FKO81:
More from Onitsha IT market, Anambra host more than five major IT markets, these pictures are Onitsha IT market Okwe street.

Name these 5 IT markets. You think you can lie this morning.

ODVanguard:


[s]Guy, you don come with your opata yarns. When we talk of ICT, it goes beyond buying and selling phone and computer hardware at computer village. There's the Software and Hardware side to ICT. Your people merely trade in computer hardware and parts. The software, refurbishment and repairs services section of the market also exists and is in the firm hands of the Yorubas in the same market. You guys aren't generally known for skilled trades/labour, but rather prefer to 'buy and sell' -- this can be seen in igbo general preference for trading anywhere you find them, while other tribes like Yorubas are more technically inclined (go to Ladipo, na Yorubas dey into auto servicing and repairs while your guys trade in spare parts).

Even the president of Computer and Allied Products Dealers Association of Nigeria (CAPDAN) at computer village, a Yorubaman by the way, said:



Everyone knows the Yorubas at computer village, asides having their own shops where they trade in computer hardware, constitute the bulk of those into phones and laptop repair services, refurbishment, and software related activities. #Fact.

No indigenous ICT firm in Nigeria comes close to Glo in stature.

Our lads don't have to open 2x2 shops at Computer Village to stake their dominance of the overall ICT sector. They already constitute the bulk of computer programmers in the country, earning top money while they're at it. From the guy that founded Andela (which was acquired by Mark Zuckerberg's wife for $24million), to wave-making Lanre Oyedokun's Big Data Startup (Delivery Science), Iyinoluwa Aboyadeji's Flutterwave, Adetunji Adegbesan's Gidi Mobile, and Shola Akinlade's Paystack were all accepted into Google's LaunchPad Accelerator at the same time -- all 4 of them are the only Nigerian tech startups accepted into the program and have attracted no less than a million dollars a piece in funding. Most of the promising startups in the IT sectors of the Nigerian economy, attracting heavy funding and FDI, are Yoruba-owned. And not just that.

Check the list of Nigeria's top programmers as compiled by Github, and see those that dominate the list:[/s]

http://techcabal.com/2016/09/19/nigerias-top-programmers-as-ranked-by-github/

Gobalcom is owned by IBB
http://saharareporters.com/2006/08/11/mohammed-babangida-detained-efcc-looks-globacom-and-ibb%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cfront-investments%E2%80%9D

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/5259252.stm

Igbo man is chairman of MTN Nigeria

Igbo man is Chairman of Smile Network

Igbo man is founder Visafone

Google about Ndubuisi Ekekwe founder Afrit, Fasmicro, Ndubuisi Ekekwe, a regular blogger at Harvard Business Review, holds two doctoral and four master’s degrees, including a PhD in electrical and computer engineering from the Johns Hopkins University and MBA from University of Calabar, Nigeria. During this MBA and Doctor of Management program, he specialized on Technology Management and Competitiveness. He founded First Atlantic Semiconductors & Microelectronics Ltd, African Institution of Technology, and Ultinet Systems. Dr. Ekekwe edited Nanotechnology and Microelectronics: Global Diffusion, Economics and Policy which received IGI Global 2010 “Book of The Year” Award. He is also an author of two books on electrochemistry and microelectronics. An Adjunct Professor of Engineering with Babcock University, Nigeria, he is a player in the U.S. semiconductor industry where he develops innovative microchips; he invented a microcontroller for medical robots. A recipient of 17 fellowships/scholarships, he graduated top of his class with BEng in electrical and electronics engineering (Aug. 1998) from Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria. He last held the title of Banking Executive with Diamond Bank Lagos and served in the United States National Science Foundation ERC/CISST E& committee for four years. Prof Ekekwe has been invited as a speaker in Wharton Business School, Harvard Business School, Brown University, among others. He currently advises five African governments on technology and entrepreneurship.

Computer villiage Home of billionaire I call it!!!





Now that computer village will be relocated to Oko-Odo, if u are interested in buying Shops for Sale in a good location u should call me....

