HUAWEI AIMS TO EXPAND ENTERPRISE BUSINESS WITH NIGERIA PARTNERS

Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, announced the expansion of her cooperation with her Nigerian partners, to integrate ICT products and solutions, to enable the rapid growth of enterprises business at the E-Nigeria Summit 2014 in Abuja.

 The E-Nigeria Summit is the National Information Technology Development Agency’s (NITDA) annual flagship awareness campaign on the diffusion and deployment of Information Technology in Nigeria. With the theme of "Creating Market Opportunities for Indigenous ICT Products and Services", NITDA collaborated with relevant stakeholders from the private and public sector, as well as non-governmental organizations, to create ICT awareness, develop appropriate framework, and to set goals for best practices, in order to encourage the right positioning of Nigeria in the global information society.

 Huawei's Enterprise Business Group, one of Huawei’s major Business Groups, is growing steadily, allowing Huawei to solidify her position as the leading ICT solutions provider in the industry. The enterprise business also remains a key strategic direction for Huawei’s overall growth plans, with four major product lines namely:  UC&C Product Line (i.e. Telepresence, Video Conferencing, Contact Center), IT Product Line (Servers, Storage, Cloud Computing & Data Center), Networking Product Line (Switches, Routers, WLAN) and Energy Product Line (UPS, Solar ).

 To support these products and solutions, Huawei has set up sales and technical service platforms, to further establish her commitment in the Enterprise market, and also to support enterprise business operations in Nigeria. With a firm dedication to customer-centric innovation, Huawei Enterprise caters to customers from the government and public sector, financial institutions, transportation, energy industries, oil & gas sector, hospitality, education and SMEs.

 Upholding the business strategy, Huawei focuses on strategic and committed cooperation and integration with Enterprise Channel Partners, and the firm implementation of a transparent and stable channel policy. Huawei strives to share benefits with partners, and works hard to build a harmonious ecosystem for win-win partnerships which have yielded significant milestones in winning and co-deployment of so many projects in Nigeria with the channel partners. For example, Huawei and her partners in Nigeria have deployed ICT solutions for six universities (education sector), solutions for six of the top ten Nigerian Banks (Financial Services sector), and solutions for four Oil & Gas Companies, among other industries.

 As part of her Channel strategies, Huawei provides Channel Partners with free pre-sales and post-sales training to their engineers, so as to improve their technical capabilities on Huawei Enterprise solutions and products. Also Huawei offers free certification exams to Channel Partners. This is a major requirement for Tier 2 partnership.

 

Huawei equally encourages and motivates her Channel Partners to attain great heights of success in the enterprise market through promotional incentives like the Deal Registration Reward (DR). The Deal Registration Reward encourages Channel Partners to register proposed projects. When a project is won, the incentives then go to the sales person as a bonus reward.

 “Huawei welcomes the Nigerian partners to integrate our world class ICT products and solutions to serve Nigeria. Huawei has Sales Performance Incentive Fund (SPIF); the SPIF is used to motivate the employees or teams of Channel Partners that have made outstanding contributions to Huawei's sales, to encourage the Client-Facing Tier (CFT) to promote Huawei's products more proactively. Salespersons are granted bonuses or gifts based on their sales bonus points, this bonuses are redeemed from Huawei Distributor - Technology Distributions (TD). Huawei also participates in a Joint Marketing Fund (JMF), for Partners who showcase Huawei Solutions or products at various events.

Huawei is committed to serving as the most innovative and optimal ICT Technology partner for global enterprises, accelerating ICT development and improving operational efficiency in Nigeria. Huawei will work with our Channel Enterprise Partners to jointly embrace the challenges brought about by ICT transformations, build a favourable industry ecosystem, and promote the sound development of the ICT industry and society at large, so as to ensure customer satisfaction.” Mr. Richard Cao, the Vice President of Huawei West Africa, stated.

 Mr. Peter Jack, Director General of NITDA said, “I congratulate Huawei for entering Interbrand's Top 100 Best Global Brands List, and being named one of Thomson Reuters’ top 100 Global Innovators of 2014 recently. I expect Huawei to do more investment in Nigeria, and I welcome your Win-Win business partnership with Nigeria ICT companies.

Pictures From The CCC Canaan-Land Cathedral 8TH Adult Harvest Thankgiving Service

                                  
From Left, Chairman Parochial Committee, Celestial Church of Christ Canaanland Cathedral, Leader Leye Ogedengbe, Shepherd in Charge, Prophet Saheed Abiodun, Financial Secretary, Assistant Evangelist Akeem Anifowose and Vice Chairman, Brother Taiwo Balogun, at the CCC Canaanland Cathedral 8th Adult Harvest Thanksgiving Service held at the Church Auditorium Koye Oke Olambe Ogun State on Sunday 16th of November 2014.  
                                  
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 

NEW MUSIC ALERT:Davido – Owo Ni Koko

                                     
Man of the year Davido announced  few days back that he would be releasing a new tune on friday which is the day he turns 22. This tune ‘Owo ni Koko‘ surfaced a few hours ago. Listen below and let us know your thoughts.
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Nudity Is Not The Limit In Kim K's World,

                             

Kim Kardashian poses full-frontal in the latest picture to be released from her provocative Paper shoot. As Gossip Cop reported, the reality star bares her bottom for the cover of the Winter 2014 issue of the magazine.
The publication said that the outrageous butt pic was just a tease of what was to come, and they weren’t kidding. The newest addition to the collection features Kardashian with her black dress pulled down to her thighs, exposing her breasts and vagina. A similar picture shows Kardashian from the side, with the profile angle capturing both her breast and her infamous bottom.
                      

