Professor Dora Akunyili, Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Communications, seemed a lone voice in the wilderness when she initiated the project of re-branding Nigeria. The question which the minister herself struggled hard but could not convince anybody was how a new wine will test in an old can.

The Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) has said that the Rt Hon Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones, Minister of State for Security and Counter-Terrorism in the UK, will deliver the keynote address at the Cybersecurity Forum 2010 slated to hold next week United Kingdom.

DR Jimson Olufuye presently is the President of the Information Technology Association of Nigeria (ITAN). ITAN, as a body, is Nigeria’s representative at the World Information Technology and Services Association (WITSA), a global IT body which held its congress in Amsterdam, The Netherlands last month.

Concerns are beginning to be raised about the delays in appointment of persons to various critical positions in government. For a nation of over 140 million Nigerians at home and in the Diaspora, it cannot be that difficult to identify deserving Nigerians to be appointed to fill these vacancies.

There appears to be growing concern about internet safety even as the prevalence of social networking web sites, online communities, and internet-enabled processes is great news for individual, corporate, and government users. However, increased dependence on the internet for work, life, and play, is exploited daily by those who make the internet unsafe for others.