PRESIDENT, Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria, Mr. Olusola Teniola has said that Nigeria’s poor economic situation has had a negative impact on Foreign Direct Investment in Information and Communication Technology, ICT.

After Nigeria alongside other 119 member countries in 2006 signed up to the International Telecoms Union, ITU protocol to transit from Analogue to Digital broadcasting by 2015 in line with the current global trend, the country gave itself a task of concluding transition by June 17 2012, three years before deadline. In a bid to achieve the 2012 migration date, the federal government in 2007, approved the process and in 2008, it inaugurated a Presidential Advisory Committee (PAC) on transition from analogue to digital broadcasting.

FACEBOOK says it is preparing some incredible new technology that may soon let its users read each other’s thoughts. The social network is hard at work developing tools that would allow people to communicate via brain waves using new ‘brain-computer’ interfaces.

A FRESH leadership crisis is rocking the Jigawa State House of Assembly following the impeachment of Alhaji Idris Garba as speaker, last week.

Gov Seriake Dickson was in Abuja, last weekend to pay his state’s N422 million water project counterpart fund. At that event, he spoke to journalists on a wide range of national issues, including why it is not in the interests of APC for PDP to be destroyed and cautioned that the federal government must guide against turning security agencies into organs of APC.