Country Manager, Microsoft Nigeria, Emmanuel Onyeje has said with optimism that 9jApps contest would empower the next generation of Nigerian developers, by helping them drive innovation and grow the local software economy.

The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC has invoked a section of the Nigerian Communications Act, 2003, (Section 1 (h) ) which charges it to “ensure that the needs of the disabled and elderly persons are taken into consideration in the provision of communications services” .

Chairman of the local organizing committee, (LOC) for the 2013 Nigerian Computer Society, NCS, international conference, Professor Adesola Aderounmu has disclosed that e-government and national security will take centre stage.

Facebook fueled fresh talk Friday about its own mobile phone after the leading social network scheduled a press announcement for next week.

The Country Manager, Microsoft Nigeria, Emmanuel Onyeje has said with optimism that 9jApps contest challenge would empower the next generation of Nigerian developers, by helping them drive innovation and grow the local software economy.

The Minister of Communications Technology, Mrs. Jonson Omobola was in Lagos recently to unveil a job creation scheme ‘’Microwork for Job Creation-Naijacloud’’ that seeks to reduce unemployment and create wealth for Nigerian youths. The project with support from the STEP-B project of the Ministry of Education, according to the Minister would address the issues of employability and job creation using information technology. She also talks on a number of industry issues in Nigeria. Excerpts:

With the telecom sector regulator, Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC set to roll out the mobile number portability, MNP, the feeling in the industry is that the major operators who may be having network congestions due to too many customers may lose part of their revenue as some subscribers may likely opt out to smaller networks and still retain their original number.

The human brain is a computer, and software is a knowledge logic system. The Nigerian knowledge profession and industry is grossly underestimated — due to technophobia mindset — generated by external influences! Indeed, it is the factory and wealth ecosystem in our heads. The Nigeria knowledge industry is worth perhaps ten times (1000%) more than the oil and gas sector. All these can be classified as “Knowledge Software.”

TELECOMMUNICATIONS companies operating in Nigeria will breathe easier forthwith as industry regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission, has decided to lower interconnect rates among service providers, which it said would deepen competition in the market among the operators.

As he flags off 2013 edition of the Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria, ISPON, national software conference slated to hold in Tinapa knowledge city, the Governor of Cross River State, Senator Liyel Imoke will host the United Nation Chairman on e-Learning, Prof. Tapio Varis.

Minister of Science and Technology, Professor Ita Okon Bassey Ewa has challenged Nigerian Scientists to come up with recommendations that will drive the real sectors of the Nigerian economy and fast- tract the transformation agenda of the present administration.

Ahead of the official commencement of the much-anticipated Mobile Number Portability (MNP) service, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has listed roles expected of stakeholders, particularly telecoms subscribers towards making the scheme successful.

The global software giant, Microsoft has announced the availability of Office 2013 in Nigeria, the next iteration of the company’s flagship Office product line for consumers.

Imagine a world where a user can tell his phone, “Í am going into the bath, please in ten minutes get me a cab ready because I am going out on an important meeting” and alas in ten minutes, a driver less cab is waiting at the door.

At the just concluded “Microsoft Run your Enterprise” event, big data, the latest emerging trend in the IT space took center stage.