MainOne extends SME solution to Yaba, S/Lere, Ikoyi

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MainOne has extended coverage areas of its Small and Medium Enterprise (SME)-in-a-Box bundled connectivity solution across new areas in Lagos, reports ITRealms.

Product Manager at MainOne, Adeyemi Tanimomo said the company has added Yaba, Surulere, Victoria Island, Ikoyi and Marina to areas that can now benefit from the new high performance Internet solution targeted at SMEs, already available in Ikeja and Apapa.

Tanimomo explained that the coverage extension would enhance the company’s ability to deliver the best fiber-optic based unlimited connectivity solution in Lagos to small businesses in the new areas.

According to him, this network extension is in response to a successful pilot in Ikeja and Apapa in 2016 and the growing demand for the service across Lagos.

“The availability of our SME-in-a-Box service in Yaba, Surulere, Ikoyi, Victoria and Marina means that more small businesses can benefit from our unlimited fiber to the office solution, plus other excellent value added services that MainOne offers. MainOne’s extension of this service reiterates our commitment to small businesses, enabling them increase market efficiency, ensure rapid scalability and expedite their growth plans,” Tanimomo said.

ITRealms gatheres that the SME-in-a-Box service offers small businesses a converged solution of high-speed internet, voice and cloud solutions, which is a simple, plug and play service poised to drive business productivity and profitability without compromising quality and value for money.

SME-in-a-Box, MainOne officials said, has become the preferred solution for startups, professional services companies, architectural firms, law firms, schools, hotels, hospitals, e-commerce firms, retail malls and other small businesses who require connectivity solutions for the digital transformation of their businesses.

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Mark Zuckerberg in Nigeria, visits CCHub @Yaba

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The chief executive officer of Facebook, Mr. Mark Zuckerberg commenced official visit to the commercial centre, Lagos in Nigeria on Tuesday with a stop-over at the Co-creation Hub in Yaba, reports ITRealms.

Zuckerberg’s presence in Nigeria, ITRealms gathered is on listen, learn and take ideas back to California on how Facebook could better support technology development and entrepreneurship across Africa.

Zuckerberg who is on his first-ever visit to Africa, met with some developers, partners, and explore Nollywood. He took the occasion to visit a 'Summer of Code Camp' at the Co-Creation Hub (CcHub) in Yaba.

ITRealms recalls that CcHub was opened in 2011 and at the time didn't even have an office. Five years later they fill three floors and the roof of a building, even at CcHub, people could learn how to code, developers could get help launching their first products, and find mentors and funding.

In addition, ITRealms reprots that Mark then visit Andela, an engineering organization that is building the next generation of technical leaders in Africa, set up earlier this year, by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative which invested in Andela after being impressed by the company's innovative model of learning and its drive to connect the global technology ecosystem with the most talented developers in Africa.

Andela is a business that recruits the most talented technologists in Africa and shapes them into world-class developers through a four-year technical leadership program. In the two years since it was founded, Andela has accepted just over 200 engineers from a pool of more than 40,000 applicants. Andela developers spend six months mastering a technical stack and contributing to open source projects before being placed with global technology companies as full-time, distributed teammates, working out of Andela headquarters in Lagos and Nairobi.

Director, Andela Lagos, Seni Sulyman said they are excited and honored to welcome Mark Zuckerberg to Lagos, stressing his visit reinforces not only support of Andela’s mission, but belief that indeed the next generation of great technology leaders will come out of Lagos, Nigeria and cities across Africa.

Andela, Sulyman said, has created a platform for passionate, driven software developers and engineers to break into the global tech ecosystem, but the barriers to entry are still very high, emphasizing that Mark’s visit demonstrates to all Nigerian developers and entrepreneurs that they’ve caught the attention of the tech world, and they are capable of succeeding on a truly global level.

At the end of the day Zuckerberg stopped by an Express WiFi stand in Lagos owned by Rosemary Njoku. Facebook's Express WiFi lets entrepreneurs like Rosemary set up a hot spot to help their community access apps and services built by local developers.

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Pix: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is visiting Nigeria this week on his first trip to Africa

Vodacom 'Power to You Project’ lifts FSTC with free WiFi, generating set

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The ‘Power to You Project,’ a brainchild of Vodacom has donated free Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) and a 220KVA generating set to the  Federal Science and Technology College (FSTC), Yaba Lagos, reports ITRealms.
 

Power to You Project, ITRealms gathered aims at supporting public and private schools in Nigeria by ensuring that students and teachers have access to Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and new telecommunication technologies.
 

The Managing Director, Vodacom Business Nigeria, Mr Guy Clarke, in a press statement made available to ITRealms noted that Internet penetration in Nigeria is still low, especially in public schools.
 

"With the ‘Power to You Project’, we aim to bridge the digital divide that exists in communities and schools without access to ICT,” he said.
 

The project, he also said is part of Vodacom’s resolve to reduce the digital divide in communities and schools that lack access to ICT in the country.

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