As part of initiatives to fulfil it mandate, the National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA says over 100,000 jobs will be created in the country annually through Information Technology, IT outsourcing sector. The Director General of the agency, Dr. Ashiru Daura, made this known during the second National Outsourcing Conference held in Abuja.

Although the proposed industry structure based on Open Access model for Broadband Nigeria has been applauded for its strategic goals and objectives, Information technology experts who gathered last week in Lagos at the Nigerian Communications Commission, (NCC) industry stakeholder’s forum on Broadband Nigeria were still worried that issues around high cost and approval of right of way, long delay in approving permits, multiple taxation, multiple regulation, damage to infrastructure, lack of reliable, clean grid electricity supply among others need to be resolved urgently for full implementation.

World’s third largest PC manufacturers, Asustek, last week joined technical forces with Intel corporation to launch two Intel-powered devices comprising the Asus fonepad 7 and the Asus Transformer Book T100, saying the features suited the Nigerian market.

The Director General of National Centre for Women Development, NCWD, Onyeka Onwenu, has said women should be carried along in the scheme of things to ensure that the country benefits from their wealth of experience to promote national development.

A school and three teachers from Nigeria were nominated amongst the world’s best as part of Microsoft’s 2014 class of Mentor Schools and the Inaugural Class of Expert Educators this week.

Executive Vice Chairman, EVC, of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, Dr Eugene Juwah, last weekend sealed the hope of a possible bail out for the Code Division Multiple Access, CDMA, operators as he revealed that the Open Access Model, the commission was proposing to operators for broadband investment did not take them, (CDMA operators) into account.

The Lagos State Government has disclosed that arrangements have been concluded to relocate all computer dealers in Ikeja to Katangowa Internet City, in Oke Odo area of the state, in the first quarter of 2014

Zinox Technologies, says it is as anxious as Nigerian Communications Satellite, NigComSat Limited, to see that broadband services are extended to both the unserved and underserved areas of the country and therefore have consummated a deal to translate their desires into action.

BlackBerry has introduced the new BlackBerry® Z30 smartphone, BlackBerry’s biggest, fastest and most advanced smartphone so far into the Nigerian market. It features the BlackBerry® 10 OS version 10.2.

For phone dealers in the Nigerian Silicon Valley, the Computer Village, Ikeja, GSM village and other markets across the country, it may not be business as usual as the regulatory agencies including the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, the Nigerian Customs Service, NCS, and the phone and allied dealers association of Nigeria, have joined hands to sanitize telecoms market of unapproved telecom equipment.

With the fast growing interconnectivity across all human activities, it has been established that internet connections in Nigeria and other parts of the world has the potential of creating additional value to the economy valued at 14,4trillion dollar between 2013-2022.

From many government establishments like the Federal Inland Revenue Service, Ministry of Agriculture, to states like Lagos, Osun among many others, glowing stories have been shared on how simple implementation of tech solutions magically stamped out ghost workers, reduced spending, increased productivity and raised revenue generation within hours of introduction.

“Please enter your secret number” that’s what the Automated Teller Machine, ATM, tells you at first approach. You look left and right and above, cover the ATM with your body before typing in your pin. In your mind, your pin is between you and God alone… but is that always the case?. Same goes for your really expensive phone; it’s got a fool proof pin too. But with advances in technology come more advances in insecurity.

A young Nigerian computer science graduate, Oscar Ekponimo, is among those flying Nigeria’s flag here in Bangkok Thailand, hosts of this year’s International Telecommunications Union, ITU Telecom World Conference.

The International Telecommunications Union, ITU Telecom World 2013 opened in Bangkok, Thailand, yesterday with the First Lady of Nigeria, Dame patience Jonathan challenging internet users across the world to exhibit ethical online attributes capable of helping growing children and youths of the society to become better leaders of tomorrow.