Nigeria is never tied of running around circles. The Federal Government says it will establish an Information Communication Technology, ICT, University in the first quarter of 2017.

The Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, disclosed this on Monday in Abuja when he featured at the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, Forum.

“By the grace of God, in the next three to six months, we should have established in Nigeria an ICT university which will be first of its kind in Africa”.

But many Nigerians are not singing and dancing because of this new vision. A commentator named Pat in PM Nigeria notes:

What happen to open University established during Obasanjo administration? I think Open University would achieve its purpose better with ICT enhancement and more access to internet by potential students. ICT university without constant power and affordable internet by common man would be counter productive. Every University in this age need to be ICT compliance. What happen to the NITEL/Mtel that suppose to be the principal telecommunications company in Nigeria and and provide wired telecommunications in the country? We expected that company to succeed without constant electricity coupled with corruption which will be very difficult. How will ICT University of a thing be different?

Another Nigerian notes that government can channel the funds into industrial parks where it can provide power which has stifled the capacities of existing universities, says Fantastic.

I am of opinion that the government should be thinking of how to establish industrial parks and make power plant available in each of them. As it is today we don’t have tyre, leather shoes, phone and car battery manufacturing plants in this country and we are consuming them more than the manufacturers. The government should apply to these industries what Obasanjo & Jonathan did to cement industry. We don’t ICT university but industries to create jobs!

Another commentator captures the true minds of Nigerians when it noted that we already have technical universities and do not need an ICT University

These people don’t have idea of what to do to move this country forward. What of ICT department in all universities? The economy is going down and they are still making effort to increase the cost of governance. Do they have ICT university in USA? They are not bothered about Nigerians that are losing jobs on daily basis in Mtn. I think we should also have electricity or power university, election university, university of rice, cement university and road construction university. They will help us to address all these issues we are having in Nigeria. Jonathan was a clueless president but this is clueless government!

Israel is really angry right now. The nation has reportedly suspended working ties with 12 of the UN Security Council countries that voted to pass a resolution urging Israel to halt building settlements on occupied Palestinian land.

These countries affected include Britain, France, Russia, China, Japan, Ukraine, Angola, Egypt, Uruguay, Spain, Senegal and New Zealand.

The US abstained from the  UN vote on Friday.

We just survived the Samsung Galaxy-gate with the phones turning into small firecrackers in users’ pockets. Now the iPhone is extending the party.

If you just bought a new iPhone 7 Plus, congrats. But watch out, there is a problem many users are reporting. It is related to the camera hardware in the phone. Visit this Reddit thread entitled iPhone 7 Plus Cameras are Dying to read teryakiwok:

‘I opened up the camera app only to be met with a black image preview, sometimes I can get an image however it’s either tinted green or purple and was once accompanied by a screen stating ‘Emergency iPhone needs to cool down’ when the handset wasn’t even slightly warm.’

The new updates on macOS and tvOS have some really stunning images.

The Apple TV has new flyover screensavers which are available now, but none from any African city, unfortunately. I think Cape Town and Johannesburg have got some really nice structures if Apple looked hard enough. iDownloadBlog did the work categorizing the new flyovers and extracting direct download links.

If you want to check out the new visuals on Apple TV, you can see the download the additional cityscapes by going to Settings > General > Screensaver.

To check out these new macOS visuals, simply update your operating system, right click on a blank part of your desktop, and choose one of the the new wallpapers.

Some sample images.

The UN General Assembly has officially established a Technology Bank to accelerate the technological Advancement of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs).

Mr Gyan Acharya, UN High-Representative and Under-Secretary-General for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS) disclosed this in a statement in New York.

Acharya said the new UN institution was viewed as a significant achievement for the development of science, technology and innovation in the world’s poorest countries.

He said the Technology Bank is intended to help least developed countries strengthen their science, technology and innovation capacities, foster the development of national and regional innovation ecosystems that could attract outside technology and generate homegrown research and take these advancements to market.

The Bank would be financed by voluntary contributions from Member States and other stakeholders, including the private sector and foundations.

According to the resolution, it is expected that the Bank would begin operations in 2016 with the headquarters in Turkey.

The Bank aims to assist the world’s poorest countries in building their national and regional capacities in the areas of intellectual property rights and technology related policies.

It also aims to facilitate the transfer of technologies on voluntary and mutually agreed terms and conditions and in the process, accelerate the least developed countries integration into the knowledge-based economy.

The initiative had been supported by the UN Office of The High Representative for Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States since 2011 when Istanbul Programme of Action for Least Developed Countries was adopted.

Nigeria should focus on using the Bank’s funds to support entrepreneurs not university research. What is needed in the country is translation of ideas into innovation and not really the accumulation of new knowledge.