Following the recent adoption of biometric technologies by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, for all banks in Nigeria and also the National Identity Management Commission, NIMC, for the development of highly skilled and certified IT professionals who will manage the issues that will arise in the usage of biometrics technologies, New Horizons, an IT training company, has introduced biometrics certifications into the market.

Although the fight against software piracy has not yielded the expected result by different economies, latest finding by the Business Software Alliance, BSA, has revealed that increasing the use of genuine software by 1% contributes $73 billion to the global economy as opposed to $20 billion from pirated software, a whopping gap of $53 billion.

Well, RIMA Foundation is an acronym for Records and Information Awareness Foundation. It was set up to help develop the information management industry in Nigeria and Africa as a whole.

Galaxy Backbone last week joined forces with software giants, Microsoft Nigeria to create employment opportunities for young Nigerians through the Employable Skills Development Internship Program (ESDIP) .

Those who put so much hope on the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN’s cashless Nigeria initiative, particularly in Lagos metropolis, got a rude shock during the Yuletide. Some of them were left with a sour festive season with cashless Automated Teller Machines, ATMs and dysfunctional Point of Sale, POS terminals.