The entire ICT sector was massively shaken, last week when the news broke of the attack on telecom operators’ base stations and other installations by persons suspected to be terrorists.

In the opinion page of The Guardian on Sunday of August 26, 2012, Reuben Abati wrote among others and I quote: “They in this piece refers to all the cynics, the pestle-wielding critics, the unrelenting self-appointed activities’, the idle and idling, twittering, collective children of anger, the distracted crowd of Facebook addicts, the BBM-pinging soap opera gossips of Nigeria who seem to be in competition to pull down President Goodluck Jonathan”.

The National Universities Commission (NUC) has inaugurated its first ever Online Programme Accreditation Portal. It is a new initiative aimed to fully automate the accreditation process of Universities’ Academic Programmes as carried out by the NUC in order to ensure that the Minimum Academic Standard Document in every programme is attained, maintained and fully complied with by our universities as enshrined in the laws establishing the commission.

Organisers of the Nigerian ICT agenda series, have said that the event on Mobile Number Portability, MNP, scheduled for September 26, may become the high point of events in the ICT sector this year.

At the just concluded big data techno logy summit held last week in Lagos, NetApp, how best corporate organizations can properly manage big data to avoid date explosion was the topic of discussion.