Facility management has always been a specialised area in real estate around the globe, Nigeria inclusively. Having this in mind, Ziett Facility Management Limited, a Lagos based facility management firm has announced reduction of rates and value-added services for their teaming clients and potential clients this year.

Known to have offered top janitorial and facility management across the country. Ziett is bringing to bare world class standards in the industry. This transcends ordinary cleaning with jumpsuits. Ziett is bring machines, chemical and expert knowledge and advisory service that would reposition your facility in the market.

Speaking on their bouquet of services, Tony Modozie, the Chief Executive Officer of Ziett Facility Management said “we strongly believe in client satisfaction, this has been core of our business practice, this year. We are looking at transcending this culture by offering value added services that clients didn’t pay for thereby doing some pro bono work. We have don’t only clean and do janitorial service, we try as much as possible to renew and “rejuvenate” old facilities to make them liveable. “

“Over the years we have enjoyed patronage from the corporate and some individuals. We have repositioned ourselves to clients that they outsource their jobs to us, especially hotels. Why have staff that you would be worrying about their renumeration, welfare, severance and more especially their competence level. We have always advised clients to focus on their core business practice and allow Ziett manage their facility management ranging from the structure to human capacity and staffing. We have experts and competent hands that we have used all these years, so building capacity and experts in the industry is in our palms and that is why our clients have enjoyed our services”, Tony Added

Ziett Facilities Management and Services Limited is an Integrated Facility Management Company incorporated in Nigeria with specific expertise in project management and maintenance services. The company is uniquely qualified in solving complex facility improvement and janitorial/clean-up issues.

“Leveraging on our knowledge of the built environment and expertise of our team, we provide solutions that consistently meet and exceed the high standards that our clients expect. Our business strategy is built on established process and procedures to deliver a wide range of customized corrective and preventive maintenance and refurbishment services”, Tony concluded.

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First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Nigeria’s premier and leading financial inclusion services provider has announced its ongoing digital campaign “Mask Up, Stay Safe” as part of its advocacy to encourage everyone to consciously protect one another against the COVID-19 pandemic. The digital campaign which is designed to employ a fun approach to urge and engage its stakeholders on the need to observe the safety and precautionary guidelines during the festive season is implemented using the Bank’s customised face mask filter on instagram, that is made of the bespoke FirstBank 125th Anniversary pattern in Ankara fabric giving a distinct African contemporary an consistent look.

The “Mask Up, Stay Safe” digital campaign is part of the FirstBank’s December activities which kicked off on the 7th December 2020 themed: “12 Days of Christmas and 12 Days of Kindness”. The activities are structured in part to increase public awareness and participation in the Bank’s SPARK (Start Performing Act of Random Kindness) initiative with the central goal of reigniting the societal moral values by encouraging people to choose to do the right thing and reinforcing a consciousness/mindset of showing compassion, empathy; as well as giving to others aimed at inspiring people to make a difference.

Speaking on the campaign, Dr. Adesola Adeduntan, the CEO of FirstBank said “In the spirit of walking the talk, I have uploaded my Instagram story with the virtual face mask and I crave your indulgence to join me in doing the same.”

“This campaign is targeted at informing our customers and the general public that staying safe and protected through face mask wearing is paramount now, more than ever, as it is a way of mitigating the unforeseen tragedy of the second wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Stay Safe First!” he concluded.

Digital learning enables Africa’s youth to reach their personal potential

BERLIN, Germany, 800,000 people in Africa reached with over 100,000 registered users; digital learning enables Africa’s youth to reach their personal potential.

atingi (www.atingi.org), the digital learning platform of The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) has exceeded expectations in its first year. Within twelve months, atingi has reached almost a million people in Africa and already enabled 100,000 of them to access vocational education and self-development courses for free.

atingi means “to achieve” in Esperanto, and the platform strives to improve the employability of young people through modern digital learning opportunities. With a large network of strategic cooperation partners – from politics and business to science and civil society – educational content which meets the needs of African audiences is made available, free of charge, via the atingi platform.

