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Microsoft Lessons will Help Transform Teachers’ ICT Training- Asomugha
Federal government has prioritized transforming lab-based ICT training to meet contemporary pedagogy requirements by teachers, hinting on leveraging ‘windows’ provided my Microsoft technologies.
Mrs. Uwem Asomugha, director of ICT, Federal Ministry of Education told Nigeria CommunicationsWeek at Microsoft-BETT Middle East Forum held in Abu Dhabi, recently, that the Ministry which faces multifaceted challenges in digitalizing teacher and learning processes in the country, is trying to leverage the technological prowess of companies like the Microsoft which tranforms the process.
Asomugha said, “What we have been doing is lab-based ICT training for teachers, but the world has gone beyond that; every teacher should have a mobile device. That is one of the areas we are lacking”.
Speaking on the Forum, she told Nigeria CommunicationsWeek, “BETT is quite significant; I have always known a lot of the things been emphasized are important to improving our education system. For instance, Microsoft software have helped us a lot in driving transformation, but this Forum has further strengthened the need for us to engage deeper with the company with reference to Microsoft Academy (MA) is something we are going to push forward. Whether we like it or not, our children have to compete globally. We have to ditch the idea of raising just local champions”.
What The Ministry Does Currently Using Technology To Boost Education
She said, “We are doing quite a lot, even at the tertiary level. For instance, the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) is a software/technology driven institution. It is doing quite a lot in accordance to its nomenclature “Open”. It is delivering education through technology. We have the National Teachers Institute (NTI), which is also a distance learning institution that leverages technology to deliver on its mandate”.
She added that, although the institutions are doing very well in technological adoption, there are still some challenges.
“For instance the Nigerian Research and Education Network (NgREN), the challenge has been payment of subscription. We have the infrastructure on ground, at least 27 universities are connected but the subscription issue remains there.
“The Federal budget for Education limits us, because through that we can’t pay for the NgREN subscription. We have to be brunt about it. Almost every school has V-Sat connection, but size the bandwidth subscription paid by the Federal is limiting their capacity. Connectivity is a major issue for us, coupled with power.
“At the Secondary school level, the Federal Government controls just a fraction of the schools. that is the 104 Unity Schools, while the States have the rest and individuals that control the private schools too. Although, we are making significant improvements, still are number of issues such as building the teachers’ capacity, provision of devices. What we have been doing is lab-based ICT training for teachers, but the world has gone beyond that; every teacher should have a mobile device. That is one of the areas we are lacking.
“Some States like Ekiti, Ondo, Osun, gave out devices to students, yes, even the federal Government gave devices to all 227 schools across States, but it is not enough.
China’s Huawei Technologies unveiled an AI computing system on Saturday that an industry expert said rivals Nvidia’s most advanced product, as the company aims to expand its footprint in the country’s booming AI sector.
The CloudMatrix 384 system made its public debut at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), a three-day event in Shanghai, attracting a large crowd to Huawei’s booth with its showcase of cutting-edge AI innovations.
The system has attracted significant interest from the global AI community since Huawei (HWT.UL) first introduced it in April. Industry analysts see it as a direct challenger to Nvidia’s GB200 NVL72, the most advanced system-level offering currently available from the U.S. chipmaker.
In an April article, Dylan Patel, founder of semiconductor research firm SemiAnalysis, stated that Huawei now possesses AI system capabilities that could surpass those of Nvidia.
Huawei staff at its WAIC booth declined to comment when asked to introduce the CloudMatrix 384 system.
A spokesperson for Huawei did not respond to questions.
Huawei has become widely regarded as China’s most promising domestic supplier of chips essential for AI development, even though the company faces U.S. export restrictions.
Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang told Bloomberg in May that Huawei had been “moving quite fast” and named the CloudMatrix as an example.
The CloudMatrix 384 system features 384 of Huawei’s latest 910C chips and, according to SemiAnalysis, surpasses Nvidia’s GB200 NVL72 in certain performance metrics, despite the latter using 72 B200 chips.
SemiAnalysis attributes this performance advantage to Huawei’s strong system design, which offsets the lower power of individual chips by leveraging a greater number of them and incorporating system-level innovations.
Huawei describes the system as utilizing a “supernode” architecture that enables ultra-high-speed interconnectivity between chips.
In June, Zhang Pingan, CEO, Huawei Cloud confirmed that the CloudMatrix 384 was already operational on Huawei’s cloud platform.
Transcorp Hotels Plc has delivered a stellar performance in the first half of 2025, recording a 60% year-on-year surge in revenue to ₦47.57 billion, up from ₦29.72 billion in H1 2024. Gross profit climbed 71% to ₦36.21 billion, maintaining a strong 76% margin despite inflation and operational headwinds.
The hospitality giant, a subsidiary of Transnational Corporation Plc, also announced an interim dividend payout of ₦1.024 billion — offering ₦0.10 per 50 kobo ordinary share to shareholders.
In a bold move, the company unveiled Nigeria’s largest corporate venue — the 5,000-seat Transcorp Centre — staking its claim as the new leader in event hospitality. Chairman Emmanuel Nnorom described the results as proof of Transcorp Hotels’ transformative strategies and unwavering investor commitment. MD/CEO Uzo Oshogwe attributed the success to relentless execution and a resilient business model.
Transcorp Hotels, renowned for iconic assets like Transcorp Hilton Abuja and its digital platform Aura, says it isn’t just leading Nigeria’s hospitality sector — it’s redefining excellence across Africa.
Chinese “threat actors” have hacked Microsoft’s SharePoint document software servers and targeted the data of the businesses using it, the firm has said.
China state-backed Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon as well as China-based Storm-2603 were said to have “exploited vulnerabilities” in on-premises SharePoint servers, the kind used by firms, but not in its cloud-based service.
The US tech giant has released security updates in response and has advised all on-premises SharePoint server customers to install them.
“Investigations into other actors also using these exploits are still ongoing,” Microsoft said in a statement.
The firm said it had “high confidence” the hackers would continue to target systems which have not installed its security updates.
It added that it would update its website blog with more information as its investigation continues.
Microsoft said it had observed attacks in which hackers had sent a request to a SharePoint server “enabling the theft of the key material by threat actors”.
Charles Carmakal, chief technology officer at Mandiant Consulting firm, a division of Google Cloud, told reporter, it was “aware of several victims in several different sectors across a number of global geographies”.
Carmakal said it appeared that governments and businesses that use SharePoint on their sites were the primary target.
A number of adversaries who stole material encoded by cryptography were then able to regain ongoing access to the victims’ SharePoint data, he said.
“This was exploited in a very broad way, very opportunistically before a patch was made available. That’s why this is significant,” Carmakal said.
Carmakal said the “China-nexus actor” was deploying techniques similar to previous campaigns associated with Beijing.
Microsoft said Linen Typhoon had “focused on stealing intellectual property, primarily targeting organizations related to government, defence, strategic planning, and human rights” for 13 years.
It added that Violet Typhoon had been “dedicated to espionage”, primarily targeting former government and military staff, non-governmental organizations, think tanks, higher education, the media, the financial sector and the health sector in the US, Europe, and East Asia.
Meanwhile, Storm-2603 was “assessed with medium confidence to be a China-based threat actor”.
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