Anambra : AC asks for run-off election
By Olasunkanmi Akoni LAGOS—The Action Congress, AC, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, to conduct a run-off election between Mr Peter Obi of All Peoples Grand Alliance, APGA, and Dr Chris Ngige of AC, and immediately correct the anomaly of prematurely declaring Obi, winner of the February 6, election. AC, has said that […]
You can’t send a team out without a coach, Rufai
By Jacob Ajom Former Nigerian international, Peter Rufai, has called on the Nigeria Football Federation to set the ball rolling on the employment of a substantive coach for the national team before the international friendly against Paraguay in London next month. Reacting to the report credited to the NFF scribe, Bolaji Ojo-Oba, that he would […]
Anyaoku charges Ag. President on true federalism
FORMER Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, has commended the National Assembly for empowering Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan as Acting President.
PDP chieftains in Etsako West decamp to AC
THE Chairman of Etsako West Local Government Council of Edo state, Mallam Gani Audu, Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the Council, Mr Thomas Athema and Chieftain of the PDP in the state, Deacon Domingo Obende, yesterday, dumped the PDP for the Action Congress, AC.
Eti-Osa LG to float bio-diesel refinery
By Emmanuel Elebeke LAGOS — As part of efforts at combating the menace of climate change, Eti Osa Local Government Council of Lagos State has said it is set to float the first bio-diesel refinery in the country. Chairman of the Local Council, Prince Olarenwaju Elegushi, disclosed this in Lagos during a press conference to […]
Enugu workers in free-for-all over money
By Tony Edike ENUGU—IT was a show of shame in Enugu yesterday as officials of Enugu State Waste Management Authority, ESWAMA, engaged themselves in a free-for-all fight over revenue collection at the New Market area of the coal city. An eyewitness account said that fighting broke out when Head of Operations of ESWAMA, Mr Ebube […]
‘Over dependence on foreign software threatens Vision 20-2020’
While nations of the world, especially India are retooling their software products for global competitiveness, there has been growing concern in the Nigerian IT industry regarding the country’s over dependency in foreign software drive her economy, a development which experts say, may derail vision 2020 imperative
Women in information technology (IT)
Overview: Several Research white papers on the strategies to accelerate national IT capacity building have zeroed in on the massive involvement of women in the IT development cycle. Compared to other countries, the number of Nigerian women in IT is rather low.
Meridian Technologies empowers gives free IT training to women
Meridian Technologies, an IT training & testing outfit has started training women students free of cost on computer basics at its Maryland, Lagos centre. With this Women IT empowerment offer, More than 100 students have already benefited from this free training. The school is in alliance with APTECH Ltd, Oracle Corporation, Cisco, Microsoft and other leading vendors in IT.
Helios Towers, MultiLinks sign deal on managed network services
Nigerian foremost infrastructure sharing and managed services provider, Helios Towers Nigeria in collaboration with fixed wireless telephone operator, Multi-links Telkom have recently signed a fully managed network services contract in Lagos.
TD vows to crash computer prices in Liberia
TOP IT resellers, Technology Distributions Limited has pledged to empower a new generation of resellers in Liberia and bring down computer prices significantly in the country.
