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Ola, first from left - with female Software Engineers admitted into Microsoft LEAP Engineering Acceleration Program in Nigeria Ola 'Olatomiwa' Williams assumes the new role of Microsoft country manager for Nigeria. Formerly serving as the Director of Microsoft Cloud and Digital Transformation Solutions for Microsoft's Multi-Country Cluster region. She will
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Microsoft is inviting developers and software architects to a one day training event in Lagos. Microsoft is hosting a free one day Microsoft Azure Training Day event for developers and software architects. The training will be on migrating applications to the cloud. The training is scheduled to take place 13th September
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Microsoft Nigeria and National Information Technology Development Agency sign memorandum of understanding to strengthen ICT adoption and innovation in Nigeria. The National Information Technology Development Agency(NITDA) Nigeria and Microsoft Nigeria have signed a memorandum of understanding. The MOU seeks to see both parties working together to improve and strengthen ICT innovation
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Microsoft Nigeria hosts a Digital Government Conference to highlight the leveraging of Microsoft technologies in digital transformation for the public sector. The digital government conference was on the theme "Empowering Digital Government to share latest innovative technology trends and government solutions. With emphasis on Microsoft’s Technology platform to improve the capabilities of
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Digital Education can empower the next generation, Chinenye Ezeakor Microsoft Nigeria Education Programs Assistant shares her thoughts on how. Chinenye talks about how digital literacy can be a catalyst for the curious youth in this generation and the next. She says the truth of the matter is we live in
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Accelerate Labs will be the womb to carry about 2500 ideas that can be transformed into businesses in Nigeria. Microsoft Nigeria is working with The Future Project to make this dream a reality. The program by The Future Project and in partnership with Microsoft Nigeria is geared towards equipping the youth.
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Microsoft Nigeria held a summit in Lagos to help businesses in Nigeria leverage Microsoft's technologies in this era of digital Transformation. The summit was held in Lagos and themed Empowering Digital Transformation. It was to help improve the capabilities of businesses in Nigeria by allowing them take advantage of Microsoft technology platforms in
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WINsiders4Good Nigeria Fellowship has launched in Lagos, Nigeria. Microsoft's Windows Insider chief Dona Sarkar launched the program. After the 1st anniversary of Windows 10, the WINsiders4good initiative was introduced. The WINsiders4Good fellowship fellowship program is a series of global create-a-thons with the aim of helping insiders within a community build something
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Microsoft held it's annual Worldwide Partners Conference in Toronto, Canada this month. The event is held yearly to appreciate the efforts of it's partners in delivering Microsoft Services around the world. Microsoft Partners in Africa have ben honoured locally and internationally by the Microsoft teams in Africa and Redmond. There was
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Four teams from Africa qualify to present at the Imagine Cup Finals 2016 scheduled to take place in Seattle, United States. The teams from Tunisia, Nigeria and South Africa will compete head to head with 31 other student developer teams from July 26th to the 29th to become the next Imagine Cup
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