Following the dearth of relevant research reports in the African digital ecosystem, Terragon Group, leading African digital media company, has partnered with Lagos Business School (LBS), to provide relevant credible research data and reports.

To better serve both operators and end users across the continent, Ericsson is building a new network operations center in Lagos, Nigeria, while expanding the capabilities of its existing facility in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

Despite its infrastructural challenges, Nigeria is among the top three countries in the emerging broadband markets, according to the first Global Connectivity Index, GCI, on West Africa released at the weekend by Huawei Technologies.

The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) at the weekend said that it would tackle headlong the long standing issue of competition within the Nigerian TV market.

Maintaining the perfect work-life balance is never easy for the modern day woman. Aside from working 9 hours a day, she has to worry about cooking for her family. Though the arrival of microwave ovens has greatly simplified the cooking process, the gourmet taste of the food has had to be sacrificed along the way. This problem led to the innovation of the next generation of Lightwave cookers, one of which is the LG Lightwave Microwave Oven by global leading Home Appliances manufacturer, LG Electronics.

The first “Digital Village’’ in Nigeria was inaugurated on Thursday by Samsung Electronics West Africa in collaboration with UNESCO in Oban Community, Akamkpa Local Government Area of Cross River.

As the Team Nigeria, comprising of four students from the Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, ABUAD, await results of the World Semi-finals in the 2015 Microsoft Imagine Cup competition, mentor of the team, and a lecturer at the ABUAD, Mobolaji Tenibiaje, has expressed the team’s readiness to do well at the global showdown.

THE dwindling fortunes of Nigeria’s Code Division Multiple Access, CDMA sub-sector of the telecoms industry last month worsened when news filtered that MTN Nigeria, a GSM transnational had advanced acquisition plans for the last CDMA operator standing, Visafone. Although it was a matter of time for extinction to happen on the CDMA sector in Nigeria, considering the challenges which bogged down their operations, it was also surprising that Visafone could go so soon, particularly when it just obtained approval for additional spectrum two months earlier.

THE impact of the new biotechnology bill otherwise called biosafety bill, which was recently assented to by President Goodluck Jonathan, into law cannot be over emphasized. This is because the law is coming at a time the issue of biosafety regulation in Africa is rapidly gaining momentum as more African countries are embracing genetically motivated organisms, GMOs.

BASKING in the euphoria of winning two awards at the Beacon of ICT awards at the weekend, Executive Director, Sidmach Technologies, Mr Alao, said the local software industry could sustain the economy if appropriate support comes from both government and the private/public sectors. Alao’s Sidmach won the indigenous software company of the year while he clinched the ICT personality of the year award.