At the just concluded tour of its new factory in Oregun, Lagos, the Managing Director of Omatek Computers, Engr. Florence Seriki has appealed to the Federal Government of Nigeria to reduce the cost of broadband access to encourage people to acquire computers and other digital devices. According to Seriki, if cost of broadband access was reduced to the barest minimum, both local and foreign ICT vendors will make more sales.

Nigeria’s quest to take broadband to every home across the country regardless of location has started yielding the expected results as WaveTek Nigeria has signed a partnership agreement with Carlson Wireless Technologies US to develop the adoption of TV White Spaces to meet the growing demand for broadband coverage in Africa.

Despite some of the negative turns experienced in the widespread of social networks across the world in recent time, the exposure that it gives a country and its developments is almost immeasurable.

FINISH mobile phone manufacturer, Nokia may have opened a fresh competition in the Widows phone ecosystem with the introduction of Windows Phone 8 devices, the Nokia Lumia 920 and the Nokia Lumia 820 respectively.

As part its strategic plans to offer quality service to its subscribers, third leading telecommunications services provider in Nigeria, Bharti Airtel has undertaken an end-to-end network transformation program across its mobile operations.

WITH optimism, by the end 2012, the former Commonwealth Secretary General, Chief Emeka Anyaoku has projected that Laptops for Learning Nigeria, (L4LN) project, a Lagos based not-for-profit organization would have introduced screen based technology to 700 children per school starting from Lagos and nationally thereafter.

THE Director-General of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) Barrister Chris Onyemenam has again emphasised the importance of the National Identification Number (NIN), describing it as the true and only Identity every Nigerian can be sure of.

FirstBank of Nigeria Plc is offering customers with a new solution the freedom to capture their individuality on the debit Naira MasterCard Card.

THE Federal Government’s drive for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) seems to be yielding positive result. Both old and new foreign investors are currently indicating positive interest in strengthening or expanding their existing business concerns in the country.

TO improve teacher skills, resources to improve student readiness for the global workforce, the global software giant at the just concluded Partners in Learning Global forum held in Prague, Czech Republic has restated its commitment to education with $250m n in five-year renewal of Partners in Learning (PiL).