The president of the Computer and Allied Products Dealers Association of Nigerian CAPDAN; Mr Tunji Balogun at the last meeting held with the Director General of the National Information Development Agency NITDA Professor Cleopas Angaye last year had cried that street traders were choking the life out of registered businesses in the market. NITDA had promised to help but months after, things continue to remain the same in the market.

Driven by technology advancement, ICT and financial experts have called for mobile money inclusion in the system to enable Nigeria share from the bouquet of the emerging mobile money ecosystem in West Africa.

Over one hundred broadcasting experts and ICT leaders across Africa including Nigeria with the representation of the regulatory authority, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, are currently in Johannesburg, South Africa, deliberating on the progress made in the switch over from analogue to digital broadcasting in Africa.

WHILE reaffirming a bid to sustain growth in the nation’s telecoms industry via a six-point agenda in the next five years, it will not be business as usual as the industry regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, served notice that it would enforce compliance with, and strictly enforce extant regulations and directives.

About 11 indigent Nigerians who benefitted from MTN intervention scheme were last week presented to the public by MTN Foundation.