TITI OMO-ETTU As you might have known, I, along with some members of my Executive Committee and representatives of ATCON member-companies, had the privilege of meeting the new EVC of NCC Dr Eugene Juwah and his team when we visited him last Friday. The purpose of my visit was to congratulate the new appointee and [...]

DORA AKUNYILI It is my pleasure to welcome you all to the Ministry of Information and Communications on the occasion of this stakeholders’ forum holding in Abuja. I would like to use the opportunity to share with you the feelings and concerns of Nigerians, with respect to the telecommunications industry. Fellow stakeholders, most Nigerians have [...]

Oladejo Fabolude First it was word that the President was going to use Facebook to communicate with the people. Then it was the announcement about a plan to spend a significant amount of money making internet infrastructure available to schools across the country. Now I hear the government is also going to be using YouTube [...]

Titi Omo-Ettu We are once again opportune to be part of another session of the WAFICT Exhibition/Conference. The timing is particularly significant given that our industry is experiencing considerable transformation. Change is afoot at the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC; as is the reality that two major players’ submarine optical fibre cables would be open to [...]

Bayo Buriamoh-Igbo Telecommunication across the globe has changed the way we live from its inception. In Africa especially here in Nigeria, with the introduction of wireless mobile telephone services one can come to the conclusion that transformation of the society and the positive impact it has had on the lives of the ordinary people is [...]

Bayo Buriamoh – Igbo Introduction of telephone and other telecommunication facilities in Nigeria was by the Colonial Administration in the late 19th century, it was for the exclusive use of the colonial administration to communicate within Nigeria and their home office in London. In 1960 Nigerian attained its Independence which ushered in self – rule, [...]

By Benjamin Amu A database is an integrated collection of logically-related records or files consolidated into a common pool that provides data for one or more multiple uses. One way of classifying databases involves the type of content, for example: bibliographic, full-text, numeric, and image. Other classification methods start from examining database models or database [...]

In a keynote presentation at the Internet Governance Forum of TECHNOLOGY TIMES Outlook 2010 Summit held February 23-25, 2010 in Lagos, Executive Director, Mobility/New Ventures, Linkserve, Alan Tapfumaneyi share his perspectives on topical Internet market issues at the ICT Roadmap event. Excerpts: The Internet has come a long way from the time of the research [...]

In a keynote presentation at TECHNOLOGY TIMES Outlook 2010 Summit, Senior Manager, Regulatory Affairs, MTN Nigeria, Oyeronke Oyetunde identified critical success factors for the sustainable growth of broadband and allied issues in the Nigerian telecoms market: “In the presentation today, we are not going to be splashing yellow, which we normally do; this will just be discussion between [...]

By Hadiza Umar “Digital inclusion brings about a level playing field. It means that the little girl in a village in Nigeria can get information for her research project as a little girl in Washington or China.” -Professor Turner Isoun, ex-Minister of Science and Technology The term digital divide according to Wikipedia refers to the [...]