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| Global
Academy, ATCON in fight against corruption |
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Global Academy Bloc
International reputed for its knowledge based consulting and
war against economic and financial crimes and corruption through
mirroring of the society has partnered with the Association
of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) to beam its
searchlight to the telecom sector with a view to curbing corruption
in that sector.
Global Academy which has played similar role in other sectors
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organizing world wide conferences tagged Global Economic and
Financial Crime Control and Eradication Conferences (GEFCEC).
This the Academy is set to accomplish by forming a bloc of
leadership interested in learning the contemporary methods
of controlling and eradicating economic and financial crimes
from the society. The first conference for the telecom sector
holder is billed for Muson Center Onikan, Lagos, from June
10-12.
Speaking to the media recently, Coordinator of GEFCEC, Alexander
Onyecherelam, traced the under developed nature of the country
to insensitivity of our leaders to new and improved present
day leadership/economic and financial crimes control skills.
He also listed massive over-evaluation of contract sums,
unprecedented capital flight; infrastructural decay, increasing
unemployment rate; inconsistencies in the implementation of
government policies ; disregard for the rule of law, lack
of transparency and accountability as well as wide spread
corruption as the bane of development in Nigeria.
The Academy said it will not relent in taking to the doorsteps
of the telecom stakeholders, the knowledge based mechanism
required to curb corruption.
Those targeted to participate at the event are all telecommunication
companies, key heads of information department of all banks,
heads of information technology departments of all Micro-finance
banks and insurance companies as well as information relation
officers. Also expected are all commissioners of information
in all states of the federation, EFCC, ICPC, NCC among others.
Chairman of the organizing committee for GEFCEC, Rev. Paul
Ifeanyi Udensi in his comment said that “we believe
in preventing corruption, not necessarily to stop corruption
because it is inherent in man. We have learnt that it is better
to prevent than to cure and the end results of preventive
measure is high”.
He regretted a situation where government through EFCC would
have to parade accused persons in and out of court because
it failed in providing the moral education knowledge necessary
for the accused to avoid corruption.
Rev. Udensi said, “We are looking at a day when government
will go beyond the use of EFCC and ICPC and work on people's
conscience in a bid to prevent corruption in our society”.
ATCON President, Emmanuel Ekuwem who applauded the Global
initiatives also observed that corruption is not limited to
government services but also the private sector.
The dignitaries expected at the occasion include President
Musa Yar' Adua who will be the special guest of honour, vice
President Jonathan Goodluck, the guest of honour. Others are
the Lagos State governor, Babatunde Fashola, the chief host,
while Ernest Ndukwe, executive vice chairman of the NCC will
be the host.
Apart from ATCON, Global Academy is also partnering with
the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC), the Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Independent Corrupt
Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) in
the fight against crime.
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| NCS
Holds National Confab/AGM |
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Nigeria
Computer Society, NCS, will holds its 22nd Annual National
Conference and AGM in Abeokuta the Ogun state capital, western
Nigeria between June 24th -27th 2008.
At a briefing with journalists at the national secretariat
of NCS Ikeja, Lagos, the President of the professional body,
Professor Charles Uwadia, promised that this year's conference
which coincided with its 30th anniversary will witness exciting
moments owing to some innovations introduced in the event
which mark a departure from the way it is done in the past.
Professor Charles Uwadia said that the
theme for this years conference: Enabling capacities of information
technology for sustainable development (ENDCITDEV2008), was
thoughtfully selected to “inform the Nigerian government-federal,
state and non governmental organizations and the stakeholders
that NCS has the technical know-how and professional pride
and competence that would make Nigeria achieve her vision”.
He explained that the event will witness
a review of papers from the banking and finance sector, oil
and gas, the academia and the stakeholders who will proffer
solutions to the hindrances of IT growth in Nigeria.
According to him the event will be used
to encourage Nigerian industrialists to meet minds with Nigeria
Computer Society in order to establish confidence in the service
and manpower of Nigeria market and to convince the Banking/Finance
industry of Nigerians potentials in the provision of manpower
in the software development and maintenance in their software
need.
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Professor Uwadia
explained that NCS has recorded some achievements since its
last national conference held in Adamawa. Such achievements
he said include the support given by NCS to ensure that the
dot ng (.ng) project was achieved for Nigeria and that the
body is now saddled with the task of working with other sister
associations towards making Nigeria one of the world's 20
economies by 2020. He said that there is need to bring down
the cost of bandwidth in line with the achievement of the
federal government policy on vision 2020;this he felt could
be achieved through NigComSat, “it is envisaged that
the deployment from NigComSat will reduce drastically, the
cost inherent in the VSAT and related bandwidth”. |
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Uwadia said NCS would like to see NigComSat in deployment
of signals for browsing easily while on the Internet across
the 774 local government areas of Nigeria. He was of the view
that Nigeria should have a policy that encourages local growth
of both industries and manpower which will also save and improve
the national reserves. Also speaking during the press briefing,
the Chairman Conference Committee, Mrs. Ola Owolabi said that
the event is lined up with both academic and social functions
as a way of spicing the event.
