Wale Omole, Vice Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) in Ile-Ife, Nigeria, visited the ICTP late last month to sign a three-year extension of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Centre that will facilitate the extension of the OAU communications network. The initial MOU was signed in 1995. Under the terms of the agreement, ICTP's Programme of Training and System Development on Networking and Radiocommunications will continue to help the University make use of its network to enhance research activities in physics and the physical sciences; promote an exchange of information between the Centre and the University; and facilitate co-operative activities between OAU and the University of Cape Coast in Ghana, in the fields of optical physics, radiocommunications and space science. The latter activities will take place under the sponsorship of the Centre's Office of External Activities.