Galaxy on connectivity: We've almost covered the country -ITREALMS

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Galaxy Backbone, an information technology and shared services provider of the Federal Government of Nigeria, has said that it has almost covered the 36 states of the federation and the FCT Abuja, with its infrastructure backbone connectivity rollout.

Prof. Muhammed Bello Abubakar, the Managing Director/Chief Executive of Galaxy Backbone Limited, made this known at the Africa Tech Alliance Forum (AfriTECH 2.0) held in Lagos recently.

NCC, Zoho, Digital Encode, Galaxy Backbone, others for AfriTECH 2.0 - ITREALMS

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Stakeholders will gather in Lagos, Nigeria, on 09 November 2022 for another edition of Africa Tech Alliance Forum (AfriTECH 2.0) sponsored by Zoho Corporation, Digital Encode, Galaxy Backbone Limited, ESET, Layer3Cloud; including partners drawn from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Nigeria Computer Society (NCS), and InnovationBed.Africa.

Taking place both virtually and (physically) at Oriental Hotel, Lekki Road in Victoria Island,  Lagos, this year’s theme is: ‘Sustainability and the Company of the Future’ and will convene an array of industry leaders, and tech-entrepreneurs, decision-makers, and tech ecosystem players from across the continent.

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As the 2nd edition of the Nigeria Information Technology Reporters Association (NITRA) stakeholders engagement event, the NITRA ICT Growth Conference draws closer, key technology companies have started to line up as partners to the annual event.

The event, which is slated to hold at the Lagos Oriental Hotels on September 29, 2022, with its theme as “Creating A Digital Ecosystem In Nigeria: The Hurdles, The Gains”, will have the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami as the Lead Speaker.

Folayan says Galaxy Backbone is Best Domain Name Registrar for 2016

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The President, Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA), Rev. Sunday Folayan has described Galaxy Backbone Ltd as the Best .ng country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) Registrar in the country at the 2016 .ng Web Awards organized by NIRA, the managers of the country’s domain name, reports ITRealms.

According to  a press statement from Galaxy, Rev. Folayan said that the NiRA Presidential award is given to organizations and individuals for their commitment to the development of the ICT industry in Nigeria.

Galaxy Backbone Ltd, he said was special recognized at the award for her contributions to the growth of the .ng domain name ecosystem.

“The strategic position taken by Galaxy Backbone Limited to register and use the .ng domain name, demonstrates the organization’s commitment to relate with the .ng online identity of Nigerians, Nigerian businesses, local content and culture. This key to doing business within and outside Nigeria and this qualifies Galaxy Backbone Ltd as an invaluable asset in this our historic celebration of the .ng online identity, excellence and creativity” he was quoted as saying.

ITRealms recalls that Galaxy Backbone Ltd has among its mandates the handling of the registration of .ng top domain name in the Nigerian public sector.

A public institution, Galaxy Backbone Ltd, is charged with building and operating shared ICT Infrastructure and services for all Federal Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies.

The establishment of Galaxy Backbone by the Federal Government was driven by the need for Government to pursue a cohesive and harmonized approach to information and communications technology acquisition, deployment and utilization in the public sector.

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Galaxy Backbone commits to deploying education cloud, partners Vice Chancellors

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Galaxy Backbone has reiterated its commitment to ensure that Nigerian Universities join the fray of cloud users as it partners Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian universities, reports ITRealms.

This, ITRealms reports would enable the leveraging its suite of cloud applications which can be accessed over the internet or Galaxy Backbone’s fibre and terrestrial wide area network. 

The partnership ITRealms gathered was one of the major outcomes at the Annual Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities (AVCNU) Conference held in Port Harcourt, Rivers State recently. 

The Managing Director of Galaxy Backbone Ltd, Mr. Yusuf Kazaure who was represented by the Group Head, Business Development, Galaxy Backbone Ltd, Nneka Nwobi shared their excitement over the collaboration with AVCNU.

“We are excited that the shift from traditional software models to the Internet has steadily gained momentum over the last 10 years. As a leading ICT infrastructure and services company in Nigeria, we believe that the next decade of cloud computing promises new ways to collaborate everywhere and empower Nigerian Universities with the technology platform to compete in a global world” he said.

He explained that the key components of Galaxy Education Cloud include nationwide, dedicated institution management systems, a robust, personalized platform for student administration, access to nationwide fiber backbone with special discounts for higher education and dedicated online collaboration spaces for VCs and faculty with secure access control. 

Equally, Malam Yusuf said that as a key technology partner, Galaxy will ensure high-speed connectivity links to all institutional partners as well as provide capacity-building activities for university personnel. 

Galaxy Backbone boss further said that universities are critical stakeholders in preparing the future workforce and that there was need for meaningful and robust engagement between the Gown and Town so that outputs from the ivory towers would meet the needs of the industries.

He urged the university authorities on the need to embrace requisite technologies and digitization of records across universities which would open plethora of opportunities that would drive internally generated revenues (IGRs) that are essential for entrenching universities autonomy.

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Broadband penetration’ll revolutionize public service delivery – Dele-Oni

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Galaxy Backbone has described the Federal Government broadband policy as revolutionary capable of being a game changer for the public sector and boost for efficient service delivery to the populace, reports ITRealms.

The South West Regional Manager, Galaxy Backbone Ltd, Mr. Temitope Dele-Oni, made this known while delivering a goodwill message at the 2015 Nigeria DigitalSENSE Forum on Internet Governance for Development (IG4D) and Nigeria IPv6 Roundtable held in Lagos recently.

For him, the expected positive impact of the policy on national development is a key driver underpinning Galaxy’s huge investments in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure in Abuja and around the country under the National Information and Communication Technology Infrastructure Project (NICTIB) which is in its second phase. 

Galaxy Backbone’s NICTIB project, he said, is about the largest enterprise network scheme in the country today for the purpose of enabling e-Government.

This, he said, was designed to deliver some infrastructure systems namely, fibre optics backbone connectivity with alternate undersea cable landing point to deepen connectivity and broadband access to a significant portion of the country.

“It also includes an Abuja fibre optics network that will provide an unparalleled, resilient access at the seat of Government; a WIFI/ eLTE with focused connectivity solutions for the federal secretariats in Abuja; a state-of-the-art data centre facilities to support e-government platforms and solutions; unified communications and tele-presence,” he said, noting that the project incorporates an extensive capacity building programme and spans across13 states of the federation with backbone access.

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Galaxy Backbone to install 146 VSAT in tertiary schools

Galaxy Backbone is to install a total of 146 Very Small Aperture Terminals (VSAT) in educational institutions in Nigeria, courtesy, the The Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF).

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