Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, at the weekend in Lagos, tasked telecom operators on the need to expand their existing infrastructure to alleviate the current challenges in quality of services which has deteriorated to unacceptable levels

As the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, embark on series of reforms in the financial sector, an expert in the ICT sector of the economy, Mr Collins Onuegbu has advised that bulk of the reforms ride on the ICT programmes and applications to stand the test of time.

Annual ICT conferences, West Africa Information and Communications Technology Exhibition, W.Afri.Tel, and the West African ICT Congress, WAFICT, last week received the nod of the Association of Telecom Companies of Nigeria, ATCON as industry’s best in the sub-region.

After a thorough look at the trends in Nigeria’s telecommunications practice and operations, the Global System for Mobile telephony Association, GSMA, has said that the country can scoop about N862 billion in Gross Domestic Product, GDP, by the end of 2015, from technology alone if it plays according to the rules of the game.

Nnaemeka Ewelukwa is a Senior Teaching Fellow in International Trade Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He also manages African Legal Consulting Limited, London UK, a firm that consults on the legal aspects of investing or doing business in Africa