Nigeria will be through with the testing ground for home made satellite by 2015. The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Abdu Bulama made this promise in Abuja during a familiarization tour to the National Air Space and Research Development Agency, NASRDA and National Biotechnology Development Agency, NABDA.

GOogle’s Developer Relations Manager, Mr. Chukwuemeka Afigbo, has said that if universities produce quality developers, the shortage of locally relevant content on the web will be a thing of the past in Africa. According to him, a lot of the startup tech companies today who are looking to expand their businesses are having issues finding young affordable talent for hire.

Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) has said that it would celebrate excellence and outstanding contributions in Nigeria’s Information Technology (IT) space at its 2014 National Information Technology Merit Award (NITMA)

A new country-by-country data on state of broadband access worldwide released last week by the United Nation Broadband Commission has indicated that over 50% of the global population would have Internet access within the next three years.

Continuing its strategy to arm mobile professionals with tools that make them more productive, Canadian smart phone maker, BlackBerry Limited has introduced into the market BlackBerry Passport.