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Andela Hits 100,000 Learners Milestones With Learning Community

August 27, 2021

The global talent network Andela which helps companies build remote engineering teams, today announced a new milestone for its developer learning community as the Andela Learning Community (ALC) has now surpassed 100,000 learners. Launched in 2017, the Andela’s Learning Community (ALC) was set up with the objective to help brilliant people access opportunities which are not often evenly distributed.

Since its founding, Andela has been able to provide career opportunities for thousands of engineers in addition to the learning opportunities provided to the Andela Learning Community.

Agnes Muthoni, Director of the Andela Learning Community at Andela

Available for engineers at all stages of their careers, the ALC offers access to in-demand technology courses from learning partners as well as connects engineers to employment opportunities through its job network initiative.

Previous ALC learning partners have been Pluralsight, Google, Facebook, Salesforce, and Microsoft, among others.

Speaking on this, Agnes Muthoni, Director of the Andela Learning Community at Andela said “Since our launch, building and developing talent at every level has been central to Andela’s mission. This 100,000+ learners milestone is very important to us because it shows that we have been able to achieve the goal of building talent not only across Africa but now globally spanning six continents and nearly 100 countries. We are excited to continue to welcome new engineers into our growing community of learners.”

Alongside surpassing 100,000 ALC learners, Andela has also launched a new public community that enables engineers to access additional learning resources and information, connect with mentors, source career opportunities as well as interact with their fellow learners.

Tania Medina, Director of Talent Growth Marketing at Andela, said: “We are excited that Andela’s learning Community is now available to the global developer community and across Latin America.

As our global network grows, we are pleased to offer more collaborative learning and career opportunities, which we hope will set a practical pathway for engineering talent of all levels to follow.”

Launched in 2014 with a mission to connect brilliance with opportunity, Andela has been deeply embedded in the African tech landscape, mirroring the agility and expertise that technology and innovation demand.

To capture and share the DNA of African technologists and highlight this often under-represented region, Andela is inviting all software engineers, developers, architects, and more to participate in a 15-minutes 2021 Africa Developer survey. The survey will be open to responses until September 30, 2021.

Kelechi Deca

Kelechi Deca has over two decades of media experience, he has traveled to over 77 countries reporting on multilateral development institutions, international business, trade, travels, culture, and diplomacy. He is also a petrol head with in-depth knowledge of automobiles and the auto industry

MTN Appoints Burak Akinci as New CEO of Simfy

August 26, 2021

Africa’s largest telecoms firm, MTN Group has announced the appointment of Burak Akinci as CEO of Simfy (ayoba) and he will be reporting to the MTN Group Chief Digital and Fintech Officer Serigne Dioum. Akinci will also be in charge of the company’s ayoba super app.

Effective 1 September 2021, Burak joins MTN from Turkcell, a converged telecommunication and technology services provider, founded and headquartered in Turkey, where he was CEO of BiP, an instant messaging platform with millions of users across 192 countries. Burak, with over 20 years of experience in marketing, digital businesses and technologies, led the build-out of the BiP platform, which has more than 30 million users. In his new role, he will be based in Cape Town.

“We are thrilled that an executive of Burak’s calibre is joining us. His appointment accelerates our work to build the largest and most valuable platforms as we target greater digital and financial inclusion across the continent,” said Dioum.

“I feel honoured and very excited to join MTN family and ayoba. I believe in the digital vision for Africa driven by MTN and I am confident that, with this great team, we will build the best communication platform and super app of Africa,” Akinci comments on his appointment.

At the end of March 2021, MTN had amassed 5.3-million monthly active ayoba users across 20 markets. The company says it plans to grow this to 100-million in 2025.

“We aim to capture more than 10% of the gross merchandise value of the digital economy in our footprint as we move beyond the traditional telco-led Mobile Money (MoMo) offering with ayoba, which is an OTT (over the top) service that does not require users to be MTN subscribers,” MTN says in a statement.

“We are also targeting 100 million MoMo users by 2025, up from 46.6 million at end-March.”

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Kelechi Deca has over two decades of media experience, he has traveled to over 77 countries reporting on multilateral development institutions, international business, trade, travels, culture, and diplomacy. He is also a petrol head with in-depth knowledge of automobiles and the auto industry

AfCFTA Launches ‘Umoja Africa Campaign’ to Explore Creativity of Africa Youths

August 23, 2021

The Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCTA) Secretariat has launched a youth focused competition dubbed the ‘Umoja Africa Campaign – Youth Contributing to the Implementation of the AfCFTA’ which targets young people between the age of 18 and 35 years. The creative youth competition on African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is for young people in Africa as well as those in the Diaspora with African citizenship.

This is a collaborative initiative between the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Youth Alliance for Leadership and Development in Africa (YALDA), the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat, Afreximbank,the International Trade Centre (ITC) and the UN Development Programme (UNDP).

