The 6th edition of eLearning Africa International Conference on ICT for Development, Education and Training, will be focusing on unlocking the potentials of young Africans, the innovative use of Open Educational Resources, OERs and training for teaching, healthcare, farming and banking professionals in Africa.

While vowing to charge more people to court over intellectual property, Microsoft has said that unless sound Intellectual Property, ( IP) policies were put in place to help reduce software piracy and counterfeiting which threaten legitimate businesses and expose consumers to the risks that come from using non_genuine software, the fight against piracy may be far fetched.

Though the recently-concluded general elections has been given pass marks by a great number of observers, the sore point for technology freaks and ICT experts is that the electronic registration which gulped quite a chunk of tax payers’ money was dumped for manual applications in other processes of the election

Activities towards the hosting of the West African ICT Congress, WAFICT, and the West African International Telecommunications exhibition, W.Afri.Tel, have received a boost with the Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr. Mahesh Sachdev, accepting to deliver a keynote paper at the event

Unless sound IP policies were put in place to help reduce software piracy and counterfeiting which threaten legitimate businesses and expose consumers to the risks that come from using non-genuine software, the fight against piracy may be far fetched, Emmanuel Onyeje, General Manager Microsoft Anglophone West African has said.

There appears to be anxiety among Nigeria’s students from the higher institution who are currently jostling for the Imagine Cup 211 software competition that encourages young people to apply their imagination

After three consecutive Saturdays that saw a near grinding halt of business activities inside the nation’s largest ICT market, the computer village, ICT vendors inside the market say they have lost millions to the hours of ‘no sale’ that is now synonymous to the elections

The need for the government of the federation to invest massively in the Information and Communications Technology, ICT sector, is once again re-echoed; this time, by a legal practitioner and IT laws advocate, Mr. Adewale Jones

This follows the certificate presentation ceremony organized last week by the school, in which 283 students of the university became certified in CISCO Certified Network Associate, CCNA; CISCO Certified Network Professional, CCNP; Project Management; EC Council Customer Relationship Management, CRM and Web Multimedia.

China is on the verge of becoming the first country in the world to have more than 900 million cell phone users, according to government statistics.