The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, Prof Umar Garba Danbatta, has revealed that telecom operators in the country were calling for tariff hike.

Barely one week after President Buhari took a swipe at the level government Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs spend money on foreign ICT procurements, the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), has swung into action, by blocking all duplicative procurements in all MDAs.

Director General of Delta State Innovation Hub and former President Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria, ISPON, Mr. Chris Uwaje was a guest lecturer at the sixth annual dinner/fund raising party of the Government College, Ughelli Old Boys Association, GCUOBA, recently.

Shell and bio-bean are helping to power some of London’s buses using a biofuel made partly from waste coffee grounds, a development that has triggered renewed challenge to Nigerian beneficiaries of Shell’s LiveWIRE programme to join in the innovative search for bright energy ideas.

There are indications that the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC and its counterpart in the banking sector, the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, are querying the decision of the Backlays Africa, to sell 9mobile without advertising “expression of interest”.