Microsoft has denied paying a Nigerian contractor US$400,000 in a bid to battle Linux's movement into the government sector.
Media reports alleged that Microsoft had proposed paying the sum to a government contractor under a joint marketing agreement last year in order to persuade the contractor to replace Linux OS with Windows OS on thousands of school laptops.
The first African secretary general of the International Telecommunication Union, Hamadoun Toure, is calling on financial institutions on the continent to invest in the telecommunications sector.
Africa is a unique place for investment and it is a good time for financial institutions to actively step in, said Toure, speaking Friday at a Lagos dinner party organized in his honor by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC).
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