Since some members of the house of representatives, penultimate week, shot down the N6.1 billion Naira budget of the Nigerian Communication Commission, NCC on SIM card registration, every who is who in the ICT sector has raised his voice against the act.

With virtually no other Nigerian operator at the recent concluded AfricaCom conference and Exhibition in Cape Town South Africa, the multitude of participants who may have attended the expo to learn one or two things from Nigeria on how to lead a market even from the backwaters, had to rely on the country’s fifth largest operator, Etisalat Nigeria .

One of the revelations of the just concluded AfricaCom conference in Cape Town South Africa was that the African mobile market has exceeded half a billion subscribers during the third quarter of this year.

In recognition of the astronomou s growth of ICT in Africa, Google has launched its first voice recognition search technology for Africa, as part of a long_term bid to extend its influence in the continent.

MTN Nigeria, has restated commitment to sustainable development in Nigeria, even as the company unveiled a staff_focused initiative tagged Employee Value Proposition (EVP).

Can Nigeria Leapfrog into the Information Age?The man with wisdom is a shining torch that sheds light in our darkness and guides us out of our ignorance. I am often asked: “How do we build a stronger Nigeria through technological innovation?”

While Nigeria awaits the outcome of feasibility studies to determine the viability of a science and IT park at the Oshodi, Lagos campus of the Digital Bridge Institute (DBI), President and CEO of the institute, Professor Raymond Akwule has said with optimism that Nigerian students will be the biggest beneficiaries of the park, adding that the initiative would prepare them for the challenges ahead.

While education is the single most important investment in the future of individuals, communities, nations, and the world at large, by the year 3013, about 250 teachers and students globally are to benefit from Partners in Learning, a 10-year $500 million commitment by Microsoft to transform education systems around the world through technology.

Last week, search giant; Google, launched it’s first ever voice recognition technology for Africa as part of it’s long term bid to extend it’s influence on the continent, even as Smartphone owners in South Africa now can enter a voice command in Afrikaans and Zulu to receive search results via Google’s search engine.

The National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA in conjunction with the Nigerian Computer Society have concluded arrangement to visit this Friday, the Nigerian largest African IC market, the Computer Village, Ikeja to discuss many things including avenues to empower and assist IT practitioners among other things.