The National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA says it has spend approximately N900 million in capacity building and training of young IT professionals on postgraduate scholarship scheme.

Minister of Communications Technology, Mrs Omobola Johnson, yesterday dropped the hint that government may not give out spectrum for free to operators interested in broadband roll out.

For Nigeria top reap the full benefits of telecommunications in the digital economy, issues relating to quality of GSM services, customers care must be given priority attention, participants at the just concluded NigeriaCom conference and exhibition have said.

A team of engineers at the University of Ilorin has produced a prototype biometric machine that will adequately recognise physical features of black people, the team leader, Prof. Tunji Ibiyemi said.

THOUGH countries of the ECOWAS sub-region are working on a common format of migration to digital broadcasting, peoples in many African countries are aware of the digital migration and what it entails, unlike the Nigerian public which largely is still ignorant of the development, save a few informed individuals.

The newly introduced electronic cash distribution system by world’s number one brand in retail foreign exchange, Travelex is already becoming the toast of registered operators of Bureau De Change (BDC) business in the country.

About 225 delegates from other Commonwealth nations will converge in Abuja for the 2013 Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation, CTO Forum to brainstorm on broadband and innovations in technology.

There are strong indications that the Nigerian broadband market will receive fresh boast as one of the leading wireless broadband providers in the country, ipNX Nigeria Limited has disclosed that it will be deploying a Fibre to the Home (FTTH) network covering three major commercial cities in Nigeria including Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt.

Smarting from the opening of a multi billion naira technology gadgets factory in Osun state Nigeria, Chairman of rlg communications, Mr Roland Aganbire last week in Lagos grabbed the Nigerian telecom awards’ African Personality of the year.

While the Nigerian IT sector has continued to be the toast of international vendors, the International Business Machine (IBM) president and CEO, Ms Ginni Rometty during her recent working visit to the country has disclosed the company intentions for ICT development and support in Africa especially Nigeria.

Four Interswitch clients emerged winners in their categories at the Central Bank of Nigeria Payment System Awards, held in Abuja last week. All four have been recognized by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, for adopting an end-to-end ePayment solution to run their businesses. Cross River State won in the State Category as the best […]

While endorsing the National Software Conference and Competition organized by the Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON), in partnership with the Government of Cross River State, the United Nations has plugged the the low hanging technology fruits in the Nigerian national software development Initiatives.

Frontline Nigerian data and document management company, Petrodata management service Limited, last week, said that the latest versions of electronic document management system applications from its Netherland based partners, ASSAI can streamline operations for Nigeria’s oil and gas, construction, engineering and other sectors.

Bharti Airtel (“Airtel”), a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa, has announced the launch of its Africa Connect network aimed at enhancing Africa’s connectivity with the rest of the world and add to the data carriage capacity in the Continent.

Sponsored by Google Nigeria and supported by the Lagos State Innovating Council, Mobile Monday Nigeria will tomorrow (Monday) in Lagos gather Information Communications experts to discuss the economic impact of internet in the Nigerian market.