As part of its commitment to empower youths around the world, the global software giant, Microsoft Corp yesterday announced a new global initiative, Microsoft YouthSpark, that aims to create opportunities for 300 million youths in more than 100 countries during the next three years.

Global search engine, Google yesterday when it hosted more than 150 Chief Executive Officers / Chief Information Officers from organizations representing over 100,000 employees at its Chief Executive and Chief Information Officers conference held in Lagos has assured that businesses can enhance productivity using Google Apps for business.

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.

The Federal Government has not been more serious on its creation of job promise than last week in Lagos, when in collaboration with the Outsourcing Initiative of Nigeria, ODIN, it linked about 1,007 unemployed graduates to prospective employers.

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.

Perhaps, Nigeria would have joined the likes of Germany, Japan, India and Malaysia as an automobile manufacturer as far back as 1997 when Dr. Ezekiel Izuogu, an electrical/electronics engineer, a doctor of science and lecturer of communications and electronics engineering at the Federal Polytechnic, Owerri, made a prototype of his first ever all-African car which he named Z-600.

In recognition of his enormous contribution and achievement to the development of the Nigerian software industry, the Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria, ISPON, has called on the Federal Government to honour late Engr. Simeon Agu, the founding father of the group by establishing national software academy in his name as a befitting posthumous award.

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THE journey to Nigeria’s plans to switch to digital broadcasting took early steps in October 2008 with the constitution of a Presidential Advisory Committee, PAC, by the Nigerian Broadcast Commission, NBC.

With youths unemployment surging by the day across the nation at geometric progression, the Nigerian Computer Society, (NCS) at the weekend disclosed that plans were underway for the creation of over one million jobs through call center development, Business Processing Outsourcing, (BPO) among others.

The Federal Government has not been more serious on its creation of job promise than last week in Lagos, when in collaboration with the Outsourcing Initiative of Nigeria, ODIN, it linked about 1007 unemployed graduates to prospective employers.