I have this 5 shops for sale at Pleasure Bus stop, Business use Only..!!! Seated on a land measuring 113,740sq meter, title are Survey plan, deed of agreement, original family receipts

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kn23h:


Name these 5 IT markets. You think you can lie this morning.

IT market Okwe street Onitsha

Computer and Phone market new market road Onitsha

Nnewi computer and phone market

Awka computer and phone market

Computer and phone market Ekwulobia

Computer and phone market Nkpor

FKO81:

Gobalcom is owned by IBB
http://saharareporters.com/2006/08/11/mohammed-babangida-detained-efcc-looks-globacom-and-ibb%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cfront-investments%E2%80%9D

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/5259252.stm

Igbo man is chairman of MTN Nigeria

Igbo man is Chairman of Smile Network

Igbo man is founder Visafone

Google about Ndubuisi Ekekwe founder Afrit, Fasmicro, Ndubuisi Ekekwe, a regular blogger at Harvard Business Review, holds two doctoral and four master’s degrees, including a PhD in electrical and computer engineering from the Johns Hopkins University and MBA from University of Calabar, Nigeria. During this MBA and Doctor of Management program, he specialized on Technology Management and Competitiveness. He founded First Atlantic Semiconductors & Microelectronics Ltd, African Institution of Technology, and Ultinet Systems. Dr. Ekekwe edited Nanotechnology and Microelectronics: Global Diffusion, Economics and Policy which received IGI Global 2010 “Book of The Year” Award. He is also an author of two books on electrochemistry and microelectronics. An Adjunct Professor of Engineering with Babcock University, Nigeria, he is a player in the U.S. semiconductor industry where he develops innovative microchips; he invented a microcontroller for medical robots. A recipient of 17 fellowships/scholarships, he graduated top of his class with BEng in electrical and electronics engineering (Aug. 1998) from Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria. He last held the title of Banking Executive with Diamond Bank Lagos and served in the United States National Science Foundation ERC/CISST E& committee for four years. Prof Ekekwe has been invited as a speaker in Wharton Business School, Harvard Business School, Brown University, among others. He currently advises five African governments on technology and entrepreneurship.

Why must you always expose your foolishness? MTN Nigeria is a subsidiary of MTN Group headquatered in SA. Dozie is just a figurehead, so you are not fooling anybody, bwoy. While Glo on the other hand is fully owned by and in the firm hands of Mike Adenuga, and is no subsidiary of any parent company, you dumba$$.

Smile Nigeria is a franchise of the South African Smile (check the logo of both companies). Yorubas own Spectranet which has the largest market share in that space. It's like you Igbos prefer to franchise other people's brands rather than build your own original ones. Na so Stanel Group franchise both Chicken Republic (Yoruba-owned) and Mega-Chicken (Yoruba-owned) -- brands that have already been painstakingly built by others. Why did he avoid the likes of Igbo-owned Tetrazzini?? Or maybe Yoruba-made chicken just tastes better. Smh.

Visafone has been acquired by MTN Group, and besides, the company's footprint in the industry is almost non-existent so you are free to chest-beat over that all you want.

FKO81:


IT market Okwe street Onitsha

Computer and Phone market new market road Onitsha

Nnewi computer and phone market

Awka computer and phone market

Computer and phone market Ekwulobia

Computer and phone market Nkpor

Those are local markets, not IT hubs.

FKO81:

Gobalcom is owned by IBB
http://saharareporters.com/2006/08/11/mohammed-babangida-detained-efcc-looks-globacom-and-ibb%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cfront-investments%E2%80%9D

