Electronics giant, Samsung, is set to establishing an engineering academy in Ado Ekiti, capital of Ekiti State, as part of its partnership arrangement with the state government.

The establishment of the academy is part of the Memorandum of Understanding signed by the state government and the management of Samsung in Seoul, South Korea on Monday.

Governor Kayode Fayemi signed for the state government, while the Executive Vice-President, IT Solutions Business, Samsung, Mr. Seongwoo Nam, signed on behalf of his firm at a brief ceremony at the company’s head office in Seoul.

According to a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Olayinka Oyebode, other areas of collaboration between Ekiti State and Samsung as contained in the MoU, include e-governance, healthcare, technology park, smart city and safe city initiatives of the state government.

Fayemi said the partnership with Samsung would boost the state government’s ICT plans, especially its e-school, e-payment and e-government projects.

The statement said Samsung was one of the major partners of the state government on its computer-per-child initiative, which is designed to put a laptop computer on the desk of every student in the state’s public secondary schools by 2014.

According to the statement, 33,000 laptop computers out of the planned 100,000 are being distributed across the state in the fist phase of the project.

aribisala0: Fail to see the attraction or business case for Ekiti?

Esss:

Me neither..

Ekiti State....!! Everytime I think of Ekiti, I can only seem to associate it with poverty, backwardness,child prostitution and child molestation..

tjadeba:

I beg to disagree with you on the bolded word

Esss:

Me neither..

Ekiti State....!! Everytime I think of Ekiti, I can only seem to associate it with poverty, backwardness,child prostitution and child molestation..

Adanyebe: why in EKITI and not LAGOS or ABUJA?... how do we stand to gain from this? does dat mean we'll be able to start manufacturing SAMSUNG products from here in Nigeria and start selling it to the rest of the world in years time?I think the Govt. shud try and be clever on this so as they dont sway talents from here for themselves and for the growth of their company only.

dhrey: u've never made any gud comment since wen av been seein ur post,i can now see dat is hw ur life is.where den do u want dem 2 take it.ur local village abi.

afam4eva: Why e be say na only Ekiti news carry am.

afam4eva: I don't know when states like Ekiti will start getting their priorities right. Wetin concern Ekiti with technology. they should focus on Agriculture and stop fooling themselves and NIgerians.

Ji_sun_pack:
So is building a beer and Kain kain factory in Anambra state a priority? bigoted ediot!

afam4eva:
Anambra is a commercial and an industrial state, so you should expect different kinds of factories springing up here and there.

Everything is tribalism for some of you.

afam4eva:
Anambra is a commercial and an industrial state, so you should expect different kinds of factories springing up here and there.

Everything is tribalism for some of you.

afam4eva: I don't know when states like Ekiti will start getting their priorities right. Wetin concern Ekiti with technology. they should focus on Agriculture and stop fooling themselves and NIgerians.

Esss:

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odunragbada: Am very disappointed with the type of responses on the news » Samsung To Establish Engineering Academy In Ekiti « with the level of education and exposure,and the way ICT is crumbling in Nigeria you people are graduates for God sake dnt imagine what am seen as a reply, Samsung academy is going to add values to soc-economic activities in ekiti.why is it dat people in lagos to be precise urban cities r selfish so u dnt want others to develop and moreover i discover the reply is somehow political so my dear friends forget about ACN,PDP,and others pray to God that they should embark on programs that u will be involved in and gainfully employed i love the initiatives is just dat government project take alot of time i pray that the ekiti state government should be successful in this project

Pgent1: Am dissappntd with d way some nairalanders reason,u're beefng ekiti,when ur own govt no get sense 2 go sign memo with samsung&i hope u didn't 4get dat ekiti is d fountain of knwldge,u shuld try 2 apprc8 gud tinz dan sit down&postng rubbish with dat 3rd hand phone ur grandpa gave u

afam4eva: I don't know when states like Ekiti will start getting their priorities right. Wetin concern Ekiti with technology. they should focus on Agriculture and stop fooling themselves and NIgerians.

afam4eva:
People should develop based on their strengths. It's not by force for every state to be like Lagos.

Dotman01: Wetin concern ekiti with technology? . . . But it'll be alrite if the school is situated in anambra? U be confirm ode

afam4eva:
People should develop based on their strengths. It's not by force for every state to be like Lagos.