Celtel thrills Corp Members
                ... Appoints John Early CTO

Celtel Nigeria recently treated National Youth Service Corps participants in Lagos State to an unforgettable evening of comedy, music and dance.
The programme tagged “Celtel welcome party for Corp Members”, was organized and sponsored by Celtel to provide the NYSC participants the opportunity to unwind, interact and have fun after a tedious week of rigorous activities at the Ipaja, Lagos, Camp, according to the Trade Marketing Manager, Lagos Mainland Region, Celtel Nigeria, Sunny Ekhalume.

Corp members were thrilled by the sensational hip pop star, Weird MC, Top Idols Stars: Eric Arubayi and Omawunmi Megbele, among others stars
The corps members were equally given the opportunity to win prizes through a dancing competition.
The Corps members who were allowed to make their choice of the best dancers through a voice vote selected the winners of the dancing competition.

At the end of the dance competition, Jonathan Okpor, Onyinyechi Ukaogo and Atuenyi Kennedy emerged winners of the contest. The winners were rewarded with Nokia handsets.
Also, the corps members were offered more opportunity to win prizes through a series of games. The winners of the contests were presented with Nokia phones and recharge cards.

As the evening wore on, the audience was treated to a dance performance by the Ultimate Steppers -Back to Back group, which took the crowd into a voyage of ecstasy with their amazing dance skills. The crowd stood to its feet in adulation, screaming and applauding every sizzling movement of the immensely talented group

by the performance of Weird MC. She took the audience on a long thrilling musical journey with the track ' Allen Avenue.' The Corps members who have only spent three days in camp could not hide their joy and appreciation of Celtel's effort to make their stay in camp memorable. Many said the party provided them room to interact, wind down and have fun.

Speaking at the event, Ekhalume told the corps members to always be of good behavior throughout their stay in camp and during the service year.
Meanwhile, Celtel Nigeria has announced the appointment John Earley as its new Chief Technical Officer.
Earley, a seasoned telecommunications professional with 30 years experience in the industry, will replace Thomas Jonnel, who recently left the company.

The new CTO has worked for both operators and vendors in Africa and many countries around the World and has built from start up and operated fixed and mobile networks and has extensive technical and managerial experience in the industry.

Celtel Nigeria's Chief Executive Officer, Bayo Ligali, who announced the appointment, described the new CTO “as an expert, who has come at a crucial time in the development of the company.
“Earley's appointment strategically complements the massive investments we are currently making in our network in terms of coverage expansion, capacity enhancement and quality improvement.

“With his wide experience in the industry, Earley will drive the process of rapid expansion going on in our network and harness the resources we are investing to achieve the level of network integrity required to take us to the next level”, Ligali added.

Previously, John Earley worked with Wataniya Telecom in the Maldives and Millicom (now Tigo) in the Democratic Republic of Congo both as CTO and prior to that as Regional General Manager West Africa for Alan Dick.

His first senior management role was at 24 years old, when he formed a company serving as Technical Director to design and manufacture the first cordless telephones in the UK. He later worked in the USA where he was responsible for the first digital rural telephone link designed to bring telephones to small or remote villages.

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