Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Visafone Communications Limited, Mr. Sailesh Iyer, has called on the Lagos State Government to take advantage of information technology, which his firm can provide, to promote the state’s economy and boost its revenue generation

While assuring on working towards desirable, increasing global competitiveness, wealth and job creation, Minister of Communications and Technology, Mrs Omobola Olubusola Johnson has said that Nigeria should replicate the successes recorded in the telecommunications industry in the IT arena.

Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, Dr. Eugene Juwah, at the weekend lamented the dearth of software encoders in Nigerian and requested the National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion, NOTAP, to step into this aspect for the benefit of the industry.

A few weeks to the planned launch of its smart devices into the Nigerian market,Huawei Technologies, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider has laid down the gauntlet. Having initially focused on making handsets for carriers, China’s largest phone-equipment supplier will introduce various ranges of her devices as early as next month into the Nigerian competitive Mobile handset market.

Efforts to relocate the Nigerian Silicon Valley, the Computer Village Ikeja may not have yielded the expected resulted as the President of the Computer and Allied Products Dealers Association of Nigeria, (CAPDAN) Mr Tunji Balogun has said that the umbrella body has been excluded by the Lagos State Government from the relocation plans.

Nigerian Internet users may again begin to experience disruption from this week as the Nigerian Telecommunications PLC, NITEL, at the weekend, indicated a fault in the SAT-3 cable.

For a long time, one issue that has engaged the nation’s ICT experts and others is how to reduce poverty to a tolerable level in our country especially, and generally in the world.

As preparations hit top gear for the 2011 edition of the West African ICT Congress, the Minister of Communication Technology, Mrs Omobola Johnson, has confirmed her attendance having been invited as the chief special guest of honour. The minister, who will be joined by other ministers, regulators, and dignitaries from West Africa and beyond, will also declare the Congress open.

Frontline mobile phone makers, Nokia, at the weekend announced that it was targeting to use the next few years to connect the next one billion people that are yet to be connected to mobile communications.

The Director for the Central and North East Africa region at APC by Schneider Electric Jonathan Duncan has warned that companies should not oversize their data centers unnecessarily even with the additional pressures brought on by cloud computing.