At the flag-off of a nationwide SIM card registration exercise on Monday in Abuja, the Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, (NCC) Engr. Eugene Juwah has said that the major significance of the exercise is the achievement of a Central Data base for all mobile phone users in Nigeria.

The Minister of Science and Technology Prof. Mohammed Abubakar last week at the 2nd scientific briefing on the utilization of research and development, R&D, listed about 72 products, developed by its parastatals for commercialization to improve standard of living of the people

At this year’s event, an in depth look was given into software development and deployment not just in Nigeria, but across board. The Finacle banking application manufactured by Infosys technologies but deployed and supported to banking institutions by CWG was recognised as the most preferred software application.

The Amnesty programme put together for the re-integration of Ex-militants back into the mainstream of normal socio-economic and political lifestyle in Nigeria finally yielded fruits as all the delegates last week, under the ICT training at New Horizons Systems Solutions, Nigeria graduated as Hardware Engineers.

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