While the International Telecommunications Union’s (ITU), 2012 regulatory report released last week highlighted the vital importance of national regulatory framework in accelerating broadband roll-out and stimulating the development of new digital goods and services, participants at the just concluded West African Information and Communication Technology Congress, (WAFICT) 2012 rose up from the conference saying that except effective national regulatory frameworks were put in place by the African governments including Nigeria, achieving broadband roll-out may be far fetched.

Praying for those in authority is one of the basic injunctions of the Christian Faith. The early Christian missionary, Paul who was originally from Tarsus in a letter to one of his close aides, Timothy wrote that prayers should be made for all men and then for “kings, and for all that are in authority.”

THIS Thursday, the sky will shed tears, the cloud will scream, heaven will quake and the stars will mourn, the arrival of a guest uninvited, given a brutal exit from mother earth, for being a man of peace. Yes, another soul will go down under the rubbles of sand.

Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), a Lagos-based development financier, is considering potential investments worth $3 billion across sub-Saharan Africa over the next year, its chief executive has said.

BENIN – GOVERNORSHIP candidate of People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State for the July 14, gubernatorial election, Maj-Gen. Charles Airhiavbere (rtd), has promised that if elected, women and youths would be given priority in his administration’s soft loans and jobs creation schemes.