Leading manufacturer of mobile phones and other home appliances, Samsung Electronics has announced the introduction of a full touch screen mobile phone in Nigeria.

Baring any positive twist from what is currently on ground, the $2.5b sale of Nigeria’s national telecommunications carrier, Nitel to New Generations telecom may hit the rocks. This is as fresh information Vanguard gathered from Abuja, indicates that the interests that want the sale of Nitel revoked to apparently favour an indigenous player are getting strong backing from powerful people in government.

One of Nigeria’s CDMA operator’s Visafone said it has extended its network coverage to Maiduguri, capital of Bornu State. The telecoms operator says it is entering the historic town with exciting and affordable packages tailored to meet the communication needs of the residents and further facilitate their contacts with friends and loved ones.

National Telecommunications Operator, Globacom will be a key participant at this year’s edition of the Kaduna International Trade Fair which opens on Friday, February 19 and ends on Sunday, February 28.

As technology is permeating every sector of life, creating unimaginable transformations, the marriage institution should not be left out. And that could be why a frontline internet services provider, iWay Africa recently introduced a website which provides the opportunity for couples who have not tied their nuptial knots to have a celebrity wedding worth over N4m.

While nations of the world, especially India are retooling their software products for global competitiveness, there has been growing concern in the Nigerian IT industry regarding the country’s over dependency in foreign software drive her economy, a development which experts say, may derail vision 2020 imperative

Overview: Several Research white papers on the strategies to accelerate national IT capacity building have zeroed in on the massive involvement of women in the IT development cycle. Compared to other countries, the number of Nigerian women in IT is rather low.

Meridian Technologies, an IT training & testing outfit has started training women students free of cost on computer basics at its Maryland, Lagos centre. With this Women IT empowerment offer, More than 100 students have already benefited from this free training. The school is in alliance with APTECH Ltd, Oracle Corporation, Cisco, Microsoft and other leading vendors in IT.

Nigerian foremost infrastructure sharing and managed services provider, Helios Towers Nigeria in collaboration with fixed wireless telephone operator, Multi-links Telkom have recently signed a fully managed network services contract in Lagos.

TOP IT resellers, Technology Distributions Limited has pledged to empower a new generation of resellers in Liberia and bring down computer prices significantly in the country.