THE 3rd West African Information & Communications Technology Congress (WAFICT 2011) which held in Lagos last week turned out to be a forum where key stakeholders in the nation’s telecommunications sector made case for the ubiquity of broadband, describing it as the next frontier that will power growth in the sector in the next decade.

AN Assistant Superintendent of Police, in charge of Eku Police Station, Delta State, Mr. Ayoola Adelodun, has been killed by an armed gang.

Ex-Eagles star Daniel Amokachi has wondered why Samson Siasia is still Eagles coach as he also questioned the handling of star players by his former teammate.

AFTER two weeks of motion without movement on whether to sack or retain Samson Siasia, the Nigeria Football Federation has finally decided to weild the big axe.

The House of Representatives yesterday mandated its Committees on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora Matters to investigate the circumstances leading to the decision of the British police to take custody of six children of a Nigerian family on the allegation that the mother of the children was a sex worker.

Protests have continued to trail results announced by Lagos State by the state Independent Electoral Commission, LASIEC, for Saturday’s local council polls, in which Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN won practically all the seats contested for.

THIS column last week focused giant strides in IT made by India, a colonial sibling of Nigeria, which launched the world’s cheapest tablet PC at $35, branded Aakash, a fortnight ago.

For the Information and Communication industry in Nigeria to move forward, stakeholders in the sector must come together to collaborate.

Nigeria’s burgeoning mobile sector attracted yet another additional investor last week as Huawei Technologies Ltd, announced the introduction of series of mobile devices into the highly competitive Nigerian mobile phone market.

JULIET Ehimuan is Country Manager for search engine giant, Google, in Nigeria. In this interview, she speaks on the future of Nigeria as a nation with potentials to develop IT and other complex software. She is also passionate about the prospects of small and medium sized businesses and is of the conviction that if they get online their businesses will prosper more, and named examples in this regard. She also speaks on the new domain recently launched by Google to help more Nigerian businesses get on line. Excerpts:

The Federal Government has assured all the 36 states in the federation that they will now be involved in the implementation processes of all ecological projects in their domain.

The decision of the Abia State Government to lay off non-indigenes in her civil service has been flayed by Ohaneze Ndigbo and the Enugu State House of Assembly who say that it can jeopardize unity among the people of the Southeast.

POLITICAL developments and governance in Edo State since 1999 have clearly shown how unfortunate the state, popularly referred to as the “Heartbeat of the Nation”, has been without sincere and committed governors to direct its affairs and lead it to the proverbial Promised Land.

Glo 1, which was at the West African Information Communication and Technology Congress (WAFICIT) exhibition and conference held in Lagos last week drew high profile visitors, including captains of industries and government officials.

The reality today translates to the fact that it should be abundantly clear to us, that the era and long-addicted habit of physically and blindly chasing the containers and cargo packages at all our import terminals and air/land boarders and throwing away the content of the manifest documents that represent the knowledge-base and real world inside the containers, must be over by now.