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/5259252.stm

Igbo man is chairman of MTN Nigeria

Igbo man is Chairman of Smile Network

Igbo man is founder Visafone

Google about Ndubuisi Ekekwe founder Afrit, Fasmicro, Ndubuisi Ekekwe, a regular blogger at Harvard Business Review, holds two doctoral and four master’s degrees, including a PhD in electrical and computer engineering from the Johns Hopkins University and MBA from University of Calabar, Nigeria. During this MBA and Doctor of Management program, he specialized on Technology Management and Competitiveness. He founded First Atlantic Semiconductors & Microelectronics Ltd, African Institution of Technology, and Ultinet Systems. Dr. Ekekwe edited Nanotechnology and Microelectronics: Global Diffusion, Economics and Policy which received IGI Global 2010 “Book of The Year” Award. He is also an author of two books on electrochemistry and microelectronics. An Adjunct Professor of Engineering with Babcock University, Nigeria, he is a player in the U.S. semiconductor industry where he develops innovative microchips; he invented a microcontroller for medical robots. A recipient of 17 fellowships/scholarships, he graduated top of his class with BEng in electrical and electronics engineering (Aug. 1998) from Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria. He last held the title of Banking Executive with Diamond Bank Lagos and served in the United States National Science Foundation ERC/CISST E& committee for four years. Prof Ekekwe has been invited as a speaker in Wharton Business School, Harvard Business School, Brown University, among others. He currently advises five African governments on technology and entrepreneurship.

Looolx just two?


Mind you, your link states :

Mohammed Babangida detained, EFCC looks into Globacom and IBB’s “front investments”
Mohammed Babangida, polo player and first son of former military president Ibrahim Babangida was arrested earlier today by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from his Abuja hotel suite, sources told Saharareporters.

BY SAHARA REPORTERSAUG 11, 2006



Mohammed Babangida, polo player and first son of former military president Ibrahim Babangida was arrested earlier today by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from his Abuja hotel suite, sources told Saharareporters.

 
 A source within the EFCC confirmed that his arrest was part continuation of a prolonged probe into the ownership of GLOBACOM, a telecom company owned by Mike Adenuga who was recently arrested by the EFCC.

 
Mohammed Babangida is alleged to posses 24% ownership in the $1.5 billion company. He had earlier been invited by the EFCC to explain how he came about the wealth used in purchasing the shares and he denied knowledge of such investments. The EFCC source said their investigation finally paid off after Mike Adenuga revealed this to the EFCC during his arrest and interrogation.  Mike Adenuga had long been rumored as a front for retired General Babangida, who is unarguably one of Nigeria’s most corrupt past leaders.

 
 When he was arrested, Mike Adenuga who was the largest donor to President Obasanjo's Presidential Library Project last year, was said to be involved in so many shady deals and illegal transfer of funds on behalf of public officials in Nigeria to foreign accounts.

 
Mohammed, according to our sources also owns oil blocks in Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea as well as several buildings in London even though he never held a real job his entire life.

Babangida is a share holder @24% pray tell us what happen to the remaining 76%?

Looolx

Shakingdbumbum:



Please study your cardinal point very well. That is why Nigeria school is a proper waste of time. I don't even want to call any group minority but oh yes! there are other tribes surrounding igbos like you get in the north and a good student of geography knows that they are all South eastern part of Nigeria but since they have allowed themselves to be used for proper sucking then they agreed to answer SS. All those stuff are pure political game by Britain and Nigeria. then they will all shout in unity. 'Igbos are the problem of Nigeria' but this generation of Igbos will not tolerate such nonsense names. we will match each group word for word. fire for fire. maybe they will look for another people to brainwash and blame.

But i have not seen any minority tribe complain. Why only you Igbos?

That's my area of making money...........

ODVanguard:


Why must you always expose your foolishness? MTN Nigeria is a subsidiary of MTN Group headquatered in SA. Dozie is just a figurehead, so you are not fooling anybody, bwoy. While Glo on the other hand is fully owned by and in the firm hands of Mike Adenuga, and is no subsidiary of any parent company, you dumba$$.

Smile Nigeria is a franchise of the South African Smile (check the logo of both companies). Yorubas own Spectranet which has the largest market share in that space. It's like you Igbos prefer to franchise other people's brands rather than build your own original ones. Na so Stanel Group franchise both Chicken Republic (Yoruba-owned) and Mega-Chicken (Yoruba-owned) -- brands that have already been painstakingly built by others. Why did he avoid the likes of Igbo-owned Tetrazzini?? Smh.

Visafone has been acquired by MTN Group, and besides, the company's footprint in the industry is almost non-existent so you are free to chest-beat over that all you want.

Ha!

