A rather unusual but heated debate had erupted during a session at the NITMA awards organised by the Nigeria Computer Society NCS in Lagos recently during which leading stakeholders in the sector and the President of the Information Technology Association of Nigeria, ITAN; Dr. Jimson Olufuye had argued vehemently over the proper acronym to call the sector: IT or ICT?

Anything found on a crime scene that has the potential to give a clue to reconstruction is known as evidence. Also know in some quarters as artifact, trace or trail, evidence is anything that can be used to track the cause of crime.

The Ondo State government has signed a school agreement with Microsoft Nigeria to provide the state’s schools with high quality and affordable ICT education.

The Nigeria Computer Society NCS, last week held its National Information Technology Merits awards, NITMA 2010 in Lagos with various IT stakeholders and speakers at the event giving a scorecard of their ratings so far on the development of IT and the IT industry in the country.

While the menace of advanced fee fraud popularly known as 419 and spam mails remain a challenge to governments of the world, latest Microsoft’s Security Intelligence report, Volume 9, has revealed that advance fee fraud mails accounted for 8.6 percent of the spam messages blocked by Microsoft’s Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE) in the second quarter of 2010 alone.