Open Source Software (OSS) has played very important roles in the growth of software technologies. Nigeria being a developing country that faces various socio-economic challenges; access to freely distributed solutions that have no restriction on selling the software as a component of an aggregated solution is invaluable.

Rivers State government has appealed to the Israeli government to avail the state of its agricultural technology to enable the state grow food for itself and the teeming population the Niger Delta.

While the menace of cybercrime continues to cause more economic harm than good across the globe, especially in Nigeria , where the ugly trend has remained unabated, the Senate Committee on Communication has raised alarm over the vulnerability of the Nigerian ICT infrastructure to cyber attack, saying that 95% of the nation’s ICT Infrastructures are velnerable to cyber attack.

The Lagos State government, yesterday, launched an appeal fund in aid of the victims of the Haiti earthquake with a donation of $1 million.

THERE is palpable anxiety among a broad spectrum of Nigerians over plans to register mobile lines in the country by the telecoms regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, as a result of security issues involved in the exercise.

No fewer than 600 immigrants, who daily flood the streets of Akwa Ibom State, including 136 Niger Republic nationals, have been repatria-ted from the state by the Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Welfare.

Rising from its decade review of the Nigerian telecoms sector, the National Association of Telecommunications Subscribers of Nigeria (NATCOMS), has commended Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigeria Communication Commission (NCC), Engr. Ernest Ndukwe for his pioneering role in the sustenance of the use of GSM phones in country, particularly in the area of the establishment of the NCC Telecomms Consumer Parliament in August 2003.

The upward trend in the Nigeria Stock Exchange (NSE) continued, Monday, as the value of listed equities appreciated by N29.57 billion.

THE Chairman of Sapele local government council, Mr. Godwin Atose, has been suspended by the councill-ors for three months, while Leader of the House, Mrs. Anirah, was impeached.

CHAIRMAN of Rivers State Social Rehabilitation Committee, SRC, Chief Albert Horsfall, has spoken against recent abductions, assassinations and murders witnessed in the state in recent times.