As Nigeria celebrates a few initiatives in undersea cable project from indigenous operators, it is also wise to look beyond the boosting of internet services by the initiatives and perhaps dwell on the pains the country and her internet users may go through when the uhuru comes.

The Association of Telecom Companies of Nigeria, ATCON has expressed serious displeasure over the allegation that Globacom Ghana was being sabotaged in its nationwide roll out plan in that country, saying that it would engage the Minister of Information and Communications, Prof Dora Akunyili, to see that the matter was not swept under the carpet.

In recognition of the importance of alliance and integration of emerging technologies to industries, Nokia is partnering Yahoo to deploy integrated web services for various users across the globe.

One common disease threatening the inhabitants of Makoko, a suburb of Lagos, is malaria. This is as a result of the humid and aquatic nature of the environment.

FOR Nigeria and indeed other developing nations to bridge the existing gap of development between them and the developed nations and prepare for global competitiveness, there is urgent need to entrench first-rate body of laws and world class regulatory mechanism.

The ancient city of Benin was agog on penultimate Tuesday, as the Edo State National Youth Corps (NYSC), in collaboration with Globacom, organized the first Edo NYSC Inter-Secondary School Dance Contest among secondary schools in Benin City.

ON the heels of CTO 2010 which held in Lagos and addressed the nation’s identity management crisis, the e-Nigeria 2010 Conference held in Abuja last week with the theme, National ICT4D: Implications for Vision 20-2020 at the Shehu Musa YarÁdua Centre in Abuja.

The current development status of the Niger Delta region is, perhaps, best described as one of the incredible paradoxes of our time!

While 83% of operating systems used in Nigerian market are said to have been pirated, it may not be business as usual again for software pirates operating in various Nigerian IT markets, especially at the Computer Village Ikeja with the recent launch of Clean Dealers Program, (CDP) by the software giant, Microsoft.

As the wave of technology revolution sweeps across the coast of African continent, particularly with the landing of Glo and Main One fibre optic cables, and now waiting for full deployment into the nooks and crannies of the country to accelerate internet service, most service providers are beginning to jettison satellite network and paying attention only on broadband as the only way to go.