The new pastime for governments at different levels in Nigeria is the development of ICT resource centers. It is a pastime that state governments and local councils love to indulge and one that the federal government is not shy to get involved in. read more »
In Abuja last week, at a small gathering of IT professionals indulging in talk on the future of the World Wide Web, I was forced to return to an old but still raging debate on an African space in Internet governance. read more »
I fear that I may have unwittingly joined the growing legion of critics of the Nigerian government’s increasing investment in telecoms companies while it makes a public show of its commitment to a private sector-led economy, particularly in the telecommunications sector. read more »
August was Nigeria’s seventh anniversary of when the GSM mobile phone became a part of our national life. October is when we remember the 48th year that political independence came from the British. But, somehow, it appears the GSM mobile phone has made more progress socially and economically in seven years than the 48 years of its host country, Nigeria. read more »
The director general of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Yomi Bolarinwa, is angry with the media, particularly those reporting the telecom sector. He thinks the controversy over convergence in Nigeria is a media thing. read more »
The new pastime for governments at different levels in Nigeria is the development of ICT resource centers. It is a pastime that state governments and local councils love to indulge and one that the federal government is not shy to get involved in. read more »
