The youth empowerment initiative of the MTN Foundation, under its Cooperate Social Responsibility Education programme which started some years ago, last week, recorded another mile stone.

As Nigeria join the rest of the world to savour the various business opportunities being present by Mobile telephony, the the national resident of the Association of Telecom Operators of Nigeria, Engr. Titi Omo-Ettu has declared that only good political leadership driven by ICT that will help Nigeria realize its Vision 20 2020 dreams.

Perhaps what Nigeria lacks in world politics, it gained in world telecommunications standing. This is as the country last week contributed greatly to jerking world mobile subscription above 5 million mark from the 4 million mark it pitched at the end of the last quarter of 2008.

Territory Manager for Intel in South and Sub Saharan Africa, Jacques van Schalkwyk, has said that Intel’s researchers are cooking up a number of ways to advance computing and create a new experience for PC end users.

Nigeria’s computer regulatory body, the Computer Professionals Nigeria (CPN) is rooting for the deployment of IT in Nigeria’s economy. The CPN is urging for a stronger policy thrust that will enable IT to be more integrated in government processes to achieve greater speed and efficiency in delivering the benefits of governance to the people.