Entries Tagged as ‘e-Government’

April 30, 2008

Man gets prison sentence after hundreds of thousands of spam e-mails

Can the Nigerian government combat SPAM emails originating locally from some fraudulent internet users?
we can take a cue here:
DENVER - A Colorado man accused of sending hundreds of thousands of spam e-mails has been sentenced to 21 months in prison after pleading guilty to tax evasion and falsifying e-mail headers.
Thirty-five-year-old Edward “Eddie” Davidson of Louisville [...]

December 17, 2007

re - Nigerian libraries to go on-line by 2008

ABUJA, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) — All Nigerian libraries under the management of the National Library of Nigeria (NLN) will be linked to the Internet by 2008, a government official said here on Sunday.
NLN Chief Executive Officer Linus Ikpaakindi told the official News Agency of Nigeria that this will allow Nigerians to [...]

November 5, 2007

re - Nigerian education selects Intel-powered Classmate PC with Mandriva Linux

Checking out the Nigerian blogville this morning, I just read Chxta’s comments about Nigeria, selecting Intel-powered classmate PCs running on Mandriva Linux.
“We recently closed a deal with the Nigerian Government. Maybe you heard about it, Steve. They were looking for an affordable hardware+software solution for their schools. The initial batch was 17,000 machines. [...]

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