The Senate took a swipe at practitioners in the nation’s information and Communications Technology , ICT sector , over alleged non utilization of their expertise in the ongoing fight against the Boko Haram insurgence in the country.

Considering that infrastructural deficiency accounts for why technology has not optimally fast tracked Services and developments in governance, health, education and agricultural sectors among others, Minister of Communications Technology, Mrs Omobola Johnson has declared that the policies her commission and the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC had put in place for broadband acceleration, are spot on.

The Lagos State Government (LASG), in collaboration with Oracle Corporation, at the weekend, flagged off three Information Technology, IT Human Capacity talent building programmes expected to further promote the state’s objectives to deliver more effective services to the citizens.

Delivering its key mandate of infrastructure development, inclusive development, local content and Information Technology, IT in government, the Federal Ministry of Communications Technology, (FMCT) since inception has been able to chart an increase in the contribution of IT sector to the national Gross Domestic Product, GDP, by unleashing ICT in governance.

Public and private concerns in the country are putting heads together to ensure that the Cashless Nigeria initiative championed by the Central Bank of Nigeria works. Every corporate entity, particularly in the financial and ICT sector are using means available to them to drive the adoption.

Necessityis the mother of invention”, so the saying goes. The expediency and truism in this age-long witty saying came into full meaning a fortnight ago when MTN Nigeria in collaboration with Nova Lumos, GSMA and Schneider Electric addressed a press conference on the MTN Mobile Electricity, an affordable solar electricity solution that can power light bulbs, cellphones, fans, PCs or laptops, radios and other small electronic devices, all at once, every day.

It is often said that where one person’s right stops is where another person’s begins. This truth rings true in the digital world more than anywhere else. If an app is legally created to distribute music for free, how do you protect the talent’s copyright? How do you confirm information already dancing around the internet when you do not have direct access to sources? And if you’re simply a search engine like Google, what right do you have to ignore links to information on the web?

At the just concluded World Economic Forum held in Abuja, Nigeria, Charles Ding, Huawei global Vice President has said with optimism that mass deployment of fourth generation (4G) mobile broadband can help bring more Africans online, grow her Gross Domestic Product, (GDP) and job creation.

The role Information and Communications Technology plays in the stability of world economies resonated again recently in Nigeria.

To enable farmers access fertilizers and other farming subsidies, point of sale terminals are to be deployed as additional redemption channel by government under the Growth Enhancement Support (GES) scheme.

It was almost a Nigerian affair, with the green white green flag controlling the airwaves at the Michelangelo Hotels, Johannesburg, South Africa, where frontline card and payment transaction promoters, Intermarc consulting recently hosted the world in Award dinner and ceremony tagged Card and ePayment Africa Awards.

Boko Haram and other related security issues are just because we are not applying relevant technology equipment to solve problems in the country.

Over time, there has been serious case over the dearth of infrastructure in Nigeria and operators have harped on it as subterfuge to poor services and poor return on investments.

The Lagos State Government (LASG), in collaboration with Oracle Corporation at the weekend, flagged off three IT Human Capacity talent building programmes expected to further promote the state’s objectives to deliver more effective services to the citizens.

One of the world leaders in mobile communications, BlackBerry Limited has announced that it would enable mobile device management (MDM) companies to directly manage devices with the BlackBerry 10 operating system.