Global leader in integrated critical power and cooling services, APC by Schneider Electric, has launched Galaxy 300 uninterruptible power supply (UPS) system into the global IT market.

With the global paradigm shift to green IT, one of the leading telecommunications operator, Airtel Nigeria has set the foundation for a better and cleaner environment with the signing of a historical agreement with Ericsson to upgrade 250 diesel powered stations across the country.

Recently, the working group of Nigeria Communications Commission, NCC and Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN convened a stakeholders forum to fine-tune the planned implementation of mobile money in the nation’s economy where the President of Medallion Technologies, Mr. Ike Nnamani was a guest speaker. In this interview, he shed light on the workability, benefits and the potentials of the policy. Excerpts:

To avert network congestion, Nigerian government is said to be pushing for additional spectrum on the 700MHz that would enable the telecom operators in the country provide efficient services as well as deploy less base stations across the country.

A certain tall building at the centre of Herbert Macauley road, Yaba Lagos, does not have any meaningful difference from other buildings around the area, until one gets inside. It doesn’t even have the aesthetic features of modern buildings dotting the Lagos metropolis, but the topmost floor of the building holds the future for the country and to some extent the entire world.

Despite the vast number of certified professionals in aspect of Information Technology services in the country, the President of the Nigerian Computer Society, (NCS), Mr. Demola Aladekomo has said that Nigeria is still largely a consumer nation in the IT world.

At the end of the just concluded Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria, (ISPON) national software conference and competition held in Tinapa, Calabar, Cross River State, participants rose up from the conference saying among other things that there was need to retool the national workforce with ICT with particular reference to civil service operations by making all workers ICT literate and skilled.

The Director for the Central and North East African region of APC by Schneider Electric, Jonathan Duncan has said that data centre is critical for improved energy efficiency.

Networking company, Cisco technologies last week introduced Cisco CloudVersek, and Cloud applications into the Nigerian market.

The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, is making plans to specially recognize one of Nigeria’s best and most innovative telecommunication company, Etisalat, with a letter of recommendation and a plaque of recognition from the commission in 2012.

Nigeria, at exactly 5.40 pm, Monday, went up into the space again. This followed a successful launch into the orbit of Nigeria’s replacement communications satellite, NigComSat -1R.

Despite the vast number of certified professionals in almost every aspect of Information Technology services in the country, the President of the Nigerian Computer Society, (NCS), Mr. Demola Aladekomo has that Nigeria is seen and is still largely a consumer nation in the IT world.

This is an appeal to our private sector to have a rethink and patronise local software, it is the only real way to grow local expertise in ICT. Even if our governments set up countless technology incubation centres that churn out ICT products and patents by the thousands, if there is no market for them, the effort would have been wasted. Let’s think, talk, walk, and work Nigerian, all the time.

Frontline computer and back end company, International Business Machines, IBM, believes that organizations that embrace the concept of smarter computing and are approaching computing in a different way, are likely to build and enhance easily, the infrastructure they already have.

At the end of the just concluded Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria, (ISPON) national software conference and competition held in Tinapa, Calabar, Cross River State, participants rose up from the conference saying that there was need to retool the national workforce with ICT with particular reference to Civil Service operations by making all workers ICT literate and skilled.