TECH: Do You Know (Computer Village)
Forget what some stats say. Trade is a sector that employs and by extension feeds the most Nigerians directly and indirectly. Most of it is unregulated and highly competitive in nature as there is really no barriers to entry as long as one has start-up capital. Trade has shaped the informal economy across different sectors […]
CAPDAN Seeks to Upgrade Lagos’ Computer Village to ICT Hub
The Computer and Allied Products Dealers Association of Nigeria (CAPDAN), has urged the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to consider upgrading the computer village market in Lagos to a technology hub, where people will be trained on local manufacturing of computer and allied products. Computer village which is known as a hub for Communications and Information […]
Made-in-Nigeria Cell Phones to Launch in November
A team of investors have announced plans to launch two Made-in-Nigeria mobile phones in November 2013. The investors, numbering about 20, comprise the top players at the computer and mobile phones market in Lagos, Nigeria known as the Computer Village. The investors are hoping to give European and Asian mobile phone manufacturers a fierce competition […]
Expert Canvasses Plan for ‘Lagos Silicon Village’
Tomiwa Idowu, one of the partners at Hudson & Idowu, has said that Lagos will become Africa’s technology hub by 2020, and he’s pushing the idea in a project called “Lagos Silicon Village”, which also includes the construction of a $44 million 23-floor architectural masterpiece in the Village. The building, according to him, will provide […]