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 […]
Ebonyi Deputy Gov commissions Gloworld
Deputy Governor of Ebonyi State, Engineer Dave Umahi, last Thursday commissioned the latest Gloworld shop located in the state capital, Abakiliki. The shop is the first such outlet to be opened by any telecommunications company in the state.
Google launches domain for Nigerian businesses
Search giant Google has Tuesday, launched a new website that allows business owners in the country to register their businesses online.
Make use of Nigeria’s domain, .ng, Angaye urges
Stakeholders in the nation’s information technology, IT sector have charged Nigerians to consider the importance of making use of local content by switching over to Nigeria’s internet domain names otherwise called country code top level domain (ccTLD), .ng.
Nokia campaigns sink counterfeits market share
Nokia last week revealed that consistent media campaign and other related activities in the Nigerian mobile market has significantly checkmated the spread pf counterfeit mobile phones dropping the market share from 15 percent in July 2010 to 6 percent by July 2011.
ICT sector needs local content policy- EKUWEM
If there are few people whose views should be taken seriously in the Nigerian ICT sector, one of them is Dr. Emmanuel Ekuwem. A former President of the Association of Telecommunication Companies of Nigeria, ATCON, past President of Nigeria Internet Group, NIG, and the CEO of Teledom Group, an indigenous conglomerate company with expertise in broadband ICT infrastructure development, deployment and software development, he can be said to have seen it all in terms of versatility, expertise and experience. In this interview, Ekuwem stressed the need for local content policy in the ICT sector, just like the case in the downstream sector of petroleum industry. According to him, this will bring about direct investment in ICT manufacturing and assembling, and create jobs for the teeming young Nigerians. Excerpts:
