Mobile messaging apps, no doubt, are growing ever more popular – with added social networking features – competing to meet the growing demand for free mobile calling and SMS texting services, across the globe, especially in Nigeria and the rest of the African continent as a result of market demand.

Within just two weeks, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC has scooped two top awards in two separate regions, for flawless regulatory practices. The first was at the Africa Information Technology and Telecom Awards in Ghana when the Regulator clinched the 2016 “Africa Telecom Regulator of the Year Award”

THE 2016 IT professionals Assembly of the Computer Professionals Registration Council of Nigeria, CPN held in Abuja, was another venue for IT practitioners in Nigeria to stoutly claim that local talents may never get appreciated until both public and private sector reduced dependency of foreign products.

THE result of the Economist unit report on Africa’s renewable energy goals, sponsored by mobile telecommunications Infrastructure Company, IHS Towers, has asked the continent to back down its high horse of ambitious energy targets and make some reasonable investments. Meanwhile, the report also admitted that Africa has the potentials to deliver a renewable power revolution that can replicate the wonderful growth being experienced in the telecommunications sector.

LEADERS of the Association of Licensed Telecom Operators of Nigeria, ALTON last week paid a courtesy visit to the Minister of Communications Technology, Barr. Adebayo Shittu, handing over to him, a six point demand, which they said would ease the operations of telecommunications companies in the country.