Second National telecommunications operator, Globacom said its presence at the Port Harcourt International Trade Fair has made the event a beehive of activities.

THE joy of 1200 youths knew no bounds penultimate week, as the Lagos state government, under its ministry of science and technology graduated 1200 unemployed youths from across the state, on various computer skills and competencies for self actualization and financial independence.

Dr. Emmanuel Ekuwem is the Chief Executive of Teledom Group, a major player providing hi-tech solutions in the telecoms and ICT sector of the economy.

Professor Charles O. Uwadia is the President of Nigerian Computer Society (NCS), and the Director of the Centre for Information Technology & Systems (CITS) at the University of Lagos.

Open Source Software (OSS) has played very important roles in the growth of software technologies. Nigeria being a developing country that faces various socio-economic challenges; access to freely distributed solutions that have no restriction on selling the software as a component of an aggregated solution is invaluable.

While the menace of cybercrime continues to cause more economic harm than good across the globe, especially in Nigeria , where the ugly trend has remained unabated, the Senate Committee on Communication has raised alarm over the vulnerability of the Nigerian ICT infrastructure to cyber attack, saying that 95% of the nation’s ICT Infrastructures are velnerable to cyber attack.

THERE is palpable anxiety among a broad spectrum of Nigerians over plans to register mobile lines in the country by the telecoms regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, as a result of security issues involved in the exercise.

Rising from its decade review of the Nigerian telecoms sector, the National Association of Telecommunications Subscribers of Nigeria (NATCOMS), has commended Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigeria Communication Commission (NCC), Engr. Ernest Ndukwe for his pioneering role in the sustenance of the use of GSM phones in country, particularly in the area of the establishment of the NCC Telecomms Consumer Parliament in August 2003.

The Enugu Coal city and its environs will now be part of the 21st centuary knowledge economy as Zinox Telcoms is set to upgrade the Coal city with Wifi project following a buyout of the Enugu state Government in the Joint Venture.

AT the recently concluded 8th edition of the Inside Business Commendation Award (IBCA) 2009 which held at the Lagoon Restaurant, Anabel Mobile was once again honored by the telecoms industry and was rewarded for Exceptional Innovation in the Telecom Sector (Mobile Technology).

Nigeria’s first broadband forum will open in March 2010. The forum, slated to hold for two days in the first week of March, is aimed at drawing a roadmap for broadband band development and usage in the country.

THE rising rate of unemployment in Nigeria threatens the welfare of hundreds of thousands of individuals, and exacerbates the current economic crisis.

Industry restructuring, not merger, expected The industry caught a whiff of the Minister of Information and Communications pledging to recommend the merger of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, and the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, before the end of the year as if it was a new subject.

A thorough look at the incidences that had recently befallen Daar Communications, owners of African Independent Television, AIT, RayPower, DaarSat, among others, portray a gloomy picture for the broadcast industry in Nigeria.

Whether the incidences were end of year gifts or wedding gift to the Chairman of the station whose daughter was doing her traditional wedding the following day, the truth is that the station would take some time to recover with the devastation following the disaster.