Committee of e-Banking Industry Heads in Nigeria (CeBIH) has called on Nigerians to support the cashless policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria.

Inspector- General of Police Hafiz Ringim has directed Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP, Alhaji Yakubu Alkali, and other CPs to submit operational guidelines for the security of their areas of jurisdiction during the Christmas and New Year celebrations.

This is an appeal to our private sector to have a rethink and patronise local software, it is the only real way to grow local expertise in ICT. Even if our governments set up countless technology incubation centres that churn out ICT products and patents by the thousands, if there is no market for them, the effort would have been wasted. Let’s think, talk, walk, and work Nigerian, all the time.

Frontline computer and back end company, International Business Machines, IBM, believes that organizations that embrace the concept of smarter computing and are approaching computing in a different way, are likely to build and enhance easily, the infrastructure they already have.

At the end of the just concluded Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria, (ISPON) national software conference and competition held in Tinapa, Calabar, Cross River State, participants rose up from the conference saying that there was need to retool the national workforce with ICT with particular reference to Civil Service operations by making all workers ICT literate and skilled.

The Nigeria Football Federation has hailed the National Beach Soccer Team, otherwise known as Supersand Eagles, for the team’s triumph and generally excellent performance at the just-ended COPA Lagos International Beach Soccer Tournament.

New reports from Systems security providers, Symantec Corp says that the number of daily targeted attacks in the later part of the year, has increased four-fold compared to January this year. It said that on average, 94 targeted attacks were blocked each day during the month of November.

The spate of violence in Lagos took another dimension penultimate Thursday when street urchins popularly called Area Boys operating in the Mile Twelve area of Kosofe Local Council Development Area LCDA, engaged officers of the Nigerian Police in a shoot out that left several people injured while goods and property estimated at millions of Naira, were carted away.

President Goodluck Jonathan has disclosed that the Federal Government is committed to diversifying the economy and move away from what he described as mono-culture of depending exclusively on crude oil in the country.

Bell pepper, popularly called “tatase” is that ingredient that gives colour to our stew. Without it, that red colouration of our stew that makes it attractive is absent. For people that do not know, bell peppers are not ‘hot’. The primary substance that controls “hotness” in peppers is called capsaicin, and it’s found in very small amounts in bell peppers.