RISING from a national stakeholders’ workshop and exhibition on National System of Innovation (NSI), participants resolved that for Nigeria to become one of the top 20 economies by the year 2020, the country needs to urgently entrench science, technology and innovation into the system.

By the time final draft report and findings on new interconnect rates determination for voice services were presented to the workshop organized by the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC on Interconnect Costing model study to the telecoms operators last week in Lagos, arguments swung from left and right.

EVER since the fortunes of the nation’s security took a downward spiral, culminating in the recent attack on the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero, many Nigerians have spoken out on the need to further secure the country against internal and external incursions.

Minister of Science and Technology, Professor Ita Bassey Okon Ewa has said that the Federal Government through its research agency, SHEDA Science and Technology Complex, Abuja has concluded plans to partner the European Union and United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO to enable Nigeria domesticate solar technology in the country.

THE Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC), says it prosecuted 31 copyright cases in 2012, 26 of which were criminal convictions of pirates and five civil suits.