Technology

NIGCOMSAT-2A, 2B: $2bn satellites may trigger broadcast, broadband boom in 2028

NIGCOMSAT-2A, 2B: $2bn satellites may trigger broadcast, broadband boom in 2028

By Prince Osuagwu, Hi-Tech EditorIf the timeline set by the Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited, NIGCOMSAT, for the deployment of its two new communications satellites remains on course, Nigeria’s broadcast and broadband sectors could be heading for a major capacity boom by 2028. That prospect received a major boost at the weekend after the Federal Executive […]
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Blast broadband excites internet market,  Linkserve

Blast broadband excites internet market, Linkserve

Internet Services Provider, Linkserve Limited, last week announced that its new product, Blast Broadband, making tremendous in-road into the market exciting a lot of customers who have used the product to lift their businesses.

ICT:  Nigeria  missed big  opportunities  for growth, Says Dr. Armstrong Takang

ICT: Nigeria missed big opportunities for growth, Says Dr. Armstrong Takang

MID-last month, the e-Nigeria summit held in Abuja at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua centre with the theme, National ICT4D: Implications for Vision 20-2020, organized by the National Information technology Development Agency (NITDA). On the sidelines of the summit, Dr Armstrong Takang spoke with CyberLIFE.

Local Content:How oil  industry abandoned IT

Local Content:How oil industry abandoned IT

The on-going reforms in the oil and gas industry – with particular reference to the Local Content Bill will become strategically ineffective unless the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) component is made the strategic focus. This is because every other thing – from products, service to work-force — revolves around ICT.

Police move against laptop, phone thieves at Computer Village

Police move against laptop, phone thieves at Computer Village

For the street urchins and persons bringing in stolen Laptops and GSM handsets for sale in the Computer Village Ikeja , it may not be business as usual again, as the Police post in the market have intensified efforts to arrest culprits.

CPN goes tough on standards in IT industry

CPN goes tough on standards in IT industry

There appears to be tough days ahead for quacks and half-baked IT professionals who hijack IT jobs in the Nigerian economy only to offer very disappointing services, as the Computer Professionals Registration Council of Nigeria (CPN), has warned that compliance with standardization of IT jobs and training must be fully enforced.

Women urged to show interest in ICT

Women urged to show interest in ICT

Nigerian women have been challenged to take up career in Information and Communications Technology, ICT, and benefit from its numerous opportunities.

IT: Before that constitutional amendment

IT: Before that constitutional amendment

IntroductionInformation technology and internet as a fundamental human right .TO the National Assembly: Before you make that constitutional amendment, ensure that “Information Technology Education and Access is enshrined as fundamental Human Rights in the Nigerian Constitution.”

Olufuye  elected WITSA Vice-Chairman for Africa

Olufuye elected WITSA Vice-Chairman for Africa

At the just concluded General Assembly of WITSA held last month in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in conjunction with the World Congress on IT 2010, Dr Jimson Olufuye of Nigeria was elected WITSA Vice-Chairman for Africa for the next two years.