While calling for transparency in the 2010 general elections, the Nigerian Computer Society, NCS has given the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC one week ultimatum to redresses some identified lapses in the adopted processes for the registration of voters.

AS the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Ebonyi State, prepares to conduct bye election in three days to fill a vacant seat at Ebonyi State House of Assembly, the commission has said that it will provide an equal playing field for all contesting the elections.

ANAMBRA State government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with an Canada-based company, Globim Corporation, for the finance, design, construction and operation of monorail system in the commercial city of Onitsha.

OGBE-Ijoh and Diebiri oil producing communities in Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State, have called on the Acting Governor of the state, Prince Sam Obi, to urgently dissolve the Interim Management Committee, IMC, of the state-owned oil intervention agency, DESOPADEC and probe its activities, since its inauguration by former Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan within seven days.

NIGERIA’s robust telecoms sector suffered a setback last Monday when a CDMA operator, Multilinks Telkom announced that it is quitting business on the platform, saying the decision was purely a business imperative.

The first phase of the 21- kilometre Enugu Monorail Project will cost $246 million, the consultant, Canada-based engineering firm, Globim Corporation, has announced.

POLITICAL parties and stakeholders have been told to study guidelines and code of conduct that had already been released for the local government elections in Rivers State for the first quarter of next year.

The latest from telecommunication giant, Glo is that the operator is now in partnership with Hewlet Packard (HP), an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and Eset, an anti-virus company and now it has introduced a netbook that is presently stirring up waves in the nation’s ICT market. The netbook, is a mini laptop that powered by Glo’s 3G, has 160 GB SATA hard disk drive, webcam with integrated digital microphone and bluetooth wireless networking.

LAST Friday, the Director General of the National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA Professor Cleopas Angaye told journalists and executive members of the Computer and Allied Products Dealers association of Nigeria CAPDAN that a policy looking to ban the importation of refurbished electronic materials and phones in the country is already before the Federal Executive Council.

Controversy surrounding the delay in the approval of the 2010 budget of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, by the House of Representatives, on account of its provision for SIM Card registration, has attracted comments from foreign investors and Nigerians in the Diaspora who have expressed concerns about the consequences of this move.

Direct On PC limited (DOPC), an Internet and Intranet Services Provider in Nigeria has announced it will shortly launch its Unwired Mobile 4G Broadband Services.

Nigeria has approximately a 50-year supply of oil if no new oil is found. In a world without oil, the cutlass will replace the farm tractor. We know most oilfields have been discovered and that oil exists in limited quantities.

Google’s Communications Manager for SubSaharan Africa, Julie Taylor has opened up on some of the challenges confronting the giant search engine and it’s many technological innovations as it relates to Nigeria and indeed Africa and language barrier had topped the list.

Leadership and Role Model Foundation has asked members of the House of Representatives to pass into law, the Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) card budget, since such a passage will help in ensuring enhanced national security and therefore serve the best interest of Nigerians.

For demonstration of unparallel commitment to promote quality healthcare amongst its employees, through its workplace-wellness initiatives MTN Nigeria was last week awarded the wellness award in the healthy lifestyle category in the second edition of Indulge awards.