Irrespective of the recent crisis in Jos, the Nigeria Tennis Federation assured yesterday that adequate security measures have been put in place to ensure that the over 170 players from 28 African countries being expected at the 33rd African Junior Tennis Championships are secured.

Executive Vice Chairman of Nigerian Communication Commissions, Engr. Ernest Ndukwe has said that for Nigeria to sustain the progress so far made in the telecom sector, there is need to maintain a regulatory environment that is fair, transparent and devoid of political interference.

Mallam Idriss Abbas, Managing Director of Valid Insurance Brokers in this interview with Patience Saghana in Abuja did not mice words to state the obvious fact the insurance industry needs to put its house in order and deal with any act of disobedience to the market agreement and for insurance practitioners to conduct themselves in a manner to represent integrity and dignity even while they are pushing accounts.

DIRECTOR-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Professor Cleopas Angaye, below, enunciates the way forward in terms of indigenous software development, and in fact foresees a time when it will be illegal to source software and hardware except through Nigerian firms certified by NITDA.

The Oracle Speaks, as the book, “e-Knowledge – Time is Running Out,” by Dr. Chris Uwaje, long awaited especially in the IT sector is launched. Venue of the launch is the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Victoria Island, Lagos next Tuesday, March 30, 2010. Expected at the event are the nation’s policy makers, technology gurus, academics and core IT stakeholders both in the profession and industry have confirmed attendance.

Recently, leading manufacturer of electronics and home appliances, Samsung held the draw of its Win-A-Milli Promo for its customers at Planet 1, Lagos where three millionaires emerged. The Managing Director of the company, Peter Lee shortly after the event spoke to journalist on the benefits of the promo to Nigerians, reason for the promo, challenges in the telecom market among other issues, Emmanuel Elebeke was there. Excerpts:

Again, activities of street hawkings in the streets Nigerian Silicon Valley, the Nigerian Computer Village Ikeja are still disrupting free movement of goods and persons despite ban by the Lagos State Ministry of Environment, Vanguard CyberLIFE findings can now reveal.

At the just concluded 2010 edition of Cebit trade exhibition held in Hannover, Germany, the German district of Brandenburg was trialling the open source Navit car navigation system for its Police System

Except for some few innovations in recent times, technology has always sounded hoarse and scary to almost all Nigerians who ten years ago were actually out of the world ICT order. But the debut of Global System for Mobile Communications, GSM, in 2001, however tried to demystify the tech-scare, bracing all odds to make even the rural women users of technologies that were hitherto considered exclusive rights of the elite class.

information reaching Cyberlife has indicated a series of silent battles going on between some Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the country and a group of super-brilliant Nigerians who are hard at work hacking into the different servers of these Internet Providers obtaining their IP addresses, proxy codes, numbers and addresses and selling same to interested buyers.

Kofi Anan, former Secretary-General of the United Nations, defined the information society as that through which “human capacity is expanded, built up, nourished and liberated, by giving people access to the tools and technologies they need, with the education and training to use them effectively.”

There has been excitement in the air as the Nigerian IT community awaits the launch of e-Knowledge – Time is Running book, a compendium of the writings of Christopher Maduabunachukwu Uwaje _ popularly known as the Nigeria IT Oracle.

Nigeria’s first national telecommunications carrier, NITEL is synonymous with stalemate. From the first attempt at selling the national carrier when it became obvious that continuing allowing government to manage the success of the institution would mean extension of the rape of its economy, there has never been a sweet story.

It was a spectacular showing inside the premises of EPIC Atlantic Limited, Trans Amadi Industrial Layout, Port Harcourt last week, when a man named Miracle, who had miraculously emerged winner in the ongoing Glo BID2WIN promo appeared to receive his prize, a brand new Kia Rio.

Apparently getting seriously tired of a convergence that exists only in the lips of government, of all the agencies in the communications sector of the Nigerian economy, Director General of the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, Engr Yomi Bolarinwa wants a quick streamlining of the roles of the Nigerian Communications Commission , NCC and that of NBC, with a view to conforming with the new convergence framework