Johnson opens training for 1,000 Girls for ICT, commends Huawei

DigitalSENSE Business News:

The honourable minister of Communication Technology, Mrs. Omobola Johnson has declared open, the training programme on 1,000 girls for ICT in Lagos.

She told DigitalSENSE Business News at Oriental Hotels Lagos, venue of the launch that out of the proposed 1,000 that qualified 200 among the participating girls would be retained as System Administrators by Huawei, the host for the programme.

She also enjoined participants to prove their selection worthy by taking full advantage of the programme, so as to be engaged in the ICT.

This, Johnson equally said would empower the girls to be employers of labour by the end of this programme.

CommTech Minister further commended Huawei for the bold initiative of training these girls on ICT, so as to enable them contribute to the Nigerian economy.

Earlier, official of Huawei West Africa, recalled that they began their regional expansion in 1999 and established its regional headquarters in Lagos, Nigeria, with approximately 1,800 employees, of whom 70 per cent are locally recruited, across 13 countries, including Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Libe

ria, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Togo.

While Huawei customers in the African region include Vodacom (South Africa), Telkom (South Africa), MTN (South Africa), Neotel (South Africa), Cell C (South Africa), Unitel (Angola), Movicel (Angola), MSTelcom (Angola), Angola Telecom (Angola), Safaricom (Kenya), Orange/Telkom Kenya (Kenya), Essar, CCK and Kenyan government.

In addition, Huawei has customers in the sub-region, comprising Starcomms (Benin), Etisalat (Burkina Faso), Camtel (Cameroon), MTN Cameroon (Cameroon), Etisalat (Central African Republic), MTN Côte d’Ivoire (Côte d’Ivoire), Etisalat (Côte d’Ivoire), Airtel (India), MTN Ghana (Ghana), Lonestar Cell (Liberia), MTN Nigeria (Nigeria), Glo Mobile (Nigeria), Starcomms (Nigeria), Multi-Links (Nigeria).

In 2010, Huawei disclosed it successfully deployed the National Broadband Network in Cameroon. 

Whereas DigitalSENSE Business News notes in Lagos, Nigeria that Huawei setted up one of its three global network operations centers (GNOCs), which began operations in 2012; the other GNOCs are located in India and Romania.

The Minister was later taken on a guided tour of Huawei office in Victoria Island as well as mini exhibition.

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Pix of official opening ceremony of 1000 Girls for ICT in Lagos, Monday.