Harnessing Nigeria greatness

Nigeria being the most populous black nation in the world has not made used of this rare opportunity by successive government. Imagine other African countries getting better international deal we needs to think right and Wake from our slumber.

Assuming Nigeria can get this Kenya deal life of most Nigerians would be transformed.

 Nigeria still battles with electricity
provision, even recording zero megawatts on
the national grid, Kenya is on its way to
providing internet connectivity for its citizens.
Kenya Power International and Safaricom have
collaborated to make this happen and both
establishments have signed a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) to that effect.
12,000 homes in Nairobi Kenya will benefit
from this project as the companies will provide
them with internet connection through a fibre
optic network. This partnership will further
strengthen Safaricom’s capacity to provide
faster, affordable and reliable broadband
services.
While the state-owned utility firm, Kenya
Power, is to provide about 4,000km length of
fibre optic cables, Safaricom will invest in the
fibre business and recover its investment
through a lease agreement, according to
Business Daily Africa , as the company is
experienced in laying fibre and has 3,200km of
fibre reaching 7,000 homes.
“The agreement will promote development and
improvement of additional telecommunications
infrastructure for effective and efficient
provision of telecommunications services to
both public and private institutions through
provision of adequate, reliable and
competitively-priced fibre networks,” Kenya
Power CEO, Ben Chumo, said while speaking
about the project. Safaricom CEO, Bob
Collymore, said that the project will accelerate
the rate of connection to homes, and reduce
inconvenience caused by digging trenches to
lay the underground fibre optic cable grid.
The good thing about this project is that people
get to benefit from better broadband services
without having to leave the comfort of their
homes. It seems both Safaricom and Kenya
Power are taking the right step to invest in
broadband penetration. In 2015, the United
Nations praised Kenya for its effective plan
towards broadband provision. According to the
Daily Nation, UN Global Commission’s report,
‘The State Of Broadband 2015,’ states that
Kenya has consistently signalled national
commitment to the broadband plan across
policy makers and stakeholders. It also
identified that factors like capacity,
subscription rates and coverage need to be
considered as well.
However, Safaricom and Kenya Power are not
the first to invest in people when it comes to
broadband penetration. In 2014, Kenyan based
start-up, BRCK raised $1.2 million to connect
people to the internet using its device called
The BRCK. The device allows users to leverage
the nearly ubiquitous mobile broadband and
turn it into a connection designed for
productivity, rather than solely consumption.
The BRCK was designed to provide redundancy
where there is poor power and internet
infrastructure, automatically switching to
inbuilt batteries and 3G connectivity when the
primary sources fail.

Courtesy ventures

Omono Eremionkhale