As a nation, we have never been short of blueprints which were expected to be used to transform the country from the primitive economy it is into a world-class, development-led, performing economy. With regret, one recalls the National Development Plans of the military years from Gowon till the demise of the Second Republic.

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