Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has reiterated his administration’s commitment to continue to expand the frontiers of favourable investment in the state, through sustained improvement in business enabling environment.
Gov. Ugwuanyi stressed that the state has adequate stock of developable and arable land, robust physical infrastructure, willing youthful workforce, safe and secure environment, favourable policies and regulatory framework, friendly tax regime “and most importantly, we parade impressive Ease of Doing Business Credentials”.
The governor who spoke when he formally declared open for business, the Easton Hill Continental Hotel, Independence Layout, Enugu, built by Chief Mike Onu from Nkanu West Local Government Area, therefore called on all illustrious sons and daughters of Enugu State to think home in their investment decisions.
Gov. Ugwuanyi maintained that such decisions would promote a harmony working relationship with the state government and expand the economic opportunities of the people of the state.
“This is another in a series of new businesses that I have had the privilege to commission in recent times. It is usually heartening for me to see the establishment of Small and Medium Enterprises in Enugu State.
“These businesses bring huge economic benefits including job creation, wealth creation, improvement in the internally generated revenue of the state, mitigation of youth restiveness as well as its associated criminality and insecurity, etc”, the governor said.
He acknowledged Chief Onu as a consummate and resilient businessman “who has been able to hold his own in the hospitality industry” and congratulated him for successfully increasing the tally of his business outfits, beseeching God Almighty to bless the great endeavour.
The brief event was witnessed by the Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Edward Ubosi, the former Minister of Information, Hon. Frank Nweke Jnr, the State Commissioner for Environment, Hon. Chijioke Edeoga, the Chairman of Nkanu West LGA, Chief Nwabueze Nnamani, his Enugu South counterpart, Hon. Monday Eneh and the Chairman, Governing Council, Institute of Management and Technology (IMT), Enugu, Deaconess Ifeoma Nwobodo.
Other dignitaries include the Special Adviser to the Governor on Information, Barr. Steve Oruruo, his Education counterpart, Dr. Kingsley Udeh, Prince Lawrence Ezeh (The Prince of Mbulumbu), Hon. Uche Nnaji (Nwakaibeya), and Barr. Ray Nnaji, etc.
Governor Abubakar Atiku Bagudu this Monday paid a condolence visit to the Headquarters of Kebbi State Police Command Birnin-Kebbi to commiserate with the Commissioner of Police on the death of the Divisional Police Officer Sakaba in Zuru Emirate, Superintendant of Police Abdullahi Jimo as well as Inspector Ibrahim Aliyu and seven other policemen as a result of an attack by bandits on Sunday.
Senator Abubakar Atiku Bagudu expressed sadness about such unpleasant and barbaric action of killing police officers who were on national duty to ensure peace and security in the area and free from banditry.
He extended heartfelt condolences to the Nigeria Police, Family of the Deceased describing those who paid the supreme sacrifice for the betterment of Nigeria and Nigerias as gallant warriors and prayed Allah to grant them mercy.
Senator Abubakar Atiku Bagudu commended all security agencies operating in the state for their excellent performance which facilitate attainment of peace and tranquility in Kebbi State.
He gave an assurance that his administration would continue to provide the necessary support to enhance their welfare as well as logistics and requirements for optimum performance.
The Governor pledged to off-set all expenses for burial of the slain officers and directed the Deputy Governor of the State Retired Col. Sama’ila Yombe Dabai to represent the government in all activities pertaining to their evacuation, burial and family needs.
Governor Abubakar Atiku Bagudu thanked the Police Commissioner and other sister agencies for their prompt action to matters concerning security in Kebbi State which they always handled professionally with urgency.
In response on behalf of the Inspector General of Police and Kebbi State Police Command the Commissioner of Police Adeke Adeyenka Bode (mni) expressed gratitude to the governor for his sympathy and for his compassion to the Police in the state.
He affirmed that the Police in the state would continue to perform their duty and deal desirably with any criminal, until peace has been fully restored to the area, saying those killed died in an active service describing death as inevitable way of every mortal.
