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| Leo Stan Ekeh, Zinox Chairman |
One of the highpoints of Nigeria’s
participation at this year’s ITU World conference in Dubai was the encounter of
Vice President Namadi Sambo with officials of Zinox Computers during the VP’s
tour of the Nigerian pavilion.
He was excited as Uche Onyechere,
an Operations Manager with Zinox, took the VP through the array of products on
display at the Zinox stand.
The Minister of Communications
Technology, Omobola Johnson, had barely finished introducing Zinox as one of
the locally-assembled computers when Sambo, upon learning that some of the
products on display, the Zinox Smart and the Smart Convertible, both of them
entry level notebooks, cost less than N50,000 and were specifically designed
for pupils and students, said the federal government would partner with state
governments to see how the computers could be adopted in schools nationwide.
“We will invite them to make a
presentation at the Council and we will talk to the governors to see how these
computers can be made available to schools in Nigeria”, an overtly excited
Sambo said. The vice president said the federal government is irrevocably
committed to quality education driven by ICT as, according to him, this is one
way Nigeria can make bolder impressions in the global technology map.
Sambo said the federal government’s
commitment to the education of the Nigerian child propelled it to establish
nine federal universities and increase funding to the existing ones. “It is
good to know that there are Nigerian companies who are exhibiting
made-in-Nigeria technologies at this conference. I want to assure them that
very soon, the cost of doing business in Nigeria would be reduced as we are
working hard to improve the already improving power supply situation in the
country”, he said.
Zinox is a multiple award-winning
company which has brought more honour to Nigeria in the area of computer design
and assembly. It came to Dubai brandishing high-end notebooks including its flagship
models of laptops, the Ultrabook range of notebooks, the mid-range laptops
(Zinox Legacy and Zinox Pride) as well as the trail-blazing Zinox Bijimi Pro
which comes bundled with bull-strength batteries.
Onyechere told the vice president
who toured the Nigerian pavilion in company of the governors of Abia and Niger
states that the Zinox range bear global certification in quality and have won
several local and international awards on account of its quality excellence.
“Zinox is the first company
in sub-Sahara Africa to obtain the Microsoft Windows Hardware Quality Lab
Certification (WHQL) in addition to being the largest Microsoft OEM system
builder Partner in West Africa. We are also the first and only Nigerian
computer manufacturer to obtain the NIS ISO Quality Management Systems
Certification ISO-9001:2000 within five years of operation. Zinox earned all
the Intel certifications before its launch which is a mark of confidence on the
Zinox team by the global chip-maker”, Onyechere said.
Aside the plethora of
certifications and awards, Zinox has added value to the Nigerian democratic
space. But for its intervention during the voter registration exercise, the
2007 general elections in Nigeria would have suffered a major blow. It supplied
12,000 laptops in two weeks to remedy the mess created by a foreign firm. It
pulled an even bigger stunt in the run-up to the 2011 general election when it
supplied 80,000 units of Direct Data Capture (DDC) machines to INEC in 35 days
ahead of foreign companies that had even smaller quantities of DDC machines to
supply.
Remmy Nweke
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