Nigerians woke up on November 12, 2008 to the sad news that the country’s communications satellite, was missing. Although the satellite has long been replaced by the original builders, China Great Wall Inc, the mass outrage that followed the mishap, was unbelievable.

With the shift from traditional to virtual classroom, convenience is the driving force behind online education and the reason it is steadily gaining grounds as a veritable means of learning.

Yesterday on my way home I found myself wondering about the media community’s craze with ‘premium content’ online. Industry executives are constantly debating the rate at which TV ad naira / cedis will move to the web, but when it comes down to it, the advertising budgets can’t move in significant ways until the marketing and media communities fully understand and get what people are actually watching online.

Global infoswift and its partners, TechXact last week described the data centre industry as one of the biggest industries in the world generating multi trillion dollars in revenue.

There was excitement last week in the Nigerian ICT market when Microsoft Devices released Nokia XL, its flagship large screen offering under the Nokia X family for sale.