Recently, an undersea cable landing license granted to MTN Nigeria, promoters of the West African Cable Ssystems WACS, by the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, attracted very serious criticisms from telecommunications industry faithfuls.

FOR Arch Bishop and Primate of All Anglican Communion, Most Rev. Peter Jasper Akinola, it is one thing to float a radio station and call it Love Fm, but another to allow it reflect the principles and tenets of love.

Second National telecommunications operator, Globacom said its presence at the Port Harcourt International Trade Fair has made the event a beehive of activities.

THE joy of 1200 youths knew no bounds penultimate week, as the Lagos state government, under its ministry of science and technology graduated 1200 unemployed youths from across the state, on various computer skills and competencies for self actualization and financial independence.

Dr. Emmanuel Ekuwem is the Chief Executive of Teledom Group, a major player providing hi-tech solutions in the telecoms and ICT sector of the economy.

Professor Charles O. Uwadia is the President of Nigerian Computer Society (NCS), and the Director of the Centre for Information Technology & Systems (CITS) at the University of Lagos.

Open Source Software (OSS) has played very important roles in the growth of software technologies. Nigeria being a developing country that faces various socio-economic challenges; access to freely distributed solutions that have no restriction on selling the software as a component of an aggregated solution is invaluable.

While the menace of cybercrime continues to cause more economic harm than good across the globe, especially in Nigeria , where the ugly trend has remained unabated, the Senate Committee on Communication has raised alarm over the vulnerability of the Nigerian ICT infrastructure to cyber attack, saying that 95% of the nation’s ICT Infrastructures are velnerable to cyber attack.

THERE is palpable anxiety among a broad spectrum of Nigerians over plans to register mobile lines in the country by the telecoms regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, as a result of security issues involved in the exercise.

Rising from its decade review of the Nigerian telecoms sector, the National Association of Telecommunications Subscribers of Nigeria (NATCOMS), has commended Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigeria Communication Commission (NCC), Engr. Ernest Ndukwe for his pioneering role in the sustenance of the use of GSM phones in country, particularly in the area of the establishment of the NCC Telecomms Consumer Parliament in August 2003.