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Silentmind:
CEO AND FOUNDER OF FUTURE SOFTWARE RESOURCES LIMITED, NKEMDILIM BEGHO

Mission
To provide Information Technology solutions for the African market, ensuring global standards, quality, dedication and integrity.



Vision
To be Africa's leading online solution, e-learning and IT security provider.

At Futuresoft we value
Dedication & Integrity
Quality & Professionalism
Attention to Detail
Excellence & Efficiency
Customer Satisfaction
Timely Delivery
Tailored-made Solutions

At Futuresoft we believe in individuality and understand that each client is unique and has specific requirements. Once we have a grasp of the scope of work, we tailor our solutions to suit your needs and ensure that we have an in-depth understanding of your business in order to deliver solutions that benefit your business and help you grow.
At Futuresoft we believe in individuality and understand that each client is unique and has specific requirements. Once we have a grasp of the scope of work, we tailor our solutions to suit your needs and ensure that we have an in-depth understanding of your business in order to deliver solutions that benefit your business and help you grow.
Website Development
Over the years we have built websites for renowned Nigerian brands across various industry sectors, helping them make their mark online.
We tailor our website solutions to your budget, your target audience, your goals and needs, thus being able to meet your needs profitably.

We always make sure that we give you the best advice and the best solution that is sustainable and easy to manage by an in-house content manager.

We can integrate various functionalities, your social media channels and other online marketing avenues you may have.

With mobile compatible sites becoming more and more important we have also stepped into the real of responsive designs that allow your users have a great experience on your website regardless of the device they are using to access it.


We also offer e-commerce website development services. Let us help you set up your state-of-the-art online store, integrated with a shopping cart and online payment options using one of Nigeria’s premier online payment providers – Paga – who offer Payments via mobile money as well as payments with all major Nigerian cards, such as Mastercard, Verve and Visa.
We can customize your online store to integrate with your social media channels, as well as your corporate website.


We also help you develop your e-commerce strategy, ensure that you have high quality imagery of your products and can manage your shopping cart from the comfort of your office. We also provide training and support for effective shopping cart management.


Are you looking to develop a complex online portal? Guess what? We can help. At Futuresoft we offer custom web portal development services that go from planning and framework development all the way to implementation, quality assurance testing, going live and offering adequate aftercare support.
We help you develop your idea and translate it into an online portal.

Online marketing via online Newsletter campaigns is an extremely effective means of boosting your online presence and letting your customers know about special offers, sales and promotions as well as reminding them of your product and service offering. Futuresoft’s online newsletter support service gives you the freedom to focus on sales while we manage your online newsletter campaigns in the background. Our online newsletter support packages are designed for start-ups, small businesses and large corporates wanting an easy to use and cost effective marketing strategy that increases their online visibility, but don’t have the knowledge, skills, resources or free time to manage it themselves.
At Futuresoft we offer a range of Social Media Packages that suit every budget and help you simplify your online marketing! Not having your business online is no longer an option, and with a growing number of Nigerians actively using social media, it is key to ensure that you focus on all social media channels.


Social Media Management can be very time consuming and often requires a creative understanding of the brand; our social media experts will not only monitor and update on your brands behalf, but will also study your brand in-depth and develop an understanding of your unique business perspectives and goals. We will help develop content that is customized and catered towards your brand and reflects your core values with the goal of driving sales and increasing your online presence.
Do you have a website, but no one can find you online? There are ways to make sure that your site gets listed on the first page of Google searches! We do basic as well as on-going SEO.


Interested in stepping up your online presence? We are here to help! Simply reply this email with your questions and quote requests and we will send you further information as well as a cost overview.


We look forward to working with you and putting your brand on the online map!

We offer business process software for businesses that are catered and customized to the African market and our clients needs. Click on any of the solutions below to download a detailed information sheet.

Automate your recruitment with the state-of-the-art FS E-Recruitment System
Increase your internal communication and team spirit with the tailored made FS Intranet solution
Manage your leads, potentials and active clients effectively using the FS CRM (Customer Relationship Management Solution)
Automate your HR workflow with the FS HRM (Human Resource Management Solution)
Manage your electronic documents with the FS Document Management Systems
Trace customer complaints, mail all your customers important information, post FAQs and respond to queries with the FS Online Helpdesk Solutions
Set up a state of the art in-house call centre with the Call Centre Solution
Train your staff with the state of the art online E-Training Solution

Silentmind:
MD/CEO OF ELEANOR DES FLEURS CHIOMA PAMELA NWURUKU

Before the mid 1980’s the city of Abuja was a casual geographical area in Nigeria that served as a home to its mainly indigenous Gbagi citizens popularly known as the gwari tribe and a few migrants who chose to settle in the area at the time. Like a newly born baby, I have watched the city of Abuja grow from just another random city in Nigeria into one of the fastest developing capital cities in the world today.

Nigeria’s heterogeneous political and religious status quo created a need to situate the capital city in an area seen as neutral by the whole country. The ground-breaking ceremony was done in the late 70’s but most of the major projects were completed in the late 80’s and was officially declared as Nigeria’s capital in 91.

Evolving through stages, Abuja has developed from a dessert land of gwari settlers to Nigeria’s metropolitan city and Africa’s fastest developing city.

From empty lands to properly constructed roads, and as the government erected more infrastructure, the city took shape bit by bit. The initial master plan for the FCT was put together by the International Planning Associates, IPA. Interestingly, the various leaders who in one way or the other contributed to the completion of Abuja project all ruled during military era.

Federal Ministries, Departments, Agencies, MDA’s and embassies either moved their headquarters or opened a liaison office in Abuja. Workers and civil servants migrated to Abuja and multiple mass housing projects were built for civil servants and the rising influx of people. Employment opportunities increased in the public sector, and there was an expectation of the “private-sector-boom” to follow suite and it did. Abuja became the next place to migrate to for Nigerians after Lagos.

Although it is still one of the best cities in the country and arguably the continent as regards city planning and infrastructure development has deteriorated enormously over the years.

I remember moving to Abuja in 97 as a child; It was an experience I had longed and waited forever since the day my dad came back home with the news of his transfer to the new capital. I would wake up every day and ask quite impatiently – “daddy when are we leaving for Abuja now?” Until the day, my dad said we were leaving in two days. Finally, it happened! We were on our way to this new city.

It was very overwhelming for me and I fell in love with the city and have been here for 18 years. It was the first big city I ever visited, as I had never been to Lagos at the time, and our driver, Thomas, made sure he took us on a tour to all the “famous” places; the boat house, the ship house, eagle square, Aso rock, national park and zoo, Sheraton etc.

The feeling I got from Abuja at the time, even as a child was one of appreciation for the structures, clean roads, functioning street lights etc.

