Team Indwell of the Obafemi Awolowo University has emerged national winner of this year’s Microsoft Imagine Cup competition which held last week at the Unilag CITS complex, Lagos.

MID-last month, the e-Nigeria summit held in Abuja at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua centre with the theme, National ICT4D: Implications for Vision 20-2020, organized by the National Information technology Development Agency (NITDA).

The on-going reforms in the oil and gas industry – with particular reference to the Local Content Bill will become strategically ineffective unless the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) component is made the strategic focus. This is because every other thing – from products, service to work-force — revolves around ICT.

For the street urchins and persons bringing in stolen Laptops and GSM handsets for sale in the Computer Village Ikeja , it may not be business as usual again, as the Police post in the market have intensified efforts to arrest culprits.

There appears to be tough days ahead for quacks and half-baked IT professionals who hijack IT jobs in the Nigerian economy only to offer very disappointing services, as the Computer Professionals Registration Council of Nigeria (CPN), has warned that compliance with standardization of IT jobs and training must be fully enforced.