Although atingi is developed for people in all German Development Cooperation partner countries, the current focus is specifically on facilitating African economic growth. BMZ has chosen four pilot countries for a more intensive engagement, recognizing that each is in a very different stage of digital transformation – and is therefore suited as a test case to identify opportunities for pan-African scaling. The close cooperation with the pilot countries Togo, Niger, Rwanda and Benin, enables atingi’s learning proposition to be dynamically evaluated, adapted and targeted to local needs.

atingi is an innovative digital pioneer focused on helping African’s unlock their potential

Africa is recognized as a potential global workforce hub for the rest of the world because of its high youth population. In fact, by 2030, Africa will be home to more than a quarter of the world’s population of under 25s, and 15% of the world’s working population. To date, the lack of access to high quality education for its working-age citizens has been a critical inhibitor of African countries ability to compete effectively in the international labour market. There is an urgent need, therefore, for the continent to expand its pool of highly-skilled employees through the development of relevant, vocational skill sets.

This is where the role of digital transformation becomes significant. Digital technologies open up new avenues for rapid economic growth, innovation, job creation and access to services that would have been unimaginable a decade ago. In this context, online learning and orientation opportunities are essential to enabling people in Africa to keep pace with the digital transformation beyond their borders.​ This not only ensures they are well qualified for the jobs of the future, it can also ensure a more integrated knowledge economy that moves Africa, and its citizens, closer to realizing their economic and personal potential.

Furthermore, it can often be challenging for local educational institutions to reach people in rural and sparsely populated areas in Africa’s emerging markets. The reality is that there is a high demand for learning opportunities and vocational skills, but there are often geographic and infrastructure barriers, which can be addressed through online learning offers. atingi enables users to access high-quality, locally-relevant, digital learning materials anytime and anywhere. Recognizing the barrier of internet connectivity, atingi also offers low-tech and offline solutions. ​

Partnering for growth

The atingi development cooperation framework builds on existing local and global partnerships. Alongside the four pilot countries, a growing network.

Machine Learning (ML) has become more commonplace in enterprises as the number of areas where it is effective grows. “If your organisation or vertical has not yet embraced ML, it is time to get on the adoption curve. There is no doubt that if you aren’t going for it, it is coming for you,” says Adam Pantanowitz, co-founder of AURA – South Africa’s most effective, accessible and affordable emergency response platform for the security and medical services industry.

Pantanowitz says when it comes to implementing ML systems, it is important for enterprises to have the appropriate skill sets available whether in-house or via consultants as there are huge consequences of implementing ML incorrectly. Perhaps equally as important is ample buy-in when deploying Machine Learning systems. “There are numerous technical complexities and challenges involved but these are often quickly solved by clever engineers. What is harder is that there is always resistance to change in an enterprise and I would say the very hardest thing is to overcome the challenges around how people receive technologies. There is an immune system in organisations which work to stifle disruption: this is a reality of organisations. Change should be slow, incremental, and bring people along.”

He also notes that quick wins and proof-of-concepts, without upsetting the business and disrupting it too much, are important to gain momentum and win over important colleagues. “In just about every vertical, you can add machine learning, and improve it. There are no doubt areas which are better suited to early adoption — those where there is more data, and data is accessible, and where decisions are made from data, are very well poised for implementation. But there is no industry that is immune to these phenomenally impactful technologies. It’s just about where a given vertical is on the adoption curve right now.”

The greater accessibility and democratisation of ML has led to a groundswell of excitement around the technology, from big cloud players to the open source community, as the potential of ML to revolutionise and improve every industry becomes all the more apparent. Says Pantanowitz, “We’re onto an exciting frontier. In the medium term, I would say an interesting area is that of human-machine collaboration where machines greatly augment our abilities in the working world. These collaborative systems may also help ease adoption, as the organisational immunity to change is really the ultimate and most substantial barrier we organisations face, and it is more so of large enterprises.”

He adds that ML is uniquely exciting because of its self-generative nature. “As systems are implemented, capability improves, data improves, and more systems can be built, resulting in greater competence, adoption and more data. This bootstrapping system really does apply in terms of the journey an organisation goes on, and so the top and bottom lines are influenced.”