Assessing Nigeria’s Readiness for Government 2.0: NITDA’s role

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Transforming governments is not easy. While technology alone cannot transform governments, governments today cannot transform without technology. In the fast paced world of technology, new approaches constantly extend the boundaries of what is possible. The pace of change is evidenced by the fact that terms like SOA, WOA, community sourcing, cloud computing, software-as-a-service, and Web [...]

President Yar’Adua’s 7 Point Agenda – Lest We Forget

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THE 7 POINT AGENDA OF THE YAR’ADUA ADMINISTRATION 1. Energy: We need to solve the problem of power and energy – National Council on Energy to drive the energy policy and advice on power, energy and gas… energy emergency to be declared. 2. Security: Treating security as a critical Infrastructure. 3. Wealth Creation: 70% of [...]

Nigeria: food crisis, crude oil and biofuels

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You cannot but agree with me that these three things are amongst the biggest issues on most seminars, conferences, discuss and activities in around governments, agencies and international organisations in recent times. Nigeria as a country is having its own share of the attention in many facets. Food Crisis: Nigeria no doubts have got too many [...]

Funding Nigerian Universities

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The funding of Nigerian Universities is at its all time low, despite the purported efforts of successive governments, not much can be shown for the efforts. Therefore, there is an urgent need for stakeholders in the country’s education sector to align their different objectives to rescue the University system from total collapse. An apsect of fundraising [...]

Just Three Stories – Steve Jobs

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Steve Jobs needs no introduction, he is the person behind the Apple Computers maker of mac and the i- (s) of this i-world; he is also the person that gave us Pixar, the great Animation Studios in Hollywood. Steve strikes one as the average Joe with an average Joe story. He is like the rest [...]