Considering that infrastructural deficiency accounts for why technology has not optimally fast tracked Services and developments in governance, health, education and agricultural sectors among others, Minister of Communications Technology, Mrs Omobola Johnson has declared that the policies her commission and the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC had put in place for broadband acceleration, are spot on.

The Lagos State Government (LASG), in collaboration with Oracle Corporation, at the weekend, flagged off three Information Technology, IT Human Capacity talent building programmes expected to further promote the state’s objectives to deliver more effective services to the citizens.

Delivering its key mandate of infrastructure development, inclusive development, local content and Information Technology, IT in government, the Federal Ministry of Communications Technology, (FMCT) since inception has been able to chart an increase in the contribution of IT sector to the national Gross Domestic Product, GDP, by unleashing ICT in governance.

Public and private concerns in the country are putting heads together to ensure that the Cashless Nigeria initiative championed by the Central Bank of Nigeria works. Every corporate entity, particularly in the financial and ICT sector are using means available to them to drive the adoption.

Necessityis the mother of invention”, so the saying goes. The expediency and truism in this age-long witty saying came into full meaning a fortnight ago when MTN Nigeria in collaboration with Nova Lumos, GSMA and Schneider Electric addressed a press conference on the MTN Mobile Electricity, an affordable solar electricity solution that can power light bulbs, cellphones, fans, PCs or laptops, radios and other small electronic devices, all at once, every day.