New York, US (PANA) - Senior UN officials, policymakers, civil society representatives Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - What is being described as Nigeria's first and only 24-hour national emergency and information number, 7411, has been launched, the online publication Nigerian Communications Week reported Tuesday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The President of Mycotoxicology Society of Nigeria, Dr. Olusegun Atanda, has called on the UN to set aside a day to be known as 'Mycotoxins Day’ due to the danger posed by mycotoxins to food safety and public health. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) – Russia is to help Ghana develop its nuclear industry, especially nuclear energy, the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum has announced. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Ten finalists for the ''Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA)'' award, for persons or organizations that have developed practical solutions to some of the continent’s most intractable problems, were nominated Thursday, organizers told PANA here. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) has launched Open Data Platforms for 20 African countries, including Senegal, with the aim of increasing data management and dissemination in Africa, PANA Reports from here Friday. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Policymakers in Africa should redouble efforts to develop their legal and policy frameworks, including their intellectual property legislation and policy, to release the region’s untapped potential, participants at a regional meeting held here on the Strategic Importance of Intellectual Property have agreed. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Scientists in South Africa and Sweden have shown how an African insect with a tiny brain and minimal computing power has become the first animal proven to use the Milky Way for orientation. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Science academies across Africa need to engage more with policy makers, politicians, the general public and adopt a comprehensive communication strategies that will make its major findings useful to the society, according to Professor Ratemo Michieka of the Kenyan National Academy of Sciences. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The eighth edition of the annual meeting of the African Science Academies (AMASA-8) opened in Lagos Monday with a call by President Goodluck Jonathan for more collaboration and cooperation to mitigate the effects of climate change on the continent. Full text...

Luanda, Angola (PANA) – The public-private Intel Net telecommunication company on Friday in Luanda launched a satellite internet service called “Yah Click”. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Government Ministers and officials from across Africa as well as representatives of the world's top technology brands are attending the three-day Innovation Africa Summit, which began in Cape Town, South Africa, Friday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Scientists from Africa and beyond, including those in the African Diaspora, will converge in Nigeria 11-14 November for the 8th Annual Meeting of African Science Academies (AMASA-8), according to the Chairman of the Local Organising Committee(LOC), Prof. David Okali. Full text...

Hammamet, Tunisia (PANA) - The head of the Tunisian government, Hamadi Jebali, has said the North African country will no longer exercise any control on the Internet and that its areas of operation will no longer be limited. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Six new African countries have joined the African Virtual University, bringing the total members to 14, the organisation said in a statement made available to PANA here Tuesday evening. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The third African Peering and Interconnection Forum, organized by the Internet Society, started in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Wednesday. Full text...

Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian Information and Communication Technology Minister Tassarajen Pillay Chedumbrum has said the government will use the Online Content Filtering solution to put a stop to the abusive use of Internet. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Governments at all levels in Nigeria have been urged to invest more in science and technology, while ordinary Nigerians are being asked to patronize locally-made goods, as a way of boosting the local economy, Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The jury for the 2012 African Union's Kwame Nkrumah Scientific Awards for Women, being handled on behalf of the Union by ECOWAS, began a meeting on Monday at the ECOWAS Commission headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria, an ECOWAS press statement indicated here Tuesday. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) has set up a High-Level Panel on Science, Technology and Innovation and appointed scientists -- Kenya's Prof. Calestous Juma of the Harvard University, and Ismail Serageldin of Egypt -- as co-Chairs. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) Agency is to host the Bioenergy Investment Symposium for the Southern African Development Community (SADC) 30-31 July in Sandton, Johannesburg. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – The African Centre for Statistics (ACS) this week brought together a group of African experts to craft what would become a framework to harmonize data management and flow in the continent, PANA learnt here Friday. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - For many people around the world, the mobile phone soon will be the only means of accessing the internet, according to Ericsson, one of the world's leading providers of communications technology and services. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The first radio station in Nigeria dedicated to reporting on the traffic situation in the nation's grid-lock-prone economic capital city of Lagos has started full transmission. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – A three-day Ministerial Conference on ‘Science and Technology’ got underway Tuesday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with participants sharing experiences with Africa’s Regional Economic Communities, a statement from the African Union (AU) has said. Full text...

