Huawei partners govt to boost IT skills

HUAWEI Technologies is partnering with the Federal Government to upscale the IT skills of Nigerians in order to make them selfreliant.

Huawei Senior Energy Solutions Expert (Nigeria Enterprise Business Department), Samuel Orji, who disclosed this during an interview at a summit in Abuja, said the firm has established two training centres in Lagos and Abuja where it is building the capacity of Nigerians, adding that Huawei has been able to come up with problems and solutions that have helped not only the oil and gas sector, but also the entire ICT world.

Orji observed that Huawei has the ability to provide higher safety and efficiency for the oil and gas industry through its various innovative products.

He said: “We are involved in the entire value chain from the upstream to mainstream to the downstream and to what we call the enterprise ‘informatisation’. Within the upstream sector, we are bringing in digital oil field where visualisation of system of operation is possible. This means you are able to know what is being produced. One of the biggest challenges we have today is the inability to know what is produced in the oil sector, which we now have technology to do that. Also, on the refinery, we have the wireless system where we are able to deliver for high efficiency. Today we are talking about modular refineries and very soon Nigeria will have many modular refineries and we need technology to drive the efficiency.”

He further noted that Huawei has built a strong eco-system with some global partners to deliver high-end innovative solutions in line with customers needs and expectations and now have the joint innovation centres and open lab in Lagos where the firm jointly design innovations that are tailored to customers’ needs.