The city was evenly populated at a time, but over the years, people have migrated in high numbers and Abuja is gradually becoming over populated.

Abuja today, is a sad shadow of what it used to be. The once adorable city is gradually degenerating and social infrastructure is suffering depreciation, majority of the street and traffic lights don’t work anymore, if we are lucky we get traffic wardens at some junctions commanding traffic on busy weekdays whilst most weekends we get nothing: and road accidents in the city is constantly on the rise especially during weekends. It is almost certain that if one drives through town in the early mornings of a Saturday or Sunday, it is almost certain to see car crashes at severally junctions. Tiny potholes that were abandoned have now eroded into large holes scattered round major and minor roads in the city and like all things Nigerian, lack of management and carelessness has taken its toll on the city.

In 2003, Abuja got one of its finest ministers Mallam Nasir El-rufai, who did his best- amidst opposition and challenges – to clean up the city and put the right things in place. He banned the use of unsafe commuting with bikes popularly known as “okada” in the city and in turn got brand new city buses for each area in the city. These buses were properly managed at the time, they were affordable for the masses, neat, properly labelled at stopped at the appropriate bus stops that were placed around the city.

I remember having summer lessons and using the buses back from school every day and stopping at the bus stop just in front of my street. It was a pleasant experience for me, the buses were neat, everyone had a space and it wouldn’t admit more than the number required so there was no “lapping” unlike the Nigerian commercial buses in different states. Where I lived, there were buses every hour heading to different places and the reliability of the system and the safety of Abuja at the time was as good as awesome. All my classmates took these El-rufai buses as they were called at the time and whenever I remember the glory days of Abuja, that brief moment, were the city felt safe and functioning, that was the glory days.

One might ask, what then happened to the buses? Well, after El-rufai’s ministerial regime, the buses were thoroughly mismanaged and eventually sold to members of the public. Today, they operate the semi dead vans with little or no quality control check because most of them are very tattered, its once clean red colour now dusty brown and rusty metals hanging from the doors that have now refused to close.

It’s easy when you look at these things, to fall into the well-known Nigerian consolation narrative and say “well, nothing lasts in Nigeria”, but sometimes it gets tiring. You want to ask why? Why can’t we have a city that starts well and is run well continuously? Why can’t we have streetlights and traffic lights that ALWAYS work? Why can’t we have safe clean buses and bus stops around the city? Why must all things Nigerian die prematurely? Why?

Silentmind:
MD/CEO SOMRE FOODS CHISOMAGA EZINNE

Customer80:
i acknowledge u as a veteran here but i pounced on you then, now i have retired

Develpeast:
CHARLES EMEMBOLU CEO CRESTAGE

Background
Founded in 2010, the company has used well-developed service delivery processes to design, build, maintain and improve technology infrastructure for our clients.
We stand behind our Core Values, which are:
Professionalism
Innovation
Excellence
Reliability

We commenced business in Nigeria as part of our long-term strategy to bring our experience and expertise to the African continent. In that time we have consulted for notable clients like Aker Solutions, Diamond Bank, Candix Engineering, SDEM Erectors, Royal Niger Emerging Technology to mention a few.

Our strategic partnerships with global organisations such as Pentagon Protection, IBM, HP, Huawei, Sinnergy, Technology Distribution, Avaya, Microsoft to mention a few, leverage us to provide an array of cutting edge solutions to our clients in a cost effective way.

Design
With the right infrastructure in place, Crestsage consultants can support you to assess your business needs, specify requirements, select the right solution leveraging our partnerships and experience, plan and deliver to your expectations.
We provide enterprise and bespoke solutions using industry expertise and experience.

Build
Our project management expertise has enabled us to consistently deliver and implement several projects, both medium and large scale, on time and within budget. We insist on quality of innovative systems we deliver and have a flexible work approach that is built around our client’s needs. Simply put, we are relentless in our efforts to make sure that our clients always get what they need and more, so as to give them a niche over their competitors.

Maintain
Our designs are backed by a first class maintenance process and culture. Though optional, the empirical evidence from our clients is that they take advantage of our innovative managed services, experience a better user experience and their systems are more likely to last the scheduled solution lifecycle. A best of breed-integrated set of technologies enable us to provide excellent: 24/7 proactively monitored and maintained managed service uality innovative backup and disaster recovery systems and processes Effective network assessment services.

Enterprise Solutions (Design, Supply and Maintenance)
Enterprise Resource Planning Management Systems
Web and Mobile Payment Management Systems
Enterprise Content (ECM) and Business Process Management (BPM) solutions
Desktop and Server Operating.
IT & Security Systems (Design, Supply, Installation and Maintenance)
Servers, Workstations and End-User devices and hardware
Data Center Solutions (Video Surveillance, Environmental Monitoring Systems, Uninterruptible Power Systems, Inverters and Managed Power Services)
Intelligent Identity Management Systems (Using Biometrics)
Ballistic Protection Solutions.

Consultancy and Training Services
Project, Portfolio, Program and Change Management (P3CM)
Governance, Project Management, Technology and Quality Management trainings
E-learning and Simulation systems.

Develpeast:
MD SIGNAL ALLIANCE COLLINS ONUEGBU

Achieving competitive advantage using business analytics
Today’s high-tech, increasingly inter-connected world provides organizations access to large amounts of data on clients, customers, competitors, and partners.
What distinguishes stellar businesses from their counterparts is the ability to analyze and leverage this data into strategic, actionable plans critical to a firm’s viability in a highly dynamic and ever-changing marketplace.Click here to watch the Signal Alliance webinar on “Achieving competitive advantage using business analytics”

Overview
Founded in 1996, Signal Alliance is a top class IT service provider and an end-to-end system integrator. It is a leading Microsoft enterprise gold partner in Nigeria and has won the Microsoft Country Partner of the Year Nigeria. Signal Alliance has grown to be a vibrant, forward moving ICT company with offices in Lagos and Abuja. IT prides herself on her ability to gain a thorough understanding of clients’ businesses by using appropriate technology as a bridge between where the client is and where they want to be. As a technology company, we have also diversified within the IT Industry by acquiring several companies that are in line with our vision.. Our sister company, Sasware, is technology investment and incubation company that accelerates tech startups and businesses. It plays a vital role in accomplishing the vision that we have at Signal Alliance at a bigger scale; which is to integrate IT systems and to make lives better. From B2B enterprise companies to health technology startups, we are expanding our portfolio across all sectors and industries.

