DESPITE challenges, when the National Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) of India, the premier trade body and chamber of commerce of the IT business-processing outsourcing, (BPO) industries in India and the top Nigerian IT CEOs gathered in Lagos last week for IT Future 2010: the Nigeria-India IT CEO Summit; it was obvious that the Nigerian market place is where to be for off shoring and outsourcing businesses.

Global leader in critical power and cooling services, APC by Schneider Electric opened its local swap centre in Ikeja, Lagos. The new Swap center is to provide warranty support on single phase Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPSes) as well as assisting Nigerian customers with onsite support related to three phase solutions.

With the wave still blowing hot and hard on the dual SIM card phone technology; a current sensation in all major ICT markets across the country, refurbished phones have stepped up their game in the trend of phone innovations.

Good leadership, one of Nigeria’s biggest challenges, last weekend formed the major plank of discussion at a one day ICT summit held in Lagos, at the Nigeria Institute of International Affairs

In today’s world, Information Technology has brought about a revolution in the day-to-day lives of people. It is time that countries like Nigeria accept the fact that a pervasive national information infrastructure is as basic a necessity as water and power. So far, any country’s development status was based on finance, industry and military.