Leo Stan Ekeh, chairman Zinox Group has called for rejig of the national education policy to foster national unity and create a knowledge era.
Ekeh said that Nigeria is running on a digital age and therefore need to make critical decisions that will bring about a break from the analogue past.
The Zinox boss who spoke when the new executive of the Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) led by Prof. David Adewunmi, it president paid him a courtesy visit said that the country finds herself in times that are as difficult as 1969, the peak of the civil war, when nationalists and stake holders in education came together in a bid to salvage the ship of state from the vicious grip of ethnicity, religious bigotry and corruption.
“The situation has been compounded by kidnapping, terrorism, our inability to fund education, and the inability of Nigerian graduates to fit into existing vacancies in the industry. There is a need for another look at the national policy on education by people compliant with 21st Century technology.” He stated.
He said that Prof. Adewunmi who is also the Dean of the Faculty of Information Technology at Bell University is coming into the office of the president of the NCS at the right time.
Ekeh urged the president to direct his gaze at the need to restructure education in Nigeria with IT as the main tool.
Explaining further, the Zinox boss explained that with technology the objectives of teaching and learning can be achieved at a lower cost with more competitive outcomes.
He said that “For example, electronic content would cost less while solving the problem of overcrowded classes that have perplexed educational administrators for decades”
Earlier, Prof. Adewunmi congratulated the chairman and management of the Zinox Group for the long relationship with the Nigeria Computer Society.
He recounted a rich history of support dating back to the first President of the NCS, saying it showed the depth of the Zinox commitment to develop the IT sector.
Prof. Adewunmi expressed appreciation for the role that the Zinox Group has been successfully playing in the IT sector – the successful delivery of sensitive and large scale projects at the national level.
He said that Zinox has proved to the world that the Nigerian IT practitioner is a world-class professional with the capacity to match the best in the world.
The Zinox management and the NCS leadership agreed to work together in upholding international standards, enforcing the local content policy, capacity building and serving the unreached.
Both organizations would cooperate on all issues relating to the robust deployment of IT at all levels of education in Nigeria. The NCS and Zinox decried the multiple biometric data collection by numerous Agencies in Nigeria.
They agreed that biometric data is secured data that should be handled only by contractors who have integrity and would not compromise national security.
In addition, Ekeh, noted that the Nigeria Information Technology Merit Awards (NITMA) is one of the noble legacies that the Prof. Adewunmi led executive has inherited.
He urged the executive to handle NITMA with its characteristic professionalism to protect the lofty ideals for which it was instituted.
Africa’s most integrated IT firm, Zinox Technologies Limited was launched in 2001 and has earned recognition as a world-class solutions company with competencies spanning , certified PC Assembling, Advanced Biometric Solutions, E-Library and Digital Power Solutions, and rated as class “A++” Systems Integrators with local and International capacity to handle sensitive ICT projects.
Zinox successfully intervened for INEC in 2006 and 2011 Voters’ Registration amongst other national and multinational sensitive projects.
Multiple biometrics implementation – challenge is the integrity of the contractors collecting it. Security data