Food crisis: Apostle Achudume tasks FG to revive bulk purchase corporation - ITREALMS

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The General Overseer of Victory Life Bible Church (VLBC) Apostle Lawrence Achudume has tasked the Nigerian Government to revive the comatose Bulk Purchase Corporations across the states, stressing that was the best option to address the food shortage in the country

Achudume gave the challenge during his visit to the corporate headquarters of Penpushing Media located at Leme axis of Moshood Abiola way, Abeokuta on Thursday, stressing that the revival of the corporations will control purchase and price.

The known frankly speaking cleric said on this the government does not need consultants to carry out operations at the bulk purchase corporations, and warned against politicizing it by appointing politicians to be in charge, but professionals.

Nokia plans mobile tech return

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Information and Communication Technology (ICT) corporation, Nokia Technologies, has began hiring software experts and sales partners to test its new products, as it sets to return to the mobile phone and consumer tech arena, ITRealms learnt.

The company, ITRealms gathered, may have heralded the ‘rebirth of Nokia’ with the launch of an Android tablet N1, and also launched an Android app called Z Launcher, which organises content on smartphones.   

In the meantime, ITRealms reports that Nokia’s technologies division has advertised on LinkedIn for dozens of jobs in California, many in product development, including Android engineers specialising in the operating software its mobile devices will use.

Although, the Chief Executive Officer Nokia, Rajeev Suri, was not explicit on the preparations, however, disclosed that the corporation aimed to re-enter the mobile phone business.

He also stressed that it will not fall back on ‘traditional’ methods noting that, some staff at the 600-strong technologies division are working on designs for new consumer products, including phones, as well as in digital video and health.

One ace Nokia holds, ITRealms gathered, is ownership of one of the mobile industry's biggest troves of intellectual property, including patents it retained after selling its handset business. With this the telecom giant intends to claw its way back to relevance in the fast-changing, competitive mobile business where Apple has been scooping up nearly 90% of industry profits.

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Oracle partners MTN to train 2,000 MTNF Scholars in ICT

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In a bid to bridge Information and Communication Technology skills acquisition gap in Nigeria, technology solution company, Oracle Corporation and MTN Foundation (MTNF) have planned to train up to 2,000 MTNF scholars in database design, SQL and Java programming skills, as well, fund one student to attend the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) open-lab Summer School in Switzerland reports ITRealms.

Speaking on the collaboration, ITRealms gathered that, Mr. Adebayo Sanni, Country Manager, Oracle Nigeria, said the initiative focuses on teaching database design, SQL and Java programming skills to MTN Foundation Scholars, using Oracle Academy curriculum and hosted online learning materials. “Students will be taught by two trained faculty from the Ajayi Crowther University and Aived International who have attended and passed the formal Oracle Academy faculty training courses.” He said. 

Sanni also added that, “With the rapid adoption of technology in Nigeria, it is imperative that students are equipped with the right skills to take advantage of career and entrepreneurial opportunities.”

On the MTNF Scholarship Scheme, Corporate Services Executive, MTN Nigeria, Mr. Akinwale Goodluck said it’s a corporate social responsibility which covers students’ tuition, books and pocket allowance helping to reduce poverty as well as foster sustainable development in Nigeria.

According to Goodluck, it is renewable provided recipients maintain a minimum of 3.5 Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) in their course of study and an overall 2.5 CGPA.

Equally, ITRealms learnt that MTN in collaboration with its partner, have selected to fund Mufutau Akuruyejo, a computer science student of the University of Lagos, who emerged the best student from Africa, at a global academic competition, organized by CERN, for a nine week training programme on ICT in Switzerland.

The highly competitive student programme, ITRealms gathered is a cornerstone of CERN open-lab and recieved over 1,500 applications from all over the globe this year.

Sanni, who confirmed this, ITRealms learnt, said that the support from Oracle in funding Akuruyejo to Switzerland for ICT training would assist Nigeria in bridging ICT skills gap in the country. He said Oracle has been involved in several partnerships with state governments to further drive technology development across the country.

CERN open-lab was created more than 10 years ago to tackle computing, data, and infrastructure challenges, with summer school which also focuses on research and development activities in the ICT space.

Akuruyejo, an MTNF scholar, ITRealms gathered will be the first Nigerian student to participate in the annual CERN open-lab nine week programme.

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