ABOUT SIGNAL ALLIANCE
Signal Alliance is a diversified technology company with 20 years’ experience in the Nigerian technology and business landscape, starting out first as an IT networking company in 1996, before quickly evolving into IT systems integrator.
Today Signal Alliance has transformed beyond systems integration to a diversified technology company, expanding its internal business and also investing in promising Technology companies using Sasware, its technology investment subsidiary. Our subsidiaries and affiliate companies have seen our footprint expand to health tech, (Medismart), Renewable energy (Nemoante), Enterprise IT (Codeware) and Fintech (CompexAfrica).
Our future trajectory is to grow technology and technology enabled businesses, taking advantage of opportunities in the diversifying Nigerian economy to build an indigenous business that serves the needs of the country and beyond. We want you to be part of this journey, at the same time grateful for your role in our past and present.

ENTERPRISE INFRASTRUCTURE
Business in High Performance. This is what we transform our customers’ businesses to. With a selection of vital technologies that cover the technology driven business, the Enterprise Infrastructure unit is positioned to deliver best-in-class solutions that serve and align with the middle- and long-term business strategies of our customers, keeping them ahead of competition.
Our customers cut across all sectors and are dogged with challenges to their business – both varied and peculiar to them. Combining consultative approach of our highly experienced consultants together with an OEM-agnostic perspective to proffering solutions, we meet (and many times, exceed) our customers’ expectations – all the time.
CHALLENGES OF THE ENTERPRISE BUSINESS:
Increasing infrastructure value to serve new business demands.
Budget constraints with increasing CAPEX and OPEX.
Increasing complexities of Information Technology
Enabling collaboration – with the network, environment and tools all considered.
Increasing energy demands and space limitations
Dearth of systems experts.
Improperly streamlined business processes.

With enterprise architecture differing according to the nature of customers’ individual businesses, we are able to deliver the appropriate technology solutions for any aspect of their enterprise infrastructure (there is no ideal architecture for all situations). With the combination of solutions delivered for different customers, we repeatedly deliver the full benefits of technology, a few of which are listed below.
BENEFITS OF ENTERPRISE INFRASTRUCTURE SOLUTIONS:
Increased sales and revenue, while reducing operating costs.
Simplified enterprise infrastructures that are easy to manage.
Lower infrastructure costs.
Faster infrastructures, applications and services provisioning.
Better, secure, scalable and extensible infrastructures.
Greater control, visibility and impact of IT to the business.
Business Continuity, through highly reduced downtimes.
Enhanced (internal and external) customer and user experience.
Greater innovation and higher productivity for staff and business.
Intangible benefits – Objectivity in measuring the business, aided with IT.

Having strategic alliances with leading technology vendors who specialize in various aspects of the enterprise infrastructure, Signal Alliance remains a leader and pioneer for new technologies that keep our customers well ahead of their contemporaries. Hence our very high customer loyalty. Naturally.

Develpeast:
MD/CEO NIGERIA COMMUNICATIONS WEEKS KEN NWOGBO


Ken Nwogbo (born 18 March 1971) is a Nigerian business journalist, ICT Journalist, editor of The Guardian and founder of Communication Week Media Limited, the publisher of Nigeria CommunicationsWeek, a Nigeria information and communications technology newspaper.[1]

Nwogbo is the organizer of the Beacon of ICT Awards.[2]

Contents [hide]
1 Early life and education
2 Career
3 Awards and honours
4 References
Early life and education[edit]
Ken was born on 18 March 1971 in Awka, the capital of Anambra State, eastern Nigeria. He attended Ezi-Awka Primary School in 1977 and later Igwebuike Grammar School where he obtained the West Africa School Certificate in 1989. He proceeded to the Federal Polytechnic, Oko where he received a Higher National Diploma in Mass Communications. He later obtained a postgraduate diploma in public administration from the University of Calabar and Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Lagos State University. He has participated in over 200 local and international seminars and media conferences.[3]

Career[edit]
Nwogbo started his career in journalism at Akwa Ibom State when he was undergoing the compulsory one year National Youth Service. He joined the services of Champion newspaper as a capital market reporter in August 1997, shortly after he completed the youth service program. He left Champion newspaper in 2005 as a deputy news editor. He joined Businessworld as associate editor in 2006, the same year he established Nigeria CommunicationsWeek. Since he began his career, he has written over 2,000 stories and articles in national dailies.[4]

Awards and honours[edit]
Nwogbo has received numerous awards including the Science and Development Network award for Science Communication Writing in Uganda. He also received the Securities and Exchange Commission award of excellence in financial journalism. He also bagged the Information Technology Association of Nigeria's award in recognition of his immense contributions to the development of ICT in Nigeria.
Ken Nwogbo, first class business journalist and one of the doyens of ICT journalism in Nigeria has been appointed contributing editor of Techtrendsng, one of Nigeria’s leading Tech blog which provides quality information in ICT related issues.

Nwogbo also founder and editor-in-chief of Nigeria Communications will join Techtrendsng team in providing unique perspectives to ICT news.

Kenneth Omeruo, editor-in-chief of Techtrendsng said “we are delighted to have Mr. Ken Nwogbo on board and together with our team, we will continue to our mission of “e-mpowering Nigerians while bridging the digital divide”

Nwogbo who is also contributing editor to Guardian Newspapers commented “the vision of Techntrendng aligns perfectly with my mission of ICT evangelism”

Born on March 18, 1971 in Awka, Anambra state, Nigeria to Rose and George, Nwogbo is a trained and practicing Journalist since 1995.

He started his Primary education at Ezi-Awka Primary school in 1977 and proceeded to Igwebuike grammar school in 1983 and finished in 1989.

in 1995, he graduated from Federal Polytechnic, Oko where he bagged HND in Mass Communications.

He proceeded to University of Calabar where he bagged PGD in Public Administration.

He also earned MBA in Marketing from Lagos State University.

Nwogbo has attended over 230 seminars and workshops within and outside the country.

Nwogbo began journalism as Youth Corper with Akwa Ibom Broadcasting Cooperation (AKBC), Uyo.

After his Youth Service he joined Champion Newspapers in August of 1997 and started out as Capital Market reporter.

He was later posted to IT and Telecom Desk in 2000.

In Champion Newspapers, he also held various positions and left in 2005 as Deputy News Editor.

He joined Business World as Associate Editor in 2006 and left to found Nigeria CommunicationsWeek

Nigeria CommunicationsWeek is published weekly. It has a popular website www.nigeriacommunicationsweek.com.ng; it also has a daily newspaper reaching nearly 100,000 email recipients daily and it published as a pull-out every Friday in Guardian Newspapers.

He is much sought after resource person in ICT media both within and outside the country.

In all, he has written over 2,000 stories and articles in his career, some of which have won awards.

