By Chris Uwaje & Dan Molina The central message of the national fuel subsidy removal and related economic crisis is: “The Industrial Era has ended and the Information Society Era has commenced”.  All these noise about oil and gas, oil and gas – yes, removing the subsidy has created hardships, but focusing on this and […]

As part of measures by the government to bring all IT-based activities of its agencies and parastatals to a single platform, the federal government said it is set to ensure full migration by all its ministries, departments and agencies from their existing domain names to Nigeria’s Code Top Level domain name, .ng, both for their websites and official emails.

The Software giant, Microsoft has announced the launch of Africa Pack, a suite of popular of the company’s technologies and locally relevant content free to consumers across Africa who purchase or currently run a genuine version of Windows 7.

The number of Nigerians that have signed up to Facebook,as a means of communication and interactions, has increased from 400, 000 in the last four years crossing 4.3 million mark at the end of December, 2011.

A 22-year old Nigerian student has created a new social networking service, Ploggin.com. Its creator, Nnoduka Eruchalu, is a student at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) where he is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering.

The Executive Director, Operations at the DigitalSENSE Africa (DSA), Mrs. Nkemdilim Nweke has commended the Minister of Communications Technology for living up to her promise to seek stakeholders inputs on the draft national policy for the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).

While the removal of fuel subsidy continues to affect cost of commodities across the nation, cost of recharge cards, especially in small denominations has gone up to 10 percent , Vanguard Hi-Tech findings can now reveal.

BY every standard, the Nigerian ICT sector recorded some improvements in 2011. This could also be seen by some landmark events that marked the year.

The Minister of Communication Technology, Mrs Omobola Johnson has assured that the the harmonized national Information Communication Technology ( ICT) policy is expected to create digital based economy for Nigeria.

A VISIT to Computer Village last week revealed that traders at the popular Otigba market, Ikeja were not smiling home at the end of each trading day.