E-Business
Oracle to Hold Cloud Day Across 4 African Time Zones Simultaneously

With more than 420,000 customers and deployments in more than 145 countries, Oracle offers a comprehensive and fully integrated stack of cloud applications, platform services, and engineered systems.
It is with this, that Oracle would like to announce, that it will be implementing an initiative called ‘Oracle Cloud Day’, connecting more than 30 countries from the East to the West of Africa, live across 4 time zones on 14 April 2016.
This event, the first of its kind, is different to anything that Oracle has ever held before and will be rolled-out by using their superior Cloud technology, reaching over more than 30 locations and using webinar technology to engage regions simultaneously.
The event will bring together over 1100 people including Oracle employees and support staff, as well as partners that will work together to support this great initiative, around 200 of them presenting on the day.
Together with Oracle’s state of the art Cloud technology, Oracle will reach partners, channel partners, distributors, entrepreneurs, students and consumers who have and have not yet heard about Oracle.
Over one million participants will be reached on one day, all at the same time.
Participants will be invited to engage in discussions related to all three of the Oracle Cloud portfolios, which include Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
Various keynote addresses from Oracle executives such as; Cherian Varghese, Managing Director of the Sub Saharan Africa Cluster in Africa will be heard, as well as presentations from Cloud experts, case studies and physical demos of the power of cloud technology, through real-life experiences, showcasing how adopting cloud can enable current and future customers.
“At Oracle, we believe that Cloud is the most powerful force in information technology, and in short this means that it’s changing the way we work, the way we collaborate and the way we go to market. It will ultimately change the way we think about business,” said Varghese.
Africa is currently in an adoption and experimental phase, when it comes to Cloud technology and it will be an objective of the event to break the myth that Africa is not ready to adopt and implement Cloud.
“We have already seen successful adoption of the Cloud in many of our customers in Africa and the momentum is growing rapidly. The adoption of Cloud has seen a significant change over the last three years and there is currently no other Cloud technology that can provide a secure, flexible and cost effective complete infrastructure other than Oracle.”
Oracle Cloud offers the most integrated public and private cloud with best-in-class services across SaaS, PaaS and IaaS.
“The African continent depends on small to medium sized businesses for its growth, and although Oracle is well-known amongst large corporations and in the public sector, todays offerings from Oracle will make world-class solutions available to even smaller organisations.
“Varghese goes on to say that “Cloud can and will have a profound impact on business in Africa. Not only, will it enable small to medium enterprises and large corporations to respond faster to the ever-demanding customer, but it will help business to innovate cost effectively at a pace that will overwhelm competitors, and at the same time it will unlock the potential of employees by supporting new ways of collaborating.”
The event confirms Oracle’s continuous investment and commitment to the African continent to assist organisations to embrace and educate them about the Cloud. This will enable organisations to transform their business with Oracle solutions.
“We are the only supplier with a complete package of Cloud and we would like to change the perception that organisations can’t transition slowly or in stages to the Cloud effectively“.
“The ‘Oracle Cloud Day’ aims to supply organisations with the infrastructure to succeed better as businesses, so that Africa as a continent can accelerate and develop for the future,” concludes Varghese.
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.
E-Business
NITDA, API Partner Against Harmful Online Content

National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), in partnership with the Advocacy for Policy and Innovation (API), has convened a one-day workshop in Abuja to advance dialogue on the draft Online Harm Protection (OHP) Bill to confront harmful online content.
The bill, a rights-based, locally rooted, and multi-stakeholder initiative, is aimed at addressing the challenges of the digital age.
The event, which held yesterday, brought together government officials, civil society, academics, digital platforms, and legal experts to shape a policy framework designed to combat online ills such as cyberbullying, disinformation, hate speech, digital exploitation, and gender-based violence, while safeguarding democratic freedoms and digital inclusion.
In his keynote remarks, Kashifu Inuwa, director general, NITDA urged a paradigm shift in the way society engages with digital technologies.
“For almost two decades, we have viewed digital technology through a consumer lens. But these technologies are not just products and services. They are transforming how we live, work, and interact. They shape our politics, our society, and our democracy,” he said.
Warning against unaccountable digital power in the hands of private corporations, the DG likened the digital journey to the tale of Alice in Wonderland, where initial fascination with innovation has given way to deeper concerns about privacy, autonomy, and manipulation by big tech platforms.
“We thought we were using Google, but now we realise Google is using us. Social media, once a tool of expression, has become a tool of surveillance and influence,” Inuwa noted.
He, therefore, emphasised the urgency of developing a democratic and accountable framework. He explained that following the 2021 Twitter ban, NITDA facilitated dialogue between the government and platform operators, leading to a Code of Practice that stressed Nigeria’s sovereignty and legal standards.
According to him, the same process birthed the multi-stakeholder steering committee and the OHP White Paper in December 2024, laying the foundation for the current legislative push.
Earlier in her opening remarks, Victoria Manya, co-founder, API, observed the moral and civic necessity of the bill.
Her words: “The internet did not break society, it merely revealed its unfiltered version. Every day, Nigerians are exposed to harassment, disinformation, exploitation, and even algorithmic violence. The OHP Bill is not a war on the Internet. It is a peace offering to its users, a social contract for a digital future that is safe, inclusive, and democratic.
“We cannot answer the question of algorithmic power with unchecked state control. We must answer it with shared, rights-based governance. This bill must not be written for the people, but with them.”
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