Editorial

Dr. Ernest Azudialu Obiejesi is the chairman, Smile Communications (Nigeria) Limited. He first founded Obijackson West Africa Limited in the early 1980’s before diversifying into the oil and gas…

President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria has been listed as the 6th richest African president by known wealth, according to Richest Lifestyle, a US-based website. In an article titled, ‘Richest African…

Plans by some aggrieved youths in the Niger Delta region to invade Abuja over their exclusion from the Presidential Amnesty Programme for ex-militants have been uncovered, according to a statement by…

Copying and pasting latest e-health technology from developed countries may not be the best way forward for health services in Nigeria. The country needs to develop home grown healthcare practice…

If the story of the telecommunications revolution in Nigeria has a theme so far in the last decade, it is surely one of success. To hail that spirit on the 10th anniversary of Globacom, Nigeria’s…

The renewed call for ICT firms to list on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) is retrogressive and at variance with the federal government’s foreign direct investment policy. It makes a lot more sense…

Gabriel Suswam, governor of Benue State’s recent statement that Nigeria’s notoriously unreliable public power supply is “sabotage and politically-motivated madness” is an insult to common sense.…

Security of a customer's financial information is very important; without which electronic banking could not operate. Electronic banking-eBanking for short is designed to increase convenience for the…

With effective deterrents to cyber crimes lacking, Nigeria is at the mercy cyber criminals- the gang of unarmed but lethal criminals hiding under the anonymity of the county’s cyber space. The…

No modern economy can exist without fundamental information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure because these are the tool for national and economic development. In recognition of this…

Cyber criminals unarmed but very lethal are the prowl in Nigeria. The unchecked activities of these thieves are near plague. The threat from cyber crime is multi-dimensional, targeting citizens,…

Criminals are showing Nigerians the ugly side of the automated teller machine (ATM), the wonder machine that provides customers of a financial institution access to cash in a public space without the…

Editorial Comment It is probably a cliché when people say oil is a gift and a curse all rolled up in one.  Oil is a curse for Nigeria. It is as powerful as it is counterintuitive The natural…

Only a naysayer will say that a revolution is not taking place in Akwa Ibom State. The once rural and tetchy state is now a staggeringly beautiful landscape open for business. The administration of…

The new N100 monthly maintenance fee on Automated Teller Machines (ATM) cards by some banks is a malevolent reflection of avarice of Nigeria’s financial institutions. Just like other charges, the…

The country’s economy managers are creating money based on imaginary numbers and disempowering the common man. This is clearly unacceptable. Given the necessary resources, Nigerians can solve their…

Mr. Labaran Maku, minister of Information’s good governance tour of states to inspect federal and state projects is wasteful; lacking in credibility; and morality. The argument that the National Good…

Successive governments in the country have failed to provide job opportunities for Nigerians and at last count the army of unemployed Nigerians has grown to 23.9 percent in 2011 according to reports…

After several postponements, Nigeria is now at the dawn of mobile number portability (MNP) service that will afford a telecom consumer the ability to choose or fire their GSM service provider and…

Stealing and lying are being consciously put together in brazen manner in government circles in Nigeria. The same government whose job it is to protect the intellectual property of its citizenry is…

The huge interconnect debt of N20 billion that operators owe one another may rubbish the gains of the telecoms revolution. The increasing incidence of interconnection indebtedness in the…