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.

To further expand its operations in Nigeria, telecommunications equipment maker, ZTE is set to launch its smartphones in the Nigerian market.

Comrade Tony Nwoye who was replaced by Prince Nicholas Ukachukwu as the PDP candidate upon a court order, was yesterday inching towards recovering the ticket after the Supreme Court ordered the Court of Appeal to give a ruling on the dispute between both contenders.