In a bid to provide customers discounts on e-payment services, eTranzact International Plc has partnered with Bookhotelabroad.com, a leading provider of hotel accommodation and services worldwide from Nigeria to offer discounts on reservations booking services locally and globally.

Despite his best efforts in sounding apolitical and dissuading skeptics of his alleged religious fundamentalism, there is little debate that Mallam Lamido Sanusi, the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN may have become the most divisive personalities in the country today. He is also potentially, the greatest risk to the President’s transformation agenda. After all, any organization that has its treasurer shooting and destroying the way Nigeria’s CBN Governor does is not bound to have a healthy balance sheet.

Honourable Uwem Udoma is a former Deputy Speaker of Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Akwa Ibom State. He was the Chairman House Committee on Economic Planning and Development in the Fourth Assembly. A businessman with bias in road construction, he declared his support for the single term proposal in an interview with Vanguard.

Sequel to the renewed drive by Nigeria to rank among the top twenty economies in the world by 2020, e-business solution experts have declared that a technology driven economy will aid the efforts of the Federal Government in achieving this goal.

LAST week, shape of the newly-created Ministry of Communications and Technology became clearer. The minister, Mrs Omobola Johnson announced during a visit to NigComSat that agencies under her ministry would include Nigeria Communications Satellite Limited which has been in the Ministry of Science and Technology, Galaxy Backbone, Nigeria Postal Service (NIPOST), Nigeria Communications Commission, and the National Information Technology Development Agency of Nigeria (NITDA).

The Acting Director-General of the National Steel Raw Materials Exploration Agency (NSRMEA), Mr. Alex Ohikere, has called on governments to assist in making data available for investors in the solid minerals exploration sector.

Dr Doyle Baker of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has said that Africa has the potential of becoming the world food basket if the right decisions are made.

Research In Motion RIM; makers of the Blackberry range of smart phones has through it’s regional director- east, central and west Africa Mr. Waldi Wepener announce to ICT journalists in Lagos that the company as part of attempts to fully have the company and phones more localised in the country intends to work closely with Nigerian software developers.

Leading chip maker, Intel Corporation said it has perfected plans to invest $30 million to strengthen it cloud and embedded computing research in five years.

Aviation workers, under the umbrella of the Air Transport Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, ATSSAN have kicked against the appointment of the Director of Engineering, Nigerian Airspace Agency of Nigeria, NAMA, Mr. Nnamdi Udoh as the acting Managing Director of the agency.