Reports indicated two members of self security ‘Yan Sakai volunteers also lost their lives along with the policemen arising attack by armed bandits of Makuku in Sakaba Local Government Area. Abubakar Mu’azu Dakingari
The Forum, at the end of its meeting, came up with the following resolutions:
South East Governors and Leaders re-stated the adoption of a common Joint Security outfit called EBUBEAGU with her Regional Headquarters in Enugu. EBUBEAGU will work with the Police and other security agencies in her operations to protect lives and property in South East;
We agreed on the structure and operational modalities of EBUBEAGU and to set up an Advisory Board for the security outfit;
The Hon. Attorney Generals and Commissioners for Justice of the South East States have been directed to work with the Joint Security Committee to come up with the amendment of the existing State Laws to reflect the new EBUBEAGU outfit;
The meeting directed Ohaneze Ndigbo President to immediately form two Committees: (a) South East Peace and Reconciliation Committee to engage our people for the peace and security of our people and her visitors; (b) Strategy and Welfare Committee to engage and protect our people, especially those who are being unfairly treated. These Committees must become functional within the next 10 (ten) days from date;
The meeting is in support of restructuring, the setting up of State Police and other national issues as discussed in the last NEC meeting. A Committee has been set up to work out acceptable modalities and submit them to NEC in its next meeting;
The meeting condemns the attacks on the country home of the Governor of Imo State, His Excellency, Senator Hope Uzodimma and other State infrastructure. We sympathize with him and call on the Federal Government to fish out the perpetrators and ensure their prosecution;
South East leaders restate their commitments to our State laws banning open grazing in the South East and urge the security agencies and the local vigilantes to enforce the ban in all States of South East;
South East Governors agreed on the implementation of various END SARS Youth Empowerment Programmes in the South East States as soon as possible.
Engr. David Nweze Umahi, FNSE, FNATE Chairman, Southeast Governors’ Forum and Governor of Ebonyi State.
The Lagos State Agricultural Development Authority (LSADA), has been adjudged and awarded the ‘Outstanding ADA of the Year’ by the Institute of Agricultural Research and Training (IAR&T).
The award, which was presented by the Director-General of Oyo State Agricultural Development Authority, Dr. Debo Akande, to the Agency at the 2020/2021 Annual Research Review and 33rd South West Refils workshop in Ibadan, Oyo State on Monday, was in recognition of LSADA’s commitment and meritorious participation in South West Research Extension Farmers Input Linkage System (REFILS) in 2019/2020.
Receiving the Plaque of the Award from the Institute on behalf of the Agency, the Programme Manager of LASDA, Dr. Olalekan Pereira-Sheteolu, said that the award which came barely four days after the launch of the five-year Agricultural Development roadmap by the Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, will spur the Authority to greater accomplishments.
He said that the award recognition could not have been possible but for the ongoing overhaul of the entire agricultural value chain in Lagos by the State Governor.
The Programme Manager thanked Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu for his unflinching support and for making the award a reality, just as he dedicated the award to all members of staff who have worked tirelessly to move the Agency to an enviable position.
Seclot Technology Limited, an indigenous technology firm based in Lagos has introduced a verification service that will help Nigerians to verify addresses of businesses, suppliers, staff and prospective job applicants. As the world is getting used to the new reality based on the Covid 19 pandemic there has been a spike in online transactions and other related services thereby creating the need to further verify who you are about doing business with. Having identified this challenge,
Seclot Technology Limited introduced a service known as Seclot Vet. An online solution that allows individuals and corporate organizations to vet their addresses of staff members, job applicants, to clients and suppliers.
Seclot Vet is said to be coming at a time that the nation is doing all sorts of verification due to security challenges. Experienced and adept in security solutions, Seclot Technology Limited has added Seclot Vet Solution as a way of ensuring that organizations and individuals know whom they are dealing with before dealing with them. Details such as addresses, time, name and occupation or manner of business can be confirmed. With a payment of N1,000 (one thousand Naira), it is said to give organization that are dealing with numerous people respite.