Rapper Handcuffed While Filming a Video.

Tyga was arrested while shooting a music video in Los Angeles. According to an eyewitness, the rapper, who was handcuffed while filming a scene in a Rolls Royce, was pulled over for reckless driving.

TMZ reported that he was later released.

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WORLD PNEUMONIA DAY: SANOFI Reinforces Commitment To Nigerian Children

Cross section of sanofi delegates and Pediatric Association of Nigeria Delagates at the press conference on World Pneumonia Day Celebration

As the world marks, World Pneumonia Day on November 12, 2014, Sanofi strengthens its commitment in the fight against pneumonia with the Pediatric Initiative tagged ‘Healthy Children, Happy Children’ in partnership with the Pediatric Association of Nigeria (PAN).

Speaking on this initiative, Medical Director, Sanofi Nigeria and Ghana, Dr. Fifen Inoussa said, ‘Pediatrics is a priority for Africa because one child out of four in the world is African and 50 percent of the worldwide infant mortality occurs on this continent. The Sanofi Pediatric Initiative corresponds to the strong desire to reinforce our commitment to child healthcare.”
President, Paediatric Association of Nigeria, Prof. Adebiyi Olowu, stated that Pneumonia is one of the preventable but major causes of child mortality in Nigeria and it is essential that parents, guardians and care givers take essential precautions to ensure good health-seeking behaviour. He urged that preventive efforts such as proper nutrition, exclusive breast feeding, hand-washing and routine immunizations be emphasized to avoid pneumonia.

Stressing that pneumonia is a killer Prof Olowu called on government, relevant agencies and stakeholders to make concerted efforts that would significantly improve on the health of children.
Dr. Amina Biobaku of Isalu Hospital, Ogba, Lagos, one of the numerous beneficiaries of the PAN medical education programs on pneumonia supported by Sanofi, testified that the training has positively impacted her clinical practice.

Estelle Dogbo, Product Manager at Sanofi said: “The Pediatrics Initiative which adapts healthcare offer to children relies on three commitments. The first commitment is the development of medicines and vaccines offer adapted to pediatric care. The second commitment involves provision of quality medical information and dedicated training to healthcare professionals by way of continual medical education programs in pediatric topics. The third commitment entails the deployment of awareness campaigns to the general public.

MTN Surprise: Dr SID Turns BRT Bus Conductor, Wows Commuters With Freebies.

                                
Commuters Delight! Commuters saying goodbye to Dr SID, in Lagos.
The amazement and excitement in the on-going MTN SURPRISE campaign continued today, as one of MTN’s ambassadors and the Mavin Records’ Doctor, Dr. SID was the centre of attraction, boarding one of the free BRT buses that was coming from Ikorodu. The free buses were provided by MTN.
The Surulere crooner who boarded the bus at Idiroko bus/stop, announced himself as the official bus conductor. The commuters were stunned.  They could not just stop imagining themselves being in the same BRT bus with Dr. SID. It was an unthinkable surprise.The excitement was such that many of the passengers refused to alight at their bus-stops, in order to continue the fun with Dr. SID while enjoying the surprise packages he was giving out.
Dr Sid created a sing along atmosphere to the delight of the passengers, as he treated them to some of his hits like ‘Surulere’ and ‘Over the moon’.
Before alighting at Fadeyi bus stop, Dr Sid urged the passengers to borrow a leaf from MTN, by creating surprise moments for their loved ones. He also commended Nigeria’s leading telecommunications and ICT Company, MTN for initiating the Surprise Campaign.
Meanwhile, over the weekend, some MTN ambassadors were at various MTN Connect Centres attending to customers while giving out various gifts.The excitement and surprises still continue. Subscribers on MTN network are to text the number 11 to 400, to receive pleasant surprises and can join the gist on social media platforms via #YelloEleven.

Fastest Finger First…Commuters loading MTN card in a BRT bus, in Lagos.

Surulere…Dr SID sharing airtime to commuters in a BRT bus, in Lagos.

New Fanta Apple Flavour Hits Nigerian Market.

                                     
Nigeria’s vibrant soft-drinks market got sparked-up this week with the launch of the new Fanta Apple flavor by beverage giant, Coca-Cola Nigeria Limited.
According to the company's Marketing Director, Patricia Jemibewon, the new apple flavoured drink has been specifically formulated for the youthful consumer segment with a great fruity apple taste that Nigerians would love.

“The apple-flavoured drink is targeted particularly at the youth and has been developed for Nigerian taste buds.We have had an excellent response on our other variants and with the national launch of Fanta Apple, we are extending our market leadership in the fruit-flavoured sparkling drink segment,” Jemibewon said.

She disclosed that the new Fanta Apple flavor is the result of extensive market research in the beverage sector which confirms that current offerings in that segment did not completely meet expectations of discerning young consumers who constantly desire unique refreshment.”

Senior Brand Manager, Flavours at Coca-Cola Nigeria, Toyin Nnodi spoke on the brand essence of the sparkling drink. “The Fanta Apple Flavour variant has been specially formulated with a focus on the young, active, daring and unconventional young adults who desire and yearn for a change from the conventional soft drinks. It comes at a time when Fanta Orange has established itself; the new product complements the company's sparkling portfolio.”

With the addition of Fanta Apple, Coca-Cola Nigeria now offers consumers a wide range of flavor choice under the Fanta brand which already boasts of the all-time consumer favourite and segment leader, Fanta Orange, as well as Fanta Pineapple. The new Fanta Apple will be available to consumers across the country in the 50cl PET pack, 35cl and 50cl glass bottles and the 33cl on-the-go cans.