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.

African Broadcast professional organisations, engineers, intellectuals, broadcast equipment manufacturers, content providers, the academia ,broadcast marketing professionals and strategic industry stakeholders and broadcast partners across the globe will on Tuesday 21st to Thursday the 23rdOctober, 2014 converge in Abuja to brainstorm on the Digital Switchover, DSO.

The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has said that it is ready to announce the successful bidders for the two Infrastructure Companies to manage Lagos and North Central region of the country in few weeks time.

Second national operator, Globacom says that the dream of every Nigerian child for academic success is now a reality with the introduction of its mobile-based educational application called Glo Mobile Tutor.