It's finished! No more comment.
Guy, you do well. Truly, information is power.
Kudos

Leonard "Leo" Stanley Nnamdi Ekeh (born February 22, 1956) is a Nigerian businessman and chairperson of Zinox Technologies Limited. In addition to Zinox, he has been involved with companies Task Systems, Technology Distributions Limited, ICT Brokers, TD Plus, ICT Connect and Buyright AFRICA Dotcom

Mr. Ekeh through his company Task Systems Limited was one of the few who pioneered Desktop Publishing and Computer Graphics in Nigeria. He computerized 95% of the Print Media, Publishing Houses and Advertising Agencies in Nigeria. Task Systems Limited, his first company has consistently won outstanding industry Awards as Best Partner Award for Compaq, HP, Microsoft, American Power Solution, APC, etc. for 20 years. Mr. Leo Stan Ekeh also pioneered IT Solutions in West Africa through his company ITEC Solutions Limited through which he has delivered the largest IT Solutions ever, from an indigenous firm, to the Nigerian Corporate Market.

Mr. Ekeh also pioneered IT Distribution in West Africa through Technology Distributions Limited, TD, which has emerged the Number 1 ICT distribution company in West Africa. TD has consistently won for ten years the highest industry Awards and recognitions for market penetration, revenue, and preferred partner status to become the most decorated ICT Distributor in West Africa.

Leo Stan Ekeh scored another first in 2001 when he set up Zinox Technologies Limited to manufacture Zinox Computers, Nigeria’s First Internationally Certified Branded Computers.[citation needed] Leo Stan’s Zinox Computer has some innovative features, which include - the Naira sign, and a Power Supply designed to contain the erratic nature of electric power in Nigeria. He ensured that at launch Zinox Computers already had the WHQL certification, the first in sub-Saharan Africa, consolidated 5 years later with the attainment of the NIS ISO 2000: 9001 QMS Certification. In October 2013, the company announced the production of its computer tablet line named Zipad.

Awards/Recognitions

Leo Stan Ekeh has won over 60 Awards. A few are listed below -

Icon of Hope (President Olusegun Obasanjo) 1 October 2002
Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, OFR
Fellow of the Nigerian Computer Society, FNCS
ICT personality of the Year
Doctor of Business Administration (Honoris Causa) Imo State University, Owerri
Doctor of Business Administration (Honoris Causa) Federal University of Agric, Makurdi
Doctor of Technology (Honoris Causa) Federal University of Technology, Owerri.
Doctor of Science (Honorary) University of Jos
Corporate Citizen of the Year Award 2002/2003, Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria.
Information Technology Personality of the Year 2002 Award (IT & Telecom Digest)
Fellow of the Lagos State Polytechnic, Lagos.
Fellow of the Federal Polytechnic, Idah.
Fellow of the Federal Polytechnic, Nekede, Owerri, Imo State
Distinguished Fellow of the Nigeria Law School
2003 Nigerian Science and Technology Achiever of the Year
Life Membership, Nigerian Institute of International Affairs
Director - Nigerian Economic Summit Group

deedeedee1:

But i have not seen any minority tribe complain. Why only you Igbos?

Igbos are not complaining but igbos are uniting their people and need to tell them the truth to kill your divide and rule tactics.. its a pity u called them minority. the Ijaw , urhobo and ibibio population is more than fulani that are quick to attach themselves to the conquered hausas.

Nnamdi Ezeigbo is the founder and CEO of SLOT systems limited, and also the brain behind TECNO and INFINIX, the fastest selling phone brands in Nigeria. Many people are not even aware that these popular phone brands are the brainchild of a fellow Nigerian. His success story is a very remarkable one.
Nnamdi Ezeigbo studied Electrical Electronics Engineering at the Yaba College of Technology in 1988, and got a Higher National Diploma (HND), before serving his country, Nigeria, during his National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) year at Guinness Nigeria PLC, in 1996.

