Intel, Microsoft, Others Partner to Drive Nigeria’s Small & Medium Businesses

*L-R: Consumer Channels Group Director HP, Mr. Mark Ihimoyan, ; Account Manager HP, Mr. Paul Ofulue; Enterprise Solutions and Services BDM, Intel Corporation, Mr. Femi Babajide, and, Strategic Relationship Director, Intel Corporation,, Mr. Stanley Muoneke,  at the event….

In a bid to ensure the delivery of affordable technological solutions and grow small and medium businesses in Nigeria, Intel Nigeria has joined hands with MTN, Microsoft, HP and Diamond Bank to drive an SMB targeted initiative.

The SMB targeted initiative was announced recently in Lagos at a Technology Tour event to kick-start the initiative which would offer Nigerian SMB’s the best bundle of PC, Printer and Office for their day-to-day operations and also feature capacity building seminars, conferences and workshops to address other issues confronting them.

Speaking at the Technology Tour event, the Marketing and Public Relations Manager, Intel

West Africa, Mr. Adim Isiakpona described the initiative as an all-encompassing approach at solving recurring issues confronting small and medium businesses in Nigeria.

According to him, ‘’Technology has done a lot at transforming businesses in advanced countries of the world and we believe we can replicate same in Nigeria SMBs which constitute over 70 percent of the country’s GDP.” 

Amongst several other benefits, the strategic partnership would afford SMB’s free listing on MTN Y’ello directory, free trial of MTN cloud services, free biz plus and MTN SME messaging with which they can connect with their consumers, while Diamond bank would make different financing options available to participating SMBs. 

The HP, on its part will make affordable laptops and printers available to SMB’s, all of which are powered by Intel and Microsoft chip set.