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| One of the winners receiving his prize |
Buyright Africa.com, a new Tech
savvy conglomerate, has redeemed its promise to give mini laptops to the first
50 visitors to its website at 7am on its launch date the 7th of May, 2012.
Communications Advisor to the
company, Mr. Echika Ezuka, said the lucky winners received the laptops from the
Buyright Africa Dotcom offices in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Owerri, and
Kano.
The Managing Director of Buyright
Africa, Mr. Emomine Mukoro said during one of the presentations in Lagos, that
the innovative launch was the first of its kind in Africa and came with a
strong promise of providing partnership platform to existing and future ICT
companies in resolving funding issues for ICT projects, ICT equipment ownership
scheme and reduction of total cost of ownership, namely computers, printers,
scanners, projectors, consumables, ICT equipment leasing and many more.
Mr. Mukoro confirmed that
Buyright Africa has a partnership with strong international finance group to
assist Africans realize their technology dream and enjoy the benefits of
emerging technologies.
He said that Buyright Africa has
been designed to create technology capacities that would allow our citizens,
governments and businesses compete favorably with other strong economies of the
world.
“It comes with a strong mandate
to partner with international and local ICT companies to fund and deliver major
ICT projects in the public and private sectors,” he said, stressing that
Buyright Africa, would focus on the educational sector with the intention of
providing world class facilities for teaching and learning at flexible payment
plans spread up to three years.
Mukoro further listed the
following international and local partnering Original Equipment Manufacturers
(OEMs) including HP, Dell, Samsung, Toshiba, Cisco, Zinox, APC, Mercury,
Microsoft to name a few.
One of the winners, Dr. Popoola
Tomorin of Momoh Memorial Hospital, Oyo, said in his response after the
presentation that initially he thought that the competition was one of those
scams that characterize the internet.
He was, however, pleasantly
surprised when he received the SMS inviting him to Lagos to receive the prize,
just as he expressed gratitude to Buyright Africa Dotcom for the integrity of
the entire exercise.
Another winner, Keji Akinbode, a
student of Lagos State University, LASU, said that he considered himself very
lucky to win in the Buyright Africa competition, stressing the fact that the
mini laptop would help him in his academics while Aliyu Abdul Jalal, equally
another winner who works with the National Universities Commission (NUC)
described the promo as unbelievable and worthy of emulation.
In her remarks, Buyright Africa’s
Head of Marketing, Mrs Loretta Agbakoba, urged all winners who have received
SMS to go to the nearest Buyright Africa Dotcom office and collect their
prizes.
Remmy Nweke
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