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Ndukwe: Recasting 10- Year Strides of Africa’s Iconic Telecom Regulator
Dr. Ernest Ndukwe has become, somewhat, a phenomenon in the Africa telecom development landscape. An electrical/electronics engineer, he has been decorated across Africa and beyond, for his revolutionary telecom regulatory regime that has transformed, not just his country, Nigeria, but has impacted politically and economically on the emancipation of the continental aspiration for telecom sovereignty. read more

Telecom, a tool to Fight Corruption
Recently, Commonwealth Business Council organised a conference on Africa Investment in Accra Ghana and the Director General, Dr. Mohan Kaul was cornered by our reporter, Ozioma Akubueze. Dr. M.K, for short, granted an exclusive interview to Africa Telecom &IT Business, answering questions on a wide range of issues. Read his comments on Africa. read more

Toyota recalls 80,000 cars in Africa
Toyota Motors International has said it is recalling about 80, 000 of such cars that have the sticking accelerator pedals and floor mat pedal entrapment problems. World wide the figure of the recall had seen Toyota Motors withdraw about 8.5 million cars from America, Europe, China and Middle East which excluded from Africa at the outset. read more

Camera-Centric Phones: The Megapixel Showdown
Following the exploits of digital cameras in space, the history of digital photography moves back to Earth here. A new era in photography began on August 25, 1981 when Sony unveiled a prototype of the company's first still video camera, the Mavica (Magnetic Video Camera). It recorded analog images on two-inch floppy disks and played them back on a TV set or Video monitor. read more

Internet as a Fundamental Right
Nearly four in five people around the world believe that access to the Internet is a fundamental right, a survey conducted by GlobeScan for the BBC World Service suggests. The survey found that 87 percent of Internet users felt internet access should be the "fundamental right of all people." read more

$2.5b.....the bell went missing for Nigeria’s NITEL
When the bell dropped on February 16, 2010 on the awaited sale of Nigeria’s NITEL, Usman Gumi, leader of New Generation Telecom, which staked $2.5Billion, stood and waved the victory sign. “This is a surprise”, muttered an unidentified official of the Bureau of Public Enterprises, BPE, the government agency that handled the sale. read more

Consumer Parliament: A Voice for the underdog
In the telecom service chain, the consumer is at the receiving end of the actions of the regulator and the operators. In Nigeria, the telecom regulator, under Dr. Ernest Ndukwe, a paradigm shift evolved with the introduction of a monthly industry self-appraisal called Telecom Consumer Parliament, TCP, where the consumers are given the opportunity to call the regulator and the operators into account. read more

Payment Portal boosts E-Commerce in Kenya
The launch of an online store that offers quality baby clothing by Quentin Faulkner to parents who wish to buy good quality clothing for their children two years ago, is reported to be making tremendous sales. The baby clothing store which has no physical location and solely markets products using social networking website Facebook - now handles up to 90 transactions a month. read more