Kigali Rwanda (PANA) - The world's fifth mobile telecommunications company, Bharti Airtel, is to invest US$100 million in its operations in Rwanda over the next three years, Mr Manoj Kohli, CEO (International) and Joint Managing Director of the company, has announced. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Two thirds of the multi-billion dollar Square Kilometre Array (SKA) antennae technologies will be built in Africa, the SKA Organisation confirmed following a meeting in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on Friday. Full text...

Lomé, Togo (PANA) - Togo now has its own optic fibre submarine cable landing point to boost its telecommunications network, official sources in Lome told PANA Wednesday. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Director of the nuclear security department at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mr M'rabit Khammar, on Tuesday declared the organization's readiness to help Libya in the field of nuclear security. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Nigerian telecommunication giant, Glo Mobile, on Sunday launched its operations in Ghana with a pledge for cheaper, more reliable and more efficient voice and data services. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Nigerian telecommunication giant, Glo Mobile, is under pressure to begin operations in Ghana after years of preparation. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Determined to see youth unemployment adequately dealt with in the continent, African scientists have urged African ministers, in Nairobi to discuss how to boost science and technology with a view to creating jobs for the youth, to prioritise health, food, infrastructure, water and energy research. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A new effort is being made to boost Africa’s investments in science and technology, amid fresh evidence that most of the continent's economies have received major boosts with the opening up of the telecommunication sector. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) has granted US$322,560 to the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) to help create design documents for the construction of the Air Traffic Control Centre at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) in Accra. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Rod Beckstrom, the President of Internet Cooperation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), has predicted major internet changes, saying “Internet will change more in the next five years than it did in the past three decades.” Full text...

Paris, France (PANA) - The first Africa Forum on Science, Technology and Innovations, jointly organized by UNESCO, the African Union Commission, the African Development Bank (AfDB), the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) and the Kenyan Ministry of Higher Education Science and Technology, will take place from 1 to 3 April in Nairobi, Kenya, UNESCO indicated here Tuesday in a press statement from its Paris, France, office. Full text...

Seoul, South Korea (PANA) - Nigeria's president Goodluck Jonathan, has assured the global community that Nigeria will do everything possible to ensure that adequate safety measures are deployed when the country introduces nuclear power into its energy mix. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Information Technology service providers are well-positioned to deliver cloud services, but first they have to understand the dynamics of the sector and define clear objectives for their cloud strategies, according to a new report from a research group, Pyramid Research (PR). Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) said applications for international patent filings experienced their fastest growth last year, since 2005, saying ''this signals a steady recovery despite difficult global economic conditions.'' Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - A Mauritius-based company announced on Thrusday that it will Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - President Goodluck Jonathan has congratulated Professor Oluwole Daniel Makinde, the Nigerian recipient of the African Union Kwame Nkrumah 2011 Scientific Award for Basic Sciences, Technology and Innovation, describing Makinde’s achievement as “a source of pride to all Nigerians, particularly worthy of emulation by the younger generation”. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - A report by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), said on Wednesday that intellectual property (IP) filings worldwide increased significantly in 2010, pointing to continuing innovation driven mainly by the US and China despite the global economic crisis. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Head of the Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited (NigComSat Ltd.), Mr. Timasaniyu Ahmed-Rufai, has described Monday's successful launch of the country's replacement communication satellite as ''mission fulfilled''. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's president, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, has said that the successful launching, Monday, of the new Nigerian Communications Satellite in Xichang,China, is another great step forward for the country towards the development of a modern, knowledge-driven society. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Qatar Solar Technologies (QSTec), Monday announced that it had won the "New Economy Magazine’s Clean Tech & New Energy Award for Best Joint Venture, Africa/Middle East," the company said in a press statement received by PANA. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday urged State Parties to the international convention on biological weapons to boost cooperation on the peaceful use of biological science and technology to ensure that the knowledge is used for the benefit of humanity and not exploited to undermine global security. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan Thursday announced an increase in the monetary value of the Nigerian National Order of Merit Award (NNMA) from 5 million naira (about US$32,000) to 10 million naira (about US$64,000). Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria loses over 1 billion naira (about US$ 7 million) annually on the importation of Precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC), which is currently in commercial quantity in some identified minefields across the country, according to the Director General of Raw Materials Research and Development Council (RMRDC), Azikwe Onwualu. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - A report, released Tuesday by the UN World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, Switzerland, said that royalties and licence fees from intellectual property rights have generated an estimated US$ 180 billion in revenue. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - A report, released Tuesday by the UN World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, Switzerland, said that royalties and licence fees from intellectual property rights have generated an estimated US$ 180 billion in revenue. Full text...