TECH NEWS REELS

  Mrs Oreoluwa Lesi, Founder, Women Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC), has advised parents and guardians to leverage gaming as a means of fostering creativity, innovation and learning in children. Lesi told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in an interview in Lagos on Monday that rather than having the notion that video games had a negative influence on children, parents needed to start seeing the beneficial aspects. “The thing is that a lot of parents worry about their children playing games on different levels. “One, is that they are very addictive and they believe that once a child starts to play them, it becomes constant and draws their attention from other things. “Games that are immersive and require strategy and problem-solving skills to win, need players to remember and take in a lot of information. “Regularly playing these types of games can help improve young players’ short and long-term memory. “These games also help their brain process information quicker. “Furthermo...

By Precious Akutamadu  StartupSouth Enterprise Development LTD/GTE, on Thursday, trained 50 journalists in the South-South region on how to utilise innovative technology tools in reporting events and ecosystem in the Niger Delta and beyond. The organisation is a startup ecosystem development and advocacy outfit that inspires founders building high-scale ventures in Nigeria with specific focus on the South-South and South-East regions. Addressing the participants, the Convener, Uche Aniche, said that the workshop was aimed at training journalists in technology reporting. Aniche also said that the workshop would enable journalists in the Niger Delta region to understand the terms and tools of innovative technologies to be able to report the upcoming launch of innovative groundbreaking solution built by Xend Finance. He urged journalists to be passionate and intentional in their understanding of technology innovation, the importance of applying them in their daily reportage to promote...