Galaxy Backbone to open North-East office in Gombe
The Federal Government has completed plans to extend Information Communication and Technologies (ICT) services in Gombe to serve the North-East region.
Speaking shortly after inspecting Galaxy Backbone office in Gombe, Minister of Communications and Digital Economy Prof. Ali Pantami, said the office would ensure broadband penetration as well as data centre services in the zone.
According to the Minister, the zonal office would boost revenue generation for government and expand the market.
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He said, “This is Galaxy Backbone North-East zonal office, the Galaxy Backbone is a Limited company and its Federal Government owned and we have zonal offices; we have in Lagos for South-West, Enugu for South-East, North-Central in Abuja, for North-West is in Kano, the North-East is in Gombe and we do hope that of South-South is in the pipeline because we are expanding.”
Explaining further the reason for the choice of Gombe as the North-East zonal office, the Minister said the state is uniquely positioned in the region following it proximity with the other five states.
“The reason behind the expansion is for revenue generation and the company has been commercialised to get revenue for government. It part of our strategy the scope of our market. Gombe being at the centre of the North-East and the only state that shares border with states in the zone,” Pantami added.
Speaking on the viability of zonal expansion to the country’s revenue generation, the Minister said, “My projection is based on bureau of statistics they released their data for the second quarter of 2022 only yesterday (Friday) and it clearly there that ICT alone with all the digital services contributed 18.44 percent and this has never happened in the history of Nigeria.”
Also speaking, Managing Director of Galaxy Backbone, Prof. Muhammed Abubakar, explained the company was geared towards ensuring that data becomes the mainstay of the country’s economy.
He said, “Data is our crude oil, we provide protection to government data. Data is everything.”
