Nigerians have been urged to seek for proper information before embarking on shopping for IT products to save them from being shortchanged by vendors of fake and adulterated products.

THE global village phenomenon is increasingly being actualised, thanks to the growing video technology and Cisco’s resolve to ensure that Africa does not take the back seat in the development.

The National Identity Management Commission, NIMC, last week demonstrated its proposed national identity number process at the Card, ATM and Mobile Payment exhibition, in Lagos. The step according to NIMC was to demonstrate and enlighten people on the enrolment process and what the commission would offer Nigerians.

Against the backdrop of Nigeria’s poor maternal health profile, the Catholic Medical Association of Nigeria, CMAN recently held its international scientific conference in Lagos, with the theme: Marshall Plan for Reducing Maternal Mortality in Nigeria”.

The Nigerian Software Lion has roared in an effort to occupy the international software space – this has come to pass. Engr. Chijioke Simeon Agu, a Fellow of the Nigeria Computer society and past president of the Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON) accomplished the feat before his dawn.

Even as Ukrainian Team, quadSquad took the top position, taking home US$25,000 price after a keenly contested competition in the software design category which was the top in the series of awards at the just concluded 10th annual Imagine Cup, the world’s premier student technology competition, held in Sydney, Australia, organizers of the competition, Microsoft, has urged the students to be their own boss after their graduation.

ON the heels of a successful NigComSat-1R launch last December and In Orbit Delivery (IOD) on March 19, 2012, Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited (NIGCOMSAT) has decided to boost the growing African broadband market with a deal that would see the deployment of iDirect universal satellite hub evolution platform .

TOP telco, Globacom Limited and the Ekiti State Government have concluded plans to launch a partnership which will create jobs for about 1,000 youths in the state.

Mr Silvin Sinan, the Head of Nokia Care Centre, Nokia West Africa, has advised mobile phone users in Nigeria to desist from purchasing substandard ones.

Research In Motion RIM has introduced two new smartphones, the BlackBerry Curve 9320 and BlackBerry Curve 9220 in Nigeria.

Research In Motion (RIM), maker of BlackBerry range of smart devices will participate in this year’s Middle East and Africa IDC IT Security Roadshow to be held in Lagos.

THIS year’s edition of the Microsoft Imagine Cup Competition — the football World Cup equivalent in software design — saw no fewer than 350,000 budding software experts from 75 countries worldwide gathering at the convention centre in Sydney, Australia to compete in different categories like software design, game design, IT challenge, Windows Azure challenge, Kinnect fun Labs challenge, Windows Azure challenge and Windows phone challenge, with health care solutions dominating entries.

To widen the reach of local and international players in the growing Nigerian market through safe, easy, affordable shopping and connective technology, Nigerian based online shop, Kasuwa.com has announced plans to invest on over 20,000 book titles across the board to its customers.

Building up to the Electronic Payment Providers Association of Nigeria, EPPAN organized ePayment for Government Summit in Abuja next week, Interswitch’s Director for Payment and Solutions, Mr Charles Ifedi, in this interview has tipped the summit as last stroke to break awareness barrier of the CBN cashless society initiative.

TOP national telco, Globacom has launched Season 3 of its promo, Glo “text4millions” aimed at rewarding loyal customers on its network.