Information and Communications Technology practitioners in the country are no longer comfortable with spate of kidnaping, arms banditry and racketeering as well as other vices that are constituting national security embarrassment to the country today.

In line with its commitment to providing quality services to its growing customers, one of Nigeria ’s telecommunications companies, Etisalat has signed up with Main One Company Limited; to take advantage of the cable company’s recently launched submarine fibre optic cable on its network.

THE number of Nigerians on the Internet is about 43.9 million according to the international Telecommunication Union. Mr. Abasiama Idaresit Managing Director Wild Fusion an internet marketing firm in Ikoyi.

While nations of the world depend on output from local content for global competitiveness
, participants at the just concluded national workshop on strenthening innovation and capacity building in the manufacturing sector rose up from the conference, saying that unemployment will remain unabted in the system except attention is paid to low hanging technology fruits which have the capacity to create one million jobs acrooss different sectors of the Nigerian economy .

If the country must sustain leadership in telecom and entire ICT business in Africa and perhaps target the top spot in the global digital market, the country policy makers must understand ICT beyond Naira and Kobo.

As part of its commitment to support the IT industry with innovative products, NetApp exclusive distributor in Nigeria, has announced new storage management integration for greater performance and scalability of VMware vSphere environments.

While the debate on electoral reforms is going in the national assembly, how best to realize a stable democratic political system in Nigeria through IT tools and strategies has continued to be a major concern of stakeholders in the Nigerian IT industry, especially the Nigerian Computer Society.

In a bid to ensure that the citizens of Niger State are empowered with IT knowledge and skills needed to face the 21st century knowledge economy, Nigerian PCs assembler, Brian Integrated Systems Limited had signed an MOU with the Niger State Government on a computer ownership scheme that will benefitted civil servants.

One of the leading hardware providers in the largest African ICT market, the Computer Village Ikeja, Balog Technologies Limited, a subsidiary of Brian Integrated Systems has many intrduced many dependable hardware products at affordable prices.

A major outcome of the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) in 2003 was for member countries that have existing IT policy to develop corresponding e-strategies, which is a framework for specific actions, targets and timelines for the full integration of IT in every sector of human endeavor.

NIGERIAN women have been charged to be more purposeful and result oriented in their various enterprises by leveraging on the opportunities provided by emerging technologies, so as to excel in their endeavour. CEO of Omatek Computers, Mrs. Florence Seriki gave the charge last week during a round table meeting organized by Women in Technology in Nigeria (WITIN) in Lagos, tagged “Empowering Technologies”.

Next week, in the F.C.T, the group; Broadband for Nigeria (BB4NG) will be engaging consumer advocacy groups, internet service and infrastructure providers, regional and national regulators, Government Institutions and Agencies in a forum that would be geared towards contributing a framework for developing national broadband strategy for Nigeria.

LATEST players on the Nigerian telecoms landscape, Bharti Airtel has expressed the desire to empower rural communities in Nigeria with affordable telecommunication services.

With a focus on the 2011 elections and beyond an International consortium consisting of the Digital Bridge Institute, Harvard University, Georgia Institute of Technology and the National Democratic Institute on Monday held a symposium on the topic “ICT & Civic Engagement in Nigeria:” in Abuja.

In apparent move to draw a road map for the future of the world in application of technology, world leaders during the week gathered to access the role of broadband in the future global development.