Those interested can submit essays, infographics and/ or animation on the topic; ‘The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)’ from July 31 to Deadline September 31. Winners announced in November. The content for the competition should display ingenuity in communicating the AfCFTA to young people, by breaking down elements of the AfCFTA into simple and easy to understand content for their peers.

The aim is to encourage young people in Africa and those in the diaspora to contribute to the development of Africa’s young leaders and enhance youth participation in the implementation and achievement of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). The competition will encourage them to participate in the implementation of the AfCFTA.

The winning essay writer, infographics and animation creators will each receive a cash prize of $1,000. The first runners up will receive $500, second runners up $300. The essay winner will also receive a paid internship with one of the partner institutions, while the others will receive design contracts with other partners among other prizes.

The creative competition is expected to break information asymmetry among youth on the AfCFTA and promote a bottom-up approach to the policy formulation and implementation by harnessing innovative youth-driven solutions that will contribute to active youth engagement in the popularisation of the AfCFTA. This will then generate conversations and discourse on the youth involvement in trade in Africa and their role in the implementation of AfCFTA.

Creating awareness among the youth in Africa on the AfCFTA will encourage them to be more innovative and creative, empowering them to become leaders not only at home, but across borders. An international trade center report shows that Africa is the youngest continent in the world with a median age of 19.8 years. 65% of the population in Africa is also under the age of 25. It is projected that a third of the youth will live in Africa by 2050. Yet majority of the young people are unemployed, lack access to financial resources, face barriers to start and scale up their small business.

The AfCFTA creates an opportunity for more jobs for the youth through increase entrepreneurship, e – commerce which underscores the importance of digital economy. Those interested in the competition are advised to visit https://yaldafrica.org/afcftacompetition for ore details.

Kelechi Deca

Kelechi Deca has over two decades of media experience, he has traveled to over 77 countries reporting on multilateral development institutions, international business, trade, travels, culture, and diplomacy. He is also a petrol head with in-depth knowledge of automobiles and the auto industry

Africa Suffered Over 85 Million Malware Attacks in Six Months

A new research carried out by global cybersecurity firm Kaspersky has shown that contrary to belief by many, that malware is rife across Africa with various countries exhibiting strong growth in all malware types in the first half of 2021 when compared to the same period last year. This is a 5% increase in the region, as cybercriminals and hackers continue to focus on African countries considering digital transformation advancements and the increase in remote working resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Bethwel Opil, Enterprise Sales Manager at Kaspersky in Africa

The findings of the research zeroed most of the attacks to four countries that account for 85 million attacks, with South Africa being the most targeted (32-million attacks), followed by Kenya (28.3-million), Nigeria (16.7-million) and Ethiopia (8-million).

All countries but Kenya saw the relative growth of all malware attacks. Ethiopia and Nigeria have seen an increase of 20% and 23% respectively and South Africa an increase of 14%, while Kenya’s number of attacks decreased by 13%.

Even though the scourge of malware has always been of concern, the past 12-months have highlighted how hackers are refocusing their efforts to compromise consumer and corporate systems and gain access to critical data and information.

Given the growth of digital transformation across Africa since last year, the continent has become an attractive target for those looking to exploit a lack of user education and cybersecurity understanding.

According to Bethwel Opil, Enterprise Sales Manager at Kaspersky in Africa, “This has contributed to a large number of personal devices still not having any form of cybersecurity software installed,”

“Malware can get onto a device in several ways. For example, clicking on an infected link or advert, opening an attachment in a spam email, or downloading a compromised app. This means proactive malware protection is essential to safeguard individual users and corporations against these threats,” concludes Opil.

Kelechi Deca

Kelechi Deca has over two decades of media experience, he has traveled to over 77 countries reporting on multilateral development institutions, international business, trade, travels, culture, and diplomacy. He is also a petrol head with in-depth knowledge of automobiles and the auto industry

Nigeria to Auction 5G Spectrum as Rollout Plan Gathers Pace

July 24, 2021

There are indications that with the pace of rollout of the 5G spectrum in Nigeria, the country will soon auction the spectrum in the fourth quarter of 2021 as plans to officially launch the next-generation network. It could be recalled that the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) signed an agreement with NigcomSat, a communications satellite firm, to allow 5G services in the country to ride on the latter’s C-band frequency spectrum.

The spectrum is being used for the majority of commercial deployment of 5G networks globally. As of February this year, several U.S. telecoms companies had spent billions of dollars for C-band.

Following the deal, Nigeria expects to start auctioning the spectrum by Q4 2021, according to NCC vice chair Umar Garba Danbatta.

“Securing spectrum for 5G is an antecedent for any operator to commit serious investment in 5G infrastructure,” Danbatta said.

