The Senate in Nigeria is reported to be screening 4 names one of them Dr Ikemefuna Juwah, a telecommunications engineer, as federal government’s nominee for the position of Executive Vice-Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission. Other nominees are: Peter Egbe Igho as chairman, Okey Itanyi as Commissioner and Mohammed Bintube as Commissioner.
Relatively unknown Dr. Eugene Ikemefuna Juwah had served with Shell BP, CIL (Now Globacom), Transaction Technologies Ltd and MTS. At the time of his appointment he was Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Cititel Networks Communications Ltd. Read More...
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SIM Card Registration:Bad implementation of a good project - by Abi Bilesanmi
It was in 2002 while the first sets of mobile telephones which employ the GSM standard were rolling out in Nigeria that a call was made for a registration of their users. Mr. Titi Omo-Ettu, telecommunications engineer, who made the call at the time is the President of the Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria, ATCON, now when the call seems to have been endorsed by the industry regulator, NCC. But Titi Omo-Ettu says the project is a badly implemented one in the form of a SIM Card Registration. An excerpt of pieces of telephone conversations and email exchanges with the engineer lead to this interview report by Abi Bilesanmi, Editor CyberschuulNews.com
BB4NG Releases Forum Plan of Events
The attempt by concerned Nigerians to encourage and assist government to provide broadband internet access to all Nigerians no matter their status, station, and location, has taken the form of a Full Stakeholders Forum on the subject scheduled for Abuja, Wednesday July28, 2010.
In a Time table released by Dr Ibrahim Aminu, Convener of the event, the summit will hold from 10am in the morning to 4.00pm and all Nigerians have been invited to come to make input to the work which has been done under the support of a few institutions and individuals.
Venue :
NCCE Conference Hall,
Plot 829 Ralph Shodeinde Street
(off Ahmadu Bello Way, opposite Akwa Ibom House),
Central Business District, Abuja
New Cyber-Business Challenges
Organizations of almost all sizes and industries now struggle with these changes: More Transactions Online: • Electronic banking, payment services such as PayPal, self-service wire transfer and self-service stock trading are just a few of the electronic transaction services now widely used by consumers. As a result, more transactions are electronic than ever before, which creates more payment and financial information at risk of a breach. Read More...
Reducing poverty in the information age
Call it information poverty: individuals and communities cut off from resources that could dramatically improve their living standards because communications connectivity is absent or limited or expensive. Denied access to knowhow, or even market price data to sell their produce, they are stymied and trapped in deprivation. Read More...
Without masts and towers, forget telecom, says Gwandu
The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, yesterday in Abuja, declared that any restrictions to deployment of masts and tower across the country by any government agency, state or local government, will negate the efforts of government to attract investments in the sector and will also worsen the quality of services in the telecom industry. Read More...
Regulator, Operators get orders of Minister
At a gathering which included top executives of the Nigerian Communications Commission, Nigerian Lottery Regulatory Commission, representatives of telephone operators and the media in Abuja on Thursday, Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Communications, Prof Dora Akunyili, read out what can best be described as a list of demands to which the industry must conform or else …. Read More