Speaking on the world-class security the firm is known for, Olasunbo Atekoja, the Co-founder of Seclot Vet and Country Manager of Seclot Technologies Limited said in a media chat that “The word “Seclot” was coined from “security for the lot”. Our core competencies are background verification, surveillance systems and tracking systems. We noticed that the above-mentioned areas are places that many organizations have challenges, ours is to fill in these voids by providing world- class services. Seclot is a security-oriented company that deals with online security and physical security. Our vision is to become the Leading Provider of Technology Driven Security Solutions in Nigeria and Africa.”
She added that “The platform is a self-service portal where you can create your profile and upload details of people you want to vet. The vetting will be done, and result uploaded back to the portal. Interestingly, you can still view these details years after the vetting has been done. We also relentlessly focus on securing our clients digital ecosystem where data assets are the most valuable and vulnerable components of the global economy leveraging our professional teams across Africa to deliver exceptional solutions and services. “
Today, a lot of people are going into online businesses due to availability of IT tools, though the issue of trust arises, where customers see items online but supplier supplies another thing. The Seclot Vet addresses this trust issue, with Seclot identity (ID) of the vendor customers can locate and identify the vendor/supplier. Seclot ID captures the office location, business capacity etc.
Seclot Vet can also work with public sector where a government bureau or office will want to deal with group of people. This solution comes with map, video, and address location of the client for just a token fee.
“We currently operate in over 10 major cities and has carried out over 1,500 verification from 2019 to date. We intend to build footprints of Nigerians to the world. We are looking at having a 100 million Nigerian data verified by 2030”, Olasunbo Atekoja added.
The firm has deployed their vetting solution in many corporate organizations and locations such as Parkit.Ng, Reposebay, ET Logistics Limited (Everything Tacha from the Big Brother Housemate), Hail etc. They have also performed domestic vetting jobs in many parts of the country such as Lagos, Benin and most recently Abuja, the federal capital.
Seclot Vet is said to be coming at a time that the nation is doing all sorts of verification due to security challenges. Experienced and adept in security solutions, Seclot Technology Limited has added Seclot Vet Solution as a way of ensuring that organizations and individuals know whom they are dealing with before dealing with them. Details such as addresses, time, name and occupation or manner of business can be confirmed. With a payment of N1,000 (one thousand Naira), it is said to give organization that are dealing with numerous people respite.
Focus Softnet Services Limited, an indigenous based IT firm based in Lagos and the authorised reseller of Focus 9 enterprise resource program (ERP) has harped on the need for the indigenous firm in the country to deploy robust ERP software that will enhance productivity in the private and public sector. Speaking to the media, the Managing Director of Focus Softnet Services Limited, Moses Uvomata described Focus 9 as a “must have” for enterprises in the country now that many organisations have their staff working from home as a result of Covid 19 pandemic.
In his words, “Focus 9 is one software that is very amazing for organizations be it public or private sector. It is a full enterprise resource program (ERP). This ERP runs in cloud and can be deployed offline and with the AI integrated in it, it syncs automatically when there is internet availability. As the world is tilting towards cloud computing, FOCUS 9 enables organizations to work seamlessly. With this software, the company has all it needs to work and enhance productivity. This is a full ERP solution that caters for everything that the organization does, you don’t need any other solution. We have accounting, payroll, HR etc.”
He added “We have CRM also. In Focus 9, we describe it as if you can think it, we can deliver it. The robust nature of the solution – Focus 9 allows firms to adapt to size and depth and grow user roles and profiles to suit the organizational hierarchy and structure. Modular structure lets you decide the ERP rollout strategy Online & offline synchronization helps you smoothly get remote data Unlimited masters, tags & workflows let you define & evolve your company’s SOPs Powerful Application Programming Interface (API) lets you expand your operational unification across your organization.”
