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Mr. Jim Ovia, founder and former group managing director, Zenith Bank Plc, has been conferred with the Honorary Fellowship of the Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) in recognition of his important and immense contributions in the Information Technology field over many years.
The conferment ceremony was conducted by Demola Aladekomo, NCS president and Alhaji Ladi Ogunneye, provost, College of Fellows, at the weekend.
You probably thought I misspelled or you misread. Sadly, that is the title.
Location: Borno
Temperature: 40C/104F degrees scorching hot days and 12C/54F freezing cold nights.
Time: 2am approximately, some day in 2009
Two 9 year old almajiri boys were in bed; well, on the floor actually, inside or beside a mosque or nondescript shack somewhere in Borno state, north east of Nigeria.
One woke up to use the “bathroom” that fateful cold night and when he got back, the second had pulled his, and the only blanket over himself.
Nokia Siemens Networks has said that it has completed testing of Orthogonal Sub-Channel (OSC) support for Voice services over Adaptive Multi-user channels on One Slot (VAMOS) handsets with the mobile chipsets provided by MediaTek.
For operators, the benefit is that they can further reduce the spectrum capacity required for GSM.
Orthogonal Sub-Channel makes VAMOS GSM handsets, which boost receiver capacity, work even harder. OSC is a GSM feature that has been commercially available since 2011.
Ms. Denise Cann, chief operating officer, 411ng.com, the company that developed 7411-national directory services has said that the service is open and can be used as counter terrorism number into which the entire nation may dial into at the hour of need.
She said that such distress calls or emergency will be forwarded to police or the joint task force as the case may be for rapid intervention.
“We work with major companies like Google GPS, NigComSat, CBN, Glo1 and Main one to achieve these noble feat”
The tablet-of-knowledge otherwise referred to as Opon Imo, Osun State’s first-of-its-kind revolutionary e-learning platform for the students shall receive public blessing today.
The platform slated to be unveiled by Engineer Rauf Aregbesola, state governor at Zenababs Half Moon Resorts, Ilesa, Osun is capable of addressing the educational insolvency that has thrived in the area following neglect of previous administrations.
House of Representatives has begun probe into the controversial $40 million contract given to an Israeli firm by the federal government to spy on Nigerians who access to the internet.
The House has therefore mandated its committees on ICT; Justice; and Anti-Corruption to investigate the alleged spying contract to monitor computers and internet activities of over 45 millions Nigerians on the web.
According to a resolution reached by the House on Thursday, no further action should be taken on the "spy project", because of the national fury it has generated.
A new report shows that laptops and mobile phones are now far and away the most popular new learning devices in Africa - while, despite the hype, tablets are still lagging, only being used regularly by 20% of eLearning practitioners.
This is just one of the surprising findings contained in the eLearning Africa Report 2013 launched Thursday at the Windhoek Safari Conference Centre by Joel Kaapanda, Namibian minister for ICT.
The National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA), has sealed one of the Globacom's base stations in Plateau State for not adhering to its regulations.
The sealed base station is located in Dandur, Lantang North Local Government Area of the state.
Dr William Lappi, the North Central Zonal Director of the agency, who led a team of the agency in the operation, said that the company had failed to conduct a Site Specific Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA).
Nigeria’s representatives at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) held in Phoenix, US have clinched the United Technology Company (UTC) Award for Excellence in Science and Engineering.
The duo of Duro-Aina Adebola and Zainab Bello from Doregos Private Academy Iyana Ipaja, Lagos invented a urine-powered generator to win the award and prize money of $3000 in scholarship.
Flexenclosure,a specialist developer of intelligent power management systems and pre-fabricated data centres for the ICT industry, has secured a $24million investment from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), Industrifonden and Andra AP-fonden (AP2).
The new capital will be used to further develop Flexenclosure’s eSite and eCentre technologies, ”green” ICT solutions aimed mainly at the developing markets in Asia and Africa.
