The President and Chairman of Council of the Computer Professionals Registration Council of Nigeria (CPN) Ibrahim Tizhe, has confirmed participation as the Chairman of occasion at the ground breaking debate on the brunt of the global economic meltdown on the nation’s ICT industry.

The telecom sector in Nigeria has attracted over $18 billion investment in the last eight years on account of predictive regulatory environment and supportive government for a deregulated telecom industry.

MTN Foundation (MTNF), last week, handed over 100 housing units of 2 bedrooms each with construction cost put at N117 million to Habitat for Humanity to manage. This according to the Foundation was geared towards assisting the Federal Government in its efforts at addressing the increasing problem of housing in the country.

Nigerians have been enjoined not to discriminate against those living with down syndrome in the society. The Executive Secretary, MTN Foundation limited, Ms. Nonny Nduka-Eze gave the charge during a seminar organized by Down syndrome Association of Nigeria in partnership with MTN Foundation to kick off the 2009 awareness week in Lagos.

By Prince Osuagwu IN a matter of months,  competition in the telecommunications sector in particular and ICT sector in general, would shift from GSM operators who are known for scrambling for the soul of the subscribers to shore up their subscriber base, to two Nigerian companies, Globacom and MainOne which may be battling for the […]

FOR dedicating the second edition of the Glo Marathon to the cause of the Nigerian Heart Foundation, collaborating with the KANU Heart Foundation in raising funds for the treatment of patients with heart diseases and related ailments, Second National Operator, Globacom, touched the foundation’s heart, and just last week, attracted to itself, the Distinguished Merit Award of the Nigerian Heart Foundation.

IN a related development, the company also last week, reaffirmed its commitment to continuously contribute to the rapid development of Nigeria through the provision of telecommunications services for the people at affordable rates.

AS part of its way of giv ing back to the society, Samsung Real dreams project, a Pan African University , Lagos last week graduated its first batch of students. The programe which began in April saw 46 young people exhibiting their learnings at the school.

VISAFONE, Nigeria has said that as a part of its initiatives to empower and encourage Nigerian youth, it has decided to sponsors “The Debaters” a project of the Inspire Africa Foundation. The 13 episode reality TV series will feature 14 youth in debates on topical issues as they contest individually and in teams.

MTN, Nigeria, last week, heightened its corporate socially responsible status in Nigeria as it clinched six of the top awards at the third edition of the annual Social Enterprise Reports Awards (SERA) held in Lagos recently.

In an apparent response to the energy challenges that low scale entrepreneurs contend with all over the country, especially those operating open air telephone centers, Starcomms Plc, said it is giving out free solar chargers to some of its high performing Telecentre operators in the country.

In order to overcome all printing challenges in Nigeria and to measure up with developed countries in other parts of the world, JKK OneWare Limited, a leading information technology group in the country in partnership with printronix the leader in enterprise printing solution has launched a range of latest printing products into Nigeria Market.

THE need to deliver effi cient and reliable identification solutions within the reach of every Nigerian has been identified as one of the primary reasons for the ongoing development of large-scale infrastructure by Chams Plc.

IN commemoration of Nigeria’s 49th Independent anniversary that was celebrated recently across the nation , all Multi-Links Telkom’s subscribers are to enjoy N49 free airtime. In a package tagged Independent Payback Promo. With this, Multi-Links Telkom is giving back for free a whopping N49 (24.5 percent) value on every N200 scratch card loaded by its subscribers.

Telemedia Group has launched Telemigrants Mali, an innovative pilot program designed to provide a continuous high speed Internet between two remote villages Kersiniane and Yelimane and native migrants based in Montreuil, in the outskirts of Paris.