As Nigerians basks in the euphoria of the 50th Independence anniversary celebration, local Original Equipment Manufacturer, OEM, Omatek Ventures PLC has deployed 24-hour alternative solar-powered hybrid solution combined with LED bulbs in 22 schools in Ekiti State.

World mobile phone manufacturers, Nokia, has launched its emerging market information service, it calls the Ovi Life Tools in Nigeria.

With 5 African countries including Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, among others that made Africa proud in the semi-finals and Ghana flying the continent flag in the finals by wining Innovation in Community award category, Microsoft Partners in Learning has announced the winners of the 2010 Worldwide Innovative Teacher Awards at just the t concluded sixth annual Worldwide Innovative Education Forum held in Cape Town, South Africa

While Nigerian participant did not make it to the semi-finals, no fewer than five African countries, including Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Mauritius and Lesotho are vying with other participants from around the world to win the 2010 Microsoft Partners in Learning Innovative Education Awards later today in Cape Town, South Africa.

As the judges evaluate innovative work of about one hundred and twenty five teachers from around the world who are currently competing to win one of 12 worldwide innovative education awards at the ongoing the 2010 edition of Worldwide Innovative Education Forum holding in Cape Town, South Africa, there appears to be growing anxiety among the teachers as to who make semi-finalists.

As the competition get hotter, two secondary schools from the Sub Saharan Africa countries, including Nigeria and Ghana are currently flying the continent’s flag at the ongoing Microsoft partners in learning Worldwide Innovative Education Forum holding in Cape Town, South Africa.

The global software giant, Microsoft in partnership with Smithsonain Institution and TakingITGlobal have launched Shout initiative , a capacity building program designed to encourage teachers to use technology to help students explore, connect and act to address some of the world’s most pressing environmental issues, while gaining important skills including collaboration, critical thinking and social responsibility.

It had been long in coming, but then in 1996, seven years after it was introduced in the United States, the nation’s telecoms regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) did the right thing. It licenced 38 internet service providers to sell internet services in Nigeria.

Walk with me in memory to one of the greatest celebrations, the end of the colonial era in Africa. The day: October 1, 1960. The place: British West Africa. The setting: a crowded stadium in the Atlantic coastal town of Sapele. School children are waving green and white flags in honor of the birth of modern Nigeria, no longer part of the British Empire.

Nigeria lit Africa up again Thursday night at the Eko Hotel and Suites Victoria Island Lagos, when the Second National Operator, Globacom commercially launched services of its Glo1 cable in Nigeria.