Telecom operators seek stronger infrastructure protection to sustain Nigeria’s digital growth
By Juliet Umeh & Islamiyyah Adekanbi For more than two dec-ades, Nigeria’s telecommunications operators have powered one of the country’s biggest economic success stories, connecting millions of people, driving financial inclusion and providing the digital infrastructure that supports banking, education, healthcare, commerce and governance. However, they have come out to demand stronger government support, policy […]
‘Over dependence on foreign software threatens Vision 20-2020’
While nations of the world, especially India are retooling their software products for global competitiveness, there has been growing concern in the Nigerian IT industry regarding the country’s over dependency in foreign software drive her economy, a development which experts say, may derail vision 2020 imperative
Women in information technology (IT)
Overview: Several Research white papers on the strategies to accelerate national IT capacity building have zeroed in on the massive involvement of women in the IT development cycle. Compared to other countries, the number of Nigerian women in IT is rather low.
Meridian Technologies empowers gives free IT training to women
Meridian Technologies, an IT training & testing outfit has started training women students free of cost on computer basics at its Maryland, Lagos centre. With this Women IT empowerment offer, More than 100 students have already benefited from this free training. The school is in alliance with APTECH Ltd, Oracle Corporation, Cisco, Microsoft and other leading vendors in IT.
Helios Towers, MultiLinks sign deal on managed network services
Nigerian foremost infrastructure sharing and managed services provider, Helios Towers Nigeria in collaboration with fixed wireless telephone operator, Multi-links Telkom have recently signed a fully managed network services contract in Lagos.
TD vows to crash computer prices in Liberia
TOP IT resellers, Technology Distributions Limited has pledged to empower a new generation of resellers in Liberia and bring down computer prices significantly in the country.