He reiterated that the organization has many software that are cloud-based solution designed for various categories of businesses ranging from small to big enterprises. But he reiterated that Focus 9 is basically designed for medium and big enterprises due to the complex nature of their operation. Focus 9 solution is designed for the complexities in business while Focus 6b is for small enterprises. He opined that “FOCUS 9 software is targeted at medium and large enterprises or companies. ERP is enterprise resource planning and the word “enterprise” we are looking at medium and big, but that doesn’t mean we are overlooking the small guys. We have ERP products that are designed for small and medium. You cannot want and accounting software and you need an ERP, people must start understanding the basic differences of these solution. For instance, we have FOCUS 6 and FOCUS RT, these are meant for these small firms, the basic difference between FOCUS 9 and Focus 6 is the level. We tried to capture all the various levels of businesses. We have FOCUS I for relatively big firms, all our products are end to end. Be it into manufacturing, services and public sector.”
On the issue of support the Technical Director of Focus Softnet Services Limited, David Jalyeoba opined that “The core thing that makes us unique not only Focus 9, all focus products is that our solutions are user friendly. Our solutions you can do things from the front not going through the backend. Ours is front end, you can take full ownership unlike the others that you have to go through the backend. We made our solutions so easy that you take charge of the software and inputs not meeting the vendors. Our support is so robust that we make things very seamless for the user, we are a phone call away. We have offices worldwide with head office in Dubai. We don’t have a problem with support. Also coming with a hybrid database which includes an advanced data management system that supports both on-disk and in-memory data storage features. The in-memory part enables sorting, storing and retrieving data from memory to make the processes substantially quicker, whereas hard disks provide the most cost-effective storage variant for a huge volume of data.”
In an ever changing and highly digitalized marketspace, the need to have digital assets protected becomes more imperative. Countries and organizations have lost billions of dollars in cyber breaches lately, Nigeria inclusive. Having this in mind, Tanta Innovative Limited, an indigenous information technology (IT) and software development firm based in Lagos has encouraged firms in the country to invest into cyber security solutions with emphasis on penetration testing for Nigerian firms in order to limit their exposure and security breaches.
Over $270.22 million was spent in 2018 to prevent cyberattacks by organizations and government in 2018. This has prompted Tanta Innovation Limited by introducing cost effective penetration testing for organizations. Speaking on the importance of penetration testing for organizations, Abraham Tanta, the Chief Executive Officer of Tanta Innovative Limited said, “We strongly believe at Tanta Innovative that penetration testing for organizations in Nigeria should be a thing that corporates do on a periodic basis. It offers the organization insights on the areas of vulnerabilities and how they can protect themselves better against cyber breaches. We have made this pen testing a simple process and cost effective. “
“The importance of penetration and vulnerability testing is critical to us. We follow the laid down processes of penetration testing such as Planning and data gathering, Scanning, gaining access, maintaining access and more importantly Covering tracks. We also look at various methods which we might deploy such as External testing, Internal testing, Blind testing and Targeted testing. We apply a high level of skill to properly identify all of the exploitable vulnerabilities.”. Tanta added.
As the country has embraced digital payment, the need for periodic testing for organizations with online presence especially those with digital payment portals and gateway becomes increasingly inevitable. having partnered with reputable international firms, Tanta Innovative plans to bring the best global practices to Nigeria.
The company reiterated the need for Nigerians (Corporates and privates) to start looking inward for their software needs. Known to have developed robust software solutions for firms, Tanta Innovative Limited has promised Nigerians a bouquet of IT solutions to meet their specific needs. Solutions such as eHealth software, School Management Software and also ERPs that are bespoke. With a robust after sales in place, the company said that patronizing locally developed software would encourage the IT ecosystem and save the much-needed foreign exchange for other developmental projects.
“We are creating solutions that can change how people work and make life easier. With a lot of collaboration in place, we have a mission to bring to the fore indigenous robust solutions that would make people forget about all these foreign products and focus on locally made ones because we are trying to solve their problems better than the other ones they buy over the counter”, Abraham Tanta concluded.
Seamfix Limited. a leading people & software development company in Lagos has been at the forefront of digital transformation in Africa. The company emphasized on the importance of Digital Transformation, Identity management solutions and Biometric Identity verification solutions for organizations as they prepare for the new work narrative.
