Osita IBEKWE

Cloud Computing, Government Cloud [G-Cloud] beckons: Which Way NIGERIA

Osita Ibekwe — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 22:37:47 +0000

For beginners, the United Kingdom’s released official document’ Government Cloud Strategy’ of March 2011 recognizes that the US National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) definition of cloud computing is the most widely adopted one, and has been adopted for G-Cloud; it states that: “Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access [...]

Approved Standards for School Buses in Nigeria – Stakeholders Workshop

Osita Ibekwe — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 21:21:03 +0000

Worried by the incessant and avoidable accidents involving buses conveying pupils and students to and from school; and in order to achieve high safety standards of vehicles and minimal risks of commuting students and pupils, the Federal Road Safety Corps [FRSC] in collaboration with Standards Organisation of Nigeria [SON] has developed standards for school buses [...]

Introduction to Microfinance

Osita Ibekwe — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:36:00 +0000

Microfinance is the provision of a broad range of financial services such as savings, loans, payment services, money transfers and insurance to poor and low-income persons, households and their microenterprises.Microfinance services are provided by three types of institutions: formal institutions, such as microfinance banks, rural banks and deposit money banks; semi-formal institutions, such as non-government [...]

Road Safety

Osita Ibekwe — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:17:12 +0000

It is no doubt that a greater percentage of our daily living is spent commuting, especially on private, local, state roads and highways or motorways We commute, to work; to church; to visit family and friends; to the airport; to the seaport; to the market; to the bank; and to ….. It is imperativee that [...]

Common Sense not with us anymore

Osita Ibekwe — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:38:16 +0000

Robert McKenzie’s response to Alan M Webers’ “Three Rules for These Time” on Conversation Starter at Harvard Business Publishing. Dear Alan, I am in total agreement with you! For too long the class room has taught management as if it were all about economic performance, shareholder value, and the share price of publically traded companies. [...]

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

Osita Ibekwe — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:10:32 +0000

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

Osita Ibekwe — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:34:29 +0000

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

Osita Ibekwe — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:15:53 +0000

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

Osita Ibekwe — Wed, 28 May 2008 15:18:17 +0000

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

Osita Ibekwe — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:26:13 +0000

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 [...]