Over one hundred broadcasting experts and ICT leaders across Africa including Nigeria with the representation of the regulatory authority, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, are currently in Johannesburg, South Africa, deliberating on the progress made in the switch over from analogue to digital broadcasting in Africa.

WHILE reaffirming a bid to sustain growth in the nation’s telecoms industry via a six-point agenda in the next five years, it will not be business as usual as the industry regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, served notice that it would enforce compliance with, and strictly enforce extant regulations and directives.

About 11 indigent Nigerians who benefitted from MTN intervention scheme were last week presented to the public by MTN Foundation.

Considering that anywhere in the world where mobile banking or mobile money is to be launched, the major headache is always how to get all the users key into a compatible mobile phone to carry it on, Nigeria may also break another ground in mobile money when it is finally launched here.

Effectiveness and Cost Advantage of IP Surveillance SolutionsNetworked IP camera systems have cost advantages, as the required wiring is less expensive. Especially the fact that IP networks can be used for purposes of other data transmission, such as email, file transfers etc.

Media based Non governmental Organisation, the Joint Action Committee for ICT Development and Awareness (JACITAD) last week paid a condolence visit to the management and staff of Focus Television, to commiserated with them on the fire disaster that razed down its office facilities located at Lateef Jakande Road, Ikeja.

There is likely going to be a quake in the Nigerian mobile phone market very soon, as an Indian mobile phone manufacturer plans to storm the market, threatening to shake the foundations of the existing brands in the market today.

In keeping faith to the new Central bank policy of revamping the nation’s security printing system, Superflux International limited last week commissioned a new ultra-modern factory in its headquarters, Ikeja, Lagos.

For local software providers to measure up with their counterparts in most countries of the world, they must be exposed to the modern and proper way of software development.

Barely two weeks after the commissioning of Nigeria’s first Internet exchange point, IXPN, the Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria, ISPON, the Nigerian Computer Society, NCS and the Association Telecommunication Companies of Nigeria, ATCON have all commended the initiative of the Nigerian Communications Commission, (NCC).

THE shaky take-off of the on-going registration of voters for this year’s general elections is attributable to a combination of INEC’s choice of software, registration officials who have little knowledge of the machines they are to use, and logistics, according to Vanguard findings.

Today, institutions of all kinds – especially the Fortune Five Hundred multinationals, financial institutions, mega business outfits, government entities, electoral processes and e-voting, e-government operations, banking and finance, sports complexes and stadia, airports, hospitality and entertainment centres, shopping malls, mass transport facilities, and others such as hospitals, court rooms, server rooms, automated systems and military bases, etc, are being challenged to install video surveillance in areas that are too complex and remote, too costly or physically impossible to reach with traditional monitoring methods.

Until industry stakeholders pull resources together late last year, to hit at counterfeit phones, the Nigerian mobile phone market was awash with sub standard phones allegedly imported illegally from Asian countries.

While calling for youth empowerment through Information Technology tools, the Nigerian Youth IT Ambassador, Nkemdilim Uwaje recently led a team of Bake for change in a Christmas visit to many remand homes including Lagos State Transit Home for Kids, Lagos State Correctional Centre for Boys, Lagos State Old People’s Home, Lagos State Children’s Transit Home.

Information and Communication Technologies, ICT have been described as the best way to tackle the new wave of crimes such as bombing in the country.