Speaking on their expertise over the years, Chibuzor Onwurah, Co-founder & Executive Director, Seamfix Limited said “For over a decade, Seamfix as a leading people & software development company has been at the forefront of digital transformation in Africa. We are on a mission to improve the way organizations work by digitizing the existing processes between them and their customers to deliver a high quality of life and happiness for all. Our core areas of focus are: Identity management solutions for SIM registration & KYC for Telcos and other corporate organisations, Data Capture and Analytics solutions, Transcript digitization and Academic records management solutions. We empower organizations in the Telco space, financial institutions, regulatory bodies, FMCGs, security industries and tertiary institutions with the right technology solutions to meet their respective needs.”
On digital transformation, Seamfix has made tremendous strides in financial and telecommunication ecosystem. Chibuzor added “Our company’s mission is to empower the way organizations work by digitizing the manual processes between them and their customers to deliver satisfaction and a higher quality of life for all and our products and services help us daily to actualize this mission. To go into more detail, during this pandemic, we had various banks that utilized our solutions for customer onboarding which tripled their customer acquisition target. Even though the banking halls were closed, these banks were able to leverage their mobile app and staff strength to acquire customers and sell services to them. This is what digital transformation can do for organizations in the modern world today.”
Education space has witnessed Seamfix solution especially at the university level. The company has deployed solution in many universities in the country to assist them digitize some of their departments such as Exams and Records and has eased the process of accessing transcripts for students.
“In tertiary institutions today, there are reported cases of missing documents or files from academic records departments, due to existing poor archiving and retrieval facilities. Given the increasing number of students in the school, manual search for these files can be difficult. If there is an occurrence of a natural disaster like a fire incident or flood, such records will get destroyed and may never be recovered. Overtime, we also discovered Alumnus of the schools travel far & wide from their different locations to these schools just to make payment and get their transcript processed manually. The turn-around time in fulfilling this could take days or even months as the case may be. We recognized this was a common problem across most Universities in Nigeria who currently face consistent untreated transcripts request, compromised academic records, academic data lacking integrity, lack of storage, poor internal generated revenue growth and lack of analytics for proper administration and oversight for the responsible department “
“In this fast-paced technology driven world, people want services that will be more convenient, provide solutions faster and take away unnecessary stress and discomfort which got us thinking. We then carefully designed iTranscript, a flexible, robust, enterprise transcript solution which enables Alumnus make online payments for their transcripts, track it from the point of payment to the point of delivery without needing to go to the schools. For the tertiary institutions, our solution digitized the entire institution’s academic records where we have created a digital warehouse that is highly secured and accessible, such that one does not need to physically scramble and search for Alumnus & students records. Just by a click of a button, one can access these students’ information and the digital warehouse provides a safe storage for these academic documents till perpetuity”, Chibuzor concluded.
Seamfix is a tight-knit team of problem solvers and passion-driven technophiles committed to building mission-critical solutions for the telecommunications, public and private sectors throughout Africa and emerging markets.Solutions are tailored to improve the quality of opportunities available to organizations by digitizing their existing manual processes and automating their customer touchpoints for better service delivery to their end customers.
Hanson Johnson, the founder of Start Innovation Hub, one of the foremost incubation Centre in Niger Delta region of the county speaks of challenges that the incubation hub faces, the need to prepare for the 4th industrial revolution through capacity building and how government is responding to IT as a form of mass employment program.
Tell me why Start Innovation Hub in Uyo not Lagos, what prompted you?
It is basically because of the challenges I faced then, most of the ICT opportunities were in Lagos. For us to get any IT skillset or solution we always headed to Lagos. This was a big challenge and we wanted to change that narrative and bridge the gap, which was the reason we used the word start. Start Innovation Hub was established to address this challenge and bring IT closer to people while developing indigenous IT capacity in Akwa Ibom State and Niger Delta as a whole. We want to contribute our own quota in the diversification of Niger Delta economy from that of crude oil based to IT. Though when we started, folks around never believed in us, today we are 5 years old and still growing. As of then, it was scary to start but we thank God that after 5 years we can look back that we started.
