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 […]

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 […]

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

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, 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.