He is a proud winner of many international awards including Scidev.Net overall prize for Science Communication Writing in Entebbe, Uganda and a recipient of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) letter of award for financial journalism.
He has also received awards from ITAN for his outstanding contribution to the development of ICT in Nigeria.
The Titan of ICT also awarded him the best journalist of the year

Develpeast:
MR UZO NDUKA MD/CEO DOMINO INFORMATION COMPANY LIMITED

BIOGRAPHY
Uzo Nduka has multicultural management experience spanning more than 16 years in the private and public sectors. He also has leadership experience in international development as well as conflict management. Key positions held have included Assistant General Manager for Consultancy at Prodec – Fugro Nigeria Limited, Program Co-ordinator for German Technical Corporation (GTZ), Director of Consultancy at Southsea Datcom Limited, Head of Strategy and Planning for Corporate/Community Affairs Directorate for Shell Petroleum Development Company Nigeria Limited, and over the past four and half years, CEO at Domino Information Company Limited (DICL). His international consulting experience includes projects with BG Group UK, Shell International (UK and The Netherlands), and Control Risks Group (UK and Dubai) among others.

TBY talks to Uzo Nduka, CEO of Domino Information Company Limited (DICL), on supporting SMEs, the role of innovation in public sector enterprises, and how ICT contributes to the wider economy.
Uzo Nduka
BIOGRAPHY
Uzo Nduka has multicultural management experience spanning more than 16 years in the private and public sectors. He also has leadership experience in international development as well as conflict management. Key positions held have included Assistant General Manager for Consultancy at Prodec – Fugro Nigeria Limited, Program Co-ordinator for German Technical Corporation (GTZ), Director of Consultancy at Southsea Datcom Limited, Head of Strategy and Planning for Corporate/Community Affairs Directorate for Shell Petroleum Development Company Nigeria Limited, and over the past four and half years, CEO at Domino Information Company Limited (DICL). His international consulting experience includes projects with BG Group UK, Shell International (UK and The Netherlands), and Control Risks Group (UK and Dubai) among others.
How do your services help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) run their businesses?
The way IT has come to Nigeria and spread nationwide, especially for managers, has led us to significant automation of business processes. It is only the larger companies and multinational corporations that have all the basic, simple processes that bring efficiency, transparency, and cost-effectiveness to an organisation. Once you go beneath the largest bandwidth, by my estimation somewhere between 70% and 95% of all business processes, are still done manually. We view this as a huge gap in the market, and therefore decided to create less expensive versions of process automation solutions for the SME market. More importantly, rather than shoehorning existing solutions into these SMEs, our solutions had to be based on the realities of doing business in Nigeria. And that reality is that most Nigerian SMEs are competing domestically, which became our focus. By way of an example, if we consider any of the well-known international accounting or payroll solutions we hardly find one denominated in Nigerian currency, the naira. Very few of them allow the flexibility for Nigerian SMEs to exchange between the naira and other currencies with accuracy and convenience. Therefore, in building an accounting package for the local SME market our number one selling point is that it is denominated in naira. Our strategy is to seek out niche markets based on specific needs. This is where we find our greatest advantage, and where we add the most value.
Is there any other segment of the market or specific area of the economy that you foresee bringing your services to?
I would like to enter the risky and less crowded areas. We are not going to try the traditional areas where everybody has already launched themselves. I believe that Nigeria is going to change dramatically within the next two-five years, and that the change will be driven by technology.
As technology plays an increasingly important role in Nigeria's new economy, how receptive do you think Nigerians are toward innovation?
If we look at history, Nigerians are one of the largest subscribers to Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter. At some point, Nigeria was the largest market for BlackBerry devices—that was a worldwide statistic. I will say that the Nigerian market is highly receptive.
How receptive is the public sector in the same regard?
I think the case is the opposite. In the public sector, the fact is that the business cycle and culture do not encourage anybody to take bold decisions. The problem is institutionalized, actually, to help prevent corruption and fraud, but I also think the price we are paying for it as a nation is too heavy. The Nigerian public sector is slow to make decisions, except when that decision has the particular logic of emergency. The fact that in some spheres of the public service we keep appointing, re-appointing, removing, and re-installing the key leaders and decision-makers, also does not help because most new leaders want to pursue a different agenda. All these factors work against productivity. The other factor that works against us in making decisions and being receptive to new technologies is our national budget. Sometimes up until April or May of the New Year, the national budget has not even been signed or approved. The ministries and administrators are told they can spend only a certain small percentage of the total budget–but not more, causing overall anxiety. Put all of these things together and you see the problem; while we have good people keen to seize the moment, more importantly, the system, the boundary conditions within which they must act on behalf of the general public, do not allow them to do much.
As of June 2014, the ICT sector in Nigeria contributes 8% to GDP. Can the percentage rise in the future?
I think it will grow rapidly. I expect competition in ICT to be enhanced in some dramatic way. I also believe the private sector will play a key role here. My other thought is that the security sector will play a central role in this. The Nigerian security forces, the state security service, the immigration service, the customs service—all of these agencies are going to adopt different technological solutions shortly. Once our people embrace technology and, it will dramatically enhance the contribution of ICT to our economy and well-being. The rest of the Nigerian public service will also make an important contribution. Not necessarily in hardware terms, but from in terms of software, in areas such as process automation, for example. There is a strong element of ethics and transparency in most of our software solutions. We are not providing these as services; they are nonetheless delivered to our clients by default. The truth is that you cannot deliver good ERP solutions without infusing ethics and transparency into the system.

Develpeast:
NOELLA EKEZIE, FOUNDER AND CREATIVE DIRECTOR ELLAE

Noella Ekezie (Mrs.) is the founder and the director of Ellae Creative Brand Agency. She is an innovative thinker whose passion and joy is all things design. Trained at the Parsons School of Design in New York, she is reputable for translating business requirement into creative and high impact solutions. She is a woman rapped with passion and zeal to train and transfer the undiluted experience she has in the field of graphic and web designing to other people around her.

BRAND SERVICES

Naming and Verbal Identity

Brand Identity Design

Brand Strategy and Positioning

Brand Guidelines

Brand Audit

Brand Value

Environmental Branding

CREATIVE DESIGN
COMPELLING, PERSUASIVE AND ENGAGING IDEAS.

CREATIVE DESIGN

UI/UX Design

Product Packaging and POS Design

Graphic Design

Interactive and Media Design

Editorial Design

Print Design

Business/Marketing Collateral

DIGITAL MARKETING SERVICES
CREATING IMPACT IN THE DIGITAL SPACE

DIGITAL MARKETING SERVICES

Social Media Management/Engagement

PPC Campaigns

Online Marketing

SEO

Mobile/App Marketing

PPC campaigns

INTEGRATED COMMUNICATIONS
STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION THAT ACHIEVES RESULTS

COMMUNICATION TOOLS

PR Campaigns

Advertising

PR/ Communications program audit

Publicity/ press materials

Media relations

Strategic media planning

Target audience research

Media analysis

Media buying and negotiation

SME CONSULTANCY
STRATEGIC PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT

SME MARKETING TOOL KIT

Sales Forecast / Cashflow Forecast

Market Research

Pricing Strategy

Advertising Calendar (on a Shoe String)

Website & collateral design

Develpeast:
SIMEON ONONOBI FOUNDER OF MY ADS GLOBAL

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Develpeast:
MD/CEO OF INFOGRAPHICS CHINENYE MBA-UZUOKWU

Our Mission
To overtake the challenge facing market leaders in leveraging technology to define and adroitly manage the integration of interfaces through which they interact with their market.

