Leading telecommunications service provider, Airtel Nigeria, in conjunction with Huawei and Microsoft have unveiled its first Smartphone that runs on the Microsoft windows Phone 8 operating systems Ascend W1.

Unless information technology, education, employment creation were given urgent attention in governance, the fight against terrorism and other acts of insecurity may be long-drawn, the President of Nigerian Computer Society, NCS, Sir. Demola Aladekomo has warned.

Last week in Lagos when stakeholders in the Nigerian telecoms industry gathered to discuss the draft lawful interception of communications regulations, leading voices contended that except the policy as recently released by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), passes through a legislative process, Nigeria may not get the expected results.

The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, penultimate week, opened the telecom industry up for another debate when it released the operators’ market status and declared two, MTN and Globacom, as dominant players in different categories.

Former Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Sen. Ahmadu Alli has identified poor funding performance as the major factor militating against the growth and survival of the Nigerian Postal Service.