Team Hermes from Ireland wins top honors in the Software Design competition in the 2011 Imagine Cup World festival and awards ceremony held yesterday at the David H. Koch Theater Lincoln center in New York, the United States of America,

After three weeks of online voting system for 124 products, Medicare software application designed by four students from the Federal University of Technology Akure, (FUTA) that represented Nigeria at the 2011 Microsoft Imagine Cup students’ technology contest ending today in New York, the United States of America has been ranked 5th position globally in people’s choice award.

WHEN, soon after he assumed office as Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole set up the Edo State ICT Directorate, not a few must have queried the need for yet another parastatal, at a time when the clamour for less government is getting louder.

ON the heels of an inspection of facilities by undersea cable operator, MainOne, in Lagos, Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, Dr. Eugene Juwah, has averred that the success of the venture after one year indicates success for the commission’s broadband strategy.

I read with a keen interest the article of Dr Balarabe Mohammed Sani, NCC Director for Technical Standards and Network Integrity, which Vanguard carried on June 1, 2011. It was interesting that the Director began by acknowledging that it is generally agreed that the operators’ networks have serious issues of quality of services.