Nigerian youth engagement will accelerate innovation in the ICT sector, Gbenga Sesan says

Gbenga Sesan, Executive Director, Paradigm Initiative (in picture) says that it is clear that ICT policy implementation in the country is more urgent than ever before and the government must ensure that this should be given higher priority because of its potential for accelerating transformation of the society.        Photo credit: Elon University

By Olubunmi Adeniyi Lagos. December 20, 2012: Gbenga Sesan, Executive Director, Paradigm Initiative (PIN) has encouraged Nigerian youth to get engaged in the implementation of the National Information and Communication Technology (ICT) policy to accelerate the country’s development process. Sesan made this statement on Monday at the Review of the Nigerian National ICT Policy event [...]

Airtel Nigeria advocates speedy go-live of mobile number porting

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By Olubunmi Adeniyi Lagos. December 19, 2012: Airtel Nigeria has made a case for speedy implementation of the Mobile Number Portability (MNP) in the country saying that the process will promote healthy competition amongst mobile phone operators and improve quality of service. With the go-live of Mobile number portability (MNP), mobile telephone users will be [...]

MTN Nigeria, Glo Mobile among Top 7 African telecoms powerhouses

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  By Ibrahim Olukotun  Lagos. December 18, 2012: MTN Nigeria and Glo Mobile, the number one and two mobile phone operators by subscriber numbers in the Nigerian telecoms market have been ranked among Top 7 mobile telecoms powerhouses in Africa. According to recent African market subscriber information from ABI Research, MTN Nigeria ranks number one [...]

Nigeria to yield dividends of broadband “within shortest possible time”, co-Chair of Presidential Broadband team assures

Ernest Ndukwe, co-Chair of the Presidential Committee on a National Broadband Strategy and Roadmap (in picture) says that when the work of the broadband team is completed, it will deliver a broad-based plan for the Nigerian government to take advantage of the dividends of broadband, "within the shortest possible time."   Photo: Technology Times

  By Olubunmi Adeniyi Lagos. December 17, 2012: Ernest Ndukwe, co-Chair of the Presidential Committee on a National Broadband Strategy and Roadmap says the group will deliver an overall blueprint to ensure that Nigeria takes advantage of high-speed Internet services for economic development, “within shortest possible time.” Goodluck Jonathan, the President of Nigeria, recently set [...]

Time has come to engage Marketing Analytics and Accountability

Nigerian corporations have rapidly adopted world-class marketing and customer engagement activities but have lagged in adopting a vital capability: Marketing Analytics. The firms that realise and adopt this evidence-based marketing will dominate their market space. CMOs should lead the charge because the implications are firm wide and the benefits substantial.                               Photo credit: Technology Times

  YEMI IBIRONKE Nigerian corporations have transitioned onto the world stage on several fronts with strategies, platforms and executions comparable to world-class firms but the adoption of accountability and sound Marketing Analytics by CMOs is required for realizing their marketing investments true potential.   The new competitive advantage Marketing Analytics is the art of using [...]

Phone dealers alert over the influx of substandard China phones into Nigeria

Ikeja Computer Village in Lagos (seen in picture) is a thriving market for technology products and services: Phone dealers are complaining that some Chinese handset makers are capitalizing on the high rate of poverty in the country to flood the market with substandard products that are outlawed in China and other countries           Photo: Technology Times

  By Ibrahim Olukotun Lagos. December 17, 2012: Phone dealers in Lagos have decried the rising influx of substandard China phones into Nigeria citing that the growing trend may undermine the user experience in the local telecoms market. Baring their minds on the issue in Lagos in separate interviews with Technology Times, Iyke Nwosu, President [...]

Only 4.5% of Nigerians own PC, government survey reveals

The NBS survey reveals that over 95 per cent of Nigerians lack access to a PC or Internet.  Access to personal computers appears to be low, with a national average total access of 4.5 per cent while actual PC ownership stands at 0.9 per cent.
The result of the survey shows that the most widely-used ICT devices are radios and mobile phones while Internet usage and PC access remained considerably lower.        Photo credit: Free Range

By Olubunmi Adeniyi Lagos. December 16, 2012: Nigeria’s personal computer ownership stand at an abysmal 4.5 percent of her teeming population, a major technology gap in the continent’s most vibrant telecoms market, a new government study has uncovered. This is pitted against official information showing that the nation’s telecoms market currently has over 100 million [...]

Open access should be assured by regulatory intervention, tech stakeholders say

The growth of broadband, seen as the next phase of growth in the Nigerian telecoms sector after voice, has been hampered by the absence of pervasive backbone infrastructure to encourage diffusion across the country.       Photo credit: Free Range

  By Olubunmi Adeniyi Lagos. December 16, 2012: Key stakeholders in the ICT sector have agreed that the open access backbone should be assured by regulatory intervention and not necessarily by building new infrastructure. The growth of broadband, seen as the next phase of growth in the Nigerian telecoms sector after voice, has been hampered [...]

Delta partners NITDA to train 40 engineers in website development

According to the Delta State Government, the training, which is planned to be held twice a year, is set to equip engineering graduates in the state with requisite skills in website development.    Photo credit: Free Range

By Ibrahim Olukotun Lagos. December 16, 2012: The Delta State Government has partnered with National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) in training forty computer engineers and information technology graduates for its pilot website design training. The training, which is planned to be held twice a year, is set to equip engineering graduates in the state [...]

MTN plans global brand campaign to refocus new strategic direction

The campaign articulates MTN’s belief that emerging markets are on the cusp of a brand new world. This is a world where the distinction between the first and third world no longer exists, thanks to digitisation, the mobile phone company says.

  By Technology Times Staff Reporter Lagos. December 14, 2012: South Africa’s MTN Group says it is launching its latest multi-channel global brand campaign, which pronounces the mobile operator’s and owners of MTN Nigeria bold views on the potential of emerging markets. Titled, “Welcome to the New World”, the campaign launches tomorrow in selected countries [...]