Country Manager, Microsoft Anglophone West Africa The Web is a very different place compared to its humble beginnings in 1989. Over the last 20 years, the Internet has become accessible on everything from a computer to a wristwatch and the amount of information, entertainment and multimedia available online has taken on staggering proportions.

From Africa’s cocoa plantations to its growing semi-deserts and wilting maize fields, erratic weather linked to climate change may be ruining subsistence crops and export commodities alike REUTERS has reported.

PRESIDENT of the Poland-Nigeria Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Chief Julius Ogunyemi, has urged the Federal Government to consider Poland’s initiative of revamping the nation’s power and steel sectors.

THE electronics giants, LG Electronics of Korea, has flagged off the construction of a N6 billion technical Academy in Awka, Anambra State for the training of Nigerians in the repairs and servicing of electronics.

Chairman, Apapa Local Government Area, Mr Ayodeji Joseph, has commended members of the Nigerian Army over what he described as a “cordial relationship” existing between the officers and men of the Nigerian Army and the civil populace in the area.

THIS was one of the news items in one of the national dailies which sparked off the debate of the masses this day.

CHIEF Victor Nana of Koko community in Warri North Council area of Delta State has charged natives of the port town to give full support to the newly inaugurated 18-man Koko Community Management Authority, KCMA.

By AbdulSalam Muhammad KANO — Against the backdrop of near absence of a centralised agency with a clear mandate on Islam, Quran and Tsangaya education schools in the state, Kano State Government has revealed plans to set up a Board that will oversee its affairs. The state Commissioner for Education, Alhaji Musa Salihu, who disclosed […]

By Innocent Anaba Counsel to the Rumucheta-Mgbuesilves family of Okporo Rumukoroshe in Obio/ Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, Mr Lucius Nwaosu, SAN, yesterday clarified that weekend judgement by the Court of Appeal, Port Harcourt, was in respect of Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited, SPDC, land in  Mgbuesilaru Rumuokoroshe, Ikwerre area of […]

Prof. Tam David-West is a former Minister of Power and Steel, in this interview, he argues that Acting President Goodluck Jonathan cannot make meaningful progress in the power sector within a short periodHe also dismissed claims of an existing cabal holding the sector down, adding incompetence and corruption is responsible for the total blackout in Nigeria. He spoke to Charles Kumolu.