After competing with 11 other teams from other tertiary institutions around the country at the Nigeria challenge finals held yesterday in Lagos, four software incubators from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ilefe, (OAU) and Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, (Lautech )Ogbomoso, Oyo respectively will fly Nigerian flag this summer in St Petersburg, Russia this summer at the worldwide finals.

Leading provider of communications technology and services, Ericsson, and the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs have announced a strategic partnership for a two-year ICT venture in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Etisalat Nigeria has launched its metro fibre network in Abuja. The deployment of the Abuja Metro Fibre, according to the telecom company marks another major milestone in its commitment to providing quality internet services in Nigeria.

Samsung Electronics, last week released a new tablet, Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0, specifically designed to add value to users in both their work and social lives. This is also as it introduced another home hub solution tagged HomeSync.

Chairman of Africa ICT Alliance (AfICTA ), Dr. Jimson Olufuye has been appointed member of the United Nations working group on Enhanced Cooperation.

THOUGH the boom in internet access has brought much relief to the way people do things, the benefits have been hampered by lack of sufficient information that will enable usage in areas like e-commerce, e-government, among other related activities via the internet.

THE House of Representatives Committee on Information & National Orientation says the Nigerian Television Authority, NTA and Voice of Nigeria, VON are in position to leverage the Nigerian Communication Satellite, NigComSat facilities in their ongoing efforts to achieve digitalization in 2015.

Yesterday, we were told it will take us 2,000 years to locally refine crude oil into petroleum and develop a bomb – but we did that within few months during the Nigerian civil war and came out with “Ogbunigwe,” a bomb with much dynamism and superiority than other inventions!

MTN Nigeria has bought into the Cashless Nigeria initiative by engaging its Business to Business, B2B, division into a partnership with the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS).

Country Manager, Microsoft Nigeria, Emmanuel Onyeje has said with optimism that 9jApps contest would empower the next generation of Nigerian developers, by helping them drive innovation and grow the local software economy.