To help him out, the customer brought some printers for Nnamdi to sell, from which he used the proceeds to setup a new shop for himself. He paid for the store at a then price of 180,000 Naira (He later bought that same store many years later for 100 million Naira). once 2x2 owner

From his new store, he began to sell computers. As his business grew, a lot of customers started to both demand for Slot stores in areas close to their vicinities, and to ask if they sold mobile phones. With a keen eye to spot opportunity when it presents itself, Nnamdi Ezeigbo immediately expanded his business to also cover the sale of mobile phones.With no real knowledge on how to manage a growing business, Nnamdi decided to enrol for an MBA program at the prestigious Lagos Business School. He also began to attend many workshops on entrepreneurship, which helped to sharpen his business acumen and develop his legendary entrepreneurial prowess.


During this process, he and his team decided to take a 5 year route to build a strong reputation for their brand. By the time the projection had elapsed, the Slot brand name was the most reputable mobile phone retailer in the whole country.
The rise of telecommunication networks created many opportunities in the Nigerian market. Their poor services caused many Nigerians to purchase more than one mobile phone, so they could try a different network when the other was bad. Nnamdi realised this problem early on, and approached Nokia in a bid to convince them to manufacture dual sim phones for Nigerians, so they would carry only one mobile phone at a time instead of two. They refused to listen because, seeing people carry more of their phones meant more phone sales for them.

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According to his interview with Nairametrics, Nnamdi said;
“So I went to China and got a guy who had worked with a company called Bird then. Bird was into phones but they got choked and lost market share. I met with the guy and asked the guy to let us do something. I came with that name and I registered it here and brought the guy to Nigeria. And that was the high point of our business. We came together and I designed the first Tecno phone, Tecno T101. We started it but the market did not accept it and we also had problem with the dual SIM not working together and we had to make corrections and we came with Tecno 201 and that was a bit accepted by the market. But we were basically giving marketers on credit to sell the phones and then pay us later. And I was funding it all alone. Since I was funding it alone, we were finding it difficult to get the right quantity to sell until the market started accepting us. What I now did was to make them pay in advance, I mean the dealers. So we started using their money to order the products. This was around 2007. The introduction of Tecno brand was the turning point of our business. Like I said, Tecno is my baby and we kept improving. I knew a day would come when the middle class would accept Tecno. Initially, it was a phone for low income people but based on improvement and upping our game, the middle class had to accept it and when the economy went down in 2008 that helped Tecno to move to the top. Since purchasing power had dropped, they had to go for something that have same capabilities but cheaper. So with N15,000, you could buy a Smartphone and thank God for 3G network. The advent of 3G network actually helped Tecno to move up. So students who could not afford to buy phones in the range of N30,000 could buy one for N15,000 and enjoy features of Smartphone like Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp and so on.”

Today, Nnamdi Ezeigbo is a phenomenal success story in Nigeria and indeed Africa. From a humble repair man, he has built a multi-million dollar company and one of the most recognizable brand in Nigeria.
There are many lessons in this story.

Shakingdbumbum:




Igbos are not complaining but igbos are uniting their people and need to tell them the truth to kill your divide and rule tactics.. its a pity u called them minority. the Ijaw , urhobo and ibibio population is more than fulani that are quick to attach themselves to the conquered hausas.

You have not aswered my. The urhobos, Ijaws, benins are not complaining. Why must you force them to be with you?

FKO81:
Leonard "Leo" Stanley Nnamdi Ekeh (born February 22, 1956) is a Nigerian businessman and chairperson of Zinox Technologies Limited. In addition to Zinox, he has been involved with companies Task Systems, Technology Distributions Limited, ICT Brokers, TD Plus, ICT Connect and Buyright AFRICA Dotcom

Mr. Ekeh through his company Task Systems Limited was one of the few who pioneered Desktop Publishing and Computer Graphics in Nigeria. He computerized 95% of the Print Media, Publishing Houses and Advertising Agencies in Nigeria. Task Systems Limited, his first company has consistently won outstanding industry Awards as Best Partner Award for Compaq, HP, Microsoft, American Power Solution, APC, etc. for 20 years. Mr. Leo Stan Ekeh also pioneered IT Solutions in West Africa through his company ITEC Solutions Limited through which he has delivered the largest IT Solutions ever, from an indigenous firm, to the Nigerian Corporate Market.

