Nosa Alekhuogie
Leading technology solutions providers, entrepreneurs and advocates in Nigeria gathered at the 2021 Titans of Tech (TOT) Hall of Fame Awards in Lagos, this past weekend to celebrate the best in the nation’s burgeoning ICT industry.
The awards is designed to celebrate Hi-tech pioneers, Innovators, organisations and institutions who blazed the trail and used ICT to improve the way of life in our society. It is a recognition of overall excellence, unflinching commitment and a lifetime of efforts in the service of ICT, humanity and Nigeria.
The TOT Awards is the authoritative yardstick to measure performance in the West African ICT sector. It is also an avenue to influence policy, network and connect with key industry players.
A global leader in omnichannel communication, Infobip Nigeria emerged as one of the top gainers at the TOT Awards 2021 as it walked away with the prestigious “Outstanding Business Communication Platform Provider of the Year Award.”
The firm’s Country Manager, Mr. Olatayo Ladipo-Ajai, was on hand to receive the award and expressed profound appreciation to the organizers, noting that the recognition would inspire the firm to continue to seek for and deploy the best solutions to have businesses thrive in the country.
Emerging electronic commerce giant, Konga, also received the Most Innovative e-commerce company of the Year Award.
Konga is a leader in the highly competitive Nigerian e-commerce market showing that e-Commerce can be profitable. The firm’s omnichannel structure in which it operates both online and offline is one of the advantages that has placed the company upfront and ahead of other players.
The firm has also expanded its reach with its logistic platform Kxpress, established to resolve the perennial challenges of logistics in the industry and indeed the country and KongaPay to ease payment.
Konga was equally conferred with the Hero of COVID-19 Pandemic Award for its high-level emergency readiness and proactive actions during the thick of the pandemic that kept it in business, with both staff and customers interacting safely.
The “Telecom Company of the Year Award” went to Medallion Communications, “Most Innovative Fibre Optics Operator of the Year”, IPNX and the “Most Innovative Cloud Storage Provider of the Year” was Cloud flex.
There were also several special awards to recognise individual contributions to the nation’s ICT space. It was tagged Outstanding Contributions to ICT For National Development Award. The recipients included Engr. Ikechukwu Nnamani, Ayotunde Coker, Yomi Soyinka, Onochie Amasiani. E.T.C
Industry leaders, captains of Industry and the media were on hand to witness the processing.