According to her, some of the highlights of the occasion
are MD/CEO Night, geared towards bringing captains of industries,
bank MDs, and stakeholders to discuss one on one on ways to
move forward towards the deployment of IT. Other events listed
are the Spouse night, NACOSS Night, Cultural Night and so
on.
Those expected at the occasion are Ogun state governor, Otunba
Gbenga Daniel, the host, the honourable minister of science
and technology, Mrs. Grace Ekpiwhre, bank CEOs and other stakeholders.
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| Why
TD is partnering Acer |
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Technology
Distribution (TD) has entered into partnership with Acer,
acclaimed world's third largest manufacturers of computer
and the fourth best selling computers in Nigeria.
At the partnership signing ceremony heldin
Lagos recently, managing director of TD, Mrs. Chioma Ekeh,
said her company took the decision to partner with Acer after
due consideration of its unique selling point, the level of
IT penetration and the disposable income in the country.She
lauded the huge potentials of Acer and said these were in
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of moving the country to the next level of technological development
and expressed hope that TD resellers would take advantage
of the partnership to present more credible options to the
users.
She described Acer as a very competitive
brand that has gradually become a household name in the country
especially with its after sale support plan that is second
to none. “Competitiveness and effective support, two
winning selling points will guarantee deep market penetration
that will spell triple digit growth and Acer stands out as
the computer for the masses”, she observed.
Mrs. Ekeh said TD which has waited for
nine years to ensure that the ICT market open up will continue
in the policy of low market and distribution of Original Equipment
Manufacturers products on its chain adding that the one-stop
shop for computers is the only distributor of computer products
in West Africa to go into signing of partnership agreement
with the world's three top OEMs- HP, Toshiba and Acer, noting
that this is part of its brand expansion strategy. “This
major feat dictates that TD must have distinctive features
that deliver extra value to our customers, shareholders and
staff. TD has put in place readily recognizable attributes
that would have no viable alternative in the market place”.
In preparedness to meet with the growing
market demands, Mrs. Ekeh said the company has acquired 300
square meter warehouse space which is required for proper
implementation of the inventory management and has also continued
in rehashing and upgrading of its systems and processes.
She maintained that owing to enormous
potentials in the market place, TD embarked on internal cleansing
which made it to go through the hard road of ISO 9001 certification
and as such became the third ICT Company in Nigeria to obtain
the NIS 9001 in 2007.
Acer representative and sales specialist, West and Central
Africa, Youssef El-Arif said with TD, Acer has the right distributor
and reseller to break the barrier between people and technology,
which is the vision of the OEM.
He said Acer has stepped up its market
share in Nigeria from the sixth position in 2001 to second
position in terms of international brand adding that the partnership
with TD would no doubt improve Acer's services in Nigeria,
providing a wide range of products to customers.
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| D-Link
comes to boost enterprises |
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| D-Link,
the global leader in connectivity for small, medium, and large
enterprise business networking and the award winning designer,
developer and manufacturer of broadband, digital electronics,
networking voice, data and video communications solutions
for the digital home, offices and enterprise environment recently
introduced its products and services to the Nigerian market
with a seminar in Lagos.
D-Link Nigeria's Country Consultant, Mr. Chris Uwaje, said
that the mission of D-Link was to be the first among the very
few to be chosen for the critical assignment of safe willing
nations from the inevitable Network Digital Disaster.
ed world where the network knowledge has become the single
and most critical resource for the development, growth, and
survivability of all nations aspiring to be relevant in the
21st century digital revolution. This, according to him, will
not be actualized without the building of conscious National
Knowledge Network on which D-Link comes to play. |
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Uwaje stated
that D-Link was in Nigeria to invest in ICT networks, development
as well as facilitate the transformation of the country's
national ICT framework and service deliverables.
“Building networks for people is
not only the corporate mission for D-Link, but a passion which
has become an inevitable addiction seeing that networking
encompasses all aspects of human endeavour from government,
family, politics, education, religion, community, organizations,
business, culture, justice, and leadership.” |
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He
noted that since networks lead to convergence which in turn
leads to the emergence of new technologies and applications,
“we are therefore at the dawn of new technology emergence
which forms the critical mass of global competitiveness and
leads to focused national development, quality growth and
creation of wealth”. D-Link mission to Nigeria, he said,
therefore, is not only timely but a strategic imperative for
the actualization of Vision 2020 of the Nigerian government.
The D-Link country consultant promised to establish technical
support and maintain a robust quality brand, deliver key valuable
benchmarks for global competitiveness and provide digital
security among other objectives.
Director-General of the National Information Technology Development
Agency (NITDA) Prof .Cleopas Angaye encouraged participants
to partner with D-Link to help in the task of sustaining the
nation's building through ICT cautioning that this shouldn't
be for the government alone but should be a collective collaboration
of all stakeholders.
Prof. Angaye observed that D-Link was the first major networking
device manufacturer to earn Intel's networking media product
requirements for Intel conformance validation noting that
their products have open standard protocol and are also interoperateable.
“They are free technologies approved by formalized committees
opened to participation of interested parties and operate
on consensus basis”, he noted.
In the same vein, D-Link regional director, Mr. Jacky Chang
assured Nigerians of world class infrastructure and services
and reaffirmed his company's commitment to working with Zinox
computers, their authorized distributor, to satisfy the Nigerian
consumers. |
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