The Journey so far…
Digital technology is challenging tradition, overthrowing old hierarchies and driving today’s economy. It is creating new business models and more efficient ways to transact business and new channels to do so. InfoGraphics is at the helm of this revolution with a rich and varied suite of products and services that help businesses and organisations make technology work harder for them.

The Intelligent Enterprise
The new dimension of competition has become “how” the enterprise intelligently engages, responds and pivots to the needs of its stakeholders. Our model of an intelligent enterprise derives its competitive edge from its use of technology to gain insight from data, plan, forecast and make timely and informed decisions that unlocks new levels of balanced productivity and efficiency across the enterprise. Its time to harness your organization’s resources and improve business performance with Business Intelligence, Optimised MS Office, Knowledge Management, Enterprise Project Management, Contract Lifecycle Management, Business Process Management, E-Signature & Verification,Cloud Productivity/SaaS.
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Weinberg:
Dr. Emeka Akaezuwa is Founder and CEO of Gaviri
Technologies.












He has over 20 years of management and
technical experience in building mission-critical, customer-
facing information retrieval systems.
Prior to founding Gaviri Technologies, Dr. Akaezuwa worked
as Director of Digital libraries at Elsevier where he was
involved in developing the world's largest science, technology
and medical online information retrieval system. While at
Elsevier, he also was Director of the IT Consulting group that
developed information sydemic and government clients. Before joining Elsevier, Dr.
Akaezuwa was Advanced Technology Manager for all of Dow
Jones and Company’s information retrieval systems. In
1995, Dr. Akaezuwa became an Associate Professor of
Management Information Systems at Rider University,
Lawrenceville, NJ, where he taught senior level courses in
Management Information Systems at the School of Business.
Dr. Akaezuwa graduated with a Ph.D in Information Systems
and Structures from Rutgers University, New Jersey. He has
received numerous awards for his work in information retrieval
and has two patent-pending applications on portable search
technology and on search-based file management,
synchronization and encryption protocols.
Dr. Akaezuwa is a founding Trustee of the Global Literacy
Project - www.glpinc.org, a non-profit group dedicated to
bringing literacy to underprivileged regions of the world.

Weinberg:
CHIKA NWOBI: MEET THE GOD OF NIGERIA’S MOBILE AND
INTERNET SPACE .






Nigeria’s mobile tech pioneer who founded MTECH, West
Africa’s largest mobile content company, is producing the
country’s next generation of elite entrepreneurs and internet
companies – and he’s already got $5m for the job
In 1999, as the United States of America tried to find its way
through the infamous dot come bubble, Chika Nwobi was an
employee with phoneonline.com, a Knoxville-based mobile
internet startup. The East Tennessee State University
Computer Science and Economics Hons grad had always
wanted to be an entrepreneur.




Sensing an opportunity around the corner, he spent a year
gathering experience on mobile web technology, at the time a
disruptive phenomenon at the time enjoying gradual uptake in
the USA.
Chika recalls, reclining on his black leather office seat: “It was
a great time.”
The homecoming
With no veteran experts to consult on this amazingly novel
technology, Fortune 500 company execs turned to 21-year-old
Chika and the likes who had the head start. “The Vice
President of AT&T would call me!” Nwobi exclaims with a
smile.



