WHILE calling on African countries including Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania to urgently release harmonized spectrum for mobile broadband for the economic and social development of the region, the Director of Spectrum Policy, Africa and Middle East of GSMA, Peter Lyons has projected that more spectrum is …

EFFORTS to fight electronic fraud in the banking sector of the Nigerian economy may not have yielded the expected result as the United Bank for Africa, (UBA) has again warned customers to ignore fraudulent text messages purporting to originate from their bank notifying customers of failed transfers into their accounts.

FOR Etisalat Nigeria, it seems the best way to stay on top of the game is to address special problems with special solutions. This could be seen in the number of whackie products and marketing campaigns it has introduced in recent times, knowing that communications in this 21st century is actually going whackie.

One of the Telecoms Operators in Nigeria, Airtel Networks Limited has disclosed that it has invested over $600m in the past one year to expand the network while enhancing the robustness of its network in pursuit of world class quality of service (QoS).

In a deft move to enrich the mobile ecosystem, Nokia mobile devices has gone into partnership with Sponge, a digital marketing agency to market mobile solutions to commercial brands in Nigeria.

LAST week, a 17 year old secondary school student, Master Nnaechebe Ozuluoha became a millionaire. He won N10 million in the Mega Reward Promo floated by top mobile operator, MTN Nigeria.

If resolutions at a three day conference preceding the launch of Nigeria’s replacement satellite, NigComSat-1R, are anything to go by, Nigeria is gearing up for massive transformation, any moment from December 19, 2011.

Again, the global software giant, Microsoft has raised alarm saying that economic growth in Nigeria will continue to be thwarted by software piracy unless the ugly trend is fought with relentless efforts by relevant authorities.

Contrary to opinion from some quarters that Nigeria is not yet ripe for a cashless society which the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, is proposing to kick off next year, stakeholders in the e-payment ecosystem of the financial sector have thrown their weight behind the policy.

Nkemdilim Uwaje is the Managing Director/ CEO of Future Software Resources Limited and a Board member of the Global Youth Summit Award. After the just concluded WSYA held at Graz Austria, she told IT Journalists that Nigeria may not achieve Millennium Development Goals, (MDGs) unless the youths were engaged in software incubation. Excerpt:

Since the debut of the Global System for Mobile communications, GSM in Nigeria, one of its major equipment, the Base Transmission Service, BTS, has come to represent different things to different people.

The Nigerian local personal computer (PC) assemblers are expected to benefit from IT intervention from currently being pushed by the Nigerian Computer Society, (NCS).

Nokia Siemens Networks has announced its strategy to focus on mobile broadband and services and the launch of an extensive global restructuring program.

The GSMA, representing the interests of mobile operators worldwide at the ongoing African Telecommunication Union ( ATU) Digital Migration and Spectrum Policy Summit in Kenya Naiobi has called on African countries including Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania to urgently release harmonised spectrum for mobile broadband, saying that it was vital for the economic and social development of sub-Saharan Africa.

Starcomms Plc, one of the leading Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) operators in the Nigerian telecommunications industry has debunked allegation that it has opened discussion with another operator on the possibility of being acquired.