Who We Are

Driving Team

Segun Ohimeh Oruame

Segun holds a BA (Hons) degree in English Studies (1991) from the University of Jos and a Master degree
from the same University in Law & Diplomacy (1997). A security and intelligence researcher at Alpha Investigation Agency (Jos), he joined The Comet national news daily as an IT reporter (2000) and rose to become IT Editor. He left in 2003 to become Editor of IT & Telecom Digest to help position it as the country’s flagship IT magazine. While at The Comet, he started contributing to the London based Communication Weekly International, now Total Telecom.

Segun is married to a graduate with a degree in
English & Linguistics; together they have three
beautiful daughters. He is currently the national
coordinator of the Joint Action Committee on ICT
Awareness and Development (JACITAD), a not-for-profit media platform for creating awareness and development in ICT. In April, 2004 his family decided to drop the name AREGBEYEN for ORUAME “in honour of my late father’s wish: Chief Rufus Olatuegbe Oruame who died in May 2003.” He now bears Segun Ohimeh Oruame. He is a member of the Ministerial Strategic Committee on Information Technology and head of the Ministerial Sub-Committee on IT Popularisation & Awareness. Among his awards is the Consumer Writer 2003 Award by All Associations of Consumers Organisations Unions (ANCOMU) for his incisive column Matters eRising that has been running every week at The Comet on Mondays since 2001. At IT & Telecom Digest magazine, he maintained the column Backward Forward. He is the Editor of IT Edge.

 

Bayero Agabi

Bayero started his broadcast journalism career in Channels Television under the tutelage of John Momoh in 1992. As an electronic newsgathering editor, he edited CNN World Report and many other programmes for the BBC as well as an explosive interview with the then military president Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida.

He joined AIT (Africa Independent Television) in 1997 January. As a Graphics Editor, he edited KaaKaki among other highly rated programmes. Presently, he is the Producer/Presenter of the award winning AIT Infotech Network and IT World on Radio

AWARDS

Best information technology reporter radio category 2001(Computer association of Nigeria in conjunction with the federal ministry of science and technology sponsored by Compaq now hp)

Best information technology programme on television Award (By Nigeria Computer Society)

Excellence Award 2002(By international foundation for excellence)

Reporter of the week Award 1999(By AIT news /Chairman Award Committee)

Best Nigeria software Reporting Medium 2003(By Nigeria Computer Society)

Best television I.T programme (Nigeria computer society)

Best Nigerian (ICT) reporter 2003(Nigeria information technology and telecoms awards)

Award of Excellence 2003(Nigeria economic students-University of Benin)

Award of excellence 2004(Association of telecommunication operators of Nigeria (ATCON)

Adjudged best ICT issue reporting platform in Africa by a research done for Microsoft.The research placed AIT INFOTECH NETWORK AT PAR WITH CNN AND BBC TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMMES.

BAYERO AGABI GARBA IS A MEMBER (Institute Of Data Processing Management) IDPM

Secretary general joint action committee on ICT awareness and development JACITAD

Dr Emmanuel Ekuwem, the ‘Obong Ifiok’ translated Chief Custodian of Knowledge of the Ibaka Community in Akwa Ibom State in south eastern Nigeria, has become closely associated with the growth of wireless technologies in Nigeria. He is the President of Teledom International Limited, one of Nigeria’s most successful IT entrepreneurship stories. Teledom is a leading provider of IT solutions and draws a extensive array of clients from both the public and private sector.

Ekuwem has a Bachelor degree from the University of
Ife now Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) in
Engineering Physics. He wields two Master’s degrees in Physics and Electronic & Electrical Engineering. He is a doctor of Electronic & Electrical Engineering. He
has done post doctorate (PhD) research at the
Networking and Radio Propagation Laboratory, UNESCO’s ICTP, Trieste, Italy. He is currently the UNESCO’s ICTP, Trieste, Italy, Regional Coordinator of the Nigerian University Network (NuNet). He is a visiting consultant to the ITCP under the auspices of the Aeronomy Laboratory and Programme on Training and System Development in Networking and Radio
Communication. He is a consultant to UNESCO (Nigeria Office) on the IT component of UNDAF. A former fellow of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)/TRIL Programme of the ICTP and on Intelligent Real-Time Programme of the ICTP and on Intelligent Real-Time Computer-based Data Communication.