Mr. Ekeh also pioneered IT Distribution in West Africa through Technology Distributions Limited, TD, which has emerged the Number 1 ICT distribution company in West Africa. TD has consistently won for ten years the highest industry Awards and recognitions for market penetration, revenue, and preferred partner status to become the most decorated ICT Distributor in West Africa.

Leo Stan Ekeh scored another first in 2001 when he set up Zinox Technologies Limited to manufacture Zinox Computers, Nigeria’s First Internationally Certified Branded Computers.[citation needed] Leo Stan’s Zinox Computer has some innovative features, which include - the Naira sign, and a Power Supply designed to contain the erratic nature of electric power in Nigeria. He ensured that at launch Zinox Computers already had the WHQL certification, the first in sub-Saharan Africa, consolidated 5 years later with the attainment of the NIS ISO 2000: 9001 QMS Certification. In October 2013, the company announced the production of its computer tablet line named Zipad.

Awards/Recognitions

Leo Stan Ekeh has won over 60 Awards. A few are listed below -

Icon of Hope (President Olusegun Obasanjo) 1 October 2002
Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, OFR
Fellow of the Nigerian Computer Society, FNCS
ICT personality of the Year
Doctor of Business Administration (Honoris Causa) Imo State University, Owerri
Doctor of Business Administration (Honoris Causa) Federal University of Agric, Makurdi
Doctor of Technology (Honoris Causa) Federal University of Technology, Owerri.
Doctor of Science (Honorary) University of Jos
Corporate Citizen of the Year Award 2002/2003, Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria.
Information Technology Personality of the Year 2002 Award (IT & Telecom Digest)
Fellow of the Lagos State Polytechnic, Lagos.
Fellow of the Federal Polytechnic, Idah.
Fellow of the Federal Polytechnic, Nekede, Owerri, Imo State
Distinguished Fellow of the Nigeria Law School
2003 Nigerian Science and Technology Achiever of the Year
Life Membership, Nigerian Institute of International Affairs
Director - Nigerian Economic Summit Group

You better dont start what you cant finish. Have you heard of brain computers?
You dont control the IT sector in Nigeria.

Biafra is at hand now. we don't need confusion. UN will soon be arriving to Nigeria for proper balkanization of ethnic groups.

Igbos are leading in ICT in Nigeria

https://guardian.ng/news/apple-buys-a-nigerian-owned-ict-firm-for-1-billion/

Apple buys a Nigerian-owned ICT firm for $1 billion

UNITED States of America’s most celebrated brand, Apple, has bought Nigeria’s Chinedu Echeruo’s HopStop.com. According to The Wall Street Journal’s publication, AllThingsDigital, it informed that though the term of the deal has not been disclosed officially, but HopStop has been compared to Israel’s Waze, which was recently acquired by Google for $1 billion.

Founded in 2005, HopStop.com makes mobile applications for both iOS and Android that covers over 300 cities and that helps people get directions or find nearby subway stations and bus stops.

Echeruo, formerly an analyst at investment banks and hedge funds, who founded HopStop, is now chairman of the Board for the app firm.

The move, according to market intelligence, is seen as Apple’s plan to bolster its map offering especially given Google’s recent acquisition of Waze.

A serial entrepreneur, Echeruo, grew up in Eastern Nigeria and attended Kings College, Lagos.

He attended Syracuse University and the Harvard Business School in the United States and founded HopStop.com after working for several years in the Mergers and Acquisitions and Leveraged Finance groups of J.P Morgan Chase where he was involved in a broad range of M&A, financing and private equity transactions.

He also worked at AM Investment Partners, a $500 million volatility-driven convertible bond arbitrage hedge fund.

He founded and raised nearly $8 million for his two U.S. based Internet companies: Hopstop.com and Tripology.com. Tripology.com was acquired in 2010 by American travel and navigation information company, Rand McNally.

True to form, Echeruo is working on yet another venture but this time, focused on small businesses in Africa. According to him, “there is no reason why every entrepreneur should have to reinvent the wheel every single time in all the countries in Africa.

My idea is to essentially have one place where a budding entrepreneur can access a template for starting a business, and then customise it to suit their own situation; essentially, a business-in-a-box. Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, online services, and personal computers.

