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.

POlICEMEN attached to Joint Boarder Patrol, Ilaro, Ogun State have arrested seven suspected members of a robbery gang, among them a female, and recovered three locally -made pistols and eleven cartridges from them.

AS the December 2012 deadline given to banks to divest from all non banking activities by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) gradually draws near, shareholders of quoted insurance companies have called on regulatory bodies in the financial sector to protect their interests.

NIGERIA’s 51st independence anniversary celebration may have come and gone despite all the controversies that attended it. Since the first incidence of terrorism in the country on Independence Day during…

THE residents of house No. 44 Ijaiyi Street, in Ajeromi Ifelodun Local Government, of Lagos State, were shocked beyond words on Friday, October 14, 2011 as a mysterious fire gutted the one storey building.