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Declaring open the ICT training for top officials of the state government, he said the e-governance system when fully implemented would improve efficiency, transparency and above all reduce the cost of governance.

Yakowa who spoke through the Secretary to the State Government Mr. Waje Yayok said the concept of e-governance would also lead to reduction in unnecessary bureaucratic bottlenecks and make service more readily responsive to the needs of the present times.

This is to cover the length and breath of Damaturu, the state capital. The commissioning which held last weekend in Damaturu has made the state the first in the whole of Africa to deploy and experience the height of 21st century information and communication technology backbone for effective governance with the commissioning the comprehensive digital network.

Governor Mamman Bello of Yobe State commissioned in Damaturu, the state capital, at the weekend, the state's Integrated Wireless Telephone and Internet Access project which is based on the cutting edge 'World Interoperability for Microwave Access' (WiMAX) technology. Yobe State is reportedly the first government or business organs to deploy WiMAX technology in Nigeria.

“I never knew how a child is born until I came in contact with the Classmate PC about a month ago. Now I know it and many other things.” With that remark, Mohammed Ahmed, 14-year-old student of Junior Secondary School Deidei in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) confidently took his seat and with three clicks on his laptop, beginning with the subject, ‘Integrated Science’; he showed the reporter ‘how it happens’, interactive simulations and all. “The classmate PC enables a student to go ahead of his teacher”, he added.

The BoI says the funds are hoped to improve the industry to reduce dependence on imported smartcards.

Speaking during a tour of Nigerian smartcard firm SecureID in Lagos, Rasheed Olaoluwa, managing director of the BoI, said “the move is targeted at making card solutions for logical data security, physical plant security and integrity processing standards easily accessible in the country to boost the industry”.

The Minister of Communications Technology, Mrs. Omobola Johnson has said at the 2012 edition of the Nigeria Digital SENSE forum on Internet Governance for Development (IG4D) in Lagos at the weekend, that the Federal Government would make the country a digital economy before 2015.

On its part, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) said it was working on a program that would provide computer and Internet facilities to the secondary schools in the country.

Nigeria and six foreign countries will be participating and showcasing their e-Government experiences at this year's Nigeria e-Government Summit that is geared towards accelerating online presence of the Nigerian government at all levels.

The foreign countries include France, South Africa, Egypt, Kenya, Malaysia, and Ethiopia.

Without doubt, the civil service has become a powerful political block. For progress, the president must define his mission and vision to his cabinet so they can tackle the institutional pathologies of the civil service, restore its pride and refocus its men and women in their various ministries and agencies. Computer illiterates should be thrown out in an age when the world is talking of the Fourth Industrial Revolution!

Nigeria is the land of a million conspiracies. The problems are a legion. One hardly knows where to start, but not doing anything is not an option. Not trying is sacrilege! The damage done by the sixteen years of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) rule as accentuated by President Goodluck Jonathan to Nigerian institutions by his ethnic, religious and divisive politics will take decades to repair. We must begin the repair work because every public institution in nigeria has been turned into an ethnic battleground for positions and promotions. In government agencies all over the country, especially at the federal level, impunity and corruption reign supreme and mediocrity has become the baptismal ordinance.

The criticisms at this government have been sustained because certain influential people in this administration have since deemed certain people in the media persona non-grata. They call them “the opposition” and make no effort to engage them even on government’s successes. In contrast, President Obama, again, recently engaged not just social media actors this time, but YouTube influencers. Some of the people invited to the White House had published very critical, even abusive videos of the president. But at the end of the day, they were all taking coffee with the president at the White House.

Nigeria’s broadband penetration has climbed to 45.61 percent in January 2025, up from 44.43 percent in December 2024, reflecting the country’s growing internet adoption and digital transformation efforts.

The latest data from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) shows that broadband subscriptions increased to 98.87 million, a rise from 96.32 million recorded the previous month.

According to Senator Bassey Ewa-Henshaw, chairman of the NDDC, the commission will partner with Microfinance and Enterprise Development Agency (MEDA) so that trainees at the centre can become Microsoft certified. He said this in Cross River state while on a courtesy visit to MEDA.

This was the message the National Leader of Nigeria’s biggest opposition party, the Action Congress of Nigeria, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu sent to Nigerians, from Ghana during the swearing-in of the new Ghanaian President, John Dramani Mahama.

The Nigerian luxury property sector, Saturday, received a new entrant, Ocean City Lagos, appropriately named “Jewel of the Atlantic”.

Conceived to set new standards in high-end living, Ocean City Lagos, Nigeria’s newest man-made island, is located off the Lagos coast of the Atlantic Ocean, offering a luscious eco-tourism landscape sprinkled with the continent’s hippest residential neighbourhoods, mixed-use space with high-end shops, restaurants, public parks, centres for sports, arts and entertainment, medical innovation.

“If we continue at this pace in terms of infrastructure we should see over 100 per cent mobile penetration and the broadband penetration will hit 50 per cent by 2020,” she said in an interview at the recently concluded FBN Capital Investor Conference 2014 in Lagos.

When one looks around Nigeria today, it is very difficult not to notice the pace of change brought about by the ever-evolving Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector. The growth of the ICT sector has developed so rapidly that it has literally changed the way we think about socio-economic development. In regards to ICT, Nigeria’s numbers are staggering. Nigeria ranks number one in internet usage in Africa and eighth in the world. Nigeria’s telecom sector is one of the largest in Africa, and is driven almost entirely by mobile technology. Internet usage has increased rapidly in Nigeria over the past ten years. ICT has opened up access to information on the world-wide web and citizens are bettered informed about matters of particular importance and interest to them. The potential to transform lives and the nation’s economy through IT is well known by lawmakers and the IT/telecommunications sector.

The growth of information and communications technologies is changing the way economic and social development occurs in most countries. New ICT-related tools have been known to make institutions and markets more productive, enhance skills and learning, improve governance at all levels, and make it easier for services to be accessed.