Twelve years after liberalisation, the telecommunications sector in Nigeria has transformed into a money spinner and arguably one of the country’s known economy boosters .
The mobile segment being the most active and fastest, has also shot the country into limelight among world’s most prospective technology economies.

FEMI Owolabi is managing director/chief executive officer of Fembosco Engineering Ltd, a firm that specialises in electrical controls and technical products, with head offices in Lagos. After cutting his teeth at SCOA Nig Plc where he rose to become a department head, he left the transnational in 2003 and opened his own business, Fembosco.

Just recently, Computer Warehouse Group (CWG) PLC, the leading Information and Communications Technology Company in Africa,sponsored and hosted a Columbia Business School (CBS) MBA Information Session. The information session,which was held at the CWG Academy center in Lekki Phase 1, Lagos, was attended by over 50 potential MBA students and provided participants information on the CBS MBA program, students’ experience, university resources, application criteria, and global alumni network from whichMBA students at CBS benefit.

The Lagos State Government, through the Urban Furniture Regulatory Unit, UFRU, has commenced enforcement on the compliance with the regularization of masts/base stations in the state.
The regularization made it mandatory for all owners of communication masts to dismantle and discontinue with the use of hollow pipe types of mast which was considered, according to international standard, as unsafe to public safety.

If there’s any country that has experienced the digital revolution in its entirety, it is Nigeria. The GSM boom from 2001 changed the face of technology. But it didn’t end there; it birthed a new culture for the Nigerian people, creating funny habits, language and traditions. Perhaps it might be imperative to give insight on some of them:

The Chief Executive of one of Nigeria’s frontline IT training Institutions, New Horizons, Mr Tim Akano, at the weekend set up a 7 point agenda for president Goodluck Jonathan to lift Nigeria’s economy using the powers of technology.

Although mulch-nationals companies co-exist in the country to ensure that the industry works to the best international standards, the Minister communications Technology, Mrs. Omobola Johnson, has challenged indigenous companies to set aspirational standards for their products and services in order to remain competitive.

The Newly elected President and Chairman in-Council of the Nigerian Society of Engineers, Engr. Ademola Olorunfemi has described technology as the fastest way to create wealth, saying it remains the shortest route through which Nigeria would create wealth and attain greatness.
Olorunfemi stated this during his inauguration as the 29th President of the society in Abuja.

As an intervention measures to further help Small and Medium Scale Enterprises, SMEs push their products and service to their customers, Mobiz, has introduced a mobile website.
The Co-founder of the of the online portal , Mr deepankar rustagi while explaining features of the portal said that mobile site is fully optimized for all features and smart phones.

With Phantom A111 being the first TECNO android phone to come with preinstalled blackberry messenger (BBM), the smart phone maker has further deepened smartphone penetration and market share expansion in Nigeria and the rest of the African sub-region in the mobile phone ecosystem.