The Vanguard

BlackBerry and non-profit organization Junior Achievement Nigeria has launched the Junior Achievement Young Enterprise programme for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Innovation Camps in Nigeria.

Over 55 high-school students from 13 public and private schools took part in the first camp, which focused on business challenges in the field of mobile technology. The Innovation Camp concept was developed through a partnership between BlackBerry and the Junior Achievement Young Enterprise.

IN an apparent attempt to consolidate on its modernization efforts for eventual take-over from the Service providers in June, the Nigerian Customs Service, NCS, has developed a web-based application to provide information and guidance for international trade business processors in the areas of import, export and transit trade.

The portal,  a non-restrictive online medium, is an intuitive and interactive platform for classifying goods.

Customers of one of the leading telecommunications services provider, Airtel Nigeria can now access popular social networking platform, Facebook via a USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data) Code. With this innovation, Airtel customers will be able to launch Facebook on their mobile devices by dialing *688#.

According to Airtel, Facebook via USSD service aims to deliver Facebook to customers who have no access to the Internet.

At the stakeholders’ forum on the best option for licensing the remaining slot on the 2.3GHz band held last week in Lagos, major internet service providers in the country including Mobitel, Spectranet and Multi-Links who rejected the plan by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to auction the 2.3GHz frequency band most commonly used for broadband wireless commercial service delivery said it was unfair competition.

A Batch A corps member, Tom Samuel serving in Gadabuke Development Area of Nasarawa State has built an ICT resource centre for the residents of Kullo Village in the area as part of his determination to positively affect the lives of people in his place of primary assignment.

The computer resource centre with modern facilities offers all computer services such as; digital computer laboratory, digital computer almanacs, design cottons, window nets, generator, flash drives, computer parts and many others.

Apparently worried by recent world health report which rated the Nigerian health care delivery system 187th out of its 192 member countries, global technology giant, Intel corporation Nigeria has provided a bail out option with free computer training for all key staff of the National Orthopedic Hospital, Igbobi.

ON the heels of the global software contest powered by Microsoft Corporation which held in Sydney, Australia a fortnight ago, the Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON) has flagged off this year's edition of the National Software Competition, in collaboration with the Cross River State Government.

In addition, ISPON also named immediate past EVC of NCC, Engr. Ernest Ndukwe the "Distinguished Knowledge Ambassador" for the software contest whose grand finale will hold at the National Software Competition and Conference slated for October.

Prudence Okoilu, a 300 level student of Physics and Electronics, University of Lagos (UNILAG), recently opened a social network website "HIPINGG." Its feature combines Facebook, Twitter and Pinging. Tosin Adesile met with him to talk to him about what it does.

Tell us about yourself?

I'm Prudence Okoilu, a student who also doubles as an internet entrepreneur. By this I mean, a programmer, website hacker and Graphic designer.

As an internet entrepreneur, what significant project have you embarked upon?

With the fast growing access to ICT facilities, it has been disclosed that exposure of pupils to online competitions, will improve their performance in mathematics, spelling and other science-related subjects.

The Proprietor, Ladybird Nursery and Primary School, Dr. Solo Amahoetu urged stakeholders and the government to assist in providing ICT facilities to schools, especially public schools as this will further facilitate learning among children.