THE Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced plans to build a standard biotechnology laboratory to empower national programmes in Nigeria and Africa as a whole.

Acting Director-Genral of the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, FRCN, Dr. Samson Shaibu, in this interview speaks on how 2015 digitization goal, accreditation of FRCN training school was aborted, his ascension into the office as Acting DG, the challenges of FRCN and his plans for the broadcast major. Excerpts.

After a good presentation and outing Tuesday before panel of international judges at the ongoing 2013 Imagine Cup software students competition, the world’s premier student technology competition holding in St. Petersburg, Russia, the mentor of team Nigeria, ‘Team LifeSaver from the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Dr. O.T. Arulogun has said with optimism that the students were prepared to do Nigeria proud and bring the Cup home

The 2013 edition of Microsoft Imagine Cup Competition, the football World Cup equivalent in software design attracted no fewer than 309 students from 71 countries who have gathered in St. Petersburg, Russia to compete in three main categories like World Citizenship, Games and Innovation.

…50 tertiary institutions get internet link..
Minister of Communication Technology, Mrs. Omobola Johnson says the turnover of information communications technology, ICT companies into the Nigerian economy has reached N185 billion in 2013 and is expected to hit N200 billion by 2015.