Nigeria’s Minister of Communications and Technology Omobola Johnson has signed a new deal to increase the region's information and technology infrastructure as well as create a knowledge city.This is according to a news story from IT News Africa.

She said that the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between NITDA and the Cross Rivers state government marked a milestone in the efforts to develop a “vibrant software development industry that would serve the Nigerian and international market.”

She also highlighted that Nigeria’s Knowledge City is “expected to incubate and foster start-up ICT firms and help to commercialise academic research in ICTs, facilitate the growth of small and medium scale ICT businesses through creative fiscal incentives and support programmes, create a pool of ICT skills and competencies that can be deployed well beyond the state and attract inward investments from more established national and international companies/mature technology businesses by offering world class scalable physical facilities and proximity to a vibrant ICT.”

Source: IT News Africa