As the 2011 April general elections draws nearer, The Association of Telecommunication Companies of Nigeria (ATCON and Information and Telecommunication Association of Nigeria (ITAN) by a joint action have announced plans to engage all the Presidential candidates of all the political parties on ICT related issues before the elections

Is the hope for regular power supply in Nigeria about to become a dashed hope for Nigeria’s long-suffering energy deficient citizens? Is the trumpeted gas-to-power project, upon which the Federal Government has anchored its plans to boost energy supply on the verge of going into history as another white elephant project?

Chairman Zinox Technologies Limited, Mr Leo Stan Ekeh, last week told a gathering of business moguls at the 13th Annual Africa Business Conference in the Harvard Business School, that Politics is often unpredictable in Africa and the polity is neither guided by ideologies or time tested traditions

By the time the 2011 Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria, ISPON, Presidential Dinner held in Lagos last week Friday was drawing to a close

The International Chamber of Commerce, ICC) Business Action to support the Information Society (BASIS) initiative has reaffirmed its support for the unique Internet Governance Forum (IGF) and urged that participation remains open to all and that discussions on Internet policy take development issues into consideration

The Finish Frontline mobile phone provider, Nokia has said that it would work with the local authorities in the Nigerian market to stamp out to the barest minimum all forms of counterfeiting, even as it outlined plans to be the market leader in smartphone segment which is now becoming the toast of many consumers around the world

A 19-year-old girl, simply identified as Nelly, who organised her kidnap with her boyfriend, Teddy, and demanded a N10m ransom from her parents, is currently chatting with the police authorities from the “A” Division in Warri, Delta State.

ONE of the three sisters of Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, Mrs. Arawumi Akinwole, who is the only one that remains as the G.O.’s mother and now a pastor with the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Bethlehem Parish in Ifewara was there at the family house when a team of Vanguard visted Ifewara. Interview by SAM EYOBOKA and OLAYINKA LATONA.

INDUSTRIAL crisis appears imminent across the country as Governor Bukola Saraki of Kwara State who is also the chairman of Governors’Forum declared, yesterday, that many states will not be able to pay the N18,000 minimum wage for workers as passed by the National Assembly recently.

NATIONAL Cordinator of the Initiative for Better Power Supply, a non governmental organisation, Don Emma Onose, has told the National Union of Electricity Employees and Presidential Task Force on Power to work in unity to ensure stable power supply to Nigerians.