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Zinox is Nigeria’s No. 1 selling Notebook, says IDC
By Efem Nkanga, 08.02.2010
Monday, August 2, 2010

The laptop range of Zinox Computers, Nigeria’s first internationally certified branded computers, has emerged the best selling notebooks in the Nigerian market, according to the latest report by International Data Corporation (IDC), the US-based global leader in market research and analysis in information technology, telecommunications and consumer technology.




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The report shows that Zinox Computers continues to perform very strongly, ensuring a quality Nigerian participation in a market that would have been completely dominated by foreign brands.


The Q2 2010 IDC report posted on the company’s web site reveals that Zinox laptops are the fastest growing and best selling Notebooks in the Nigerian market.

Zinox is strongest in the laptop market where it leads six other international brands, including HP, Acer, Toshiba, Dell, Lenovo and LG Electronics, with a 53.6% market share and a year-on-year growth of 799 per cent, while its closest competitor, HP, achieved a 23.6 per cent market share.


In the desktop computer category, Zinox came second with an 11.4 per cent share as the market defines a HP/Zinox rivalry.

The IDC report showed that Zinox has a share of 32.5 per cent of the Total PC market, a remarkable achievement for an indigenous brand that has been in the market for less than a decade.


Commenting on the report, the chairman of Zinox Computers, Mr. Leo Stan Ekeh, said that the report has justified the vision, hard work, capital outlay, human resources and patriotism that have gone into the building of the Zinox brand.


He said that he was satisfied that Nigerians are proving that if given the opportunity they could compete and overcome even the best in the world while admitting that though they had initially challenges like any other company but they have stabilised in the last three years.

He recalled that amidst scepticism in government circles, among professionals, and the general public, he had declared at the launch in 2001 that Zinox was a public trust and a spiritual commitment.


He had proclaimed that Zinox had the finances, the know-how, and the will to make the brand a source of national pride. Ekeh said that he was proud that less than a decade after that launch, the Zinox brand was keenly competing for space with foreign and international brands.


He said that the success of the Zinox brand is traceable to the strict adherence to international quality standards and processes.

“For example,” he said, “the launch of Zinox was delayed for some years to enable Zinox Computers to attain the Windows Hardware Quality Lab (WHQL), a certification that remained exclusive to Zinox among the indigenous manufacturers for many years.


“In 2005, just four years after launch, Zinox received the NIS ISO 9001:2000 quality and management processes certification. In recognition of its quest for excellence, the brand has won all known international and local Awards from professional associations, and remains the largest partners of Intel and Microsoft Inc. in sub Saharan Africa. And just in June 2010, Intel, the number 1 Microchips producers in the world, profiled Zinox Computers in its newsletter as African Digital success story based on her achievements and growth.”


Ekeh explained that the flagship of the Zinox charge in the market is the Bijimi (Digital work horse in Hausa) laptop which comes in two variants: the Bijimi PRO and the Bijimi Sage, The Zinox Pride Notebook, “an all-time best seller loaded with over 1,000,000 e-books and other contents like JAMB,WAEC, NECO etc exams revision questions and answers. This dominance of the laptop market is also helped in no small way by the rapid market penetration gained by the Zinox Smart mini notebooks in partnership with Intel.” The performance is based on a strategy of continually identifying and reaching professionals, the underserved or un-reached.


This is evident in the fact that Zinox Computers today is responsible for over 75 per cent of the computerization going on in the educational sector. The Zinox strategy has also been greatly helped by the number of branches in Nigeria (14 at the last count) which is the largest run by any computer company in Nigeria, enabling an after sales support that is accessible from anywhere in Nigeria with additional support agreement with TD Plus Ltd, a wholly after sales support company.


“These branches are staffed by internationally certified Nigerian professionals and that’s why we were able to intervene to save major national and international events in Nigeria like the All Africa Games (COJA 2003), Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM 2003) and the INEC voters’ registration of 2006. Armed with this high quality product portfolio, human resources and an impeccable patriotic will, becoming No. 1 was only a matter of time – because the Zinox brand was configured to be Number One,” added Mr. Leo Stan Ekeh.


He said these achievements wouldn’t have been possible without the support and prayer of governments and people of Nigeria, “in particular [former] President Olusegun Obasanjo and corporates who have shown faith in the Nigerian dream by standardizing on Zinox”.

Zinox Computers was launched in October 2001 as Nigeria’s IT Identity. From inception, Zinox has scored a number of firsts: first computer company in Nigeria to acquire the WHQL, first Nigerian computer company to introduce the Naira sign on its international keyboard, first Nigerian computer manufacturer to attain the ISO certification, first to receive presidential endorsement as computer of choice for Nigeria, among others.


