Category: Technology
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The T-Shaped Engineer: An Engineer’s Guide to Law in Nigeria
Your technical skills as an engineer might be adeqate but might not be enough. You can design the most brilliant systems, but those systems live in the real world, one that’s governed by contracts, regulations, and human rights. This is exactly where the idea of the T-shaped engineer in Nigeria comes in. It’s no longer…
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The True Cost of Cheap IT for Nigerian SMBs
In my experience, especially with Nigerian Small and Medium-sized Businesses (SMBs), there’s a common “cost-saving” strategy that is, quite frankly, a persistent and dangerous fallacy. It’s the idea that minimizing upfront IT procurement costs is the same as saving money. This approach, born from very real capital constraints and a tough macroeconomic environment, directly results…
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Smartphone Design Philosophy: How Apple, Google, and Samsung Differ
In the high-stakes world of smartphones, three titans, Apple, Google, and Samsung, have taken starkly different paths to innovation, each with its own smartphone design philosophy. This has created a vibrant market where every approach has its place. This diversity gives us, the users, a real choice. Apple’s Hardware-First Smartphone Design Philosophy First, let’s discuss…
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Outsourcing & Consulting in Nigeria: A Security Engineer’s View from the Inside
As a Network Security Engineer, my day-to-day is a fight against cyber threats. I work with firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and the precise logic of network traffic. It’s a technical world. But my time at ICS Outsourcing, a leading business consulting and outsourcing firm in Nigeria, dropped me into a completely different arena. Suddenly, I…
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