Nigeria’s most innovative and fastest growing telecommunications company, Etisalat has strengthened its commitment to empower women by supporting another edition of Today’s Woman Brunch Series.

ETISALAT Nigeria, last week, took its youth-centric education and entertainment initiative, Cliqfest to Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, LAUTECH, Ogbomosho in Oyo State. The event attracted no fewer than 6,000 students of the who witnessed series of activities, including an inspirational session, a five-a-side novelty football match, raffle draw as well as an exciting concert featuring Nigerian hip hop stars such as Jaywon, Reminise and Skales.

In about two months away, Nigeria is expected to join many other broadcasting economies of the world that are operating exclusively in the digital transmission space. The country actually has no choice in this, because June 17, 2015 is the deadline, world body and global telecoms regulation arm of the United Nations, the international Telecommunications Union, ITU, set for every country operating in the analogue frequency to migrate to the digital.

With the A4AI Report that has just been released, Nigeria ranks among the top two positions among five countries in the overall Index Rankings. This shows that the country is on the right track. The Nigerian Government is actually working to bring down the cost of access and also connectivity across the country. The new Ranking shows that we are doing the right thing.

THE National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA has reiterated its readiness to implement the 2014 Universal Village report. The Director General of NITDA, Mr. Peter Jack, told newsmen recently that the agency is determined to implement the report as plans are ongoing to come up with modalities of the implementation. According to NITDA, the decision was in line with its mandate to network with international organizations to positioning the nation on the threshold of Information Technology development.