Meanwhile, his home country Nigeria was witnessing a shift
to democratic governance after 13 years of military rule, and
with the shift renewed hopes of political stability and
economic wealth for the famed giant of Africa.
On one of the endless foreign tours of then-president Olusegun
Obasanjo’s several foreign tour, Nwobi got wind of the news
that telecoms companies would be rolling out soon. He
decided to return home, encouraged by dreams of making a
million bucks within six months of providing mobile internet
service to a hungry market.
It hadn’t yet become fashionable to return home to Nigeria.
But family friend Ndidi Nwuneli inspired him. The Harvard
Alum, who later blazed a trail in non-profits in made the
strange decision to return to Nigeria, motivating Nwobi to also
go against the grain and make, early a move many of
Nigeria’s now leading tech entrepreneurs eventually had to
imitate.
With $300,000 in seed capital from Lateef Belo-Osagie, media
entrepreneur Chris Ubosi and others, Chika sourced 10 fresh
Obafemi Awolowo University grads and founded MTech
Communications.
However – and this is contrary to popular belief – MTech
wasn’t an instant success. It would take nearly 3 years before
the company made any substantial earnings.
Sure the group of self-taught 20-year old mobile engineers set
up the first access and content servers, wap gateway, and the
whole gamut of mobile internet infrastructure supporting first
mover MTN without any external input. Unfortunately,
inadequate network capacity and expensive data costs
discouraged subscription. By the end of the first year, the
young founder had run out of cash.
By the second year, the startup had become to miss salaries
Fortunately, however, the investors were amazed by what the
committed lot had achieved and decided to cushion with a
little more funds.
“The product, commercially, was a huge failure,” Nwobi
recalls. “But from a credibility standpoint was successful. Our
financial backers and the MTN guys believed we could do
anything.”
The credibility worked wonders. Soon, Nwobi and his team
began to get several opportunities from MTN to develop other
products – polyphonic ringtones, caller tunes, and a plethora
of value added mobile services. MTECH became a massive
success!
In 2007, the company generated N600m in revenues with a
net profit of N116m. MTECH soon expanded services to all
Nigerian networks, began providing audience interactivity
solutions for hit TV and radio shows and infiltrated new
African markets.
The premier mobile content company now leads markets in
Ghana, Kenya, Uganda and Cote D’Ivoire and waxes a $28
million market capitalisation on the Nigerian bourse alone.
Owning, by the age of 30, a majority individual shareholding
in a multimillion-dollar company, Chika Nwobi was living the
‘Silicon valley dream’ many local tech entrepreneurs still only
fantasise about.
“Chika is the god of this whole thing (Nigerian mobile and
internet business),” iROKO founder Jason Njoku once said.
True Blood
Born to entrepreneurial parents 36 years ago, Chika grew up in
Nigeria. He attended the prestigious Corona Primary School,
Model College Badore and Atlantic Hall. His father founded
one of the earliest Nigerian courier companies – Choice
Courier (now Tranex Plc). His mother also went into business
after a successful career as a civil servant.
Light-skinned and chubby, Nwobi fittingly stretches 6 feet
high and exudes a charming warmth. What strikes you though
is the evenness of his persona – no skewing left or right,
excited or dampened. The word is – steady.
His tenor voice has neither the telling accent of his Igbo
nationality or the acquired tongue of years in school or work
in America. In spite of more than ten years as a chief
executive controlling major sums, his dress code is still
casual. Chika’s signature is a pair of black-rimmed glasses,
short sleeves or polos.
Not surprisingly, even this is neither law nor dogma. At
MTECH’s listing on the Nigerian bourse in 1999, Chika joined
his high-powered board of directors dressed in a fitted grey 2-
piece suit.
The Developer
Bespectacled and covered in a purple Ralph Lauren polo,
carton-brown chinos, pink happy socks and a pair of laceless
black shoes, Nwobi seats behind a clustered black executive
desk at his Lekki-based Level5 Lab – a startup accelerator
company he founded in 1999 after dropping active roles at
MTECH. He wanted to focus on his passion for building
talents and products.
“My role as Group CEO was distracting me from my passion
and at that age (28) I needed to do what I enjoyed,” he
shares.
But he left a solid legacy from those years as CEO. Many of
his pioneer hands are leaders across tech verticals and
companies. The leaders of Nigeria’s top three mobile content
companies, Twinepine and Terragon Group CEO Elo Umeh,
MCOMM founder Mr Chidi Aneto-Okeke and Interswitch Group
Marketing Lead Enyioma Anaba are a few of the 10 success-
hungry geeks that Chika hired as MTECH’s pioneering
workforce. According to Chika, “one of them also now runs
network infrastructure for AT&T in America.”
Under L5Lab, which also is a member of the $100m One
Africa Media Group, he founded Kamdora.com, a defunct
online fashion retailer he now considers unsuccessful. Along
came , which he co-founded with OAM boss
Carey Eaton, and has helped grow into Nigeria’s largest online
auto marketplace with over 40,000 listings.
The most notable success, however, has been his support and
reported N10 million cash-for-equity investment in a cash-
strapped employability portal called .
That Jobberman interest exponentially appreciated following
an unexpected million dollar funding from Tiger Global in the
startup. Under Nwobi’s institutional guidance, the L5Lab
portfolio companies, seeded with “tens of thousands of
dollars”, have developed into market leaders along their
different verticals and according to the serial founder, are
currently worth a combined $5 million in OAM shares.
In February of this year he took a step further. Venture
capitalists L5Lab and Kenya-based 88mph launched 440NG –
a Lagos-based $1.5 million early stage funding and
accelerator program modeled after Y-combinator. The joint
venture will be providing a potpourri of support and seed
funds of $20,000 to $110,000 to 10 selected startups, which
will be working out of its posh Moore House penthouse
overlooking the highbrow Ikoyi area.
The steady Nwobi can barely contain his excitement about
this one: “440 is going to be a world class startup
environment and the best Nigeria has ever seen!”
It’s planned to be a scalable and systematic approach to
churning out both great talent and African products which will
benefit from a web of internationally experienced mentors,
pool of powerful investors, partners such as Google for
Entrepreneurs, and a network of important clients.
“Having seen the talent, hustler mentality, and sheer market
size of Nigeria, I think we will see some amazing companies
come out of this program,” 88mph founder Kresten Buch,
adds.
Foreign money and local player s
Nigeria’s tech startup ecosystem received a major boost in
2011/12 when US-based fund Tiger Global made multimillion-
dollar investments in three of the country’s leading startups.
Nollywood digital distributor iROKO TV clinched a widely
celebrated $8 million commitment, travel online agent
Wakanow received an undisclosed multimillion dollar funding
while Jobberman got a million dollars. Nigeria had officially
arrived.
“Tiger and Kinnevik invested here when nobody was willing to
take such risk and the entrepreneurs couldn’t afford to mess it
up for future entrepreneurs,” Nwobi reflects. “This was a great
opportunity for the Nigerian story.”
He thinks it has been a huge success so far. “Our first set of
entrepreneurs are doing a great job, executing well and
securing additional funds,” he says. “None of the publicised
invested companies has shutdown years after. Even some
investors have already made money. I have made really good
return divesting a third of (my) equity in Jobberman and this
development is much needed for progress. I believe that more
investors are now looking at the Nigerian space and there
should be an exponential jump in startup activity.”
Since Tiger Global’s early investments, the American tech
fund has made additional commitments in Nigeria while
Kinnevik, Naspers, Rocket Internet, Microsoft, Intel Capital;
Millicom et al have also joined the party. According to
CrunchBase, last year was by far the most active period for
Nigerian technology investment.
No walk in the park
Husband and father to a set of male twins, Chika Nwobi, as
successful as he is, is not without his own regrets. Standing
in the back end of his white-walled workspace and staring
dramatically into the space in front of him, he confesses,
having achieved more success than anyone around him at the
time, to have sunk into complacency, too early, while running
MTECH.
“If I had stayed hungry I could have made MTECH much
bigger. But I was young, bored and had that kind of serious
cash flow,” he laments.
Then he recalls with a grin how he turned down MTN’s near $
1m acquisition offer for his mobile web product. Fresh from
America, he had imagined his magical mobile Internet service
would make a million dollars within six months!
“For almost 3 years, I and my stomach regretted not selling to
MTN,” he bursts out laughing.
Still, his regrets are clearly only a matter of form and scale,
certainly not of substance. To all intent and purpose, he is a
man who has done well for himself. For this, he credits the
phenomenal power of ‘disruption.’
‘It gives opportunities for nobodies to be somebodies,” he
says. “Graduates who would never have had a chance in Shell
Petroleum for the next 20 years now own massive things.
Jobberman and Cheki founders were nobody four years ago.”
And what does the god of big things see in the future? “We’re
still in the middle of that disruption,” he declares, with
certainty.
There are many young and coming entrepreneurs across the
country who will say yes and amen.

ODVanguard:
@laudate: Has anything been done on the Chairman/owner of JustRight Superstore, Mr. Ayo Aderinwale?

laudate:
No,I don't think so. let me check & get back to you, pls.

saintfieldcastro:
So pathetic! Whatever we post here is reposted in Afonja thread for discussion...

This people have exhausted whatever they think is their pride and now waiting for us to post so they can copy and paste on their thread just to increase the page number..


This is inferiority complex..



Afonja is a cursed race!

Weinberg:
CHIKA NWOBI: MEET THE GOD OF NIGERIA’S MOBILE AND
INTERNET SPACE .