Faithful to its Nigerian roots, Zinox has given back generously to support the growth of a knowledge economy. These include initiating the Computerize Nigeria Project to create awareness and access to the computer as a major tool for work and play; the establishment of digital centres at the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Lagos State Polytechnic, Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Federal Polytechnic, Nekede, among others.


Zinox has been a major sponsor of seminars, lectures and symposiums, aimed at capacity building, for the civil society. Zinox has also distinguished itself in large sponsorships – sponsoring the 8th All Africa Games in 2003, the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, CHOGM, in 2003, the official computer of the African Union Heads of States meeting in 2005 at the Gambia. Zinox is a regular major sponsor of all ICT professional bodies in Nigeria.

Zinox is Nigeria’s No. 1 selling Notebook, says IDC
By Efem Nkanga, 08.02.2010
Monday, August 2, 2010

The laptop range of Zinox Computers, Nigeria’s first internationally certified branded computers, has emerged the best selling notebooks in the Nigerian market, according to the latest report by International Data Corporation (IDC), the US-based global leader in market research and analysis in information technology, telecommunications and consumer technology.




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The report shows that Zinox Computers continues to perform very strongly, ensuring a quality Nigerian participation in a market that would have been completely dominated by foreign brands.


The Q2 2010 IDC report posted on the company’s web site reveals that Zinox laptops are the fastest growing and best selling Notebooks in the Nigerian market.

Zinox is strongest in the laptop market where it leads six other international brands, including HP, Acer, Toshiba, Dell, Lenovo and LG Electronics, with a 53.6% market share and a year-on-year growth of 799 per cent, while its closest competitor, HP, achieved a 23.6 per cent market share.


In the desktop computer category, Zinox came second with an 11.4 per cent share as the market defines a HP/Zinox rivalry.

The IDC report showed that Zinox has a share of 32.5 per cent of the Total PC market, a remarkable achievement for an indigenous brand that has been in the market for less than a decade.


Commenting on the report, the chairman of Zinox Computers, Mr. Leo Stan Ekeh, said that the report has justified the vision, hard work, capital outlay, human resources and patriotism that have gone into the building of the Zinox brand.


He said that he was satisfied that Nigerians are proving that if given the opportunity they could compete and overcome even the best in the world while admitting that though they had initially challenges like any other company but they have stabilised in the last three years.

He recalled that amidst scepticism in government circles, among professionals, and the general public, he had declared at the launch in 2001 that Zinox was a public trust and a spiritual commitment.


He had proclaimed that Zinox had the finances, the know-how, and the will to make the brand a source of national pride. Ekeh said that he was proud that less than a decade after that launch, the Zinox brand was keenly competing for space with foreign and international brands.


He said that the success of the Zinox brand is traceable to the strict adherence to international quality standards and processes.

“For example,” he said, “the launch of Zinox was delayed for some years to enable Zinox Computers to attain the Windows Hardware Quality Lab (WHQL), a certification that remained exclusive to Zinox among the indigenous manufacturers for many years.


“In 2005, just four years after launch, Zinox received the NIS ISO 9001:2000 quality and management processes certification. In recognition of its quest for excellence, the brand has won all known international and local Awards from professional associations, and remains the largest partners of Intel and Microsoft Inc. in sub Saharan Africa. And just in June 2010, Intel, the number 1 Microchips producers in the world, profiled Zinox Computers in its newsletter as African Digital success story based on her achievements and growth.”


Ekeh explained that the flagship of the Zinox charge in the market is the Bijimi (Digital work horse in Hausa) laptop which comes in two variants: the Bijimi PRO and the Bijimi Sage, The Zinox Pride Notebook, “an all-time best seller loaded with over 1,000,000 e-books and other contents like JAMB,WAEC, NECO etc exams revision questions and answers. This dominance of the laptop market is also helped in no small way by the rapid market penetration gained by the Zinox Smart mini notebooks in partnership with Intel.” The performance is based on a strategy of continually identifying and reaching professionals, the underserved or un-reached.


This is evident in the fact that Zinox Computers today is responsible for over 75 per cent of the computerization going on in the educational sector. The Zinox strategy has also been greatly helped by the number of branches in Nigeria (14 at the last count) which is the largest run by any computer company in Nigeria, enabling an after sales support that is accessible from anywhere in Nigeria with additional support agreement with TD Plus Ltd, a wholly after sales support company.


“These branches are staffed by internationally certified Nigerian professionals and that’s why we were able to intervene to save major national and international events in Nigeria like the All Africa Games (COJA 2003), Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM 2003) and the INEC voters’ registration of 2006. Armed with this high quality product portfolio, human resources and an impeccable patriotic will, becoming No. 1 was only a matter of time – because the Zinox brand was configured to be Number One,” added Mr. Leo Stan Ekeh.


He said these achievements wouldn’t have been possible without the support and prayer of governments and people of Nigeria, “in particular [former] President Olusegun Obasanjo and corporates who have shown faith in the Nigerian dream by standardizing on Zinox”.

