Director General of the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), John Akanya, has said the seven-point agenda of President Umaru Yar'Adua may not achieve anything unless his administration recognises the urgent need for standardisation.

The Senate yesterday commenced the process of legislating for an improvement of road infrastructure in the country which could lead to the scrapping of the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA).

Another fuel crisis looms as the Petoleum Tanker Drivers planned a show down with the Federal government over the state of Nigerian roads.The union,at a press conference in Lagos yesterday, decried the state of the nation's roads and issued a 14-day ultimatum for the Federal government toaddress the situation.

MTN, one of Ghana's leading mobile networks has renewed its sponsorship package for Accra Hearts of Oak and Black Stars Captain Stephen Appiah who is a soccer icon of the MTN brand.

The attention of the Lagos State Government is called to start work on the overhead bridge at Sadiku Bus Stop, Ilasamaja, along Oshodi-Apapa Expressway. Sometime last year, a heavy-duty trailer caring a heavy-duty generator pulled down part of the bridge. Since then, the bridge has become impassable despite several calls to the concerned authority to do its job. However, succour came the way of ...

The British High Commission in Nigeria has urged its customers who require a visa to to apply online at www.visa4uk.fco.gov.ukThe Visa Sections in Abuja and Lagos accept on-line visa application forms for all categories of UK visas, and it is an award winning application service where applicants can complete their visa application forms online. Links to the service are available at the following ...

The cement factory, owned by Maweni Limestone Limited, a subsidiary of the Kenya-based Athi River Mining Company, would be the largest of its kind in the Eastern African zone with a production capacity of 1.5 million tonnes of cement per year.

Nigeria with a population of over 140milllion people with abundant oil and other natural resources lacks adequate and modern inland transport system to enhance her socio-economic development for the realization of the vision 20/2020, Chinese industrial giants, CCECC have said.

Publicel, a local private company is set to introduce mobile money transfer using handset.

Consumers' apathy to information disclosure on fake products heighten as Standards Organisation of Nigeria(SON) said less than 75 per cent of Nigerians complain to regulatory authorities - SON, Consumers Protection Council and other regulatory agencies.

The Suru Local Government Area of Kebbi State has spent about N50 million to upgrade infrastructure, education and the health sectors this year.

No fewer than six bridges linking Kwara with the neighbouring Oyo and Osun States have collapsed because of heavy down pour, the NAN reports. All the affected bridges are in Asa Local Government Area of the state.

The construction of the two new N10 Tarka Bridges in Cradock aims to address some of the core challenges with regards to rural transportation in the area.

Mozambique is preparing to establish four Science and Technology Parks in the near future, dedicated to research in different areas of activity.

East African Cables' pretax profit for the first nine months of the year rose 34 per cent to Sh583.4 million. up from Sh435.7 million declared last year.

The pricing war in the local telecommunication industry went up a notch higher on Wednesday with Safaricom reducing all its charges to more than a third for within-network calls.

Thapong Visual Arts Centre, in conjunction with Botswana Telecommunications Corporation (BTC), is inviting entries from artists for the design of the BTC 2009 Telephone Directory's cover.

This was the overriding theme expressed by a variety of specialists and experts attending the 2008 U.S.-Africa Infrastructure Conference, entitled "Connecting the Continent," which took place in Washington October 6-8. The event was sponsored by the Corporate Council on Africa.

It was the first week of January. Bitter post-election violence raged across the country.

THE Minister of Communication and Information, Mr. John Odey has said that it is imperative for Nigeria to switch over to digital broadcasting technology if the nation would not become a dumping ground for analogue equipment.

The online magazine Kalima (http://www.kalimatunisie) has suffered an attack that has completely destroyed its web content.

ANALYSTS at Moody's Investors Service have put a damper on Telkom's party by warning that they could downgrade its rating if they do not like what Telkom decides to do with a multibillion-rand windfall created by selling its shares in Vodacom.

The SABC says that the process of migrating from analogue to digital broadcasting will result in more channels, additional services and better quality and programming.

The member, representing Mariga Constituency in the Niger State House of Assembly, Alhaji Usman Garba, has executed various projects worth over N40 million.

Leading Nigeria mobile operator, Zain, is offering South South region residents particularly students, travellers and those who live and work in places where access to traditional mobile phone is restricted, an opportunity to communicate with the launch of Fixed Phones in the area.