What are the challenges of doing IT business in Nigeria?

Honestly,there are so many challenges you will encounter when venturing into the IT business. But the challenges are just like an experience which will show you how to do things better as you evolve; and that’s if you are ready to change. Funding was a challenge when we started but gradually we sourced for funds from several avenue and we started building Smartweb but now that’s a thing of the past. Then in-house challenges too with the staff in terms of maybe you put some standard for the quality of services you want to give your customers and maybe your staff are not cooperating, so there are a lot of challenges. You have to monitor, supervise personnel or else your operation comes to its knees. Apart from that, there was a time we didn’t have software developers and we had some issues with some of our software, so it was a lot of challenges for us and we had to think twice before we employed some software developers to work with us. From time to time, you definitely will encounter challenges but the best thing is being able to address those challenges effectively as they arise.

Are you in any form of collaboration with the public sector?

We will like to work with them, but there are a lot of bureaucracies that come with working with the government. For example, there was a time we were trying to work with some states in implementing the TSA but we found it very difficult and it wasn’t easy because of this bureaucracy. So if you want to work with them you have to be a very patient person and keep following them.

So you have nothing doing with the public sector?

Well, not that much. We try to see how we can work with them,some of the government organizations are hosting with us presently like Kano State,Gombe State and some parastatals here in Plateau State. But, so far so good we don’t have any issue with them,but that’s our relationship with them right now. We expect things to pick as government is getting more aware and is deploying IT.

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