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Vanessa Ezenwafor: Anticipation and excitement is on the rise for the 2018 edition of Celebrating You, an annual year-end awards/dinner party organized by Technology Distributions Ltd. (TD), Sub-Saharan Africa’s foremost ICT distributors and unarguably one of the most eagerly-awaited celebratory events in Corporate Nigeria. Tagged Glamorous, this year’s edition will potentially go down in history as one of the most high-profile ever, with the expected attendance of the Ghanaian President, Nana Akufo-Addo who will grace the occasion as the Special Guest of Honour. In addition to a star-studded guest list including captains of industries, bank CEOs, dignitaries and other prominent representatives of the biggest brand names in Corporate Nigeria, the event will specially recognize and celebrate TD’s partner eco-system, namely a host of globally-renowned Original Equipment Manufacturers in the technology space and other channel partners. Further expected to spice up the ev...

Ohamara Obiajeri: Serial digital entrepreneur and Chairman, Zinox Group, Leo Stan Ekeh, has lampooned the poor state of internal democracy in the Nigerian political party landscape, describing it as a misfit for true democratic process in the 21st Century. He made this call when he was cornered by a section of technology editors at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja recently. Against the backdrop of the outcry over the shoddy conduct of primaries for elective positions by the major political parties in the country, Ekeh was quizzed by the press on how technology can be leveraged in sanitizing the system, especially in view of the sterling work done by Zinox in partnership with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in creating a credible database of eligible voters and reducing litigations in successive elections.  A number of candidates had expressed their grievances over the manner in which the eventual winners and representatives fo...

Success Damian: Sub-Saharan Africa’s foremost distribution company, Technology Distributions Limited, (TD) has lent its voice to the call for greater engagement and support for the physically-challenged and other vulnerable members of the society as a means of restoring their dignity and helping them achieve their innate potential. Anchored within its Corporate Social Responsibility programme tagged – This is Me, the first instalment of TD’s outreach saw Executive Management and staff of the company visit the Correctional Centre for Boys in Oregun, Ikeja where it hosted the boys and the special needs children of the Modupe Cole Foundation to a great time on Friday October 26 th , 2018. Also on ground were representatives of the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) and the Lagos State Ministry of Youth, Sports and Social Development. In her speech at the event, Managing Director, TD Mobile, Mrs. Ijogun noted that the physically-challenged as well as  O...

Success Damian: Managing Director of Sunnet, a Technology Solution company, Paul Olagunju, has disclosed that the collaboration between his company and Huawei has brought revolution in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) space in Nigeria. Olagunju stated this at a Marketing Workshop/Kunlun Server Launch at Oriental Hotel, Lagos on Thursday. The Sunnet boss revealed that the partnership between Sunnet and Huawei began about four years ago, and was born out of the need to ensure realization of expectations of Nigerians, especially in the field of information technology. According to Olagunji “We have since worked closely with Huawei to understand the need of our clients, to understand their businesses to be able to come up with appropriate technology that will ensure that we are able to deliver seamlessly solutions that help our customers to focus on their business while we take the bottleneck out of their neck, so Huawei is very very strategic to us.” He ...

Success Damian: It is now on record that the telecommunications sector has added a whooping N15 trillion to the Nigerian economy. Executive Vice Chairman of Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) Prof. Garba Umar Danbatta made the disclosure at a Workshop for Judges on Legal Issues in Telecommunications which held at Sheraton Hotels, Ikeja, Lagos, on Wednesday. Speaking on the importance of Telecommunication to the economy Danbatta said, “It is an unalienable part of our national growth and development, hence the quest for evolution and excellence is unending. Telecommunications has contributed N15 trillion to the Nigerian economy since liberalization of digital mobile communication nearly 17 years ago.” Danbatta stated that digitization is changing people’s lives more than any other technical evolution before. Danbatta said despite the amazing achievements in the sector, cyber criminals are still on the prowl and called for discussion around admissibility of ...