Nigeria’s mobile tech pioneer who founded MTECH, West
Africa’s largest mobile content company, is producing the
country’s next generation of elite entrepreneurs and internet
companies – and he’s already got $5m for the job
In 1999, as the United States of America tried to find its way
through the infamous dot come bubble, Chika Nwobi was an
employee with phoneonline.com, a Knoxville-based mobile
internet startup. The East Tennessee State University
Computer Science and Economics Hons grad had always
wanted to be an entrepreneur.




Sensing an opportunity around the corner, he spent a year
gathering experience on mobile web technology, at the time a
disruptive phenomenon at the time enjoying gradual uptake in
the USA.
Chika recalls, reclining on his black leather office seat: “It was
a great time.”
The homecoming
With no veteran experts to consult on this amazingly novel
technology, Fortune 500 company execs turned to 21-year-old
Chika and the likes who had the head start. “The Vice
President of AT&T would call me!” Nwobi exclaims with a
smile.



Meanwhile, his home country Nigeria was witnessing a shift
to democratic governance after 13 years of military rule, and
with the shift renewed hopes of political stability and
economic wealth for the famed giant of Africa.
On one of the endless foreign tours of then-president Olusegun
Obasanjo’s several foreign tour, Nwobi got wind of the news
that telecoms companies would be rolling out soon. He
decided to return home, encouraged by dreams of making a
million bucks within six months of providing mobile internet
service to a hungry market.
It hadn’t yet become fashionable to return home to Nigeria.
But family friend Ndidi Nwuneli inspired him. The Harvard
Alum, who later blazed a trail in non-profits in made the
strange decision to return to Nigeria, motivating Nwobi to also
go against the grain and make, early a move many of
Nigeria’s now leading tech entrepreneurs eventually had to
imitate.
With $300,000 in seed capital from Lateef Belo-Osagie, media
entrepreneur Chris Ubosi and others, Chika sourced 10 fresh
Obafemi Awolowo University grads and founded MTech
Communications.
However – and this is contrary to popular belief – MTech
wasn’t an instant success. It would take nearly 3 years before
the company made any substantial earnings.
Sure the group of self-taught 20-year old mobile engineers set
up the first access and content servers, wap gateway, and the
whole gamut of mobile internet infrastructure supporting first
mover MTN without any external input. Unfortunately,
inadequate network capacity and expensive data costs
discouraged subscription. By the end of the first year, the
young founder had run out of cash.
By the second year, the startup had become to miss salaries
Fortunately, however, the investors were amazed by what the
committed lot had achieved and decided to cushion with a
little more funds.
“The product, commercially, was a huge failure,” Nwobi
recalls. “But from a credibility standpoint was successful. Our
financial backers and the MTN guys believed we could do
anything.”
The credibility worked wonders. Soon, Nwobi and his team
began to get several opportunities from MTN to develop other
products – polyphonic ringtones, caller tunes, and a plethora
of value added mobile services. MTECH became a massive
success!
In 2007, the company generated N600m in revenues with a
net profit of N116m. MTECH soon expanded services to all
Nigerian networks, began providing audience interactivity
solutions for hit TV and radio shows and infiltrated new
African markets.
The premier mobile content company now leads markets in
Ghana, Kenya, Uganda and Cote D’Ivoire and waxes a $28
million market capitalisation on the Nigerian bourse alone.
Owning, by the age of 30, a majority individual shareholding
in a multimillion-dollar company, Chika Nwobi was living the
‘Silicon valley dream’ many local tech entrepreneurs still only
fantasise about.
“Chika is the god of this whole thing (Nigerian mobile and
internet business),” iROKO founder Jason Njoku once said.
True Blood
Born to entrepreneurial parents 36 years ago, Chika grew up in
Nigeria. He attended the prestigious Corona Primary School,
Model College Badore and Atlantic Hall. His father founded
one of the earliest Nigerian courier companies – Choice
Courier (now Tranex Plc). His mother also went into business
after a successful career as a civil servant.
Light-skinned and chubby, Nwobi fittingly stretches 6 feet
high and exudes a charming warmth. What strikes you though
is the evenness of his persona – no skewing left or right,
excited or dampened. The word is – steady.
His tenor voice has neither the telling accent of his Igbo
nationality or the acquired tongue of years in school or work
in America. In spite of more than ten years as a chief
executive controlling major sums, his dress code is still
casual. Chika’s signature is a pair of black-rimmed glasses,
short sleeves or polos.
Not surprisingly, even this is neither law nor dogma. At
MTECH’s listing on the Nigerian bourse in 1999, Chika joined
his high-powered board of directors dressed in a fitted grey 2-
piece suit.
The Developer
Bespectacled and covered in a purple Ralph Lauren polo,
carton-brown chinos, pink happy socks and a pair of laceless
black shoes, Nwobi seats behind a clustered black executive
desk at his Lekki-based Level5 Lab – a startup accelerator
company he founded in 1999 after dropping active roles at
MTECH. He wanted to focus on his passion for building
talents and products.
“My role as Group CEO was distracting me from my passion
and at that age (28) I needed to do what I enjoyed,” he
shares.
But he left a solid legacy from those years as CEO. Many of
his pioneer hands are leaders across tech verticals and
companies. The leaders of Nigeria’s top three mobile content
companies, Twinepine and Terragon Group CEO Elo Umeh,
MCOMM founder Mr Chidi Aneto-Okeke and Interswitch Group
Marketing Lead Enyioma Anaba are a few of the 10 success-
hungry geeks that Chika hired as MTECH’s pioneering
workforce. According to Chika, “one of them also now runs
network infrastructure for AT&T in America.”
Under L5Lab, which also is a member of the $100m One
Africa Media Group, he founded Kamdora.com, a defunct
online fashion retailer he now considers unsuccessful. Along
came , which he co-founded with OAM boss
Carey Eaton, and has helped grow into Nigeria’s largest online
auto marketplace with over 40,000 listings.
The most notable success, however, has been his support and
reported N10 million cash-for-equity investment in a cash-
strapped employability portal called .
That Jobberman interest exponentially appreciated following
an unexpected million dollar funding from Tiger Global in the
startup. Under Nwobi’s institutional guidance, the L5Lab
portfolio companies, seeded with “tens of thousands of
dollars”, have developed into market leaders along their
different verticals and according to the serial founder, are
currently worth a combined $5 million in OAM shares.
In February of this year he took a step further. Venture
capitalists L5Lab and Kenya-based 88mph launched 440NG –
a Lagos-based $1.5 million early stage funding and
accelerator program modeled after Y-combinator. The joint
venture will be providing a potpourri of support and seed
funds of $20,000 to $110,000 to 10 selected startups, which
will be working out of its posh Moore House penthouse
overlooking the highbrow Ikoyi area.
The steady Nwobi can barely contain his excitement about
this one: “440 is going to be a world class startup
environment and the best Nigeria has ever seen!”
It’s planned to be a scalable and systematic approach to
churning out both great talent and African products which will
benefit from a web of internationally experienced mentors,
pool of powerful investors, partners such as Google for
Entrepreneurs, and a network of important clients.
“Having seen the talent, hustler mentality, and sheer market
size of Nigeria, I think we will see some amazing companies
come out of this program,” 88mph founder Kresten Buch,
adds.
Foreign money and local player s
Nigeria’s tech startup ecosystem received a major boost in
2011/12 when US-based fund Tiger Global made multimillion-
dollar investments in three of the country’s leading startups.
Nollywood digital distributor iROKO TV clinched a widely
celebrated $8 million commitment, travel online agent
Wakanow received an undisclosed multimillion dollar funding
while Jobberman got a million dollars. Nigeria had officially
arrived.
“Tiger and Kinnevik invested here when nobody was willing to
take such risk and the entrepreneurs couldn’t afford to mess it
up for future entrepreneurs,” Nwobi reflects. “This was a great
opportunity for the Nigerian story.”
He thinks it has been a huge success so far. “Our first set of
entrepreneurs are doing a great job, executing well and
securing additional funds,” he says. “None of the publicised
invested companies has shutdown years after. Even some
investors have already made money. I have made really good
return divesting a third of (my) equity in Jobberman and this
development is much needed for progress. I believe that more
investors are now looking at the Nigerian space and there
should be an exponential jump in startup activity.”
Since Tiger Global’s early investments, the American tech
fund has made additional commitments in Nigeria while
Kinnevik, Naspers, Rocket Internet, Microsoft, Intel Capital;
Millicom et al have also joined the party. According to
CrunchBase, last year was by far the most active period for
Nigerian technology investment.
No walk in the park
Husband and father to a set of male twins, Chika Nwobi, as
successful as he is, is not without his own regrets. Standing
in the back end of his white-walled workspace and staring
dramatically into the space in front of him, he confesses,
having achieved more success than anyone around him at the
time, to have sunk into complacency, too early, while running
MTECH.
“If I had stayed hungry I could have made MTECH much
bigger. But I was young, bored and had that kind of serious
cash flow,” he laments.
Then he recalls with a grin how he turned down MTN’s near $
1m acquisition offer for his mobile web product. Fresh from
America, he had imagined his magical mobile Internet service
would make a million dollars within six months!
“For almost 3 years, I and my stomach regretted not selling to
MTN,” he bursts out laughing.
Still, his regrets are clearly only a matter of form and scale,
certainly not of substance. To all intent and purpose, he is a
man who has done well for himself. For this, he credits the
phenomenal power of ‘disruption.’
‘It gives opportunities for nobodies to be somebodies,” he
says. “Graduates who would never have had a chance in Shell
Petroleum for the next 20 years now own massive things.
Jobberman and Cheki founders were nobody four years ago.”
And what does the god of big things see in the future? “We’re
still in the middle of that disruption,” he declares, with
certainty.
There are many young and coming entrepreneurs across the
country who will say yes and amen.

