Technology
CMMI Institute Unveils New Professional Certification
By Modupe Gbadeyanka
CMMI Institute has announced a new certification for professionals seeking to advance their performance improvement expertise.
Thousands of organizations around the world like GE Aviation, Hewlett Packard, Honeywell, IBM, Infosys, Raytheon, Samsung and the US Air Force have utilized CMMI to build capability in their processes, people, and technology to deliver results.
Recognizing that top employers look for candidates who possess the advanced knowledge, experience, and abilities necessary to drive organizational performance and profitability, the Certified CMMI Professional program gives individuals a way to maintain their competitive edge.
Based on the globally-adopted capability improvement framework, Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), the Certified CMMI Professional pathway provides professionals with guidance for elevating and maintaining skills within the strategically targeted areas deemed most critical to advancing their organization’s key capabilities.
According to the Dice.com 2015 Salary Survey, “CMMI skills and expertise command a 7.6% salary increase over the last year.” This is an increase for an average salary of $ 124,265. In fact, thousands of job postings around the globe currently request applicants with CMMI credentials. The Certified CMMIProfessional certification program offers instant value for organizations by providing practitioners with hands-on training and scenario-based exams. The certification program advances and validates the ability of practitioners to:
Provide organizational road maps for enduring elevated performance
Coach team members on how to improve performance
Lead ongoing organizational change efforts
Establish a culture of continuous improvement
Ideal candidates for this certification are those who seek to support their organizations by building a culture of continuous improvement, comparing their operations to industry best practices and then identifying and remediating performance gaps. The certification is available to professionals who have a minimum of three years of experience in product or systems development, service delivery, or acquisition of products/services.
“We are pleased to introduce this professional certification for practitioners aiming to streamline operations within their organization and advance its ability to scale,” said Kirk Botula, CEO of CMMI Institute. “Our goal is to help professionals drive higher quality and more reliable delivery of their projects and programs while maintaining their professional edge in today’s competitive market.”
Companies implementing the CMMI will benefit from investing in training and certification for their CMMI teams so that they might better understand the business value of each CMMI requirement and how it affects project quality and performance. “The entire team overcame challenges and created new tools and standards, developing a new state-of-the-art process for software development,” said Carlos Henrique Novaga Alves, general manager for industrial IT solutions at Chemtech (a Siemens Business). “This has provided a unique opportunity for the team to rethink the way our process is executed—from gathering requirements to increasing productivity. The deployment of the CMMI was also a way to leverage process knowledge amongst all collaborators, training the entire team on the new process and tools while creating a new standard of work.”
Professionals looking to take their career to the next level should apply now for the Certified CMMI Professional Program.
By Aduragbemi Omiyale
One of the players in the Nigerian gaming industry, Secure Electronic Technology (SET) Plc, has appointed Ms Leticia Otomewo as its acting secretary.
This followed the expiration of the company’s service contract with the former occupier of the seat, Ms Irene Attoe, on January 31, 2026.
A statement to the Nigerian Exchange (NGX) Limited on Thursday said Ms Otomewo would remain the organisation’s scribe in an acting capacity, pending the ratification and appointment of a substantive company secretary at the next board meeting.
She was described in the notice signed by the Managing Director of the firm, Mr Oyeyemi Olusoji, as “a results-driven executive with 22 years of experience in driving business growth, leading high-performing teams, and delivering innovative solutions.”
The acting secretary is also said to be “a collaborative leader with a passion for mentoring and developing talent.”
“The company assures the investing public that all Company Secretariat responsibilities and regulatory obligations will continue to be discharged in full compliance with the Companies and Allied Matters Act, applicable regulations, and the Nigerian Exchange Limited Listing Rules,” the disclosure assured.
Meanwhile, the board thanked Ms Attoe “for professionalism and contributions to the Company during the period of her engagement and wishes her well in her future endeavours.”
By Adedapo Adesanya
The Russian government on Thursday confirmed it has blocked the WhatsApp messaging service, as it moves to further control information flow in the country.
It urged Russians to use a new state-backed platform called Max instead of the Meta-owned service.
WhatsApp issued a statement earlier saying Russia had attempted to “fully block” its messaging service in the country to force people toward Max, which it described as a “surveillance app.”
“Today the Russian government attempted to fully block WhatsApp in an effort to drive people to a state-owned surveillance app,” WhatsApp posted on social media platform X.
“Trying to isolate over 100 million users from private and secure communication is a backwards step and can only lead to less safety for people in Russia,” it said, adding: “We continue to do everything we can to keep users connected.”
Russia’s latest move against social media platforms and messaging services like WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram comes amid a wider attempt to drive users toward domestic and more easily controlled and monitored services, such as Max.
Russia’s telecoms watchdog, Roskomnadzor, has accused messaging apps Telegram and WhatsApp of failing to comply with Russian legislation requiring companies to store Russian users’ data inside the country, and of failing to introduce measures to stop their platforms from being used for allegedly criminal or terrorist purposes.
It has used this as a basis for slowing down or blocking their operations, with restrictions coming into force since last year.
For Telegram, it may be next, but so far the Russian government has been admittedly slowing down its operations “due to the fact that the company isn’t complying with the requirements of Russian legislation.”
The chat service, founded by Russian developers but headquartered in Dubai, has been a principal target for Roskomnadzor’s scrutiny and increasing restrictions, with users reporting sluggish performance on the app since January.
By Adedapo Adesanya
Nigerian startup, Decide, has emerged as the fourth most accurate Artificial Intelligence (AI) agent for spreadsheet tasks globally, according to results from SpreadsheetBench, a widely referenced benchmark for evaluating AI performance on real-world spreadsheet problems.
According to the founder, Mr Abiodun Adetona, the ranking places Decide alongside well-funded global AI startups, including Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic.
Mr Adetona, an ex-Flutterwave developer, also revealed that Decide now has over 3,000 users, including some who are paying customers, a signal to the ability of the startup to scale in the near future.
SpreadsheetBench is a comprehensive evaluation framework designed to push Large Language Models (LLMs) to their limits in understanding and manipulating spreadsheet data. While many benchmarks focus on simple table QA, SpreadsheetBench treats a spreadsheet as a complex ecosystem involving spatial layouts, formulas, and multi-step reasoning. So far, only three agents rank higher than Decide, namely Nobie Agent, Shortcut.ai, and Qingqiu Agent.
Mr Adetona said SpreadsheetBench measures how well AI agents can handle practical spreadsheet tasks such as writing formulas, cleaning messy data, working across multiple sheets, and reasoning through complex Excel workflows. Decide recorded an 82.5% accuracy score, solving 330 out of 400 verified tasks.
“The result reflects sustained investment in applied research, product iteration, and learning from real-world spreadsheet workloads across a wide range of use cases,” Mr Adetona told Business Post.
For Mr Adetona, who built Decide out of frustration with how much time professionals spend manually cleaning data, debugging formulas, and moving between sheets, “This milestone highlights how focused engineering and domain-specific AI development can deliver frontier-level performance outside of large research organisations. By concentrating on practical business data problems and building systems grounded in real user environments, we believe smaller teams can contribute meaningfully to advancing applied AI.”
“For Decide, this is a foundation for continued progress in intelligent spreadsheet and analytics automation,” he added.
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