Thirty years ago this month, a young British software engineer working at a lab near Geneva invented the world wide web, later known as internet, for scientists to share information that would ultimately change humanity.

Riding on the wave of Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki’s reforms in investment promotion and determination to build a robust technology ecosystem in the state, global technology giant, Facebook has invested in providing broadband internet in Edo State, in partnership with MainOne, a submarine cable system operator.

Cisco Meraki, global leader in cloud-managed IT solutions, has announced its secure, central, simplified and economic offerings targeted at Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, MSMEs, which account for about 84 percent of employment in Nigeria

From available statistics, over half a billion people living in Africa do not have reliable means of identification. A recent report from the Financial Inclusion Global Initiative, FIGI says out of the one billion people lacking reliable means of identification globally, half of the number reside in Africa.  The report corresponds with the World Bank’s 2017 Global Forex Survey which discovered that lack of documentation was the primary barrier to access to financial services by 26 per cent of unbanked people in low-income countries.

Stakeholders in the nation’s ICT sector gathered in Abuja recently to appraise the performance of the 30 per cent broadband target set for the country  between  2013 and 2018 by the National Broadband Plan.