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.