It is bad enough that many countries of Africa are today ravaged by hunger and starvation occasioned by incessant communal, ethnic and inter tribal wars. But the worst case is always the problem of reconnecting displaced relatives who in search of safety, scamper and eventually become refugees in different camps at different places.

Director of Sales MEA and CIS at Western Digital, providers of data storage and multimedia solutions,Mr. Mohammed Owais, last week reinforced the popular opinion that Nigeria is still a potential market for all ICT components and parts.

The Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian Communication Satellite (NIGCOMSAT) limited, Mr. Ahmed Rufai has said that having fully trained nearly 150 young engineers who are equipped to fit into any global engineering field, Nigeria was ready to take on the world in science and technological excellence.

Daring the obvious high cost of doing business in Nigeria, integrated 4G solution company, Aviat networks has said that it would continue to operate comfortably in the country for a long time to come because it has long decoded the formula of staying afloat in the Nigerian market.

At the just concluded regional finals of the 2010 Innovative Teacher Awards at the Pan-African Innovative Education Forum which held at the Aga Khan Academy, Mombasa, Kenya, Mr. Nwodo Monday Obinna, of Odogbolu Grammer School, Ogun State was among 18 teachers honoured by the global software giant.

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In a move that will accelerate the transformation of African mobile communications and positively impact the speed of economic development across the African continent, Bharti Airtel Limited and IBM have announced the selection of IBM to manage the computing technology and services that power Bharti Airtel’s mobile communications network spanning 16 African countries. An agreement is expected to be finalized in the coming months of this year.

Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, Dr. Eugene Juwah at the weekend in Colombo, Srilanka, called for more dedication by member nations of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organization, CTO, to enable the organization meet its obligations and responsibilities in the global telecom committee of nations.

Things are not the same without HiTV. Not with the way Multichoice is handling the ongoing Premiership League whose rights HiTv lost to them. It’s bad enough that our HiTV decoders lie without use right now.

Last week on these pages we carried a report on an NIIT student Mr Adebola Aremu who alleged that his institution was cheating the Nigerian students by teaching them with outdated curriculum.

While Nigerian ICT market continues to attract foreign vendors , the National Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) of India, the premier trade body and chamber of commerce of the IT business-processing outsourcing, (BPO) industries in India are expected in the country next week for the 2010 edition of the IT Chief Executive Officers, (CEOs) summit.

Captains of industry, ICT experts, representatives of the diplomatic community on Tuesday converged at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja, as Globacom held an interactive business session on its submarine fibre optic cable, Glo1, at the Federal Capital Territory.

The extraordinary quantum role played by the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the development of Nigeria in the past 50 years is due for celebration on September 30, 2010 at the Sheraton Hotels, in Lagos .

Ahead of the opening of the UN Millennium Development Goal review summit in New York, leading lights from government, industry, civil society and UN agencies respectively will present their vision for accelerating deployment of broadband networks worldwide to UN Secretary-General, Mr Ban Ki-Moon.

Information Communications Technology Ministers, senior government officials, regulatory agency heads, and international ICT experts, who spoke at the 8th annual forum and the 50th council meeting of the Common Wealth Telecommunications Organization, (CTO) being held in Sri Lanka rose up from the saying that unless commonwealth nations take faster measures to ensure more rapid deployment of broadband and access to it by a larger percentage of their citizens, national development may be far fetched.