Running in its 20th series, the United States of America’s Computers, Telecommunications and Office equipment, CTO 2010 ended last week in Lagos, even as it continues to expose Nigerian ICT sector to the foreign vendors scrambling for the juicy market.

While the software giant, Microsoft calls for additional government and industry support to combat software piracy in Nigeria which remains among the highest in the world, the seventh annual global software piracy study released last week by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), an international association representing the global software industry, in conjunction with the market research firm IDC, revealed that software piracy rate in Nigeria is 83%.

There appears to be growing anxiety among ICT vendors in various markets in Lagos State as efforts to relocate Nigerian Information Communications Technology market including Computer Village Ikeja, GSM Village, Saka Tinubu and GSM Village also in Ikeja may not have yielded the expected results, CyberLIFE checks can reveal

Nine millionaires have emerged in the ongoing MTN 2010 World Cup Naira Splash Competition. The winners were announced during the first prize presentation ceremony of the SMS-based interactive competition which was held on Friday May 7, 2010, at Sheraton Hotel, Lagos.

ICT Watch Network, a leading Nigerian television programme on MITV and TVC committed to the stimulation of the rapid development of Information & Communications Technology (ICT) in Africa – is set to assemble Africa’s Digital ‘who is who’ in Nigeria will hold next month in Lagos.

Three media organizations in the ICT sector have begun a pioneering role to rally stakeholders who have various roles to play in ensuring that the Nigerian environment is free from pollution from ICT tools and infrastructure to a workshop that will shape developments and policies in various areas.

The advent of computers, GSM phones, and other technological gadgets and apparatus has fast-tracked the development and growth of the country and positioned it to be among the world’s 20 biggest economy in the year 2020.

Committed to increasing access to technology and technology skills among youths, the software giant, Microsoft in collaboration with‘ the Federal Ministry of Youth Development, Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) and the Digital Bridge Institute has commenced an entrepreneurship development capacity building programme for some selected 100 Youth and Youth Development officers in the country.

After listening to many ICT experts lament on the lack of a dependable central data system, and the dangers of identity crisis in a large populated country like Nigeria, at the recent concluded computer Telecommunications and Office equipment expo, CTO in Lagos, organised by the United States commercial Consulate, fears of the unknown set in amongst many participants.

Frontline information technology solutions provider in Nigeria, Resourcery Plc, has been named Cisco Security Excellence Partner of the Year for Africa and Levant at the recently concluded Cisco Partner Summit 2010 held in San Francisco, California.