Former Executive Vice Chairman of Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, Engr Ernest Ndukwe at the weekend described the explosive growth that occurred in the Nigerian telecom sector in the past twelve years as partly the handiwork of ICT media professionals.

No fewer than 45,000 teachers in the Lagos state will benefit from the first phase of computer ownership scheme powered by BrainFriend educational software solution.

The federal government last week, armed the National Information Technology Agency of Nigeria ( NITDA) with more teeth to perform its functions as the Agency now has the sole authority to clear all locally made information systems before they are purchased by Federal Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs.

Following the introduction of Microsoft Office 365 to the global markets including Nigeria, the Information Worker Business Group Lead, Microsoft Africa, Marc Israel has said with optimism that the solution has potential to fuel business and economic transformation across the region by delivering cost-effective, flexible access to enterprise-class IT.

Apple said Monday that it received more than two million orders for its new iPhone 5 in 24 hours, and that many deliveries would be pushed back into October because of strong demand.

Apple on Wednesday introduced its new iPhone 5, a lighter, thinner and more powerful version of its iconic mobile device.

The entire ICT sector was massively shaken, last week when the news broke of the attack on telecom operators’ base stations and other installations by persons suspected to be terrorists.

In the opinion page of The Guardian on Sunday of August 26, 2012, Reuben Abati wrote among others and I quote: “They in this piece refers to all the cynics, the pestle-wielding critics, the unrelenting self-appointed activities’, the idle and idling, twittering, collective children of anger, the distracted crowd of Facebook addicts, the BBM-pinging soap opera gossips of Nigeria who seem to be in competition to pull down President Goodluck Jonathan”.

The National Universities Commission (NUC) has inaugurated its first ever Online Programme Accreditation Portal. It is a new initiative aimed to fully automate the accreditation process of Universities’ Academic Programmes as carried out by the NUC in order to ensure that the Minimum Academic Standard Document in every programme is attained, maintained and fully complied with by our universities as enshrined in the laws establishing the commission.

Organisers of the Nigerian ICT agenda series, have said that the event on Mobile Number Portability, MNP, scheduled for September 26, may become the high point of events in the ICT sector this year.