Africa's Largest Computer Plant For Launch In April

3rd Mar 2008

Africa's largest digital computer plant, Zinox Technology, will be commissioned early April this year going by feelers from the company located in Gbagada, a Lagos suburb.
Its promoter, Leo Stan Ekeh, insinuated at the weekend that the plant is being put in place to meet the yearnings and aspirations of the patrons of Zinox Computers and the need to sustain global standards.

Zinox Computers, Nigeria’s Best Computer Brand of the Year 2007, is investing heavily on Africa’s largest and most digitalised IT factory in order to keep pace with the rising expectations of the Nigerian market. He told visiting past President of the Information Technology Association of Nigeria, Mr. Chris Uwaje, on a facility tour of the new factory.
Ekeh explained that the Zinox brand has aroused genuine high expectations among Nigerians and West Africans through her positioning and her superb delivery on quality. He said that the responsibility of the Zinox brand lay in surpassing these expectations.

The Zinox chairman informed Uwaje that he was overwhelmed by the patronage and moral support that the Zinox brand has received from the governments and people of Nigeria since the launch in 2001. He said that the brand embarked on this expansion programme for three main reasons firstly to address the recent question being asked about the capacity of the OEMs to deliver on numbers. He explained further that a few people, who were impressed about the fast pace of IT penetration were beginning to wonder aloud if the OEMs had the capacity to produce the large numbers that would be in demand.

Ekeh explained that the new factory when commissioned in April 2008 would raise the installed capacity of the Zinox brand to 5,000 systems daily. Secondly, he said that the new factory would address the aspiration of Nigerians that the IT sector should lead the trade expansion into West Africa. In addition it would provide employment for Nigerians.

The past president ITAN commended the Zinox chairman for holding steadfastly to his vision to make Zinox Africa’s Number 1 IT manufacturer. He described the scope of the project as awesome and capable of propelling Nigeria into the knowledge economy.

Uwaje said that he was highly pleased at the information that some multi nationals and blue chip companies had standardised on Zinox Computers. He was particularly pleased that TotalFinaEelf, a French multinational in Oil and Gas, has standardised on the Zinox brand. Uwaje said that Nigerians should also count their friends from the percentage of local content that the multinationals are willing to absorb.

Uwaje was also full of praises for the First Bank of Nigeria for buying four thousand systems to empower their workforce. He also praised the Nigeria Communications Commission for being at the forefront of the IT penetration campaign in Nigeria.
He extolled the Communications regulator for opening up digital centers in the six geo-political zones of the Federation in addition to donating computers regularly to schools in the hinterland.

Uwaje called on all multinationals and corporate persons to emulate the examples of the blue chip companies that he has just mentioned. He stated that companies, who make huge investments in Nigeria like Zinox Computers is doing deserve to be patronised in order to move Nigeria forward developmentally.

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