Traders in the Computer Village, Ikeja, Lagos, on Tuesday shut down activities to protest the planned installation of female and male market leaders “Iyaoloja” and “Babaloja” respectively in the hub.

An Igbosere High Court in Lagos will, today, hear a motion challenging a default judgment on a 53-year-old property situated in Computer Village, Ikeja, which was awarded to three people as original owners of the land.

By the time the fresh push by the Lagos State government to relocate Ikeja Computer Village to Katangowa in Agbado/Oke Odo Local Government of the state is materialised, the Ikeja local government will be losing about N60 million annually from levies.

Despite the stance of the Lagos state government to go tough on anyone engaging in street trading across the State, many Information Communication Technology traders have continued with street trading and hawking in the major streets of the Nigerian silicon valley, the Computer Village Ikeja.

While the market for mobile phone continues to grow in geometric progression in Nigeria where the demand is so high, there appears to be fresh battle for market supremacy among Original Equipment Manufacturers, (OEMs) .