Participants at the recent concluded West African ICT (WAfICT 2010) Congress which coincided with the 10th edition of the West African International Telecommunications and Information Communication Technology Exhibition (W.Afri.Tel), agreed that more efforts needed to be expended on Africa’s ICT sector to sustain developments already made.

To ensure reduction in unemployment, poverty, crime and engender Information and Communications Technology, ICT literacy, African ICT Foundation is assisting Nigerian youths across the country to acquire ICT skills.

PRINCESS Ethel Eweka and Mrs Titi Salau are both members of the governing board of the National Information Development Agency (NITDA). On the sidelines of last month’s e-Nigeria summit which held in Abuja, they opined that the nation’s womenfolk must play a role in the National ICT4D plan if we are to achieve Vision 20-2020.

TRADERS in the popular Computer Village otherwise known as Otigba market, Ikeja last week accused men of the Nigerian police of impersonation and extortion in the market.

Stakeholders and industry experts in Nigeria are eagerly awaiting this year’s New Partnership for Africa’s Development NEPAD’s communications technologies (ICT) Africa Summit 2010 taking place in the second week of August in Cape Town , South Africa. They are however saying that these summits and meetings which are almost beginning to tow each other in line should finally begin to leave lasting effects on the poor masses.