NIGERIAN ICT stakeholders had clamoured for the creation of an Information and Communications Technology (ICT) ministry, given the speed of development that convergence has brought into the world economy.

AGAIN, infuriated by the composition of the defunct national conference on political reforms – 31 women out of 400 delegates-our women had resorted to court action, to compel the then President Olusegun Obasanjo to reconstitute the conference with at least 200 women.

Governor Sule Lamido has sworn in 15 new commissioners as members of the state executive council. He said their appointments were based on merit and not just ‘’for political patronage.’’

The first of the quarterly one day national crusade against polio holding on August 13, 2011 could perhaps reconstruct impressions about the powerful Nigerian Governors’ Forum, NGF.

At the just concluded world’s premier student technology competition, Imagine Cup 2011 held in New York , the United States of America, speakers rose from the event saying that attainment of Millennium Development Goals, (MDGs) by the year 2015 deadline requires urgent assignment by the creative students who showcased their products at the event that had about 400 technology wiz kids from 70 countries around the world.

Chairman of the Association of Licensed Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ALTON), Engr. Gbenga Adebayo, last week repeated calls that the federal government should make the vandalisation of telecom infrastructure a capital offence to deter vandals from frustrating the efforts of telecom operators in Nigeria.

As part of plans to boost its subscriber base in the country, Globacom Nigeria last week declared a new package tagged 1derful offer for Nigerian customers, even as it also unveiled a partnership with Nokia to offer special internet bundles and other services to its subscribers on some select Nokia phones.

AFTER an 18-month search, the GSMA at the weekend announced that Barcelona has been selected as the Mobile World Capital from 2012 to 2018. This gives the city the opportunity to retain the mobile industry’s must-attend event, the GSMA Mobile World Congress, and will also develop a range of other programmes and activities that will span the entire year.

A former deputy general manager at China Mobile has been sentenced to death by Chinese authorities, having been found guilty of corruption.

Nigerians from all walks of life have been urged to promote peaceful co-existence, good neighbourliness, productive inter-relationship and religious tolerance in the interest of the Nation and its people.