Necessityis the mother of invention”, so the saying goes. The expediency and truism in this age-long witty saying came into full meaning a fortnight ago when MTN Nigeria in collaboration with Nova Lumos, GSMA and Schneider Electric addressed a press conference on the MTN Mobile Electricity, an affordable solar electricity solution that can power light bulbs, cellphones, fans, PCs or laptops, radios and other small electronic devices, all at once, every day.

It is often said that where one person’s right stops is where another person’s begins. This truth rings true in the digital world more than anywhere else. If an app is legally created to distribute music for free, how do you protect the talent’s copyright? How do you confirm information already dancing around the internet when you do not have direct access to sources? And if you’re simply a search engine like Google, what right do you have to ignore links to information on the web?

At the just concluded World Economic Forum held in Abuja, Nigeria, Charles Ding, Huawei global Vice President has said with optimism that mass deployment of fourth generation (4G) mobile broadband can help bring more Africans online, grow her Gross Domestic Product, (GDP) and job creation.

The role Information and Communications Technology plays in the stability of world economies resonated again recently in Nigeria.

To enable farmers access fertilizers and other farming subsidies, point of sale terminals are to be deployed as additional redemption channel by government under the Growth Enhancement Support (GES) scheme.

It was almost a Nigerian affair, with the green white green flag controlling the airwaves at the Michelangelo Hotels, Johannesburg, South Africa, where frontline card and payment transaction promoters, Intermarc consulting recently hosted the world in Award dinner and ceremony tagged Card and ePayment Africa Awards.

Boko Haram and other related security issues are just because we are not applying relevant technology equipment to solve problems in the country.

Over time, there has been serious case over the dearth of infrastructure in Nigeria and operators have harped on it as subterfuge to poor services and poor return on investments.

The Lagos State Government (LASG), in collaboration with Oracle Corporation at the weekend, flagged off three IT Human Capacity talent building programmes expected to further promote the state’s objectives to deliver more effective services to the citizens.

One of the world leaders in mobile communications, BlackBerry Limited has announced that it would enable mobile device management (MDM) companies to directly manage devices with the BlackBerry 10 operating system.