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Institute for eGovernment

The minister disclosed this at a press briefing to mark the 2015 World Telecommunications and Information Society Day and the 150th anniversary of the International Telecommunications Union in Abuja on Monday.

Represented by the Director of e-Government at the ministry, Mr. Tope Fashedemi, the minister also said telecommunications has remained a key driver of the Nigerian economy since it was liberalized in 2001.

Mr Muyideen Mohammed, one of the consumers, said that his modem was always disconnecting whenever he tried to connect the Internet. He said that he had been forced to change his Internet service provider as a result of his experience.

Recently President Goodluck Jonathan inaugurated a Presidential Committee on Broadband Development to come up with a proactive broadband development roadmap that would see Nigeria emerge a digital economy in the next few years by developing critical infrastructures, local content capabilities and capitalise on the country’s abundant intellectual resources in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) field.

The project, which was prosecuted by a consortium of Nigerian experts through the Federal ministry of Science and Technology under the headship of Professor Turner Isoun, was intended to bridge the huge healthcare delivery gap that currently exists in the country by deploying Information Technologies to bypass logistic challenges.

This paints a different picture from the generally accepted idea that the internet is the medium of the younger generation. Speaking about the findings, Research Lead at Twinpine Eniola Moronfolu said, “This knowledge is an eye opener and shows how trends in internet usage are taking shape among consumers. This also means that marketing efforts can be more effectively targeted to reach the right demographics”.

Speaking at a stakeholders’ meeting on feasibility study on SAT-3 held in Abuja on Thursday, Angaye said that deployment of SAT-3 would enhance interfaces, network security issues, e-Government and e-payment.

State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara has flagged off the construction of Nigeria’s Smart Port City in Eleme local government area of Rivers State.

Speaking at the event, Governor Fubara disclosed that the new Port Smart City construction, which is coming from a joint venture between the state government and Rainbow Heritage Group, is important to decongest Port Harcourt and realign the state with modern developmental realities.

The Chief Information Officer, (CIO) of NAMA, Mr. Ogochukwu Ifeanyi, in a statement made available to THISDAY, stated that NAMA has a mandate to ensure safe, efficient, expeditious and economic flight operations in Nigeria with state of the art technology solutions.

A statement by the CBN on Saturday said that the BVN exercise involves the capturing of an individual’s basic biometric data information, including the facial image, the 10 fingerprints as well as other unique features of the customer.

The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC and its sister agencies like Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, and Galaxy Backbone among others are preparing heavily to support 2021 Nigeria e-Government Summit scheduled to hold in Lagos this month.

The reason is to create more awareness in e-Government adoption at the federal, state and local levels.

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said it is important to nurture a generation of Information and Communication Technology specialists equipped to handle the complexities of the digital economy.

Aminu Maida, the Executive Vice-Chairman of NCC, made this known during the 2nd edition of the West African Telecoms Infrastructure Summit and Exhibition held in Lagos on Friday.

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has called for more investments in broadband infrastructure in the country to enable egovernment. The Executive Vice Chairman of the Commission, Prof Umar Danbatta, made the call at the Nigeria e-Government Summit 2021.

To achieve this, the EVC also called for increased collaboration of all stakeholders in order to remove barriers to investment which include multiple taxation and regulation, arbitrary pricing of bottleneck resources such as Right-of-Way (RoW), timeconsuming and unfriendly approval processes.

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has approved the construction of a N1 billion Digital Park in Ibadan, Oyo State.

Professor Adeolu Akande, Chairman of the Commission, made this disclosure during a meeting with youth leaders across the state at an end of the year session in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital.

The Executive Vice Chairman, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Umar Danbatta, has said the commission is working with stakeholders to deepen penetration of broadband infrastructure and services in Nigeria.

Danbatta said this at the Third Edition of ‘The Nigeria e-Government Summit 2021’ held in Lagos.

The Commission who dropped the hint in Lagos at the ongoing West African Information and Communications Technology (WAFICT) Congress and Exhibition, said it had engaged reputable internationally acclaimed consultants to drive the strategy and design the processes for achieving the broadband goals, and that the report would soon be ready.

Executive Vice-Chairman of NCC, Dr Eugene Juwah, who spoke at the WAFICT congress, said the commission had concluded preliminary studies to enable cost effective broadband deployment.

Adenuga told newsmen in Lagos that it was sad that many judges still recorded court proceedings manually, instead of using electronic recorders.

“In many magistrates’ courts across the country, you find that they still use the manual and obsolete method of record keeping.

On May 13, 2009, Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) completed the process of re-delegation of the .ng domain name from temporary authorities to the current Nigerian ones. For many years, Randy Bush has been the Technical contact of the .ng domain name. With the IANA re-delegation, the technical contact is now the local Nigerian DNS administrator, while the administrative contact is the president of Nigeria Internet Registration Association.

President of the Nigeria Medical Association, NMA, Dr. Osahon Enabulele who made the plea in Lagos, regretted that Nigeria is yet to explore the many benefits of e-Health, which he described as a safe, secure, ethical and cost effective transmission and exchange of health data and information.

The Vice President, Arc. Mohammed Namadi Sambo, stated this in Abuja the nation’s capital, during the flagging off ceremony of the third Ordinary Session of the African Union’s Communication and Information Technologies Ministerial Conference which took place at the Transcorp Hilton hotel.

After China and Nigeria elevated their ties to a comprehensive strategic partnership, Uba Sani, the governor of Nigeria's Kaduna State, said he is thrilled to see his state partner with China in a "smart city" project, which aligns with the country's industrialization.

Kaduna State lies at the southern end of Nigeria's northern plateau, and 80 percent of its 5 million population work in agriculture, according to media reports.