I.T & Telecomms

President Goodluck Jonathan has said that about five million female farmers in Nigeria will benefit from the gender friendliness of his administration come 2013, saying each of them will be given a mobile phone.

The Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, has indicated that his ministry is planning to launch a mobile patient feedback platform in 2013.

Developing countries are catching up

NEW figures released during the week by International Telecommunications Union (ITU) show that information and communication technology (ICT) uptake continues to grow worldwide, spurred by a steady fall in the price of telephone and broadband Internet services.

THE Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is engaging its accusers in the information domain to produce concrete evidence of frequency band racketeering which it was last week alleged to have committed.