re - 10 Technologies that will transform Nigeria

After reading 10 Technologies That Will Transform Your Life, I thought: how about transforming Nigeria.
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10. Digital Libraries:Having total connectivity is pointless if all you get is the latest gossip about Paris Hilton. But the digitization of mankind’s accumulated works proceeds apace. All of MIT’s courses are now online, for instance, and, if you haven’t done [...]

Congo’s pygmies turn to technology

Through the use of Hand-held satellite tracking devices, Pygmies and commercial loggers have begun to work together in the Congo Basin Republic.

The Congo River (for a time known as Zaire River) is the largest river in Western Central Africa. Its overall length of 4,700 km (2,922 miles) makes it the second longest in Africa (after [...]

Globacom Commissions N83bn Optic Fibre Backbone

Nigeria’s second national operator,  Globacom, yesterday commissioned the first portion of its $700 million nationwide optic fibre transmission network in Minna, the Niger State capital.
The Globacom fibre cable network covers the entire Lagos-Abeokuta-Ibadan route, Lagos-Ijebuode-Ore-Benin and Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano routes. Upon completion of the first phase, the network will span 10,000 km, covering all the major cities [...]