When you were starting, what were the teething challenges you faced as a new Incubation Centre?
It was support, when we started people didn’t believe in us because it is just a new concept. Considering Akwa Ibom as a state, we are looking at oil economy with Eket playing the dominant role. Now, when some group of young guys came to town with this idea that they want to start an information technology hub, trust me many didn’t believe in us and many didn’t give us a chance but more importantly is skills, access to talents was a challenge, access to broadband, fast internet and electricity is still a huge challenge till date.
As you are trying to change the narrative to move Akwa Ibom State from Oil to Tech hub what was government intervention?
Well, there is Akwa Ibom State Youth Development Fund (AKYDF) Bill on the desk of His Excellency the governor of Akwa Ibom State. Until he signs and start implementing them I am yet to feel the love. We believe that Akwa Ibom State government would one day come to terms that crude oil just like coal would one day go, as we are moving into the 4th industrial revolution.
Government is trying their best. Whatever we are experiencing is as a result of the best they could offer. We haven’t had any serious engagement with government in the area of partnerships, collaborations and even intervention. We are very open to this engagement be it at the state or federal level but we haven’t had any. Those in government too should understand the role innovation hubs play in the digital economy.
Over these years, you have developed partnership with firms like Google, Facebook etc. tell us about DevFest Uyo?
GDG DevFests are community-led developer events hosted by Google Developer Groups around the globe. GDGs are focused on community building and learning about Google technologies. DevFest always have key speakers coming from various walks of life. It is a big event and happens globally and DevFest Uyo has always been one of the biggest in Africa and we are happy to be part of this. We have been organizing DevFest every year in Uyo for many years and the spotlight is on us. We’ve had international guests and participants, people travel by road from the North, East and many places to Uyo for GDG DevFest. We are putting Akwa Ibom State in the global IT map.
When you look at capacity building and skill set, what do you think that Nigerian government can do to reduce consumption of foreign IT products?
Government should patronize indigenous solutions to their problems. One of the reasons we started the hub was to help develop local talents and make them available for global relevance. We have serious challenges here, the requirement to procure for government does not favor startups. Policies like having hundreds of millions billions with 3 years audited accounts, Pension etc etc. Most startups can’t qualify for such but the person that qualified will further outsource that project to a startup to implement. Government has to play down on these policies.
Project Create and other things such as Startup women are what you have been doing to intervene in dearth of skills in Nigeria. How has it been?
In 2016, we launched project CREATE to help local talents innovate for global relevance. It is a job guaranteed ICT training for software developers, designers and digital marketers. We have graduated about 4 sets and we have them working in various companies and countries. We have been the implementation partners of PIND Foundation on their Niger Delta Youths Employment Pathways (NDYEP) Program since 2018.
You had collaborations with Google, Facebook and others?
I am the country mentor for GDGs (Google Developer Groups), and also as of Last year, Facebook made us one of their hub partners in Nigeria. GDGs have been of huge help to us in developing critical IT skills and also the Facebook partner program gave us access to immense opportunities and made us key facilitators in digital marketing, coding and other startup programs. With us many people do not need to go to Lagos to access these things. We have brought IT very closer to the people.
Tell us your success stories these past 5 years of your establishment?
Ours is a simple thing, in the past 5 years we focused on talent development because we discovered that it is a problem here, we focused on skills development. We try to develop these skills and expose them to opportunities. We have developed skills that we have them outsourced to companies in Nigeria and foreign countries such as United Kingdom, Romania etc. between last year and this year, we have trained over one hundred and fifty five people and we have committed them to internship and paid jobs. We are currently training 112 on project CREATE. These are things we have achieved. And also we have built internally an app called Jiggle which is solving meal budgeting problem for people in Nigeria. Jiggle is doing well in the market since it went on production.
Your 5th Anniversary collaborated with the unveiling of your mobile app – Jiggle. Can we know how this app has can affect lives in a positive manner, especially the youths?
