Aptech bridges digital skills gap @national convocation of tech professionals in Lagos
UN Scribe gives Imagine Cup students assignment on MDGs
Nigerian team loses out in Imagine Cup 2011
8 countries fly African flags at Imagine Cup 2011
Alcatel-Lucent introduces new chip for greener internet
Kristal Stone set for Mobile phone fair
Rain forces businesses to halt at Computer Village
Hawkers pay N300 daily to area boys
NCC, Mainone, google for Broadband summit
Challenges for ICT-driven education
Jostling begins over govt’s plans for IT ministry

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NITPPF lists strategies for digital Nigeria
To achieve digital inclusion in the 21st century knowledge economy, stakeholders from public and private sectors of the Nigerian economy at the end of the just concluded National Information Technology Public and Private Forum (NITPPF), held in Edo State, outlined strategies for a digital Nigeria.
MTN ends 21 days of Y’ello care
Telecom giant MTN Nigeria has ended it’s twenty one days of giving and sharing within host communities scattered across the nation at a lavish ceremony held recently at the company’s headquarters in Lagos.
Mobile money operators’ll need interconnect license – JUWAH
In a few weeks time, the Nigerian ICT landscape would roar again just like it happened in August 2001. This time around, it would definitely not be the licensing of new GSM operators but the gradual flag off of mobile money in Nigeria.
Symantec signs MoU with ITU on safer cyberspace
For the love of securing internet users across the world, Symantec says it has signed a Memorandum of Association, MoU with the International Telecommunications Union, ITU, to use its security intelligence, in the form of its quarterly Internet Security Threat Reports, to increase understanding of cyber security risks.
BCC introduces Xanno mobile tablet computer
The Business and Computer Consultancy Ltd, a UK based company, has announced the introduction of Xanno XS7 next generation mobile tablet computer solution to help businesses make money.
CPN reads riot act to IT Professioals with regulatory instruments
By the time two regulatory instruments including Scale of Professional Charges for Information Technology Services and control and supervision regulations 2010 for IT practice were presented and approved by the Nigerian IT professionals at the just Computer Processionals Registration Council of Nigeria IT Assembly, it was obvious that it may not be business as usual again for quacks who engage in IT services and practices.
What is cloud computing?
When Bill Gates founded Microsoft 30 years ago, he began with the lofty goal: to put a computer on every desk, in every home. This vision may have been a fantasy to most people at the time, when you couldn’t even buy a PC at the store, and yet today, 1.2 billion people are using PCs with the Microsoft Windows operating system around the world.
Nokia outline support programme for local App developers
Nokia Head of Solutions Sales, Mr. Praveen Shetty has disclosed that Nokia is committed to supporting local developers in building innovative applications on its proprietary platform – the Ovi store.
Lagos cooperative societies invest N40bn in economy
Lagos State Cooperative Societies have invested over N40 billion in various economic enterprises in Lagos State.
AMCON’s Chike-Obi to address ICC Nigeria
Managing Director/Chief Executive, Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCOM), Mr. Mustapha Chike-Obi will deliver a keynote speech at the 12th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of International Chamber of Commerce Nigeria will hold holding Wednesday this week in Lagos.
Airtel offers choice to customers with MAMO
Since Zain became Airtel in November 2010, the new company has introduced many customer related promotions and innovations. At the heart of these campaigns is perhaps it belief that the only way to grow customer base is to entrench the company in the heart of the customers.
ISPON: Let’s retool local software for job creation
As the market for indigenous software shrinks in the face of lack of government support, participants at the just concluded Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria, (ISPON) roundtable rose
Make vandalisation of telecom facilities capital offence – Adebayo
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.
NITEX 2011: Local OEMs worry over dominance of foreign computers
By the time the just concluded Nigerian Information Technology Exhibition, (NITEX) was drawing to a close last week in Lagos, there were worries among local computer assemblers following growing dominance by foreign PCs brands in the market
Rain forces businesses to halt at Computer Village
The heavy rains that has been witnessed in the past few weeks have forced business inside the nation’s largest ICT market; the Computer Village to grind literally to a halt.

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