THE Federal government on Monday said every Nigerian will have access to the internet in 2018.

How best to help big,and small medium size organizations in the Nigerian market to combat security threats was the focus of a one_day seminar organized recently by Check Point Software Technologies in partnership with DataGroupIT in Lagos. The seminar aimed at educating the firms on solutions that can avert security threats, among other things afforded the participants the opportunities to get exposed to new trends in security threats, the challenges and effects with the Check Point solution to address the ugly trends which have continued to cause economic harm than good.

Thou shall not live by bread alone! With the advent of the Knowledge economy, it has become a strategic imperative and mandatory obligation for Nigeria to reconsider the centric mission of living by Telecommunication alone! History of Telecommunications reveals that many thousand years ago, the art of Telecommunication began with the use of smoke signals and drums in Africa, then to the Americas and later parts of Asia – particularly in China. It must be emphasized that this write-up is not intend to understate the significance, value and power of Telecommunication in human endeavor and for Nigeria.

The National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA says it has spend approximately N900 million in capacity building and training of young IT professionals on postgraduate scholarship scheme.

Minister of Communications Technology, Mrs Omobola Johnson, yesterday dropped the hint that government may not give out spectrum for free to operators interested in broadband roll out.