At the flag-off of a nationwide SIM card registration exercise on Monday in Abuja, the Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, (NCC) Engr. Eugene Juwah has said that the major significance of the exercise is the achievement of a Central Data base for all mobile phone users in Nigeria.

THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State and the Edo State government, yesterday, disagreed over the allegation by the PDP that the state government had acquired 200 SUVs, Prado and Land Cruiser vehicles, for traditional rulers and politicians to gain their support ahead of the general elections.

The Minister of Science and Technology Prof. Mohammed Abubakar last week at the 2nd scientific briefing on the utilization of research and development, R&D, listed about 72 products, developed by its parastatals for commercialization to improve standard of living of the people

At this year’s event, an in depth look was given into software development and deployment not just in Nigeria, but across board. The Finacle banking application manufactured by Infosys technologies but deployed and supported to banking institutions by CWG was recognised as the most preferred software application.

The Amnesty programme put together for the re-integration of Ex-militants back into the mainstream of normal socio-economic and political lifestyle in Nigeria finally yielded fruits as all the delegates last week, under the ICT training at New Horizons Systems Solutions, Nigeria graduated as Hardware Engineers.

Sometime last year, Nokia flagged off anti-counterfeit campaign drawing many stakeholders into it. But for sometime now, nothing seems to be heard about it. Has the counterfeiters overwhelmed you?

What’s a girl supposed to say if a man asks her how many men she’s slept with? I read somewhere recently that the average female had between seven and ten lovers in a life time. Well, I’m currently 30 years old and I’ve had lots more than that.

I CALLED the above quote from the Vanguard politics feature of March 16, 2011 entitled “Anambra North Senate Contest- Emodi’s Joyful Mosquito Bites” filed by Vincent Ujumadu and Anayo Okoli because it sums the general mood in our senatorial zone. And even though the title of this article is usually associated with a brand, it nevertheless succinctly describes the Senator Joy Emodi factor in the milieu of the Anambra North Senatorial contest.

Malaria is a disease caused by parasites spread by anopheles mosquitoes. In adults, its common symptoms are headaches, weakness, fever, aches and pains, high body temperature (chills and rigors) and bitterness in the mouth (and loss of appetite) while in children, in addition, it may also manifest in more than normal sleeping, nausea and vomiting.

With about 200 students from secondary schools across Lagos State participating in the just concluded Nigerian Digital Sense Africa forum held in Lagos last week, school leavers have been tasked to seek self-employment through software writing, incubation, and development.