It is always a problem when you are out of cash while school is in session. It affects your academic performance so Jiggle has arrived to help you feed well even when you are out of cash. We developed Jiggle and this app is a budget app that helps people plan their meals. It is basically a budget app and we have been developing this internally. We incorporate an eWallet into it and with this you can pay with Jiggle instead of paying cash.
Your kids program has been successful. Tell us how this works?
Kids Code club is a long holiday’s program that is 4 week intensive. We teach these kids coding, game animation and others. This is taken over by Starthub women as Makers Club Holiday Program and this has been running for the past 2 years now. Our women arm known as StartHub Women is a program that is focused on championing the visibility of women in entrepreneurship and leadership using technology. They are the ones running the Makers Club Holiday program and the feedback we have been getting lately has been encouraging.
As a youth and a stakeholder what advice do you have for the startup ecosystem?
The advice I have is that they should solve problems and their solutions should compel people to pay for such services. That is my advice to startups and to government, I would say that the army of youths that are available but not doing anything can be harnessed. They have been using them to win elections, but they must understand that this growing army of youths is a time bomb waiting to explode if not properly handled. The government must as a matter of fact work with incubation hubs in the country; collaborate with them to address this challenge.
I am the country mentor for GDGs (Google Developer Groups), and also as of Last year, Facebook made us one of their hub partners in Nigeria. GDGs have been of huge help to us in developing critical IT skills and also the Facebook partner program gave us access to immense opportunities and made us key facilitators in digital marketing, coding and other startup programs. With us many people do not need to go to Lagos to access these things. We have brought IT very closer to the people.
AkolagTech (/HacholagTech/), an indigenous premier enterprise managed IT solution provider specializing in providing managed and un-managed IT services, cloud solutions, and hosting solutions to small and medium-sized businesses has reiterated their emphasis for optimum services in the country as Nigerian firms embrace cloud hosting and virtualization.
Speaking on the importance of cloud hosting, latency and support services for the IT firms in the country. AkolagTech, Managing Director / Chief Executive Office, Akim Olu in his chat with the media reiterated that the company is poised to give Nigerian organization the best service experience in line with what is obtainable in developed climes. He said “We have our core services such as Managed Hosting Solution, Business Continuity Solution, Cloud Solution, Systems, Network and Security Solutions, Procurement Services – Hardware and Software also Digital brand solution. Over the years, our expert team have been servicing various industries and delivering world-class solutions in Nigeria. We provide the best hosting experience for our clients, either locally or not. We support a client that prefers to host locally. We also offer the best advice in choosing the best technology that delivers the best user experience.”
“Virtualization and cloud computing are the process of facilitating data center infrastructure into scalable infrastructure. Our staff hand holds the operation of transitioning your IT infrastructure into a virtualized and cloud environment. By simplifying our client infrastructure, we make it easy to scale. We help our client set up a private cloud on-premises with the best virtualization and cloud solutions. We also make the transition into the cloud seamlessly”, he added.
The Data/IT expert said that many firms are having a nightmare in adopting the latest trends in technology. He opined that “Lack of adoption of the latest technology, and also regulation. We found out that some of the significant big enterprise businesses are struggling to adopt the newest technology. We understand that change is difficult, and learning new technology can be overwhelming. Also, the lack of technology investment is another challenge among small, medium, and big enterprise businesses. Ours is to assist these firms in adoption and also proffer the critical advisory solutions to these set of businesses “
As the small and medium firms emerge from the Covid 19 pandemic and looking for best ways to go digital. AkolagTech promised to guide these set of businesses in the path of full digitization especially going cloud. Business continuity and data protection are vital concerns for small and medium-sized businesses. The majority of firms depend on data integrity as a critical component of their operations.
“We help businesses evaluate their current situation, the most critical data, and provide the best solutions to manage and protect their valuable data. We offer data storage, back-up and recovery, and database management services. We also provide a solution to make sure our client complies with data protection. Policy”, Akin concluded.
