A US flight was evacuated prior to takeoff when a passenger’s Galaxy Note 7 — reportedly a replacement in Samsung’s global recall — caught fire, landing the company in new controversy.

CONTRARY to perceptions in different quarters that outsourcing takes away jobs and throws many people back into the labour market, there are revelations that, instead, it creates job opportunities as much as it adds up to $300 million to the Nigerian economy yearly.

That telecommunications services have gained traction in Nigeria can only be evidenced by the encouraging figures coming out of the industry. Apart from the monthly reports of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) which put subscription figures at 226,426,215 connected lines for the month of July, 2016, 150, 262,066 active lines, 92,181,178 internet subscribers and a teledensity of 107.33 per cent within the same period, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) also recently ascribed huge growth rate to the sector.

BlackBerry: AT last, the Canadian company that invented the smartphone has stopped production of handsets. This shows admittance of defeat in a battle lost long ago to Apple and Samsung Electronics. With this development, the company said it is handing over production of the phones to overseas partners and turning its full attention to the more profitable and growing software business.

THE telecommunications industry, at the moment, appears to be the goose that lays the golden egg, in Nigeria. At least the ten percent the sector adds into the Gross Domestic Products, GDP is a pointer to this.