There may be no end in sight to street trading in the Nigerian ICT markets despite ban by the Lagos State Ministry of Environment even as street urchins collect N300.00 daily from hawkers.

Indications has emerged that major stakeholders in the Nigeria broadband resources have sealed a deal with the umbrella body of the industry association, ATCON, to fashion out means of expanding the penetration and fine tuning the investment strategies.

The Chief Executive Officer of AAA Infotek Limited, Mr Akinbo Akinlabi has said that his company has developed a solution that would assist telecoms operators to optimize their services and reduce costs.

WELL, it’s really mind-boggling the magnitude of problems that we have to surmount if we are to be a competitive economy, and if Vision 20-2020 will not remain mere rhetoric.

Now that the bill seeking the creation of Information Technology Ministry has been approved by the National Assembly following the recent announcement by the presidency for the creation of the ministry, there appears to be jostling among core IT professionals over who becomes the new Minister of Information Technology.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 State Cooperative Societies have invested over N40 billion in various economic enterprises in Lagos State.

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.