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Minister of Communication Technology, Mrs Omobola Johnson has disclosed that the Federal government has created a national single window portal that will ensure that all government information is domiciled in one portal.

After a facility tour of its plant last Monday in Lagos, Minister of Trade and Investments, Dr. Olusegun Aganga, while commending state-of-art factory of one the nation’s leading indigenous computer manufacturers, Omatek, disclosed that the Federal Government would work with the company to make available made-in-Nigeria computers to educational institutions across the nation.

ABUJA — The Annual Operating Levy, AOL, regulations were aimed at creating and providing an effective and efficient administration of an annual operating levy regime which would specify the mode and methods of assessment of AOL, the Executive Vice Chairman, Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, Dr. Eugene Juwah has said.

The House of Representatives has commended the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, on the implementation of the Digital Awareness Programmes, DAP, and the Emergency Communications Centre, ECC, projects across the country, describing the projects as major citizen empowerment programmes whose impact will be felt across the nation and beyond.

Again, stakeholders in the Nigerian IT industry who gathered in Lagos at the weekend for the 2013 Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON) President’s Dinner were worried, saying that unemployment will remain unabated except youth entrepreneurship through software development for job creation is encouraged.