GOVERNOR Sullivan Chime of Enugu State has described Globacom as a friendly network. The governor made the comment at the opening of the second Gloworld shop in Enugu, the state capital.

Few weeks after the modification of online visa appointment system, the Consulate-General of the Federal Republic of Germany has attributed disturbing interference by touts as a reason why the web based booking system provided by VFS Global Services Nigeria Ltd.had to be modified to allow Nigerians fair and transparent access to visa related appointments for interviews.

There appears to be new dawn in the Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON), representing the interests of the National Software Engineering and Services Developers Community in Nigeria as new National Executive Council to run the affairs of the Organisation for the next two years has emerged with the Oracle of the Nigerian ICT industry elected as the President.

About 474 schools spread across the six geopolitical zones of the country, have so far benefitted from complete set of Internet tools and facilities provided by the Universal Service Provision Fund, USPF. USPF is a special fund set up by the Federal Government under the National Communications Act 2003, designed to provide telecommunications and ICT services to unserved, underserved and deprived groups and communities in the country.

How best to evolve policies and regulatory guidelines that will address the ICT concerns of the physically challenged and the elderly people in the society was the focus of a one -day national summit on “ICTs and Accessibility for Persons with Special Needs and the Elderly” organized by the telecom regulatory agency, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC .