Airtel Nigeria has attributed flooding and attacks on its installations to the poor network services experienced recently. It said attacks on its 53 installations have disrupted operations in 193 sites across the Northern part of Nigeria.

After  a keenly contested software competition involving 17  schools from Nigerian tertiary institutions on Tuesday night at the  African knowledge city,  Tinapa, Calabar, Cross River state, two software incubators  from the Federal University of Technology, Minna, Niger State won the 2012 national software Innovation competition  organized for students in Nigerian tertiary institutions.

Unless issues around data security, infrastructure, jurisdiction and legislation, compliance, ownership of data, among others were resolved urgently, Nigeria’s quest for the adoption of cloud computing in the 21st century knowledge society may remain fjust that — a quest.

Over time, the criticism of the National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA, has been that as an agency of government empowered in 2007 to develop parameters for ICT growth in Nigeria, it has been lacking on the duty.

An African web portal, Howzit MSN is partnering with Ad Dynamo, a South African ad-serving firm to help monetize the growing web traffic in Nigeria.