AfriOne’s facility spans about 20,000 sq ft and houses all of AfriOne’s operations, including an R & D department and testing laboratories.
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Abdulahed Mustapha, Permanent Secretary, Lagos Global; Sahir Berry,
AfriOne Founder & CEO; Olufemi Odubiyi, Commissioner of Science and
Technology, Lagos State; Hemang Kapur, AfriOne Co-Founder & CTO and
Lekan Akinjide,CCO Afrione during the launch of AfriFone Made-in-Nigeria
Smartphone in Lagos (Vanguard) |
The
company launched the phone along with its manufacturing facility in
Lagos, where it hopes to produce 300,000 phones every month. Each phone
will use locally sourced or made parts and the entire manufacturing
process will come through AfriOne’s four production lines at its Lagos
factory.
Speaking at Lagos Governor Akinwunmi Ambode’s commissioning of AfriOne’s Lagos plant, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, AfriOne, Sahir Berry, said, “AfriOne
champions corporate socio-economic development, while wholly supporting
the ‘Made-in-Nigeria’ mantra. The company models products that utilise
cutting-edge technology reflect a modern, sleek design and integrate the
latest and arguably necessary financial technology such as mobile
health, mobile education and mobile banking. This is all with the goal
of facilitating connectivity among Nigerians and the rest of the world.”
AfriOne’s facility spans about 20,000 sq ft and houses all of AfriOne’s
operations, including an R & D department and testing laboratories.
Governor Ambode, who was represented by the state’s Commissioner for Science and Technology, Olufemi Olubiyi, said, “I’m
sure opportunities provided by AfriOne will be of immense benefits to
students of the Lagos State Polytechnic. As a government, we are not
unaware of the challenges being faced by our youths.”
There
is currently no information on specs and details of AfriOne’s debut
device. There is also no word on availability and pricing but Pulse Tech
will keep you informed.
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