Enugu State Police Command has arrested five members of a gang of kidnappers who allegedly abducted the South-East Regional Manager of Afribank, Mr. Uba Anichebe, in December last year.

DR Jimson Olufuye presently is the President of the Information Technology Association of Nigeria (ITAN). ITAN, as a body, is Nigeria’s representative at the World Information Technology and Services Association (WITSA), a global IT body which held its congress in Amsterdam, The Netherlands last month.

Concerns are beginning to be raised about the delays in appointment of persons to various critical positions in government. For a nation of over 140 million Nigerians at home and in the Diaspora, it cannot be that difficult to identify deserving Nigerians to be appointed to fill these vacancies.

There appears to be growing concern about internet safety even as the prevalence of social networking web sites, online communities, and internet-enabled processes is great news for individual, corporate, and government users. However, increased dependence on the internet for work, life, and play, is exploited daily by those who make the internet unsafe for others.

Despite regulations by the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), and the Basel Convention on the Control of trans-boundary movements of hazardous wastes and their disposal, large numbers of refurbished desktop computers and laptops still enter the Nigerian IT market, where demands for them remain high as a result of relatively cheap prices, CyberLIFE findings can reveal.

The 2010 West African Information and Communications Technology Congress (WAFICT) ended last week with experts in the industry calling for full deployment of resources in the sub-region to fast-track economic growth and to make the vision 20 2020 dream a reality.

The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) is supporting the Nigerian stop of the Python Africa Tour as the first of a series of training workshops which will kick off next week at the African University of Science and Technology, Abuja.

Global challenges to nation-building in the 21ST century
The simple truth today, is that no nation can effectively succeed in solving her 21st century development challenges, unless the national vision aspiration, mission and strategies are fundamentally anchored in the realm of knowledge creation – and strategically driven by Science and Information Technology (SIT).

criticisms and complaints from the subscribers GSM networks have continued to trail the various promos currently run by the networks providers in the country.

The Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, will early next month host a training on the deployment and management of fibre optic cabling at it’s ICT directorate located inside its main campus.

ICT professionals and private schools owners have urged the Delta State Government to pay closer attention to, and give priority to IT education. This call became necessary in light of the fact that most of the schools in the Warri area are yet to get on the IT train, despite current trends in the world’s dependence on IT in every sphere of life including education and learning.

It’s tough being an entrepreneur in Nigeria. The environmental challenges are so severe that any business man in Nigeria needs to contend with the unavailability of critical resources including power and water supply.

As part of efforts to simplifying business operations for its teaming customers in West African sub region, Hewlett_Packard (HP), West Africa, last week unveiled new integrity solutions to help customers manage challenges and improve services.

In order to bond more closely with its subscribers and numerous fans both locally and across the globe, Secon National Operator, Globacom , has intensified efforts to connect and engage with youths through its pages on Facebook and YouTube.

Traffic along the Ikeja-Oshodi road was moving at snail’s speed as is usually the case in the morning hours. Then came this trailer driver, usually called ‘kill and go,’blaring the horn every five seconds, disturbing everyone in the process.