Nigeria’s financial sector has in the last six years witnessed dramatic changes and this is not referring to just the reforms. First, commercial banks got to realise that lowering barriers to entry like waving off the cash requirements of minimum balances in opening bank accounts to zero minimum balances, can increase retail accounts.

ICT worst headache, Cybercrime, dominated discussions at this year’s African ICT Best Practices Forum in Ouagadougou, the Burkina Faso capital, last week.

Driven by the desire to make mobile internet access more affordable to its growing number of data subscribers,
leading telecommunications company, Starcomms Plc., has unveiled a new volume base data renewal package exclusive for the MOTO Q and MOTO Q9C smart phones.

MTN Nigeria, one of the leading GSM operators in the country has once again showed that it is an
organisation of many firsts by being the first company in the telecoms sector to introduce what it called ‘MTN Fan Parks and Viewing Centres’ to enable its customers especially, football lovers have an experiential feeling of the FIFA 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

Participants at the recent concluded West African ICT (WAfICT 2010) Congress which coincided with the 10th edition of the West African International Telecommunications and Information Communication Technology Exhibition (W.Afri.Tel), agreed that more efforts needed to be expended on Africa’s ICT sector to sustain developments already made.