THE dust is yet to settle on the recommendations of the Steve Oronsaye-led committee set up by the Federal Government on the rationalization of federal Ministries, Departments and Agencies with a view to cutting costs of governance, as leaders of the Nigerian IT industry under the umbrella of Nigerian Computer Society, (NCS) rose in stout defence of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), urging government to retain it as a development agency for Information Technology.

Nokia woke up last week to take the African mobile space by storm. First it prepared the stage for more than 200 of Africa’s top policy makers, developers, entrepreneurs and private enterprises to engage in three days of intense debate at the Open Innovation Africa Summit (OIAS) in Nairobi, Kenya.

Nigeria’s introduction of cashless economy is attracting many stakeholders, including a US based data protection, authentication and encryption company, SafeNet Inc.

Can Nigeria survive future challenges of nation building, wealth creation, national security and global competitiveness without strategically applying Information Technology and Communication Satellites in particular? The answer is very clear!

A Lagos-based organization, Laptops4Learning in partnership with Flour Mills of Nigeria has empowered Kuramo Primary School with 50 Laptops for technology based learning.