Chika sourced 10 fresh
Obafemi Awolowo University grads and founded MTech
Communications.

StopBanningMyEx:
E pain am!
Of course you know posters like laudate,deomelo,kn23h,Markfemi and co do post highly impeccable profiles that you guys dare not come near.
I, even I, am the only one who has taken it up to thrash your useless, empty, mediocre posts after my predecessors were banned.

ODVanguard:
Thanks boss. There's also the owner/ceo of Mega Chicken, Chief Timothy Olorunimbe Ayenuyo (aka Baba Mega).

laudate:
Hehehehe....!

laudate:
Ah yes, o!! How could I have forgotten about Mega Chicken on Lekki-Epe expressway?! That place is always jam-packed with customers. The owner must be rolling in money. There is another chain of restaurants called BukkaHut which is owned by Laolu Martins. Like I always say - your Yoruba people have locked down the restaurant & hospitality business, and they are raking in millions from it, everyday.

FKO81:
Samuel Achilefu is a Nigerian-born Professor of Radiography and Biomedical engineering. He currently serves as a Professor of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine and a research member at Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center

n 2014, Samuel received the prestigious St. Louis Award for creating and developing a set of high-tech cancer-visualizing goggles with the aim of helping surgeons see cancer cells in real-time while operating on patients.

saintfieldcastro:
Oh my gosh! The other thread is waiting for us to post in order to repost on their thread to increase page number...

Inferiority complex!

StopBanningMyEx:
@bolded
hahahahahaha

Not surprised. All flatiyeasterners are the same. Empty chest beating is in their DNA.

FKO81:
Cyprian Emeka Uzoh: the Nigerian of more than 160 patents holder in the world


He is considered as a genius of the computing because he revolutionized the technology world through its inventions.

Of Nigerian origin, Cyprian Uzoh holds more than 126 patents delivered in the United States and more than 160 worldwide in the semiconductors technology. He also co-wrote more than 35 publications.

And his exploits were worth to him many awards on the international scale.

In 2006, he was appointed “inventor of the year” for the patent on the “Manufacturing process of an electrolytic interconnection structures on a chip of integrated circuit” (USPTO 6.709.562).

USPTO 6.709.562 is one of the most important patents in the science and technology of semiconductors field.

Cyprian Emeka Uzoh is said to be the main pioneer of the modern technologies of copper interconnection of high performance.

He is the one who discovered, developed and applied in team, the various elements and the critical technologies that drove to the successful implementation of the technology of copper interconnection at IBM Corporation and also in all the semiconductor industry.

This technology allowed the introduction of the copper in the manufacturing of chips, what was a revolution.

The discovery of the galvanoplasty technology in this industry is also to be put to the credit of Cyprian Emeka Uzoh.

Let us remind that IBM put this technology into production at the end of the 1990s and represents today the main method of cabling device using electric fields and metal muds to polish metals with low pressures.

Customer80:
you seem to be intimidated by those names, aburo

Bolanle Oyeledun, MD, MPH, MSc, is the country director of the ICAP-Nigeria program and an associate research scientist with Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York.

Before joining ICAP, Bola was a deputy country director at the Johns Hopkins University/CCP Nigeria program. She has extensive prior work experience in HIV/AIDS, reproductive and adolescent health at policy, service delivery, and programming levels in and outside Nigeria. Bola was also a visiting fellow to the University of Washington Population Leadership Program and is currently a member of the program’s external advisory board.

Bola holds a medical degree from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and has masters degrees in Public Health and Health Management from the Universities of Lagos, Nigeria and Heidelberg, Germany. She is an associate fellow of the National Post Graduate Medical College of Physicians and has undergone health management and communications training at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University.