Its best-known hardware products are the Mac line of computers, the iPod media player, the iPhone smartphone, the iPad tablet computer, and the Apple Watch smartwatch. Its online services include iCloud, the iTunes Store, and the App Store.

Apple’s consumer software includes the OS X and iOS operating systems, the iTunes media browser, the Safari web browser, and the iLife and iWork creativity and productivity suites.

Apple was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne on April 1, 1976, to develop and sell personal computers.

It was incorporated as Apple Computer, Inc. on January 3, 1977, and was renamed as Apple Inc. on January 9, 2007, to reflect its shifted focus towards consumer electronics. Apple joined the Dow Jones Industrial Average on March 19, 2015.

Apple is the world’s second-largest information technology company by revenue after Samsung Electronics, world’s largest technology company by Total Assets and the world’s third-largest mobile phone maker.

On November 25, 2014, in addition to being the largest publicly traded corporation in the world by market capitalisation, Apple became the first U.S. company to be valued at over $700 billion.

FKO81:

Igbos are leading in ICT in Nigeria

https://guardian.ng/news/apple-buys-a-nigerian-owned-ict-firm-for-1-billion/

Apple buys a Nigerian-owned ICT firm for $1 billion

UNITED States of America’s most celebrated brand, Apple, has bought Nigeria’s Chinedu Echeruo’s HopStop.com. According to The Wall Street Journal’s publication, AllThingsDigital, it informed that though the term of the deal has not been disclosed officially, but HopStop has been compared to Israel’s Waze, which was recently acquired by Google for $1 billion.

Founded in 2005, HopStop.com makes mobile applications for both iOS and Android that covers over 300 cities and that helps people get directions or find nearby subway stations and bus stops.

Echeruo, formerly an analyst at investment banks and hedge funds, who founded HopStop, is now chairman of the Board for the app firm.

The move, according to market intelligence, is seen as Apple’s plan to bolster its map offering especially given Google’s recent acquisition of Waze.

A serial entrepreneur, Echeruo, grew up in Eastern Nigeria and attended Kings College, Lagos.

He attended Syracuse University and the Harvard Business School in the United States and founded HopStop.com after working for several years in the Mergers and Acquisitions and Leveraged Finance groups of J.P Morgan Chase where he was involved in a broad range of M&A, financing and private equity transactions.

He also worked at AM Investment Partners, a $500 million volatility-driven convertible bond arbitrage hedge fund.

He founded and raised nearly $8 million for his two U.S. based Internet companies: Hopstop.com and Tripology.com. Tripology.com was acquired in 2010 by American travel and navigation information company, Rand McNally.

True to form, Echeruo is working on yet another venture but this time, focused on small businesses in Africa. According to him, “there is no reason why every entrepreneur should have to reinvent the wheel every single time in all the countries in Africa.

My idea is to essentially have one place where a budding entrepreneur can access a template for starting a business, and then customise it to suit their own situation; essentially, a business-in-a-box. Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, online services, and personal computers.

Its best-known hardware products are the Mac line of computers, the iPod media player, the iPhone smartphone, the iPad tablet computer, and the Apple Watch smartwatch. Its online services include iCloud, the iTunes Store, and the App Store.

Apple’s consumer software includes the OS X and iOS operating systems, the iTunes media browser, the Safari web browser, and the iLife and iWork creativity and productivity suites.

Apple was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne on April 1, 1976, to develop and sell personal computers.

It was incorporated as Apple Computer, Inc. on January 3, 1977, and was renamed as Apple Inc. on January 9, 2007, to reflect its shifted focus towards consumer electronics. Apple joined the Dow Jones Industrial Average on March 19, 2015.

Apple is the world’s second-largest information technology company by revenue after Samsung Electronics, world’s largest technology company by Total Assets and the world’s third-largest mobile phone maker.

On November 25, 2014, in addition to being the largest publicly traded corporation in the world by market capitalisation, Apple became the first U.S. company to be valued at over $700 billion.

