How best to come up with appropriate legal frameworks for Cyber security among commonwealth nations will take center stage at the planned cyber security forum organized by the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) in partnership with the United Kingdom department of Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) and the UK Government’s Office of Cyber Security (OCS)

Ahead of the Information Technology Public Private Forum (ITPPF) slated for next week in Abuja, the Secretary-General of WITSA, Dr James Poisant has expressed his interest to present the keynote paper on “Meeting the Vision 20 2020 Challenge”

As countries of the world which qualified for the 2010 Fifa World Cup are gearing up for the mundial, so unfortunately, internet and ATM Fraudsters are also warming up.

The Justice Hamma Barka-led Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Ekiti State Tuesday adjourned judgement to a later date in a petition filed by Dr Kayode Fayemi, the Action Congress, AC, gubernatorial candidate in 25 April 2009 governorship election re-run in the state challenging the victory of Engr Segun Oni, as the tribunal adopted the written addresses of all the parties.

Building on the success of the second ICT Best Practices Forum in April 2008, the Government of Burkina Faso, in collaboration with Microsoft and the European Union, have concluded plans to host the third ICT Best Practices Forum in June, in Ouagadougou, the Burkina Faso capital.

AKURE-AT least 22 persons were Tuesday roasted in an auto crash along Amurin-Owo near Emure, Ondo State. However, three other passengers sustained serious injuries in the crash which occurred at about 1.30am.

The Action Congress, AC, has called on the Federal Government to take a decisive step to stop the continuing but slow motion violence in Jos and its environs, where attacks have persisted since the March massacre.

A founding member of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, Malam Adamu Ciroma, has warned against any clandestine move to sack the Prince Vincent Ogbulafor-led National Working Committee, NWC, just as he stressed that if allowed, it would spell doom for the party ahead of 2011 elections.

Etisalat Nigeria has announced a location based tariff promo targeted at its subscribers in the south-south and south-eastern parts of the country.

Washington—World Bank President Robert Zoellick said, Tuesday, in Washington that the portfolio of the bank in various projects in Nigeria had reached $4.2 billion (about N600 billion).

The Presidency has ordered a probe into alleged N5 billion contract scams rocking the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, as the executive management members of the commission engaged themselves in dirty fights.

As criticism continues to trail the ongoing sales promotions by telecom operators in the country , Nigeria second national telecom career, Zain has come out in strong terms to defend its ongoing Step Up promotion currently going on in the country.

Former Military President and presidential hopeful, General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd), said, Tuesday, that the most challenging problem of the nation is leadership, warning that the time to get it correctly is now.

For Wale Goodluck, the Executive Director, Corporate Services, MTN, the success and achievement of a responsible corporate organization is not just measured by how much profit it was able to make in a year, or by expansion of its operations, but by how far it could go in reaching out to the needy in its host community. To him, any organization that neglects the welfare of its host community does so at its own peril.

THIS Friday, notable stakeholders in the Internet world would be heading to Lagos, Nigeria on a one-day forum designed to make sense out of the country’s involvement in internet activities.