[responsivevoice] A Non governmental Organisation, NGO known as the Centre for Children Health Education Orientation and Protection, CEE-HOPE, which launched its ICT centres in five states across the country in 2020, one of which was located at Monkey Village, an informal housing settlement in the Opebi area of the state. While launching the centres last…
FUTA New Vice-Chancellor Unfolds Seven Point Agenda
The new Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Professor Joseph Adeola Fuwape has unfolded a seven-point agenda that he said will further take the Institution to greater heights. He made this known at his inauguration ceremony presided over by the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the Governing Council of the Institution, Senator Joseph Waku…
We Will Empower More Nigerian Women – US Consulate General
The Public Affairs Section of the United States Consulate General, Lagos, has reiterated its commitment to continuously empower more Nigerian women and make them self-reliant. Rhonda Watson, Public Diplomacy officer of the section stated this on Tuesday during an information and communications technology, ICT, workshop organised for Nigerian small and medium scale businesswomen. Titled, Entrepreneurship…
NCC: Serving the Unserved
Through the Universal Service Provision Fund, NCC is making efforts to ensure that telephone services extend to every part of Nigeria The Universal Service Provision Fund, USPF, was established under the Nigeria Commuications Commission, NCC, Act to facilitate the achievement of national policy goals for universal access to information and communication technologies, ICTs, to rural,…
The Imperative for Broadband
By Omobola Johnson It appears to me that there is not a week that goes by without an event in Nigeria where broadband is not being discussed. All over the world, broadband or more importantly, universal access to broadband, is becoming a significant indicator of development and competiveness amongst nations. Some countries have gone as far…
NCC: The Policy Support
The secret of the success of the telephone revolution in Nigeria is the federal government’s support for the commission and a robust national policy on ICT Eugene Juwah, executive vice chairman of Nigeria Communications Commission, NCC, revealed that the success of the liberalisation of the telecoms sector in Nigeria was due to the total support…
NDDC begins training of 150 teachers on ICT
The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has commenced the training of 150 secondary school teachers on Information Communication Technology, ICT, designed to equip them with requisite knowledge on ICT. Ibitoye Abosede, NDDCs Head of Corporate Affairs, said in a statement in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, that the exercise was part of the commissions educate-the-educators programme. He…
Intel BeginsTwo-Weeks Training Workshop in FUTA
As part of efforts to train university ICT experts for its new Galileo Board Technology, Intel Incorporation, a leading global organization in Information and Communications Technology, ICT, has started a two-week training workshop at the Federal University of Technology Akure, FUTA. The training, which is solely for some selected Nigerian Universities, is to give ICT…
Using ICT for National Development
By John Adebisi – Internet Constituency. Nigeria, like most developing nations around the world, has come to recognise the importance of information and communication technology, ICT, as catalyst for sustainable socio-economic development. This recognition is well captured in the National Development Plan – Nigeria’s Vision 20:2020. This is the way to go! However, Nigeria is…
‘Developing Human Resources Is Our Priority At ITF’
When Professor Longsmas Sambo Wapmuk assumed the leadership of the Industrial Training Fund, ITF, in 2006, as director-general/chief executive officer, DG/CEO, there were mounting expectations that he would turnaround the organisation and repotision it as the number one training and development institution in Nigeria and one of the best in the world. Wapmuk…
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