Newsgist-Businesses should see challenges as opportunities – Opeke

Newsgist-The Chief Executive Officer, MainOne, Ms. Funke Opeke, in this interview with DAYO OKETOLA, agrees that doing business in Nigeria is difficult, but urges entrepreneurs to use the challenges as the springboard for success

What is the rationale behind your investment in data centres?  

 We started this business with a submarine fibre cable. This was really about connecting people to the rest of the world. But when you are connected to the rest of the world, there is something you are connecting: your local offices and your computer systems, and as such, organisations started connecting their offices to our facility. And then they see how we run our facility, which is outsourced. Some of them are doing businesses where their customers need to reach them on the Internet.

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FG To Review Lagos Trade Fair Complex Concession

NEWSGIST,The Federal Government has said it has concluded plans to review the concession of the Lagos International Trade Fair Complex.

President Goodluck Jonathan said this in Lagos on Friday at the opening ceremony of the Lagos International Trade Fair, which was organised by the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

The president, who was represented by the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Mr. Olusegun Aganga, said the review was crucial to the national industrial and trade promotion policies of the Federal Government.

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