Friday, May 4, 2012
ICT Partnership: Google Team Lists Gains To UNIPORT
Connecting the University of Port Harcourt to the world’s information
database to tap from best practices in Information and Communication
Technology, as well as providing opportunities that would enable the
Institution to be enlisted among 26 other active institutions in the six
countries across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), are among benefits listed by
a technical team from Google, an Internet Search Engine working in the
Sub-Saharan Africa project in an interactive session with the University
Management, Staff and Students last Thursday at the Senate Chambers.
The Team, led by its Technical Programme Manager, Ego Obi, also listed
other benefits to include access to grants, technical consultancy,
better Internet system through enhanced wireless fibre and expansion of
infrastructure, sponsorship of Faculty Outreach Programmes in a
collaborative Semester training, as well as Student Google Ambassador
Programme – all sponsored by the global ICT giant .
Speaking during an interactive session with Principal Officers, the
Technical Programme Manager said Google would offer three years free
Internet access with initial bandwidth of 25 megabits per second (mbps),
adding that when access and usage of the Google facilities shoot up,
there is the possibility of getting more bandwidth from 25 mbps.
According to her, the initiative is targeted at providing the
University with a Campus-wide network infrastructure that would enhance
access, relevance and sustainability to end users, regretting that lack
of access to cloud computing services had grossly hindered the capacity
of most Universities in sub-Saharan Africa to compete favourably with
their counterparts in other parts of the world. “The proposed facility
would reduce barriers to search queries on the Google network. We will
provide grants to cover connecting the University to point of presence;
conduct technical audit to determine what you have on ground and help to
design and address the technical training needs of schedule officers
for enhanced service delivery”, she disclosed.
“When fully operational, the proposed facility would enhance the
capacity of the University to effectively communicate internally and
externally, achieve improved collaboration for staff and students, and
correspondingly result in enhanced institutional reputation and improved
ranking”, Obi explained. She also disclosed that a lot of Internet
traffic would be driven to the University’s website, thus drawing
attention to its activities and improving collaborative research efforts
with Scholars outside Nigeria.
“Already, some institutions in Nigeria are benefitting from this
facility but UNIPORT would get the highest bandwidth and through our
monitoring system, we will track the number of users of our facilities
and possibly add more bandwidth to assist in documenting research and
facilitate teaching and learning”, Obi said, disclosing that the ISP
also runs internship programmes for institutions in the SSA Countries,
in which beneficiaries have access to any of Google’s offices
worldwide.
Responding to the three-member Team that included Nmachi Jidenma,
Programme Coordinator and Yomi Oyesiku, Technical Programme Manager,
Vice-Chancellor, Professor Joseph Ajienka, who was represented by Deputy
Vice-Chancellor (Administration), Professor Ethelbert Nduka, thanked
Google for the proposed partnership aimed at boosting efficient
Information and Communication Technology delivery capacity of the
University. “We understand the importance of ICT to the overall
development of any serious and well-meaning institution which is why we
have a functional Centre here in our University”, the Vice-Chancellor
said, promising the Team that Management would give serious
consideration to the proposal.
Also present at the event were Deputy Vice-Chancellors Academic and
Research and Development, Professors Bernard Effiuvwevwere and Bene
Willie-Abbey; University Librarian, Dr Obiageli Nwodo; Bursar, Mr. Mark
Roman; Dean, Faculty of Science and Director, ICTC, Professors
Eronmosele Abumere, and Elijah Iyagba, amongst others dignitaries.
Sunday, April 22, 2012
MISSING PERSON
Dr. Odinachi Okoli hasn't been seen since he left for work on Monday last week. He works as a resident doctor at the Irrua Specialist Hospital in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, in a nearby village to Ekpoma...
...Please if you have any information that can help us find him, call +2348037323311. Or contact the nearest police station. Please spread the message and use his picture as your DP so others can know him.
Today is Sunday 22nd April 2012
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Cosmas Video Trailer
If you can show me a better comic advert in 9ja as at today 11th April 2012. Come and take the keys of my Range Rover Sport.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Obasanjo Resigns
wait o.... so na true se Baba Shege don resign... wonders shall never end. If u asked me 2days ago I woulda said with authority that OBJ will stay there till he dies. i just cant get my skeptical mind to agree with the fact that his resignation is normal. Anyway my eye de for ground. Even if na to tap Baba Shege phone to get the full gist. Me must find out. They say a toad does not hop in the daylight when nothing is chasing it. I don't see why OBJ go de run when nothing de chase am. Make we de hope se as him don resign, the rest of the faceless,nameless, heartless cabal go resign too o. God Bless 9ja
Drug ring smashed in Sydney, Adelaide raids
Police say they have smashed a drug ring with links to Nigeria that has been operating in Sydney and Adelaide.
Eight men have been arrested over the syndicate, which police say had been importing and selling drugs.
Detectives say the group has sold four kilograms of ice and heroin to undercover police officers since September.
Four of the men met an undercover officer yesterday afternoon to allegedly sell him ice in a hotel car park at Bankstown, in Sydney's south-west.
Heavily armed officers from the Tactical Operations Unit then swooped.
Detective Inspector Steve Patton says the four men, aged between 37 and 47, have been charged with commercial-scale drug supply.
"The men were in possession of two kilograms of methylamphetamine," he said.
"One of them was arrested a short distance away after a short pursuit. He drove the car out of the car park and across a couple of lanes of traffic quite erratically, before crashing through two fences into someone's front yard.
"He fled on foot and, after a chase that lasted about 10 minutes, he was arrested not too far away."
Detectives then raided two addressed in Adelaide last night, including the home of one of the arrested men.
This morning police executed more search warrants in Sydney, at Riverwood, Bexley, Granville, Chiswick and Quakers Hill.
A further three men, aged 42, 43, and 45, were arrested in those raids.
Police expect the men will also be charged with large-scale drug supply.
An eighth man turned himself in to police this afternoon.Tuesday, April 3, 2012
COSMAS
A new wave is hitting the Nigerian Entertainment Industry. This time, it’s a Comic Book. That’s right, A Comic Book. Since I was born till now that I am old, this is the best Cartoon I have seen cooked up in an African Kitchen. Best of all it was cooked in a Nigerian Kitchen. The brains behind the comic book are The X-Animators and Mobility Aids And Research Development Centre (MAARDEC). They claim that the comic book titled COSMAS will be launched on children’s day, MAY 29, 2012. The theme of the comic centers round a polio victim who despite all the challenges he faced as a child with no ability to walk somehow made it to the TOP. Rumour has it that the comic character Cosmas, was based on true life Public Figure, Mr. Cosmas Okoli. These are some pictures relating to the comic that I was able to find. www.facebook.com/cosmascomic
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