No fewer than 1500 Nigerians across Imo, Benue, Niger and Kogi states gathered recently as Globacom announced intentions to recruit agents for its mobile money platform, Glo Xchange. The prospective agents were exposed to the benefits of the partnership and in turn they encouraged other business men and women to avail themselves of the prospects from their partnerships with Glo.

Etisalat Nigeria has reiterated its support for innovation and creativity in the country as the 5th edition of Nigeria’s only international arts festival of photography, LagosPhoto Festival announces its second phase.

After competing with no fewer than 400 other solutions from Africa in the 2014 World Summit Award , Mobile Software Solutions limited, a Nigerian solution with a focus on e-health was celebrated with an award for the Best African Mobile Solutions in mobile content, Health, Entertainment/Lifestyle category.

Recently, eight Nigerian universities received Galileo boards from Intel Corporation as part of the chip maker’s strategy to encourage research and developments in Information and Communications Technology in the Nigerian educational system. The Corporate Affairs Group Director, Intel Africa, Mr. Moise Adams Leye, in this interview with Vanguard explained why Nigerian Universities should embrace the technology as enabler for innovations while strengthening student’s ability to code applications. He said that the idea is to encourage learning and creating things that solve challenges.

President Goodluck Jonathan has been conferred with the ‘Grand Commander of ICT Promoters in Nigeria,’ for being Nigeria’s first digital President, at the just concluded 2014 Nigeria Information and Communication Technology, ICT, Centenary awards held recently.