For the second year running, Microsoft has returned as a sponsor for 2016 Connected East Africa, in the ICT Innovation Awards category with the showcase of new solutions designed to help local governments improve their operations and service delivery.

KONGA.com has forever changed the way Nigerians shop online, but it wasn’t always the juggernaut that it is today. In fact, once upon a time it was just a promising startup with a big vision. So, how did it end up becoming Nigeria’s largest online retailer?

The world around us, every business and nearly every industry, is being transformed by technology. This disruption is driven, in part, by the intersection of three trends: a massive explosion of data, intelligence from machine learning and advanced analytics, and the economics and agility of cloud computing.

From small group of 10 people at inception to much bigger 80 professionals currently growing the Nigerian Information Technology space , Microsoft, no doubt, has registered its foot print in the market while building capacity to impact the Nigerian market.

The planned auctioning of the 2.6 GHz spectrum by the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, is expected to support a successful 4G roll-out in Nigeria, the Director of Africa, GSMA , Mortimer Hope has said.