Globacom and the University of Ilorin
have
entered into a partnership to take
tertiary
education in Nigeria to a higher level
as they
have agreed to initiate a platform
where
students can access their lectures and
lecturers from anywhere in the
world.
The communications will be accessed
through
the students’ hand-held devices or
large
computer screens. The plan to
revolutionise the
classroom experience of Nigerian
university
students will ride on Globacom’s vast
nationwide voice and data
infrastructure. This was the outcome
of a visit to the Mike
Adenuga Towers, Globacom’s
corporate
headquarters, by principal officers of
the
university led by the Vice Chancellor,
Prof.
Abdulganiyu Ambali, recently.
Ambali rated Globacom as the
number one
telecommunications service provider
in the
country with the capacity to deliver
end-to-end
solutions for every sector of the
economy. He
said that Globacom had changed the
face of
the telecoms industry in Nigeria with
its huge
investments in technology.
Globacom is the official telecoms
partner of the
University of Ilorin, providing direct
and
exclusive internet connection to the
whole
university community. Ambali
applauded the
existing relationship the institution
already has
with the company and requested that
the
relationship be upgraded to meet the
demands
of teaching in the internet age.
Receiving the delegation, Globacom’s
Chief
Commercial Director, Prabhat
Aggarwal,
explained that the telecoms company
had the
richest experience in providing
integrated
telecommunication services to
organisations in
the country. According to him,
Globacom is the
official telecoms carrier for most of
the leading
firms in Nigeria, including the oil and
gas
sector, banking, manufacturing, food
and
beverage sectors as well as
government
establishments .
“With this track record and given our
wide
network running on microwave
infrastructure,
optic fiber rings and the Glo 1
submarine cable,
it will not be difficult to provide
integrated
voice and data services to your
community for
academic, administration and security
purposes,” Aggarwal told Vice
Chancellor and
his team.
The university’s delegation included
the Head
Of Consultancy Services, Prof
Olugbenga
Mokuolu, Director of ICT, Dr. Jeleel
Ojuade, and
Acting Director, Advancement Centre,
Prof.
Ahmed Musa.
Globacom explained to the team that
the
company already had an electronic
learning
(eLearning) template that could put
all faculty
curriculum, lecture notes and cached
teaching
sessions for up to 5 years on the
intranet or
internet for the academic community
to access
at will from anywhere.
This is in addition to video streaming,
local
intranet and extranet, web-based
learning plus
teleconferencing facilities which can
make a
live connection between students in a
class
and a lecturer from anywhere in the
world.
Globacom offered to also provide the
University
community with internal
communication
solutions including Closed User Group
(CUG),
fixed wireless connections and Bucket
GPRS
services which provides bulk data
bundle for
the entire community and PABX
connections.