In 2001 in South Africa, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) rallied the world to tackle the embarrassing imbalance in telecommunications development between Africa and the rest of the world.

TWO weeks after expiration of deadline given by the apex bank, the Central Bank of Nigeria, (CBN) for commercial banks to stop off-site Automated Teller Machines, (ATMs), some banks across the nation, especially in Lagos state are yet to fully comply with the directive, CyberLIFE investigations show.

Following completion of a two-term tenure as Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) by Engr.

Opening Statement Today, software is recongised as the “critical national infrastructure” (CNI) within the global critical infrastructure (GCI). It is therefore the new centre of gravity of human life and global economy. Conventional wisdom and new lessons learned dictates that: “No nation can survive the concentrated challenges of the emerging Information Society (IS) without building a robust, smart and skillful software capability and associated capacities of code warriors.

How best to come up with appropriate legal frameworks for Cyber security among commonwealth nations will take center stage at the planned cyber security forum organized by the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) in partnership with the United Kingdom department of Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) and the UK Government’s Office of Cyber Security (OCS)

Ahead of the Information Technology Public Private Forum (ITPPF) slated for next week in Abuja, the Secretary-General of WITSA, Dr James Poisant has expressed his interest to present the keynote paper on “Meeting the Vision 20 2020 Challenge”

As countries of the world which qualified for the 2010 Fifa World Cup are gearing up for the mundial, so unfortunately, internet and ATM Fraudsters are also warming up.

Building on the success of the second ICT Best Practices Forum in April 2008, the Government of Burkina Faso, in collaboration with Microsoft and the European Union, have concluded plans to host the third ICT Best Practices Forum in June, in Ouagadougou, the Burkina Faso capital.

Etisalat Nigeria has announced a location based tariff promo targeted at its subscribers in the south-south and south-eastern parts of the country.

As criticism continues to trail the ongoing sales promotions by telecom operators in the country , Nigeria second national telecom career, Zain has come out in strong terms to defend its ongoing Step Up promotion currently going on in the country.