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The re-entry into Ogoniland marks a historic turning point for Nigeria, not just in terms of oil production, but more broadly, this milestone reflects the spirit of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda, which commits to building a stronger country, attracting responsible investment, and ensuring that community development is at the heart of national progress.

Speaking during the presentation of the Ogoni Consultations Report at the State House in Abuja on Wednesday, President Tinubu acknowledged that the Ogoni people have endured long years of pain, and that this re-entry reflects the government’s recognition of their sacrifices.

Vodacom Business Nigeria scoops three accolades @Beacon of ICT Awards'18

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The 2018 Beacon of ICT (BoICT) Awards, ended weekend with Vodacom Business Nigeria scooping three accolades at the event, reports ITRealms.

These awards, ITRealms gathered, included Vodacom coming top as the Enterprise Solutions Provider of the Year, an award conferred on the company consistently since 2013; Internet of Things (IoT) Focused Company, owing to its pioneering and visionary endeavors in this area in the past two years, whereas the third award was for Enterprise Broadband Services Provider of the year.

ITRealms also reports that BoICT awards is a merit based celebration organised by Nigeria’s leading technology publication, Nigeria CommunicationsWeek, which aims to recognise outstanding contributions to the growth and development of ICT in Nigeria. 

This year, ITRealms reports that estimated two million readers of Nigeria CommunicationsWeek voted in different categories and Vodacom emerging as the clear winners in the three categories; Enterprise Solutions Provider of the Year, Internet of Things Focused Company and Enterprise Broadband Services Provider of the Year, a new category introduced this year.

Speaking at the Beacon of ICT Award Ceremony, which took place in Lagos at the Eko Hotel & Suites, Victoria Island recently, Managing Director for Vodacom Business Nigeria, Lanre Kolade said winning these three awards elicits two very distinct emotions, namely pride and humility. 

"Pride in the achievements of our dynamic and tenacious team over the years, and humility because we would be nowhere without our customers who continue to trust us to meet their total communications needs and keep them connected 24/7,” Kolade said.

In addition, he said, these awards were an affirmation of Vodacom's diligence and commitment to delivering the highest quality enterprise-grade total communications solutions in the industry. 

"We assure our customers that we will not relent in our pursuit of innovative technological solutions that accelerate business growth and profitability, with unwavering determination to turn their challenges into solutions,” Kolade maintained.

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Pix: L-R: Oluseyi Olanrewaju, Finance Director, Vodacom Business Nigeria; Solomon Ogufere, Commercial Director, Vodacom Business Nigeria; Dr. Ernest Ndukwe, Chairman, Open Media; Kolawole Fayemi, Executive Head - Legal, Regulatory & Compliance, Vodacom Business Nigeria

Rack Centre wins Beacon of ICT awards in three-year row

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Premium neutral data centre in Africa, the Rack Centre, has won for the third year, the annual Beacon of ICT awards, reports ITRealms.

The latest awards saw Rack Centre going home with the prize of the ‘IT Infrastructure Provider of the Year (Data Centre)’ category, and the second year running, winner of the ‘ICT Infrastructure Provider of the Year’.

ITRealms also reports that the Managing Director, Rack Centre, Mr Ayotunde Coker in 2016 won the ICT Personality of the Year and delivered the year’s Distinguished Lecture on the subject “Data Centre as Kiln of Industrialisation and Transformation”.

The Beacon of ICT award recognises organisation and individual contribution to the development of ICT in Nigeria, is an annual event organised by Nigeria’s Communications Week, the country’s leading and respected information and communication technology news medium.

According to Communications Week, in 2017 awards said Rack Centre vote was a testament to its “talents, innovations, contributions and commitment to the growth of the ICT not only in Nigeria but in Africa and a demonstration of the recognition of hard work, sincerity and dedication towards the development of Data Centre industry and ICT infrastructure in Africa.’’

Reacting to the development, Mr Coker, expressed Rack Centre delight to have been selected as finalist by the judges, and to have then been voted by the public and IT community for such recognition and prestigious awards.

“We are grateful and humbled.  We are doing our best to bring world class infrastructure to underpin technology developments in Nigeria and the African continent,” he said.

ITRealms recalls that Rack Centre, is the state-of-the-art, Tier III certified carrier neutral datacentre offering IT colocation and Cloud services.  It is the most connected Tier III certified and carrier neutral data centre in Africa with all major Telco’s, carriers and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the country connected in situ and direct connection to all undersea cables serving the Atlantic Coast of Africa.  Its Cloud on Ground services offers a locally hosted cloud heterogenous marketplace. 

Colocating within Rack Centre allows companies to avoid fixed infrastructure investments and to leave the growing complexity of managing power and environmental issues to specialists, while enjoying unrivalled reliability and quality.  Tier III certification by Uptime Institute, the global body is the stamp of certified quality and reliability.

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Coker, CFA, Obadare, 47 others honoured @Beacon of ICT Awards 2016

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The Nigeria CommunicationsWeek has honoured 50 deserving nationals and organisations at this year's Beacon of Information & Communications (BoICT) awards 2016, including the Managing Director of Rack Centre, Ayotunde Coker, and Chukwuemeka Fred Agbata Jnr, reports ITRealms.

While the award for the Man of the year went to the MD, Rack Centre, Mr. Coker; ICT Software Personality of the year went to John Obaro, MD, SystemSpecs; ICT Journalist of the year went to Chukwuemeka Fred Agbata Jnr. 'CFA' presenter, Tech Trends on Channels TV., Wale Obadare and Seyi Akindeinde represented Digital Encode and received the award for Cybersecurity company of the year. At the end of the night, there were over 50 winners in different categories.

The event hosted at Eko Hotel & Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos, saw who-is-who in the telecom industry was chaired by chairman, Open Media Group, Dr. Ernest Ndukwe, who challenged government on the need to make the required investments and policies that will help deepen broadband penetration.

In his BoICT lecture, Mr. Coker stressed the importance of data centres to the growth of any modern economy and the need for local businesses to store sensitive data locally.Stressing that the opinion will have massive and positive effect on the GDP of the country.

Most of the awardees were elated and promised to keep working towards the growth of the ICT industry in the country.

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Pix: Mr. Lanre Ajayi, ATCON president presenting CFA with his award.