AS Samson Siasia gets unveiled today in Abuja as new Eagles gaffer, former Vice Chairman of the Nigeria Football Association, Barrister Richard Nwabufor Obienu has reminded Nigerian soccer fans that they would be held responsible if Siasia fails to take the Eagles to new heights.

Nigerian Women between the ages of 19 and 50 have been advised to carry out regular checks on their breasts in order to detect any abnormalities that may occur in the breast.

The traditional ruler of Gesse residential quarters in Birnin Kebbi, Ahaji Mohammed Lawal, has said that suspected criminals posing as beggars are threatening the peace of the area. He said that some strange persons pretending to be beggars in the area had been discovered to be criminals and that he was, therefore, placing authorities and residents on alert.

Super Falcons Coach, Uche Eucharia has doused fears over the impending African Women Championship semi final clash between her wards and their Camerounian counterparts tomorrow when she said, the Indomitable Lionesses were not new to the Nigerian team.

Ahead of the November 18 elections of the Nigeria Olympians Association (NOA), the secretariat yesterday in Lagos announced the release of forms for the various elective positions.

As the world awaits what action FIFA will take against Nigeria’s Amos Adamu and Tahiti’s Reynald Temarii for their involvement in a cash for vote scandal, executive member of the world soccer ruling body, Junji Ogura has claimed that the saga has damaged FIFA’s reputation.

While Nigeria awaits the outcome of feasibility studies to determine the viability of a science and IT park at the Oshodi, Lagos campus of the Digital Bridge Institute (DBI), President and CEO of the institute, Professor Raymond Akwule has said with optimism that Nigerian students will be the biggest beneficiaries of the park, adding that the initiative would prepare them for the challenges ahead.

While education is the single most important investment in the future of individuals, communities, nations, and the world at large, by the year 3013, about 250 teachers and students globally are to benefit from Partners in Learning, a 10-year $500 million commitment by Microsoft to transform education systems around the world through technology.

Last week, search giant; Google, launched it’s first ever voice recognition technology for Africa as part of it’s long term bid to extend it’s influence on the continent, even as Smartphone owners in South Africa now can enter a voice command in Afrikaans and Zulu to receive search results via Google’s search engine.

The National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA in conjunction with the Nigerian Computer Society have concluded arrangement to visit this Friday, the Nigerian largest African IC market, the Computer Village, Ikeja to discuss many things including avenues to empower and assist IT practitioners among other things.

Traders in the largest ICT market in Africa, the Computer Village Ikeja have gone back to newspaper product price listing despite initial ban by the Computer and Allied Products Dealers Association of Nigeria, (CAPDAN), according to Vanguard CyberLIFE findings.

I wish to look back to 1960, and forward to 2060, to share my thoughts about the challenges to, and opportunities for, building a stronger Nigeria through technology. In the past 50 years, Nigeria has grown economically stronger through its use of technology to discover and then recover petroleum. Fifty years ago, Nigeria had only one oil well. Fifty years later, that first oil well is empty and abandoned. Do the math: “How many oil wells will Nigeria have left in 50 years?”

The issue on the front burner today is that of the registration of Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) cards. Let’s recall that while the telecom regulator the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, was tinkering with this idea about two years ago, the security agencies reportedly told the Commission that the nation can no longer wait.

To ensure self-sufficiency in food production in Nigeria, Dangote Group has ventured into the production of fertilizer for the country’s numerous farmers.

FORMER Minister of Defense, Dr Olu Agunloye has advocated for the introduction of Information Communication Technology (ICT) into the library system in the nation education sector.