DATA released last week by the International Telecommunications Union, ITU, has indicated an increase in the way people engage ICT services. The report however hinted that the development was due to a steady fall in the prices of telephone and broadband Internet services.

AS scramble for the Nigerian market continues as a result of existing opportunities, the Minister of Communication and Technology, (CT) Mrs. Omobola Johnson has warned that activities of foreign ICT vendors must comply with local regulations to promote healthy competition.

One of Nigeria’s ICT solution provider, Resourcery Plc recently received multiple awards, by achieving CommScope Elite Partnership Status, BICSI RCDD certification and BICSI Corporate membership status.

Research In Motion, RIM, makers of the Blackberry range of smart phones has announced the launch of the new BlackBerry Bold 9900 smartphone in Nigeria. The smartphone will be available through Airtel, Globacom, Etisalat and MTN Nigeria.

The Lawmaker representing Lagos east Senatorial District, Senator Gbenga Ashafa, recently held the second convocation ceremony for beneficiaries of his free ICT training institute at Magodo Estate, Lagos last week. Over 30 students graduated from the programme.

TWENTY-Seven year old Gift Azubuike and Samson Oduwole, a three hundred level Micro Biology student of University of Lagos were going on their usual business, until about 2 pm last Monday, when their names were called as N10million winners in the ongoing MTN customer reward programme.

The Android Developer Challenge for Sub-Saharan Africa, an online competition has taken place, with Team Nigeria coming out in the top three.

Therefore, our national development roadmap should be strategically focused on a mission to preparing Nigerian for the 21st Century Knowledge Olympiad as a prerequisite for the participating in the Information Society.(IS).That should be the central vision of our national transformation agenda, if we must resolve the unspoken complex conflict in Nigeria such as keeping more than 30million slaves (of the underestimated 150 million) as house-helps, street hawkers, mai-guards and R-Fundamentalism -which are thankless labourers to the “Okada and Pure Water Economy!”

OPerators of the Code Division Multiple Access, CDMA, may still achieve their aim of competing favourably with the Global system for Mobile communications, GSM services providers, otherwise known in Nigeria as the major operators.

NIGERIA’s multi-faceted socio-political problems may continue unabated if its leaders continue to neglect the importance of systemic gathering and organization of information, otherwise called Information Technology, IT.