One of Africa’s provider of ICT solutions, Resourcery Plc, has appointed Mr. Tayo Amusan as its new chairman. Mr. Amusan has been on the Board of Directors of Resourcery Plc since 2009, and was presented to the company’s shareholders at its recent annual general meeting.

As more bombings go on nationwide, and in the aftermath of last week’s suicide bombing of the Nigeria Police Force headquarter in Abuja, the Executive Chairman, Technology Development Company Limited, Dr. Emmanuel Ekuwem has said non-adoption of advanced technologies that would enhance effective security surveillance, monitoring and policing across the nation, among others is part of the reason for the growing acts of insecurity in Nigeria.

In an apparent move to confront all forms of security threats in the nations’ economy, Lagos based IT training institute, New Horizons in collaboration with a United States based EC-Council are working in concert to host a one-day Information Technology (IT) security and electronic commerce seminar in Nigeria.

Global networking giant, CISCO network, has predicted that the number of network-connected devices in the world will be more than 15 billion, twice the world’s population, by 2015. In its fifth annual Visual Networking Index, VNI Forecast for 2010-2015 , released recently, the company also said that the total amount of global internet traffic will quadruple by 2015 and reach 966 exabytes per year.

Etisalat Nigeria last week in Lagos announced the launch of a SIM registration promotion tagged 9ja Free Credit Promo specifically designed to reward new and existing customers who register or have registered their SIMs with 30% bonus credit to call any network in Nigeria . The promo which began June 1 offers subscribers on the Etisalat network the opportunity to benefi, regardless of their subscription plan.

As part of its Celebration of Service, designed to allow employees, retirees, clients and business partners, to donate their time and expertise during the company’s Centennial year, IBM last week in Lagos announced that, 300,000 IBMers around the world,

In line with the organizational vision of establishing its footprint in the African market, Kimberly Ryan Group, announced the expansion of its business operations to Sierra Leone.

One distinguishing feature of the last elections is the use of IT in INEC’s operations, though it was limited to voter’s registration, where the focal point was the capture of voters’data, including biometrics

In an apparent move to bring mobile phone users together with genuine dealers, an event management and promotion firm, Phonetopia in partnership with Eko Fm Station is set to provide an avenue for customers to get the best phones and services at best prices from authorized retailers.

As you read this,scores of traders and computer part dealers in the nation’s largest ICT market; the computer village in Ikeja, Lagos are still thanking their lucky stars

Business activities at the Computer/GSM section of the Nigerian Army Shopping Arena otherwise, known as Oshodi Computer market, is yet to fully pick up after more than two years of its establishment.

While the shift to new media intensifies daily worldwide, Microsoft Nigeria in partnership with KarRox Technologies recently in Lagos trained journalists on IT skills using Microsoft technologies to master the challenge of multimedia journalism.

As over 200 scramble to meet requirements for registration as IT professionals ahead of the IT professionals assembly in two weeks time, it may not be business as usual again for quacks practising in the industry.

Traders at the popular Ikeja Computer/GSM market, Lagos are calling on law enforcement agents to come to their aid as the activities of touts in the market are getting out of hand.

Stakeholders in the Nigeria IT industry last week renewed their call on federal government to establish a national policy on software development to enable the country tap into the $40 billion global software market.