Ekuwem is a winner of Third World Academy of Science award for Research on Effects of Meteorological Phenomenon on Radio Communication (VHF/UHF) in the Lower Troposphere, Principal Investigator in the International telecommunication Union (ITU). He has also gained Special Presidential Recognition for his contribution to the growth of IT in Nigeria. He was recognised by President Olusegun Obasanjo in 2002 as the Most Productive Individual and conferred with the prestigious award of The National Productivity Order of Merit (NPOM). Ekuwem is the President of Knowledge Media International, publishers of IT Edge.


Editorial Advisory Group (EAG)

Dr Gabriel Obi is an academic per excellence. Obi is
the President of the Computer Professional Council of
Nigeria (CPN) and graduated from the University of
Ibadan in 1969 with a First Class Degree in
Mathematics. He won all the departments, faculty of
sciences’ and the university’s scholar prizes available at the time. From Ibadan, he proceeded to Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, where he had his Mater’s and Doctorate degrees in Mathematics. His feats at Cornel include being the only student to have achieved a PhD in less than three academic calendar years. Also at the US, from Oregon State University, he earned a Master’s degree in Advanced System Engineering. He was awarded a Doctor of Divinity (D.D) at the Hawaii in 1974 for his dedication to peace.

Obi was named “Man of the Year” in 19991 and 1992 by the International Biographic Centre, Cambridge. He was an inductee of the International “Who is Who” of Intellectual Hall of Fame in 1996. He is a fellow of
the International Centre for Technical and Advanced
Vocational Training, Turin, Italy and is a 1992
recipient of the International Order of Merit, IBC,
England. He is a member of the American and London
mathematical Societies. He has worked in Europe,
Australia and America. Obi lectured at the
Universities of Ibadan and Benin and moved to set up
the Computer Centre at the Delta Steel Complex. He
would later moved to the First Bank, Plc where he
voluntarily retired as deputy general manager, IT in
2000.

Obi has written extensively on IT and has over 100
works in international journals to his credit. At the
CPN, he has responsibility to ensure national IT
standard and help evolve strategies to drive IT
diffusion. He is a member of the Ministerial Strategic
Committee on Information Technology and head of the Ministerial Sub-Committee on IT Infrastructures;
Research & Development.


Chris Uwaje, former president of the Information
Technology (Industries) Association of Nigeria (ITAN)
and now Chairman of Event & Trade Services Committee
of the Nigeria Computer Society (NCS), is a German-trained IT specialist. Uwaje on-the-job
experience spans over three decades in all the world’s
continents except Asia and Latin America. He is a Fellow of the NCS, Institute of Analysts and Programmers (UK), member Management Specialist of Britain and of the Computer Professional Council of Nigeria (CPN). He studied Informatics Science at the Cologne German Language School, The Hamburg University, Gast Horer, and was at the British Institute of Engineering Technology where he acquired knowledge of Electronic Data Processing. He is 1st Vice President, Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON), an arm of the NCS.

Uwaje has earned reputation as one of Nigeria’s
profuse writers on IT. He is regularly featured in The
Guardian Compu Life, flagship of the print media in
Nigeria and has earned international recognition as a
professional with great depth in IT. He played a
prominent role in the formation of the country’s
National IT Policy (NITP) and has remained in the
fore-front of deploying efforts at closing the
country’s digital divide. From his Connect
Technologies Office inside Lagos, Uwaje runs a
cost-free knowledge acquisition factory for series of
youths who have remained central in Uwaje’s discourse on plugging Nigeria’s economy into the InformationAge.

Uwaje has served in the national Committee for the
Acquisition of Computer and Electronic Technology
(NACACET) and was also a member of the National
Committee for Nigerian Solution to the Millennium Bug
(Y2K). His numerous writings in the media since the
90s include Nigeria and the Speed Phenomenon (1998), The Machine Societies (2001), and The Senate and the Challenges of ICT Legislation (2002). He is currently at the fore-front of creating a window through which Nigeria can gain from its IT professionals in diasporas under the platform of the Nigerian Information Technology Professionals Association (NITPA).




Management Advisory Group (MAG)

Ladi Ogunenye is the immediate past president of the
Nigeria Computer Society (NCS), where he established himself a team leader of the country’s pivotal computer association. NCS is a fusion of COAN, ISPAN, ISPON and ITAN – all different bodies with divergent views on a common theme within the country’s fledgling IT industry. But under Ogunneye, COAN and the other associations fused to become NCS and Ogunneye was duly recognised as the President of the new fusion; a testimony of the respect he commands in the industry.

