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In a bid to provide expanded services and equitable access to quality healthcare services as well as reduce the rising cost of healthcare services, telemedicine, mHealth (Mobile health) and eHealth (electronic Health) have been identified as effective tools that should be deployed to improve the healthcare system in the country. Telemedicine can best described as the process of accessing healthcare delivery from a distance through the use of information and communication technology (ICT) tools. The mHealth is a process of administering healthcare to patients through the use of mobile phones, while the eHealth has to do with administering healthcare through some form of electronic devices, where the medical practitioner attends to a patient who is not physically present in a hospital.

Read more: Nigeria: Driving telemedicine, eHealth services with ICT

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Technology experts including eminent Nigerians have said that information and technology driven economy is the only way to Nigeria’s future. They also adopted e-governance as the only tool that could engender good and people oriented governance in Nigeria..

Their position is that if it is possible for the developed nations of the world to get it right through technology and e-governance, Nigeria can as well leapfrog from its present status of underdevelopment to a fully developed global giant, as it cannot afford to stand alone.

Read more: Eminent Nigerians drum support for ICT

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The Benue State ministry of Lands and Survey has replaced its cumbersome lands management with an e-system, now making it easy and free from all encumbrances.

The ministry, which happens to be the only section of government where the proposed e-government of Governor Gabriel Suswam has picked up, has established what it calls "Benue Land Information Management System (BenLIMS)", where all documents and issues concerning land administration in the state are managed.

Read more: Nigeria: Benue Gets Benlims

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The slow pace of Nigeria in catching up with global trends in the IT and Telecommunications sector has been blamed on the nation's lack of support infrastructure in the industry, the Director General of the National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA, Cleopas Angaye has said.

Mr. Aganye who stated this at the Nigerian IT and Telecomms Exhibition (NITTEX) which held in Lagos yesterday said for Nigeria to become a major global competitor in the sector it must develop necessary support infrastructure.

Read more: Nigeria: Poor infrastructure blamed for poor IT developmen

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The Kwara State Government has trained more than 5,000 civil servants since the commencement of its ongoing civil service reforms five years ago.

The Head of Service, Alhaji Dabarako Mohammed, made this known in Ilorin at a news conference to mark the 2009 civil service week.

Read more: Nigeria: Kwara trains 5,000 civil servants

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