On Tuesday August 2nd, 2011, the name Desiree Chidera Nwadike was announced in far away San Diego, as one of the top four finalists to have excelled at the 2011 Certiport Worldwide Competition that attracted about 228,000 participants from 57 countries who competed to demonstrate their mastery of Microsoft Office products.

Nigeria’s quest to become part of knowledge society is attracting global attention as the immediate past president of the Nigeria Internet Group (NIG) and Chief Executive Officer of PiNet Informatics, Mr. Lanre Ajayi, has been nominated into the Generic Names Supporting Organisation (GNSO) council of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

The National Software Policy Review Committee, (NSPC) will this week submit the draft copy of the National Software Policy to the National Information Technology Development Agency, (NITDA) for review by the governing board of the regulatory authority, Chairman of the National Software Policy Committee, (NSPC) Professor Wole Akinyokun has said.

The importance of Information and Communications Technology, ICT, to the national development has once again been reiterated.

The Chief Executive Officer of AAA Infotek Limited, Mr Akinbo Akinlabi has attributed the inability of the country to develop and manufacture telecoms infrastructure components both in the mobile stations, access, transmission and core networks to lack of financial encouragement and enabling environment.

In a bid to provide customers discounts on epayment services, eTranzact International Plc has partnered with Bookhotelabroad.com, a leading provider of hotel accommodation and services worldwide to offer discounts on reservation services locally and globally.

It is now stale news that the city of London, and other parts of the United Kingdom erupted in riots earlier this month. Those who have been following the event by now have an idea of what may have been the immediate and remote causes of the disturbances.

Minister of Communications and Technology, Mrs. Omobola Johnson, yesterday, itemized the agencies that would constitute the new Communication and Technology Ministry.

Chairman of the Association of Licensed Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ALTON), Engr. Gbenga Adebayo, last week repeated calls that the federal government should make the vandalisation of telecom infrastructure a capital offence to deter vandals from frustrating the efforts of telecom operators in Nigeria.

Second National Operator, Globacom and Microfone Telecoms, a subsidiary of the Nigerian Capital Development Fund (NCDF), have initiated a partnership that will see 50,000 lines supplied to rural areas across Nigeria.

One of the global leaders in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies, Samsung Electronics will today in Nigeria launch Samsung SmartTV range, a new line of full HD 3D televisions, integrated with the internet and Web 2. 0.

Top telecommunications service provider, Airtel Nigeria and mobile phone giant, Nokia have sealed a deal to introduce the first ever Nokia dual SIM device, the X1-01, bundled exclusively with Airtel SIM cards for the Nigerian market.

Ten years is gone since Global System for Mobile communications, GSM debuted in the country. The celebrations, last week also depicted the the warm welcome the technology received at berth and goes ahead to show what impression it had made in the lives of Nigerian people in these past decade.

Without a top down ICT strategies from the Federal to the State and local government levels, with executable implementation plan and projects tied to measurable outcomes; the digital Nigeria agenda would be far fetched, participants at the just concluded National Information Technology Public and Private Forum (NITPPF), held in Edo State, have declared

Mr Deji Sasegbon, SAN, is Chairman/Editor-in-chief of dsc Publishers Limited. A law alumnus of the University of Ife, later Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), he took the silk in 2004, becoming a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN).