Nigeria lit Africa up again Thursday night at the Eko Hotel and Suites Victoria Island Lagos, when the Second National Operator, Globacom commercially launched services of its Glo1 cable in Nigeria.

THE Nigerian environment has been described as unfriendly and hostile to local entrepreneurs and investors who are ready to invest in the country and display their capabilities particularly, in the Information and Communications Technology, ICT sector.

For Nokia Siemens Networks, the new technology, LTE holds the key to radical transformation of wireless experience particularly in emerging markets like Nigeria. The company was making the assertion in the recent concluded NigeriaCom in Lagos Nigeria.

Intercontinental Bank Plc, IBPLC, has revealed its desire and determination to make Nigeria a cashless country in line with what is obtainable in advanced countries of the world.

Since the debut of the GSM in Nigeria August 2001, there has been an unconsciously wide gap among phone users across the country.

As the global economic crunch bites harder on the world economy, small scale enterprises seem the worst hit.

AS the World leaders from all over the globe convened in New York city recently to discuss the Millennium Development Goals, MDGs, the Nigerian IT youth ambassador, Nkemdilim Uwaje has challenged Nigerian youths on Millennium Development Goals, MDGs, using IT.

Chief Executive Officer of Teledom Group, a hi-tech solutions company, Dr Emmanuel Ekuwem has predicted that Nigeria would be an information technology super-power by the year 2020, following the emerging broadband revolution in the country.

In spite of ongoing plans to relocate the Computer Village; lots of expansion and renovation are still going on there.

Perhaps, eventually, internet users in the country may be able to heave a sigh of relief as Spectrum Networks, an internet service provider in the country recently introduced a new surfing technology that ensures browsers are secured with backups coming from three broad band cable networks.

It’s shocking, but it’s true: an alarming number of touchscreen phones have begun to go bad.

With the active participation of SchoolNet Nigeria and one Nigerian teacher, educators around the world are currently competing for a chance to win one of 12 worldwide innovative education awards at the ongoing Microsoft partners in learning Worldwide Innovative Education Forum in Cape Town, South Africa.

THE Managing Director of Debis Com puters, Ikeja, Dr Isaac Adeola Odeyemiis the first Nigerian scientist to obtain a Ph.D in computer science from Manchester University, England by 1971.

Major ICT markets in the country are fast expecting a new Microsoft smartphone Windows phone 7 to hit them soon. This is coming a week and eight months after the unveiling of Windows Phone 7 OS.

Despite frantic outbursts and cries from virtually everyone in the know on computers and its accessories in the country both from local and international sources for cheaper computers and laptops, which would help bring the populace closer to the internet, prices of these devices have continued to soar with the latest Mackbookpro laptop nipping a whopping three hundred and forty thousand naira in today’s ICT market.