THE Chairman of Etsako West Local Government Council of Edo state, Mallam Gani Audu, Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the Council, Mr Thomas Athema and Chieftain of the PDP in the state, Deacon Domingo Obende, yesterday, dumped the PDP for the Action Congress, AC.

By Emmanuel Elebeke LAGOS — As part of efforts at combating the menace of climate change, Eti Osa Local Government Council of Lagos State has said it is set to float the first bio-diesel refinery in the country. Chairman of the Local Council, Prince Olarenwaju Elegushi, disclosed this in Lagos during a press conference to […]

By Tony Edike ENUGU—IT was a show of shame in Enugu yesterday as officials of Enugu State Waste Management Authority, ESWAMA,  engaged themselves in a free-for-all fight over revenue collection at the New Market area of the coal city. An eyewitness account said that fighting broke out when Head of Operations of ESWAMA, Mr Ebube […]

While nations of the world, especially India are retooling their software products for global competitiveness, there has been growing concern in the Nigerian IT industry regarding the country’s over dependency in foreign software drive her economy, a development which experts say, may derail vision 2020 imperative

Overview: Several Research white papers on the strategies to accelerate national IT capacity building have zeroed in on the massive involvement of women in the IT development cycle. Compared to other countries, the number of Nigerian women in IT is rather low.

Meridian Technologies, an IT training & testing outfit has started training women students free of cost on computer basics at its Maryland, Lagos centre. With this Women IT empowerment offer, More than 100 students have already benefited from this free training. The school is in alliance with APTECH Ltd, Oracle Corporation, Cisco, Microsoft and other leading vendors in IT.

Nigerian foremost infrastructure sharing and managed services provider, Helios Towers Nigeria in collaboration with fixed wireless telephone operator, Multi-links Telkom have recently signed a fully managed network services contract in Lagos.

TOP IT resellers, Technology Distributions Limited has pledged to empower a new generation of resellers in Liberia and bring down computer prices significantly in the country.

Barely two weeks before the much awaited eWorld Broadband forum slated for first week of March 2010, Nigerian frontiers in co-location and infrastructure sharing Helios Towers and IHS have also endorsed the forum that is expected to discuss among other things development of broadband in Nigeria

When the gates of the University of Lagos, Akoka main campus, open tomorrow, it wouldn’t just be to admit staff and students as it usually does.

LEADING player in critical power and cooling services, APC by Schneider Electric has announced the release of the Back-UPS RS 500 battery backup.

Nigeria has spent a total of N 1.8 trillion to subsidised petroleum products in the last four years which the federal government has said is not sustainable. The minister of state for Finance Mr Remi Babalola made this known at the 2010 edition of the Oba Oladele Olashore Annual Lecture held at the Obafemi Awolowo University , Ile-Ife, Osun State at the weekend .

Stabilizing financial markets have helped buyers of trade credit insurance, as political risk underwriters are pulling back slightly on rates they hiked last year during the global financial crisis, insurers and brokers say.

Over-regulations in the insurance industry and regulations which overlap other sectors’ laws have all created barriers to the development and growth of micro-insurance in the country, according to Prof Joe Irukwu, Insurance Law Review Committee Chairman.

The National Insurance Commission, NAICOM, has approved the appointment of Mr. Emmanuel Obinna Madu, as the new managing director and chief executive officer for ADIC Insurance Limited.