FORMER Federal Commissioner for Information and Ijaw Leader, Chief Edwin Clark, has said that the National dialogue proposed by President Goodluck Jonathan will not divide Nigeria, just as he stressed that critics of the President were shocked hearing that the Senator Femi Okuroumi-led National Advisory Dialogue Committee was set up.

Fidelity Bank Plc has appointed Mr. Nnamdi Okonkwo, Chief Executive Officer designate, to take over from Mr. Reginald Ihejiahi, who is expected to retire from the bank, February 2014.

COUNCEL to Odi Community of Bayelsa State in its case against the Federal Government over 1999 army invasion of the community, has threatened to press criminal charges against the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, if it fails to pay the N37.6 billion compensation awarded to the community by a court.

Market leader in enterprise application software, SAP, has said that it is increasingly turning its focus to small businesses and technology innovators with cloud computing.

Military troops of the 7 Division, Nigerian Army, launched an attack on Boko Haram camp located in Alagarno village of Borno State, killing no fewer than 37 suspected terrorists, while several others fled with gunshot wounds.

Experts at a one-day training organized for the Raw Materials Research and Development Council, RMRDC staff in Abuja last week said, the future of Nigerian economy will depend on technology research, innovation and development.

A WARRI High Court has restrained the regent of Ogbe-Ijoh clan in Warri South-West council area of Delta State from conducting any other election in the community for the purpose of filling/occupying the various offices of the clan’s governing council.

The Anti-Bomb Unit of the Nigerian Police Force recently graduated 121 officers who completed the basic courses that qualified them as Anti-Bomb Technicians and Investigators at the Traffic Training Wing of the Police College Ikeja – Lagos.

Anambra North, the only senatorial zone yet to produce a governor, it seems would not mind going down on all fours to achieve that goal. That is exactly what members of the Anambra North chapter of the Willy Obiano Campaign Organisation are doing with their desperate plea to citizens from other senatorial zones to support their brother, Willy Obiano, the APGA candidate.

Etisalat Nigeria, last week gathered the top technology experts practising in Africa to sieve through heaps of nominations and applications in its 2013 Pan African Prize for Innovation Awards and select the undoubted winners.

CONSIDERING the ravaging phenomenon of get-rich-quick syndrome which has apparently eaten deep into the culture of most Nigerians, especially the youths, one wonders if good Samaritans are still in existence in the country.

APC candidate Dr. Chris Ngige has said that he would make the people of the state happier if returned to power. He spoke when he made a visit to the burnt Polythene bags market located at Nwizu Estate in Awada, Onitsha, a statement by his campaign team said.

Accelerated work on a Critical National Infrastructure Bill that covers issues critical to rapid broadband deployment is in progress, courtesy of the National Broadband Council. Issues central to broadband deployment which will need attention from various perspectives include damage to all infrastructure including telecoms, a spectrum audit, and a wholesale pricing audit that will lead to reduction in the cost of deploying telecommunications infrastructure. These, among others will be addressed by the Infrastructure bill, which when passed into law, will help achieve national broadband plans by 2017.

Vice President, Global Technology Policy, Cisco, Mr. Robert Pepper is advisory council member of the Alliance for Affordable Internet, A4AI at the just concluded Commonwealth Technology Organization, CTO in Abuja. He moderated a panel discussion with ministerial experts on affordable broadband. In this interview, he bares his mind on the purpose of A4AI, Cisco’s role in the project and how A4AI plans to boost broadband access and plan to crash the cost of broadband in Africa, among others.

Digital pay TV platform, GOtv, last week declared that Nigeria has been most friendly to its two years of operation in the country even as it declared year 2013, in particular, as a special one.