cards,” the agency said at the weekend update on its official X handle.
KEY FACTS ABOUT THE PROPOSED NEW GENERAL MULTIPURPOSE NATIONAL IDENTITY CARD
- The new National ID Card is a single, convenient, and General multipurpose card (GMPC) , eliminating the need for multiple cards—not three.
- The single GMPC has multiple use cases:…
— NIMC (@nimc_ng) April 12, 2024
It said applicants need to request their cards with their NIN “through the self-service online portal, NIMC offices, or their respective banks”.
“The card will be powered by the AFRIGO card scheme, an indigenous scheme powered by NIBSS,” NIMC said.
“The card can be picked up by holders at the designated center or delivered to the applicants at the requested location at an extra cost to be borne by the applicants,” the update read.
National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has said that the new national Identity card, powered by AfriGo Card, is a single card with multiple services.
NIMC made the clarification against the confusion and criticisms that have trailed the AfriGo Card , touted as a National Domestic Card Scheme.
NIMC is launching the AfriGo Card, in collaboration with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Nigeria Inter-bank Settlement System (NIBSS), and has had appointed SecureID, a Lagos headquartered company to manufacture the Card Scheme
Making clarification on the card, Kayode Adegoke, head of Corporate Communications of the NIMC, said the General multipurpose card (GMPC) will eliminate the need for multiple cards.
“The new National ID Card is a single, convenient, and General multi-purpose card (GMPC), eliminating the need for multiple cards—not three.
“The single GMPC has multiple use cases: Payments/Financial, Government intervention/services, travel, etc.
“The National Identity Management Commission is working with the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Nigerian Interbank Settlement System to deliver the payment and financial use cases.
“The card will be powered by the AFRIGO card scheme, an indigenous scheme powered by NIBSS. Applicants for the card will have to request with their NIN through the self-service online portal, NIMC offices, or their respective banks.
“The card will be issued through the applicants’ respective banks, in line with existing protocols with the issuance of the Debit/Credit cards.
“The card can be picked up by holders at the designated centre or delivered to the applicants at the requested location at an extra cost to be borne by the applicants,” he said.
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