Etisalat Nigeria, has described as baseless rumour, a story in one of Nigeria’s ICT publications alleging that its board was having quibbles over control of equity and investments in the company. According to the company, it was unfortunate that such a baseless and unsubstantiated rumour would come from the vibrant Nigerian media.

Since coming into office, the Minister of State for Information and Communications, Alhaji Aliyu Ikra Bilbis, is not known for too many words and as a matter of fact have not been heard so much. But it seems that the urgent need to realise the dream of Nigeria becoming one of the 20 top economies of the world by the year 2020, is bringing out the tiger in him.

As the two day national workshop on the status and software development in Nigeria, stakeholders have called for improvement of local content in software development in Nigeria, as a critical element for realization of Vision 20:2020.

Determined to make businesses enterprises in Nigeria more profitable, Hewlett-Packard (HP) has said that it is committed to growing small and medium scale business sector in Nigeria by continuously introducing intuitive laser and link-based products which will assist businesses to tailor their portfolio according to their precise needs.

No fewer than Nine new millionaires emerged in the Etisalat 9jillions promotion last week, in the Sokoto edition of its One9ja million dollar game show. The game show, which held weekend in the seat of the caliphate, Sokoto State, witnessed a massive turnout of participants as over N11 million was given away by the telecommunications company during the show.

Internet Service Provider, Linkserve made it double last week, when it announced the appointment of Mr. Victor Oisaghie as the company’s new Managing Director as well as the launch of a new product tagged Linkserve Hosting

Efforts by the state government to retool for knowledge economy with Information Communication Technology for global competitiveness have started yielding results with the level of interest shown by Ministry of Science & Technology of many states government at the just concluded IT Public- Private Forum, (ITPPF) held in Kano State recently

The President and Chairman of Council of the Computer Professionals Registration Council of Nigeria (CPN) Ibrahim Tizhe, has confirmed participation as the Chairman of occasion at the ground breaking debate on the brunt of the global economic meltdown on the nation’s ICT industry.

The telecom sector in Nigeria has attracted over $18 billion investment in the last eight years on account of predictive regulatory environment and supportive government for a deregulated telecom industry.

MTN Foundation (MTNF), last week, handed over 100 housing units of 2 bedrooms each with construction cost put at N117 million to Habitat for Humanity to manage. This according to the Foundation was geared towards assisting the Federal Government in its efforts at addressing the increasing problem of housing in the country.