Category: Science & Technology

The Electronic Payment Incentive Scheme (EPIS) Efficiency awards was established to reward and celebrate financial institutions, merchants and other stakeholders at the forefront of driving electronic payment in Nigeria.

Best Customer Experience Award (Electronic Payment Platform Experience) – GTBank; for achieving the highest level of overall customer satisfaction in the delivery of electronic payment services to customers.

Cashless Driver: Instant Payments – GTBank; for the Bank’s performance in recording the highest transaction count on the NIBSS Instant Payments (NIP) Platform.

Cashless Driver: Point of Sale (POS) Issued Cards’ Transactions – GTbank; for having the highest Point of Sale (PoS) transaction count on the National Central Switch with Issued Payment.

Instant Payments Transaction Efficiency – GTBank; for achieving the highest transaction count in Point of Sale (PoS) terminals through the National Central Switch (NCS) Platform.

The Point of Sale Card Transaction Efficiency – GTBank; for the Bank’s outstanding performance in recording the highest level of efficiency in card payments on POS terminals connected to the National Central Switch.

Electronic Data Rendition Compliance and Integrity – GTBank & Access Bank Plc; for the Bank’s outstanding performance in ensuring customer data integrity and compliance to CBN mandated submissions.

E-Reference Operations Award – Union Bank

Direct Debit Award – Ecobank Group

Point of Sales Transaction Acquiring – Zenith Bank; the Bank with the highest POS transactions

Financial Technology Partner Award – Interswitch Group

Most Efficient Third Party Payment Processor Award – Interswitch Group

Most Efficient Card Scheme Award – Mastercard

Cashless Driver: Mobile Money Operator (MMO) – Paga

Most Active Payment Terminal Service Provider Award – Unified Payment Services Limited

Most Improved Merchant Award – Sahad Stores Limited

Payments Aggregators Award – Soft Alliance Limited; payment aggregator with the highest volume of transactions

Merchants Award (POS) – Oswale Enterprises; merchant with the highest volume of transactions

Other Financial Institutions Award – Old Mutual

Federal Government Award – Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)

State Government Award – Lagos State Government

 

Sliide Airtime has been named as the World’s Most Innovative App at the Global Mobile World awards 2017.

Sliide Airtime was designed to solve a real-life problem for hundreds of millions of people living in Africa and other emerging markets; data is expensive relative to incomes.

Sliide provides users with an easy way to earn free airtime – and discover new content. It sends personalised news and stories from national and international publishers as well as sponsored content and adverts straight to the lock screen of phones. Sliide uses 65% of its advertising revenues to buy mobile data from MNOs to give to its users – who can then earn more airtime by completing tasks such as answering surveys from brands.

Consistent with the aim of instituting a training the trainers research group at the Federal University of Technology, Akure, (FUTA), the Advanced Materials and Electrochemical Research Group (AMERG) laboratory has been set up by Dr. (Mrs) Oluwatoyin Olaseinde after winning a $25,000 grant of the Carnegie Corporation of New York through the African Materials Science and Engineering Network (AMSEN) under the auspices of Regional Initiatives in Science and Education (RISE).

Dr. (Mrs) Oluwatoyin Olaseinde is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering of FUTA, a Corrosion Engineer and RISE scholar who responded to the call for proposals to establish Research Groups among the five networks under RISE comprising FUTA; University of Nairobi, Kenya; University of Namibia, Windhoek; University of Botswana, Gaborone; and University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Her proposal scaled through and won the only one for AMSEN covering Nigeria and the other countries. In accordance with the aim, Olaseinde has set up the AMERG laboratory, which is located in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, FUTA.

Dr. (Mrs) Oluwatoyin Olaseinde, who emphasized the importance of collaboration in research, adequate supervision and mentorship, said she learnt and achieved a lot through collaborative effort while doing her PhD at Witwatersrand, South Africa.

Banking Category

1. Overall Best – Ecobank
2. Aesthetics – Ecobank
3. Overall Social Media – Guaranty Trust Bank
4. Use of Social Media: Twitter – Guaranty Trust Bank 
5. Use of Social Media: Facebook – Guaranty Trust Bank
6. Customer Experience – Guaranty Trust Bank
7. Accessibility – Skye Bank; Stanbic IBTC Bank & United Bank for Africa (UBA)
8. Performance – Skye Bank
9. Website Content – Standard Chartered
10. Technical – Zenith Bank

Insurance Category

1. Best Overall – AIICO Insurance
2. Website Content – AIICO Insurance
3. Technical – AIICO Insurance
4. Overall Social Media – Leadway Assurance Company Limited
5. Use of Social Media: Twitter – Leadway Assurance Company Limited
6. Use of Social Media: Facebook – Leadway Assurance Company Limited
7. Accessibility – Old Mutual
8. Performance – Wapic Insurance Plc
9. Aesthetics – Wapic Insurance Plc
10. Customer Experience – Prestige Assurance Plc

Telecommunications Category

1. Best Overall – Globacom Limited
2. Website Content – Globacom Limited
3. Technical – Globacom Limited
4. Aesthetics – Globacom Limited
5. Overall Social Media – MTN Nigeria
6. Use of Social Media: Twitter – MTN Nigeria
7. Use of Social Media: Facebook – MTN Nigeria
8. Customer Experience – MTN Nigeria
9. Accessibility – Airtel Nigeria
10. Performance – Etisalat Nigeria

State Category

 

1. Best Overall – Oyo State Government
2. Website Content – Osun State Government
3. Customer Experience – Osun State Government
4. Technical – Plateau State Government
5. Aesthetics – Plateau State Government
6. Overall Social Media – The Lagos State Government
7. Use of Social Media: Twitter – The Lagos State Government
8. Use of Social Media: Facebook – The Lagos State Government
9. Performance – The Lagos State Government
10. Accessibility – Kwara State Government

 

Parastatal Category

1. Best Overall – Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)
2. Overall Social Media – Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)
3. Use of Social Media: Facebook – Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)
4. Performance – Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS)
5. Use of Social Media: Twitter – Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)
6. Aesthetics – National Broadcasting Commission (NBC)
7. Accessibility – National Broadcasting Commission (NBC)
8. Technical – Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)
9. Customer Experience – Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC)
10. Website Content – Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC)
    

A travel and tourism application with safety and security features known as Trippin (TRPPN) developed by Fidelis Igbokwe has been inaugurated in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Signal Alliance has been awarded the Cisco Global Winner Circle Corner Award 2016 in Seychelles; recognising the Company as a top performer who through their commercial activities in the 2016 financial year have become part of Cisco’s elite partner sales team