The draft national software policy has been developed and submitted to the the National Information Technology Development Agency, (NITDA) for review and approval, Vanguard Hitech has learnt.

Intel Corporation has announced the appointment of Olubunmi Ekundare as its country manager for Nigeria. Olubunmi will take over responsibility of Intel’s commercial activities and innovations in Nigeria and will also be responsible for Intel’s businesses across West Africa.

As part of its efforts at curbing the increasing youth restiveness in the country and to encourage young school leavers acquire skills, Lightbox Live Transformation Forum, a non-profit organization in Nigeria has organised a two day free IT creativity training for young school leavers in the country.

LAST weekend at Tinapa Resort, Calabar in Cross River State, Abia State Polytechnic beat 19 other tertiary institutions to clinch the first prize in the National Software Competition floated by the Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON).

Head of Personal and Business Banking division at the Stanbic IBTC Bank, Mr Obinna Abajue, last week, said that the adoption of mobile money in Nigeria would help the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN understand the country’s true Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

As part of its plan to extend its internet services to the education community, Glo 1 international submarine cable, has formally announced the activation of high speed internet bandwidth connectivity to Babcock private university Ogun State.

Director-General and Chief Executive of the National Identification Management Commission, NIMC, Barrister Chris Onyemenam had reiterated the determination of the commission to introduce a new national identification number, NIN in place of the existing one.

In the last ten years since the advent of GSM service providers, more serious attention has been paid to the specific needs of various market segments. MTN, has particularly pioneered custom-built telecom solutions for different…

THE Bayelsa State Government, in partnership with Zinox computers, recently, donated the Zinox Whizkid to secondary school students, teachers and principals in the state.

THE United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has rated African universities low in the usage of information Technology and Communication, ICT infrastructure and research, compared to their counterparts in the developed world.