FORMER Vice President Atiku Abubakar, yesterday, hailed the position of the northern state governors supporting the zoning arrangement of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, describing their actions as uncommon courage and patriotism to the country.

While nations of the world depend on output from local content for global competitiveness
, participants at the just concluded national workshop on strenthening innovation and capacity building in the manufacturing sector rose up from the conference, saying that unemployment will remain unabted in the system except attention is paid to low hanging technology fruits which have the capacity to create one million jobs acrooss different sectors of the Nigerian economy .

he nation’s political class is yet to buy into information and communications technology as a tool for national development, says Acting Chairman of the Board of National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA, Mallam Mohammed Bullama.

CENTRAL Bank Governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, said, yesterday, that deposit money banks in the country were strategizing towards a new phase of strengthening their capitalization.

If the country must sustain leadership in telecom and entire ICT business in Africa and perhaps target the top spot in the global digital market, the country policy makers must understand ICT beyond Naira and Kobo.