For the street urchins and persons bringing in stolen Laptops and GSM handsets for sale in the Computer Village Ikeja , it may not be business as usual again, as the Police post in the market have intensified efforts to arrest culprits.

There appears to be tough days ahead for quacks and half-baked IT professionals who hijack IT jobs in the Nigerian economy only to offer very disappointing services, as the Computer Professionals Registration Council of Nigeria (CPN), has warned that compliance with standardization of IT jobs and training must be fully enforced.

Nigerian women have been challenged to take up career in Information and Communications Technology, ICT, and benefit from its numerous opportunities.

IntroductionInformation technology and internet as a fundamental human right .TO the National Assembly: Before you make that constitutional amendment, ensure that “Information Technology Education and Access is enshrined as fundamental Human Rights in the Nigerian Constitution.”

At the just concluded General Assembly of WITSA held last month in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in conjunction with the World Congress on IT 2010, Dr Jimson Olufuye of Nigeria was elected WITSA Vice-Chairman for Africa for the next two years.

Stakeholders in the Information and Communications Technology, ICT sector have called on the Federal Government to change the current telecommunications policy.

As the sixth month of the year rolls in, operators of mobile telecom services in the country are making efforts at raising the awareness over the need for their subscribers to have their SIM cards properly registered. Industry observers however, who have been following these developments are saying these ‘efforts’ are not enough.

The University of Nigeria Nsukka may soon become a reference point among many other universities in Nigeria, when the benefits of ICT in schools are highlighted. This is as leading global players in Information and Communications Technology, are collaborating with the University to build Africa’s largest wireless network community, expected to gulp a whopping N3billion naira.

As Nigeria celebrates a few initiatives in undersea cable project from indigenous operators, it is also wise to look beyond the boosting of internet services by the initiatives and perhaps dwell on the pains the country and her internet users may go through when the uhuru comes.

The Association of Telecom Companies of Nigeria, ATCON has expressed serious displeasure over the allegation that Globacom Ghana was being sabotaged in its nationwide roll out plan in that country, saying that it would engage the Minister of Information and Communications, Prof Dora Akunyili, to see that the matter was not swept under the carpet.

In recognition of the importance of alliance and integration of emerging technologies to industries, Nokia is partnering Yahoo to deploy integrated web services for various users across the globe.

One common disease threatening the inhabitants of Makoko, a suburb of Lagos, is malaria. This is as a result of the humid and aquatic nature of the environment.

FOR Nigeria and indeed other developing nations to bridge the existing gap of development between them and the developed nations and prepare for global competitiveness, there is urgent need to entrench first-rate body of laws and world class regulatory mechanism.

The ancient city of Benin was agog on penultimate Tuesday, as the Edo State National Youth Corps (NYSC), in collaboration with Globacom, organized the first Edo NYSC Inter-Secondary School Dance Contest among secondary schools in Benin City.

ON the heels of CTO 2010 which held in Lagos and addressed the nation’s identity management crisis, the e-Nigeria 2010 Conference held in Abuja last week with the theme, National ICT4D: Implications for Vision 20-2020 at the Shehu Musa YarÁdua Centre in Abuja.