While nations of the world depend on output from local content for global competitiveness
, participants at the just concluded national workshop on strenthening innovation and capacity building in the manufacturing sector rose up from the conference, saying that unemployment will remain unabted in the system except attention is paid to low hanging technology fruits which have the capacity to create one million jobs acrooss different sectors of the Nigerian economy .

he nation’s political class is yet to buy into information and communications technology as a tool for national development, says Acting Chairman of the Board of National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA, Mallam Mohammed Bullama.

CENTRAL Bank Governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, said, yesterday, that deposit money banks in the country were strategizing towards a new phase of strengthening their capitalization.

If the country must sustain leadership in telecom and entire ICT business in Africa and perhaps target the top spot in the global digital market, the country policy makers must understand ICT beyond Naira and Kobo.

Nigeria’s team at the FIFA Under-20 Women World Cup, the Falconets are fired up as they prepare to face Colombia in tomorrow’s semi-final clash.

Acting President of the Nigeria Football Association, NFA, Alhaji Aminu Maigari was yesterday saved by the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC was set to stop his trip to Germany to see the U-20 female national team, the Falconets.

Eagles’ manager, Lars Lagerback is staying away from his duty post, because of the controversy rocking the Nigeria Football Association in the aftermath of the 2010 World Cup.

Not even the threat by kidnappers can stop premier cable network television, Super Sport from fulfilling its mission of covering and showing the Nigerian Premier League to the world.

Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Mohammed Adoke, SAN, yesterday, declared that the zoning formula of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the post of the president is unconstitutional and should not be used to overheat the nation’s polity

The Federal Government, last weekend, signed a concession agreement with two consortia – Iris One Securecard and Cham – three years after the consortia were selected through a rigorous bidding process.

The lingering Nigeria Premier League (NPL) board election crisis has taken a new dimension as the Chairman of Bayelsa United, Chief Victor Rumson Baribote, has taken his case to world soccer governing body, FIFA.

WORRIED by a seeming lukewarmness of government to alleviate the suffering of the nation’s pensioners, the senior citizens yesterday asked the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, for intervention.

THE Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has uncovered a total of one thousand and seven (1,007) ghost pensioners currently drawing pension payment from the authority, thus saving about N720 million in illegal pension payments to the unidentified retirees annually.

Ndokwa National Youths Movement, has kicked against tenure elongation of the current lawmakers either serving in the Delta State House or the National Assembly, insisting that such a development would not allow for quality representation, which they said was lacking in both the state and federal assemblies.

Transactions on the Nigerian Stock Exchange resumed the week on a bullish note as equities’ value, represented by the market capitalisation appreciated, Monday, by N63.12 billion.