Kofi Anan, former Secretary-General of the United Nations, defined the information society as that through which “human capacity is expanded, built up, nourished and liberated, by giving people access to the tools and technologies they need, with the education and training to use them effectively.”

There has been excitement in the air as the Nigerian IT community awaits the launch of e-Knowledge – Time is Running book, a compendium of the writings of Christopher Maduabunachukwu Uwaje _ popularly known as the Nigeria IT Oracle.

Nigeria’s first national telecommunications carrier, NITEL is synonymous with stalemate. From the first attempt at selling the national carrier when it became obvious that continuing allowing government to manage the success of the institution would mean extension of the rape of its economy, there has never been a sweet story.

It was a spectacular showing inside the premises of EPIC Atlantic Limited, Trans Amadi Industrial Layout, Port Harcourt last week, when a man named Miracle, who had miraculously emerged winner in the ongoing Glo BID2WIN promo appeared to receive his prize, a brand new Kia Rio.

Apparently getting seriously tired of a convergence that exists only in the lips of government, of all the agencies in the communications sector of the Nigerian economy, Director General of the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, Engr Yomi Bolarinwa wants a quick streamlining of the roles of the Nigerian Communications Commission , NCC and that of NBC, with a view to conforming with the new convergence framework