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.

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

FOREMOST Code Division Multiple Access, CDMA, operator in the country, Multilinks, which went under a few months back has returned into the market with a call to the federal government to provide urgent bail out options for the CDMA operators in the country to forestall their extinction.

ONE of the Technological puzzles facing Nigeria at the moment, is to see how financial transactions can be less dependent on cash but more on electronics and cards. Anywhere in the world, that is known as cashless economy.

The opportunity of a visit to the Communications Technology Minister, Mrs Omobola Johnson, last week, gave the Second National Operator, Globacom the medium to express the anomalies it believed have been bringing the progress of the ICT industry down.