The federal government last week, armed the National Information Technology Agency of Nigeria ( NITDA) with more teeth to perform its functions as the Agency now has the sole authority to clear all locally made information systems before they are purchased by Federal Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs.

The Federal Government has not been more serious on its creation of job promise than last week in Lagos, when in collaboration with the Outsourcing Initiative of Nigeria, ODIN, it linked about 1,007 unemployed graduates to prospective employers.

Former Executive Vice Chairman of Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, Engr Ernest Ndukwe at the weekend described the explosive growth that occurred in the Nigerian telecom sector in the past twelve years as partly the handiwork of ICT media professionals.

Perhaps, Nigeria would have joined the likes of Germany, Japan, India and Malaysia as an automobile manufacturer as far back as 1997 when Dr. Ezekiel Izuogu, an electrical/electronics engineer, a doctor of science and lecturer of communications and electronics engineering at the Federal Polytechnic, Owerri, made a prototype of his first ever all-African car which he named Z-600.

In recognition of his enormous contribution and achievement to the development of the Nigerian software industry, the Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria, ISPON, has called on the Federal Government to honour late Engr. Simeon Agu, the founding father of the group by establishing national software academy in his name as a befitting posthumous award.