Etisalat last week in Port Harcourt, Rivers State announced the award of scholarship to 27 best students in Electrical Electronics Engineering, Computer Science and Management Sciences from the Rivers State University of Science and Technology, University of Port Harcourt and the Anambra State University of Science respectively.

Nigeria’s prestigious and foremost awards for the Information and Communications Technology industry, the Nigerian Information Technology and Telecom Awards (NITTA) ceremony has been scheduled to hold on November 20, 2009 at the Eko Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos.

MTN, the leading communications company in Nigeria, is blazing another trail with the introduction of a new Internet service primed to bring efficiency and convenience to offices and homes. Christened MTN HyConnect Wireless Internet, the new offering further enriches MTN’’s bouquet of innovative value added services.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. last week unveiled the latest smart mobile handset, Samsung Jet, at a series of global launch events in Dubai , London , Singapore which also coincided with official presentation to dealers in Lagos .

By Prince Osuagwu AS infrastructure sharrng is fast becoming the preferred option to multiplicity of telecom infrastructure and an antidote to unhealthy competitive practices of telecom operators that hamper environmental friendliness, telecom infrastructure sharing equipment providers in the country are having their hey days. But that is not also without challenges. So, surrounded by a […]

LAST week Monday,Nigeria’s SAT3 submarine cable system, had a default on one of its landing cables linking the Benin Republic and up till now, about 70 percent of Nigeria’s internet capacity is said to be still hanging on the balance .

PERHAPS, not so many people would have known that Nigeria ranks poorly in the 2009 Global Competitiveness Rankings of the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness of the Harvard University, United States. But the arrival of world’s renowned business strategist and revered scholar at Harvard Business School, Professor Michael Porter penultimate week, at a seminar sponsored by MTN Nigeria to discuss Nigeria’s economy, threw more light into the survey.

THE world’’s leading maker of mobile devices in, Nokia, in collaboration with the Consumer Protection Council (CPC), the apex consumer protection agency of the Federal Government of Nigeria, have teamed up to address issues relating to the physical safety and economic interest of Nigerians consuming electronic produce flooding the market from the international market.In a capacity building event held last week that brought together stakeholders in the electrical/electronic sub-sector at the Alaba International market, participants at the event noted that there was need to tackle the incidence of fake products as well as sub-standard e- goods flooding the Nigerian market.

At the just concluded Nigerian Computer Society, NCS, Annual General Meeting held recently in Abuja, the International Syst of Brazil in conjunction with Leapsoft Nigeria Ltd presented to the Nigerian IT market Metasys Wazobia that targets educational institutions, especially primary and secondary students.

At the just concluded   Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) Annual General Meeting, AGM, held in Abuja,  the Nigerian IT Professionals have  successfully implemented the electronic voting (e-Voting) process  which was automated and conducted electronically and exclusively by Nigerian IT Professionals. With this development, it is evident enough that with  real_time electronic_voting is possible for the 2011 […]

The introduction of APC by Schneider’s MGE Galaxy 7000 offers new levels of high efficiency power protection for IT and other mission critical equipment. Its digital design, coupled with a comprehensive range of options enables the new uninterruptible power supply (UPS) to be fully adapted for use in a range of applications from large data centres to industrial and manufacturing operations.

THERE was good news for the broadcast industry last Week. Greater news for the Nigerian Television Authority as the Federal Government eventually announced plans to putting the self-acclaimed largest network on the Africa continent on a proper footing to meeting the digital switch over deadline which the country has planned for 2012.

COMPUTER users are about to enjoy limitless access to the internet as Technology Distributions Limited, TD, partners front line telecommunications company, Multilinks-Telkom, . The partnership, automatically gives buyers of computers from Technology Distribution, access of to Multilink-Telcom’s internet package for up to 50 free hours.

IN continuation of its ef fort to increase accessibility of Information Communication Technology (ICT) to Nigerians, indigenous computer manufacturers, Omatek Ventures Plc, has opened a new sales outlet at Ikota shopping complex, Ajah, Lagos State.

THE Chief Executive Of ficer of Huawei Nigeria, Mr. Walter Ji Rengui has commended Etisalat Nigeria on their rating as the best GSM service provider by the Nigerian Communications Commission in its recent Quality of Service Audit. This audit was conducted to determine the performance of the various mobile operators in the country.