Ogunneye, CEO of Data Sciences Limited, devout Muslim, and veteran of the OMR, OCR and imaging technology is a graduate of the New York State University from where he bagged an Associate Degree in Aircraft Electronics.
He has another degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Bridgeport, Connecticut and a
Master’s degree in Computer and Information Science
from New Haven University. He was elected into the
council of the CPN in 1995.


Austin Okere is closely associated with the founding
and eventual emergence of Computer Warehouse Group
(CWG) not just in the big league of players on the country’s IT turf but the few pan-African companies with presence in more than three African countries. Okere started Computer Warehouse Limited (CWL) over a decade ago but the computer hardware vending company soon grew to become a group of three companies offering solutions in telecoms and software. CWL retains its primary task of delivering hardware solution while the DCC Satellite & Networks Limited deploys networking and satellite based communication links. The third of the tripod, Expertedge Software & System Limited is a software arm of the Group and has recorded massive success with both its indigenously developed solutions as well as the Finnacle banking solutions, proprietary solutions of Infosys of India.

Okere has a degree in Computer Science from the
University of Lagos and an MBA from the Lagos Business School. He has nearly two decades industry experience covering system analysis, sales and marketing and corporate management. He has won several awards including Outstanding Personality Award (1998, 1999) by The Guardian. He is on the board of several professional bodies including the Nigeria-South Africa Chamber Executive Committee, Institute of Directors, Nigeria Summit Group and NCS.


Florence Seriki (Mrs), Chemical Engineer and graduate of the University of Ife now Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), is chief executive officer of Omatek Computers. Omatek is one of the promoters of indigenous computer brands. Her brand is a leading one in the sector. She started off as a computer instructor to CEOs of financial institutions during her National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) days at the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC), Victoria Island (VI), Lagos. Serving at NNPC inside VI opened her eyes to the inadequacy of most CEOs of banks when they sit directly in front of their PCs. She saw a business potential she could explore and that would begin her successful forage into the IT sector.

From starting off as a trainer, she went into computer
sales and with her Omatek Ventures Limited, became a vendor for some of the world’s top class brands.
Omatek was successful in unloading IBM into the market as was with Compaq, Toshiba and Macintosh. But she soon developed passion for local assembly of PCs and in 1993, the Omatek Computers were launched at the CTO, flagship IT seminar and exhibition event organised yearly by the US Consular Office.

From its Ojota factory, Omatek Computers has become synonymous with the local manufacture of casing, mouse, key board and speakers. Seriki has been able to penetrate the public and private sectors with her Omatek brand. It is a strong testimony to her
unrelenting spirit of enterprise in IT. Omatek won
recognition at the last Telecom Africa organised by
the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) at
Cairo, Egypt.

Seriki is a pioneer student of the Lagos Business
School (1993). She is the chairperson of The
Electronic and Telecoms Group of the Nigerian-American Chamber of Commerce; she is the vice president of ITAN and in 2003 was voted IT Woman of the Year at the NITTA award.


Ayo Arowolo was until recently, the managing editor
and CEO of Financial Standard, the leading business
newspaper in Nigeria. Now the Chairman of the
Editorial Board of Financial Standard, Arowolo, a
seasoned financial journalist with over 15 years of
business reporting, has earned reputation as a
motivational writer and speaker high in demand within business associations and groups. Since leaving Financial Standard as managing editor, Arowolo has concentrated in building about five other companies from his office, Off Allen Avenue, Ikeja, Lagos.

Held in high esteem within business circles, Arowolo
is regarded as one of the country’s top financial
journalists. He left This Day Newspaper in 1999 as
Group Business Editor to set up Financial Standard
with other investors. He won the Director’s Prize for
the overall best student at the post-graduate diploma
programme in 19991 at the Nigeria Institute of
Journalism, Lagos. He won the Reuters Fellowship for
Business Reporting in 1999; he participated in the US
government International Visitors Programme in 1995
touring six states in the US. Arowolo holds a Bachelor
of Science and Master’s degrees in Political Science.
Also, he has an MBA in Banking & Finance.

Arowolo is a member of Nigeria Union of Journalism,
Investigative Reporters and Editors Association
(Washington, US) and Africa Economic and Editors
Network (South Africa). His Moneywise column in
Financial Standard has drawn a large followership and
impacted on people’s lives. Arowolo is regarded as an
expert on personal finance and a great teacher on how
to achieve financial independence. He often draws from
his own personal experience.

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