ABUJA—The Niger Delta Oil Producing Communities have expressed support for the National Petroleum Development Company, NPDC, over its transfer of oil blocs to Atlantic Energy Concept Limited.

Senior Director, Business Development, West Africa at Qualcomm, Mr Alex Dadson last week attributed some of the major breakthroughs the mobile market has experienced in recent times to the technology his company pioneered as a wireless chipsets manufacturer.

A fresh round of competition in the smart phone ecosystem may have begun as the Chinese telecoms giant, Huawei brings Windows-run smartphone exclusively available in the Africa continent. The customized device will be made available in the Nigerian market tomorrow in partnership with Microsoft as part of its new 4Afrika Initiative.

As part of its commitment to sanitize the industry against what it described as quacks, the Computer Professionals Registration Council of Nigeria, CPN, has again warned Information Technology training institutions operating illegally across the nation especially in Lagos to desist from the act or face the long arm of the law.

THE Court of Appeal sitting in Benin, Edo State, has ordered the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Abubakar, and the Attorney-General of Federation, Mr. Mohammed Adoke, to pay N5 million damages, awarded against them by an Edo State High Court, into an interest-yielding account, pending its judgment on the suit by Rev. David Ugolor.