As the competition get hotter, two secondary schools from the Sub Saharan Africa countries, including Nigeria and Ghana are currently flying the continent’s flag at the ongoing Microsoft partners in learning Worldwide Innovative Education Forum holding in Cape Town, South Africa.

The global software giant, Microsoft in partnership with Smithsonain Institution and TakingITGlobal have launched Shout initiative , a capacity building program designed to encourage teachers to use technology to help students explore, connect and act to address some of the world’s most pressing environmental issues, while gaining important skills including collaboration, critical thinking and social responsibility.

It had been long in coming, but then in 1996, seven years after it was introduced in the United States, the nation’s telecoms regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) did the right thing. It licenced 38 internet service providers to sell internet services in Nigeria.

Walk with me in memory to one of the greatest celebrations, the end of the colonial era in Africa. The day: October 1, 1960. The place: British West Africa. The setting: a crowded stadium in the Atlantic coastal town of Sapele. School children are waving green and white flags in honor of the birth of modern Nigeria, no longer part of the British Empire.

Nigeria lit Africa up again Thursday night at the Eko Hotel and Suites Victoria Island Lagos, when the Second National Operator, Globacom commercially launched services of its Glo1 cable in Nigeria.

THE Nigerian environment has been described as unfriendly and hostile to local entrepreneurs and investors who are ready to invest in the country and display their capabilities particularly, in the Information and Communications Technology, ICT sector.

For Nokia Siemens Networks, the new technology, LTE holds the key to radical transformation of wireless experience particularly in emerging markets like Nigeria. The company was making the assertion in the recent concluded NigeriaCom in Lagos Nigeria.

Intercontinental Bank Plc, IBPLC, has revealed its desire and determination to make Nigeria a cashless country in line with what is obtainable in advanced countries of the world.

Since the debut of the GSM in Nigeria August 2001, there has been an unconsciously wide gap among phone users across the country.

As the global economic crunch bites harder on the world economy, small scale enterprises seem the worst hit.

AS the World leaders from all over the globe convened in New York city recently to discuss the Millennium Development Goals, MDGs, the Nigerian IT youth ambassador, Nkemdilim Uwaje has challenged Nigerian youths on Millennium Development Goals, MDGs, using IT.

Chief Executive Officer of Teledom Group, a hi-tech solutions company, Dr Emmanuel Ekuwem has predicted that Nigeria would be an information technology super-power by the year 2020, following the emerging broadband revolution in the country.

In spite of ongoing plans to relocate the Computer Village; lots of expansion and renovation are still going on there.

Perhaps, eventually, internet users in the country may be able to heave a sigh of relief as Spectrum Networks, an internet service provider in the country recently introduced a new surfing technology that ensures browsers are secured with backups coming from three broad band cable networks.

It’s shocking, but it’s true: an alarming number of touchscreen phones have begun to go bad.