Apple did not by hotstop for 1 billion dollars. I dont know why you must lie. Apple never said they did

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SIRTee15:


32 billion dollars is overbloated...
The GDP of nigeria is 406 billion dollars...
So u telling me computer village alone contributes close to 10 percent of nigerian gdp.....
The total revenue of the indian IT sector is 150 billion dollars...
Thats a sector that includes outsourcing IT services, product development, software design n hardware manufacturing....
Wetin dem they do for computer village....
No be buying n selling...
Abeg....

Your analogy Is flawed sir. Either that or you didnt fully grasp the contents of the article. GDP is calculated over a period of a year or a quarter of a year. The 32 billion dollars stated by the article spans the entire period of the GSM revolution which is in its 16th year (since 2001). The article also implies a figure of 1.5 billion naira (not dollars) daily. These figures are not over blown, its either you are not very familiar with computer village and its inner-workings or you just choose to be mathematically shy. The figures are very much realistic. I mean we are talking about the biggest ICT market in the whole of Africa. The likes which the google boss had to fly down to see things there first hand. You only need to interview a random phone sales guy under a tiny dingy staircase and you'd be shocked how much he makes daily.

Valentine Obi funder eTranzact International PLC, Africa’s Leading provider of mobile banking and payments services has recorded a PAT of N168.1 million in Quarter 1, 2015.

The results which have been officially received by the Nigerian stock exchange represent a 91% increase from results posted in the same quarter last year.


MasterCard, eTranzact Simplify Remittances for Nigerians


MasterCard has announced an agreement with eTranzact International plc, a leading pan-African mobile banking and payment services company, to make international remittance services available to millions of consumers in Nigeria.

Under the agreemen announced at the ongoing Mobile World Congress, citizens will be able to securely receive international remittances into their eTranzact mobile money wallets or select bank accounts through the international transfer hub, HomeSend

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PocketMoni Processed 1.8m Transactions Worth $600m in 2013

eTranzact, in 2013, company processed over $600 million which accounted for over 1.8 million transactions on PocketMoni and related services.

The Company's effort in mobile began in 2003 long before mobile money was finally introduced in Nigeria.

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eTranzact’s PocketMoni Nominated for AfricaCom, Lead Africa Awards

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Mr Valentine Obi, CEO of eTranzact

PocketMoni, eTranzact International Plc’s flagship has beaten off stiff competition to be nominated in the best mobile money service category of the AfricaCom awards and Lead Africa Awards 2014.

eTranzact is Africa’s leading provider of mobile banking and payments services. Its effort in mobile began in 2003 long before mobile money was finally introduced in Nigeria.

Philip Emeagwali is a Nigerian computer scientist. He has been living in the United States for many years. An Igbo, he won the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize for price-performance in high-performance computing applications, in an oil reservoir modeling calculation using a novel mathematical formulation and implementation.

Supercomputing
Emeagwali received the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize for an application of the CM-2 massively-parallel computer. The application used computational fluid dynamics for oil-reservoir modeling. He won in the "price/performance" category, with a performance figure of about 400 Mflops/$1M. The winner in the "performance" category, Mobil Research and Thinking Machines, used the CM-2 for seismic data processing and achieved the higher ratio of 500 Mflops/$1M. The judges decided on one award per entry. His method involved each microprocessor communicating with six neighbours.
Emeagwali's simulation was the first program to apply a pseudo-time approach to reservoir modeling

Accolades
Price/performance – 1989 Gordon Bell Prize, IEEE
Emeagwali was voted the "35th-greatest African (and greatest African scientist) of all time" in a survey by New African magazine.
His achievements were quoted in a speech by Bill Clinton as an example of what Nigerians could achieve when given the opportunity.He is also a frequent feature of Black History Month articles in the popular press.
"The Web owes much of its existence to Philip Emeagwali" - TIME magazine
"A father of the Internet" - CNN
"One of the great minds of the Information Age" - Bill Clinton (The White House)

Chaiii! Biafra mmammanu ooo! muo nu! zuo nu! riieee nu. they envy us but we can't do anything about it. its a blessing. please our brothers from the other side stop bombing yourself name.

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victorDanladi:

na biafran methodology them use.
mouth! mouth! mouth!

Give us evidence!....they will post ewedu or demola ajayi picture!

You and who dey do that tribal shit?

chinawapz:
I no believe this shit...

then you don't know computer village