and other nationals residing in or doing business in the ever busy border community of Seme and Badagry in Lagos, there is cheering news from Globacom, which on last week opened its one-stop customer care shop, Gloworld, in the community.

No matter how cheap counterfeit devices are sold in the market today, latest developments show that its days of existence in the Nigerian market are counted. Substandard and counterfeit products particularly mobile devices have in recent years become the toast of Nigerian consumers who due to combined elements of poor economy and lack of information patronise them to their own unknowing disadvantage.

Innovative telecoms giant, Etisalat Nigeria, last week, announced its sponsorship of Nigerian Idol, a reality show, tagged ‘Giving Voice to Your Dreams’ at a star-studded event in Sheraton Hotel & Towers, Ikeja, Lagos .

The Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) and the international consultancy firm BroadGroup have announced a joint collaboration to organise the ICT Finance Emerging Markets Global Summit to take place December this year at the BIS Conference Centre in London.

The award of contracts for the supply of about 132,000 units of direct data capture (DDC) machines for the voters registration exercise by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to largely foreign vendors has drawn outright condemnation from Nigerian IT professional bodies including the Nigerian Computer Society, Information Technology Association of Nigeria, ITAN and the Institute of Software Professionals of Nigeria, ISPON , the Nigerian Internet Group, (NIG) as local players were left in the cold.