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Success Damian Samsung Electronics West Africa (SEWA) is refocusing its vision and strategy for Nigeria, the West African sub-region and the continent in general. The exercise, the company said, is geared towards stimulating a higher level of operational efficiency, with the overarching objective of providing customers with the highest quality products, sales and services. Through this process, the company will shore up its market leadership position across the continent. As a dynamic and innovative organisation, SEWA is constantly exploring ground-breaking ways of providing its customers with best-in- class products, sales, support and marketing functions, said President and CEO, Samsung Electronics, Africa, Mr. Sung Yoon. “We wish to reiterate our commitment to this market and our focus on delivering the highest quality products, service and support, for which our customers have come to admire us. We can assure all our stakeholders that, as an organisation, we have g...

Success Damian Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC), the nations’ telecommunications regulator, has stated that the Commission’s mandate of creating an enabling environment, promoting fair competition in the telecoms industry and the strategic objectives of the National Broadband Plan, are reasons to develop a proper pricing structure for broadband in Nigeria. The Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, Prof. Umaru Garba Danbatta disclosed this at the Stakeholders’ Forum on the Study for the Determination of Cost Based Pricing for Retail Broadband and Data Services in Nigeria which was held at Digital Bridge Institute, Lagos State on Tuesday. Dambata said appropriate pricing apart from ensuring affordability and availability of Broadband, it would also ensure fair competition by checking price discrimination, excessive pricing, predatory pricing, margin squeeze and price fixing amongst other things. He said the Nigerian Telecommunications industry has undoubtedly recorded signifi...

  Success Nnaji Federal High Court in Lagos under the authority of Justice Ibrahim Buba has nullified the appointment of an interim board for Emerging Markets Telecommunications Service (EMTS), owners of 9mobile in Nigeria. He Give his ruling on recently in an application by a firm, Spectrum Wireless Communication Ltd, which claimed it invested $35 million in EMTS/Etisalat in 2009. United Capital, the umbrella body of all the 13 banks being owed $1.2 billion by 9mobile, is expected to file an appeal against the court’s verdict, The ruling may have put the ongoing sale process of 9mobile to preferred bidder or investor in shambles as one of the investors, Spectrum Wireless (SW), has now issued a “buyers beware” notice to potential investors. Spectrum Wireless is one of the non-bank investors of EMTS when the latter started operations in Nigeria in 2009 and put a $35 million investment in the then Etisalat.

Success Damian Extraclass.ng, recently won the star prize of N1 million dubbed Taiwo Bankole Ogunyemi Prize at the Techtiary Forum 2017. The Forum was organised by Paradigm Initiative, a social enterprise, which connects youths with ICT-enabled opportunities. The Executive Director of Paradigm Initiative (PIN) Gbenga Sesan, while presenting the N1 million cheque (mock) to the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Extraclass.ng, Onyinyechi Nmecha, commended the innovative platform and advised the team to work more assiduously in order to make good use presented by the prize money. Sesan believes that a big part of the price money would go into building capacity of extraclass.ng to do more in the market place. Techtiary Forum 2017 which was a two-day programme with the theme, “Geek Entrepreneur – Beyond Coding” was held on November 28 and 29 in Yaba, Lagos. Nmecha expressed her happiness after coming on top pitching along other 30 founders, developers, teams and Co-F...

Success Damian: TECNO, a premier mobile phone brand under Transition Holdings, has released its first frameless full-screen display smartphone – TECNO CAMON CM. The device is the latest in the CAMON Series family and re-emphasizes the brand’s knack for designing high-end smartphones with sophisticated cameras . Chronicling the brand’s growth and sheer market dominance, Eric Liu, Brand Manager of TECNO Mobile, Nigeria highlighted the company’s efforts to make revolutionary smartphones that will usher smartphone enthusiasts into an era of endless possibilities on the mobile devices and exceptional photography experiences. “The smartphone has been reinvented and OEMs globally are always on the lookout for the next big thing to talk about. At TECNO, we take pride in our ability to understand and meet our consumers’ needs, and eventually surpass their expectations.” With the CAMON CM, TECNO has delivered a very stylish full-screen display smartphone.​ ​The full-view displ...

Success Damian Five students of the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) have delved into ‘alternative energy grid’ project. The students are Nwangele Godwin Chukwuemeka; Okereke Kingsley; Esumeh Aaron; Udeh Isaac Nnaemeka; and Ogechukwu Uchechukwu Emmanuel Having completed 38 projects, the co-founders, now seek more funding to expand their venture. They maintained that they are shopping for about N100million funding to expand the project they started with N45,000 but is now valued at several millions. Uchechukwu Ogechukwu who spoke on behalf of the team, said, “We started with N45,000 and kept adding N5,000 each until we got things set. As I said early, it was like seven months. One day at a trade fair, Gov. Ugwuanyi Ifeanyi of Enugu State bought our product alongside Mr. John Busco. That was our first return. We reinvested all and have been reinvesting. “And we kept saving and adding, hunger was on all our faces, but we kept smiling. One thing I must add, all our friends...