Zinox Computers was launched in October 2001 as Nigeria’s IT Identity. From inception, Zinox has scored a number of firsts: first computer company in Nigeria to acquire the WHQL, first Nigerian computer company to introduce the Naira sign on its international keyboard, first Nigerian computer manufacturer to attain the ISO certification, first to receive presidential endorsement as computer of choice for Nigeria, among others.


Faithful to its Nigerian roots, Zinox has given back generously to support the growth of a knowledge economy. These include initiating the Computerize Nigeria Project to create awareness and access to the computer as a major tool for work and play; the establishment of digital centres at the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Lagos State Polytechnic, Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Federal Polytechnic, Nekede, among others.


Zinox has been a major sponsor of seminars, lectures and symposiums, aimed at capacity building, for the civil society. Zinox has also distinguished itself in large sponsorships – sponsoring the 8th All Africa Games in 2003, the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, CHOGM, in 2003, the official computer of the African Union Heads of States meeting in 2005 at the Gambia. Zinox is a regular major sponsor of all ICT professional bodies in Nigeria.

There is no need for state creation except to balance number of states per region. Otherwise its back to regions.

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Re: Can Lagoon State Really Come Out Of The Ugly Yoke Of Lagos State
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Quote from: Nchara on Today at 03:32:31 PM
Obj starved Lagos but the money was released eventually-with interest kpa kpa. We saw how Tinubu was rolling on the floor begging Obj. Without oil money Lagos and all the other states would be dead.

Please let's put the facts in the right perspective for the benefit of those knowing this for the first time. There was no time Tinubu begged OBJ.

Quote from: Nchara on Today at 03:44:39 PM
You lie. VAT money is shared according to how it is generated. Lagos gets the largest share accordingly. That FACT was shown here in the past.

Quote from Dsgiezd

Please could you provide the link because I don't think what you have said is right.

Read through this thread (pages 1 and 2) and the links there. Thanks. https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-364225.0.html

Ole! why should SE alone have two states when other zones are getting one.

Jaguda! Because they have only 5 while others have 6 and 7. Equality of states or back to regionalism.

desgiezd:
I wont ever join the chorus of splitting Lagos because it doesnt make any sense but I stand for the fact that Lagos can stand on its own without living-off revenues from other states. To achieve this, the state has to ensure that majority of the people pay taxes including petty traders. Also the lopsided federal system of government we are practising needs to be addressed. Lagos generates about half of the VAT collection in Nigeria yet derivation principle which is applicable to oil is not applied in sharing VAT revenue.

You lie. VAT money is shared according to how it is generated. Lagos gets the largest share accordingly. That FACT was shown here in the past.

bawomolo:
i get what u saying now but how does state creation help though

Equality of states or back to zones (6 zones)

Obj starved Lagos but the money was released eventually-with interest kpa kpa. We saw how Tinubu was rolling on the floor begging Obj. Without oil money Lagos and all the other states would be dead.

Nigeria needs 6 states ONLY. Two in the SE, one each in the SS, SW, NC and NE and none for NW. So every zone has equal number of states:7. Or we go back to zones (6 zones) and abrogate all the states- actually a preferred option.

Nigeria needs 6 states ONLY. Two in the SE, one each in the SS, SW, NC and NE and none for NW. So every zone has equal number of states:7. Or we go back to zones (6 zones) and abrogate all the states- actually a preferred option.

Certificate forgery is a recurrent issue in the SW. Why is this so?

Certificate Forgery: LAUTECH Sacks 40
From Yinka Kolawole in Osogbo, 08.02.2010

Ladoke Akintola Univer-sity of Technology (LAU-TECH) Teaching Hospital. Osogbo, Osun State has sacked over 40 workers of the hospital as a result of alleged certificate racketeering at different levels.

THISDAY investigation revealed that the management of the hospital embarked on the screening of workers certificate in the last two weeks.
The exercise was however not connected rocking the recent crisis with the university, which had snowballed to a threat by the National University Commi-ssion (NUC) to withdraw its operational license.

Consequently, anxiety had gripped workers in the system as the sacking of 40 workers have been a source of strong feeling that more will still be affected in the process.
A source told THISDAY that many of the workers who came into the system in the last seven years were brought by some prominent politicians within the state without proper verification of their results at the time of their employment into the service.

In fact, it was revealed that out of the 40 workers affected presently, about 10 top management staff were involved.It was equally alleged that the issue of certificate racketeering within the set-up was a source of worry to the management before the commencement of the exercise.

Reacting to the development, the image-maker of the hospital, Mr Ayodele Adeyemo, who denied the sack of the 40 workers however said actually an exercise is on to verify workers certificate.Adeyemo noted that the verification of certificates was a normal routine in the organisation.