THE Expo centre, Eko Hotels Lagos, venue of the Glo Lafta Fest show, which also served as prize presentation ground for Globacom’s promo winners, was lighted up last week. The beehive of activities the venue turned out to become, that weekend, was apparently for two reasons and perhaps, for three classes of people.

CDMA operators, Starcomms at the weekend, announced that it has provided its data subscriber with the latest initiative designed to make renewal of data subscriptions more convenient. It said that subscribers now have three easy options to renew and pay for their data connections. They are, online renewal by using recharge cards, by SMS through direct airtime debit or through subscribers’ Interswitch debit/ATM cards. The new payment initiative is available to the company’s subscribers using either Izap or 1x internet services.

Etisalat Nigeria, has described as baseless rumour, a story in one of Nigeria’s ICT publications alleging that its board was having quibbles over control of equity and investments in the company. According to the company, it was unfortunate that such a baseless and unsubstantiated rumour would come from the vibrant Nigerian media.

Since coming into office, the Minister of State for Information and Communications, Alhaji Aliyu Ikra Bilbis, is not known for too many words and as a matter of fact have not been heard so much. But it seems that the urgent need to realise the dream of Nigeria becoming one of the 20 top economies of the world by the year 2020, is bringing out the tiger in him.

As the two day national workshop on the status and software development in Nigeria, stakeholders have called for improvement of local content in software development in Nigeria, as a critical element for realization of Vision 20:2020.