Capacity building, critical to Africa’s energy future
By Stephen Bolu Contrary to the new normal where technology leads business reformations, growth conversations in Africa’s business landscape, particularly in Nigeria energy sector, often begin with capital. Investment, infrastructure, and asset acquisition are frequently treated as the clearest indicators of progress. While important, they do not tell the full story of what is required […]
Planned bus workers strike threatens GSM congress
IF the officials of the GSM Association, GSMA, did not make a head way in their meeting with the metro and bus workers from TMB, the main public transport operator in the metropolitan area of Barcelona, participants at this year’s Mobile World Congress holding in Barcelona Spain, 27th February through 1st March 2012, may have a long trek to and from the venue of the event.
Using your smart phone as internet modem
THESE days, more people, especially students and workers, including other professionals now prefer to use smart phones as broadband internet becomes more ubiquitous. Thus, it is becoming commonplace to see an upwardly mobile young professional with a smart phone, and a laptop with a modem for tasks that require more set-up than a smart phone would afford.
NCC axes vendors of unapproved mobile handsets
The Nigeria Communication Commission, NCC fight against undue interference on network took a new dimension when the commission, last weekend in Lagos clamped down on two illegal mobile phone dealers in the country.
World Bank to train 1,500 Nigerian graduates in ICT
THE World Bank, through the ACCESS Nigeria project, is to fund the training of about 1, 500 young Nigerian graduates in the Information Communication Technology (ICT) and Information Technology (IT) for the outsourcing Industry.
‘Nigeria ready for satellite-enabled e-education’
Considering that Satellite communication has always been a major backbone to the development of most advanced societies, Managing Director, Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited Engr. Ahmed-Rufai, has said that his Nigcomsat 1R project was what Nigeria needed to achieve universal access, ICT development, backbone for social, political and economic re-engineering.
