The business community in Lagos on Tuesday had a feel of the magical possibilities of the Glo 1 international submarine cable as Globacom hosted them to a forum as part of pre-launch activities for the facility.
The company said the forum which took place at Eko Hotel & Suits, Victoria Island was organised to present to business stakeholders the unique offers available on the Glo 1 facility as well as the limitless opportunities and huge benefits the facility offers for businesses, governments, institutions and individuals.
A statement from the Marketing Communications Department of Globacom indicated that similar forums will be held in Port Harcourt on September 2 and Abuja on September 9.
Speaking at the Lagos event, Group Chief Operating Officer of the company, Mohamed Jameel, said, Glo 1 which will commence commercial services shortly will avail customers an excellent communication network and a cost-effective voice, data, video and e-commerce services across Africa, Europe and the rest of the world.
He explained that the facility will boost business activities from information technology to banking, oil and gas, manufacturing and commerce by offering world-class long distance voice, video and data communication services.
Captains of industries, diplomats, ICT experts, banking and media executives were among those who attended the forum. They included Director, Trade and Investment, British Deputy High Commission, Peter Stephenson; Managing Director Equitorial Trust Bank, Gbolahan Folayan; Group Managing Director of Telnet, Gbenga Odujinrin; Managing Director of CFAO Technologies, Mamadou Bal, and Chief Finance Officer, Dangote Cement, Wole Adeleke. Chief commercial officer, Visafone, Uche Ojo; Group Executive Vice President and CTO, Netcom, Yen Choi, Chief Finance Officer, ABBNG Limited, Adedayo Olowoniyi; Chief Finance Officer, Mobitel, Amaebi Fiderikumo; VP, Sales, Gilat Satcom Jide Ogunbanjo; Gobal Supply Chain Manager, Ranbaxy Nigeria Limited, Kailash Kumar Gaggar; Managing Director, Direct on PC, Anurag Garg; CMO, Cyberspace Network, Sabat Anant, and Executive CTO, Multilinks, Emmanuel Kehinde, also attended the event.
Others are Head, IT Shared Services, Access Bank, Nelson Madu; Head, Netwroks & Telecoms, Spring Bank, Akinlo Jeremy, Divisional Head, Corporate Banking, Afribank, Ndubuisi Osakwe; Head, CIB IT, Stanbic IBTC Bank, Akeem Adesina; Divisional Head, IT, FinBank, Gabriel Obaji; Group Head, IT Operations, Diamond Bank, Steve Obiago; Head, IT Strategy, Stanbic IBTC Bank, Bashir Gidado, and Head, Treasury Division, Fidelity, Chineze Osakwe.
Also in attendance were Network Administrator, MRS Group, Azubuike Teddy Obiora; Head, Database Administration, SPDC, Ola Owolabi; Country Manager, Oil, Gas and Petrochemicals, Mott Macdonald, Stephen Sams; Infrastructure Manager, Oando, Segun Oladele; Senior General Program Manager, Alcatel-Lucent, Peter Schubert, and Seni Williams of Tara Systems. From the media were MD/EIC, Financial Standard, Bola Onanuga, ED, Operations, Champion, Samuel Ibemere, MD, Sun Newspapers, Tony Onyima, GM/COO, Inspiration FM, Wale Ewedemi, GM, Galaxy TV, Kolawole Akintoba and publisher of Technology Times, Sina Badaru.
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