One of Nigeria’s leading public sector ICT infrastructure and services company, Galaxy Backbone, was last week, declared Government Agency of the Year at the Beacon of ICT awards which held at the prestigious Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos.

The Chairman of ZoomMobile, Nigeria’s frontline indigenous telecommunications services provider, Sir Annie Okonkwo has been confirmed as the Chairperson for the 2010 Broadband forum organized by Titans of Tech.

The rising spate of network congestion among telecom operators is taking it’s toll on the petty recharge card sellers on the street.

NEW Minister of Niger Delta, Elder Godsday Orubebe, has been told to decentralize the operations of the ministry. Hailing the appointment of the minister, a former militant leader, Sobomabo Jackreec, a.k.a Egberipapa, said the situation where activities of the ministry were concentrated only in its Abuja office was very unhealthy.

AJEGUNLE, the popularly acclaimed ‘Jungle City’ in Ajeromi Ifelodun Local Government Area of Lagos State has always been in the news for different reasons. It is presently in the news on account of a riot rocked the area when some youths took to the streets to protest alleged police brutality on some residents.

The on going projects of the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) and the Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria (CIIN) are to endear 55,000 employments to the insurance industry.

Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has called for urgent measures by Nigerians to save ailing president Umaru Yar’Adua from some unscrupulous and selfish individuals, benefitting from his predicament. He noted that Yar’Adua’s predicament has revealed that he is a victim of spousal abuse.

Shareholders have decried lack of basic accounting knowledge of some members of audit committee of companies and banks, saying criteria for people seeking position as audit committee member should be entrenched in the Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA).

He stood for a long time looking beyond the audience. Quite a few watched if the tears were going to drop. But Engr Ernest Ndukwe is a very strong and resolute man. He had spent ten years less two days at the NCC and in a few hours he would have spent his final moments at the imposing NCC building in Abuja.

The Managing Director of Strategic Energy Limited (SLE), Mr. Dayo Adeshina has said that deregulation of the downstream sector of the Petroleum industry would go a long way in the nation’s fight against global warming/climate change.

ZAIN Group (Mobile Telecommunications Company of Kuwait ) may have decided to sell its Africa operations as a result of growing financial difficulties, if indications are anything to go by.

In July 2010, the Imagine Cup, the world’s premiere student technology competition created by Microsoft will take place in Poland. Microsoft Nigeria is actively encouraging schools and students across Nigeria to compete for a place in the final.

Stanbic IBTC, as parts of efforts at taking its services to a vast majority of the populace across the country, opened a new branch, last week, in Sagamu, the second in Ogun State.

The Chairman of ZoomMobile, Nigeria’s frontline indigenous telecommunications services provider, Sir Annie Okonkwo has been confirmed as the Chairperson for the 2010 Broadband forum organized by Titans of Tech.

After months of wrangling, my wife finally admitted to having an affair and has opted to stay with her lover. We have only one child and she said she was no longer in love with me. I was devastated. Most of our friends are really upset by our break-up and confused by what’s expected of them.