The reason why technology enthusiasts are celebrating the partnership deal between one of Nigeria’s contact centre operators, Consol and American based end to end infiniband and Ethernet solutions provider, Mellanox may not just be that the country has increased its Foreign Direct Investment base but the technology transfer potential the deal is poised to usher is a delight to experience.

STAKEHOLDERS in the Science and technology sector have called for a holistic approach to adoption of science, technology and innovation in the Nigeria’s quest to emerge among top 20 economies of the world by 2020.

Despite funding, mentorship , marketing, partnership and other challenging factors limiting African start-ups for global competitiveness, participants at the just concluded 2015 edition of DEMO Africa held in Lagos, Nigeria at the weekend urged young innovators to achieve scale in the local market with global vision.

The African personal computer (PC) market sank to new lows in the second quarter of this year amid a slowdown in GDP growth, the global IT intelligence analyst International Data Corporation (IDC) has revealed. The report said this development triggered an increase in unemployment rate, and strengthened the dollar against many of the continent’s currencies.

There appears to be fresh breath of hope for the June 20, 2017 deadline for Nigeria to complete the digital switchover and achieve analogue switch off. It would be recalled that Nigeria could not meet the June 17, 2015 deadline of transiting to digital terrestrial broadcasting set by the International Telecommunications Union as a result of poor funding.