Covenant University Honours New Horizon’s MD, Others

Covenant University, has honoured ten outstanding Nigerians from various walks of Life for their immense contribution to the growth of human capacity and ICT development in Nigeria in particular and Africa as a whole, during its tenth anniversary celebrations held recently at Ota Ogun State.

One of the winners of the prestigious award was Mr. Tim Akano, MD/CEO, New Horizons Nigeria who was honoured by the University for his  pioneering role in being the first to integrate ICT International certification based training into the university academic curricula in Nigeria.

The programme has now been adopted by the Federal Government and  has produced thousands of competent and internationally certified IT Professionals from undergraduates of Covenant university, thereby making the gradates of the university to become toast of employers in the Nigeria highly competitive labour market.

Covenant University has, therefore, partly on account of the excellent performance of its graduates in IT-related activities been consistently recognized as the leading IT-Driven University in Africa for the past half a decade.

According to Covenant University, “the award is in recognition of New Horizons’ partnership with the University in raising graduates with ICT-savvy skills and certifications for the global market as well as connection to the core values and ethos of Covenant University.”

Akano while receiving the award pledged not to relent in bringing innovative products and solutions that will make Nigeria and Africa become the first outsourcing destination for IT-Professionals in the world in the next ten years.

He emphasized the need for Nigeria and Africa to exploit the opportunity of ‘’Virtual Alien’’, i.e. producing competent local skilful Labour Force in ICT that will work for companies abroad while staying in Nigeria and earn hard foreign currencies through the use of modern technology.

Akano also brought to the notice of the guests that one big challenge facing Nigeria today which has never been mentioned by the Government is what he calls ‘Cyber Apartheid’ that is  a situation where Nigerians are not allowed to participate in certain on -line transactions because of the sin of the few bad eggs in the country that is now visited on the whole nation by the International Community.

For this ‘Cyber Apartheid’ to be abolished, Akano suggested the massive deployment of technology in fighting Cyber threats and cyber terrorism and the immediate passage of Cyber law for the country by the National Assembly.

It will be recalled that this is the second time Akano will be honoured for outstanding service to Nigeria and Africa by Covenant University.

The first time was two years ago when he was honoured as an outstanding Technoprenure by the university. In the last 2 years Akano has received dozens of national and international awards including Chief Educator of the year from EC-Council Worldwide in Miami, USA, 50 most outstanding Citizens of Osun Sate and Top 50 Alumnus of Obafemi Awolowo University by Nigerian Tribune, ICT Personality of the year by ICT Africa and Arch of Europe Quality Gold Award,  Frankfurt, Germany, among others.

New Horizons Nigeria is a franchise of New Horizons Worldwide, the world’s number one Independent IT training organization with offices in 80 countries and 6 continents.

New Horizons Nigeria empowers about 50,000 Nigerians in Government, Universities Schools and Corporate Organization in various ICT courses like Microsoft, Cisco, Certiport, CBP, Linux, EC-Council, Oracle, Virtualisation, Cloud Security, ISO27001, and SAP amongst others.