By Friday, July 22, 2015, members of the Nigerian Computer Society, NCS, will head to the polls in Akure, Ondo State during the international conference to elect the IT icon that will steer the ship of the society for the next two years. Whoever wins would become President of the umbrella organization of all Information Technology Professionals, Interest Groups and Stakeholders in Nigeria.

In a bid to enhance connectivity options for its corporate customers, telecommunications service provider, Airtel Nigeria, has launched a secure Multiprotocol Label Switching, MPLS, network.

“We are happy to officially welcome Technology Distributions into our Business Partner Programme. Our delight further stems from TD’s status as one of the biggest and most structured ICT distributors in Nigeria and the West African region as a whole. In view of our desire to make further in-roads into Sub-Saharan Africa, we are confident that this partnership with TD will undoubtedly accelerate the rate of access to the wide range of innovative solutions that EMC is known for world-wide.”

Ever since MTN Nigeria began its annual Corporate Social Responsibility programme, Y’ello 21 days of care in 2007, the company’s helping hands have been extended to improving the health sector, preserving the environment, helping the less privileged, and a host of other activities. For MTN Nigeria however, almost no other sector has received as much attention from this programme as the education sector. It was not a surprise therefore, that when the 2015 edition was launched at the MTN golden plaza in Lagos on Monday, the focus was again on education.

The former President hit the ground running with the creation of the Ministry of Communications Technology in 2011, to foster a knowledge based economy and information society in Nigeria. Other areas of the ministry were to facilitate universal, ubiquitous and cost effective access to communications infrastructure throughout the country.

Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced that Windows 10 will be available July 29, 2015 in 190 countries.

African business leaders including thirty Chief Executive Officers from Nigeria will gather in Abuja next week for the 2015 Chief Executive Officer’s round table organized by the Africa ICT Alliance, (AfICTA) with the theme “Mobilizing African Business Leaders for the future of the Internet”

Although the next big generation of mobile networking, known as 5G, is not expected to be commercially available until 2020, Ericsson has already demonstrated its technology feat with the recent live 5G test networks in Sweden and the United States of America, saying that it would boost the future of wireless technology.
Accordingly, Ericsson’s latest 5G technology breakthrough provides a way to deliver drop-free, higher capacity mobile connections for both people and things, while making the most of available spectrum.

ASUS Chairman also stated that “the ASUS Transformer Book Chi is the ultimate dream machine that wraps mobility, entertainment and productivity all into one beautiful device.” Also speaking at the launch was Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Client Computing Group, Mr. Kirk Skaugen. Skaugen, whose company has been in partnership with ASUS for years said: “We appreciate the support of our longtime friend and strategic partner Intel on this journey in search of incredible.”

Known widely as the oracle of the Nigerian Information and Communication Technology, ICT sector, immediate past President of the Indigenous Software Practitioners of Nigeria, ISPON, Mr. Chris Uwaje has never been afraid of setting high targets for himself. His ideas of technology implementation in a society, particularly in Nigeria, at first, sound utopian. They hardly simmer down well to the ordinary mind. But at the end his blue prints become the pillar of sustainable national strategy.