The auctioning process is expected to move to the assignment stage in the first quarter of next year, during which companies chosen can then bid for their preferred positions within the airwaves.

Nigeria’s latest move towards a national rollout of the next generation network comes as it plays catchup in Africa’s 5G race behind Kenya and South Africa, both of which have already launched commercial 5G networks.

According to GSMA, a commercial 5G network is one in which a customer can purchase a 5G subscription. MTN and Vodacom launched 5G publicly in South Africa last July, the first African country to do so. Kenya followed suit in April this year.

Across the continent, there were 24 operators in 18 African countries – such as Lesotho, Gabon and Egypt – testing 5G as of February 2020. Of those operators, eight had deployed 5G into pre-commercial or commercial networks, according to the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA).

Back in 2019, MTN pioneered 5G network trials in Nigeria. The network operator successfully ran spectrum tests in its offices across the country with support from Huawei, ZTE, and Ericsson.

There have been health-related concerns regarding 5G and conspiracy theories linking the technology with Covid-19, which the Nigerian government dispelled.

Regulators in the West African nation have quickly embraced the commercial implementation of 5G, which is much faster than current networks and supports many more devices in a given area compared to 4G.

The new network is expected to serve as critical infrastructure for a range of industries in Africa, advancing smart transportation, medicine, manufacturing, the internet of things, etc.

However, concerns remain over the capacity of African governments to achieve mass adoption of 5G given the low penetration of previous network generations. Nigeria wants 90% of its population to have access to 4G and 5G connections by 2025, but only 4% of mobile subscribers in the country were on the 4G network as of 2019, per a Jumia report.

Kelechi Deca

Kelechi Deca has over two decades of media experience, he has traveled to over 77 countries reporting on multilateral development institutions, international business, trade, travels, culture, and diplomacy. He is also a petrol head with in-depth knowledge of automobiles and the auto industry

Pipit Global and Cellulant Partners to Drive Low-Cost Remittances in Africa

July 9, 2021

Africans who have been at the receiving ends of shylock remittance agencies for years now are in for a sigh of relief with the recent partnership agreement entered into by Irish FinTech, Pipit Global Partners and Pan-African Fintech Cellulant. The partnership aims to power cheaper and safer means for Africans in the EU and UK to send cash to their families at home in Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Mali, Senegal, and Ghana

According to available reports, about 8 million Africans live abroad. That number is projected to reach 15 Million by 2025. For most African’s living abroad, sending money back home to your family can be very expensive. In the UK, the average cost to send cash abroad is 9.5%, so for example, if you were sending £120 from the UK to Africa, it would cost roughly £11.40 in fees.

Although the cost has come down in recent years, it is still too high and is more than double the 3% cost target set by the United Nations.

With this partnership, consumers in Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Mali, Senegal, and Ghana can now avail of transactions through the pipit platform at lower rates than ever before as Pipit has gone live in those countries. The Pipit CEO Ollie Walsh, said that “Going live in these countries is a big step forward for intra-African remittances.

70% of African’s who migrate stay on the continent of Africa where the cost of sending money home across African borders is much higher than the fees for sending cash home from the EU – and can reach 20% in some corridors.

Pipit, along with Cellulant, can now solve this problem by making it cheaper and safer for migrants to send cash to their families at home.”

According to Cellulant’s Chief Business Officer for Enterprise, David Waithaka, ‘’We believe that for Africans to thrive, we need to purposefully create bridges that lessen the geographical, wealth and social gaps and link communities and their resources with others”.

“Cellulant using technology to build new types of networks that connect those who have goods and services with those who need them”.

“We are happy to extend our digital payments platform- Tingg, and support Pipit’s work in connecting the African Diaspora with low-cost payment solutions that allow them to support their families in the continent.”

The partnership between Cellulant and Pipit means that Africans in the UK and EU from any of the listed African countries can conveniently send cash home, top-up an eWallet, send money to a bank account and pay bills for their families. They can also pay for an eCommerce order and have the goods delivered in Africa.

“Every consumer in Africa should be able to access their money easily and pay for goods and services in a way that is convenient for them.

Digital payments make this possible, and through this partnership, we are ensuring that consumers across Africa and in the Diaspora can seamlessly access services they need and make their lives easier,’’ added David.

In the UK, migrant workers from Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Mali, Senegal, and Ghana can access the Pipit Global platform through the PayPoint network of more than 28,000 cash acceptance points across the UK; and 35,000 points across the Western EU countries.

The Pipit Global partnership also brings lower-cost remittance within the African continent with the addition of 620,000 cash collection points in Nigeria, doubling the Pipit global footprint to 1.1 million collection points.

“We are building a global network of payment partners who recognise that for a growing segment of our society, cash is the main means of managing their finances.

Together we are building the technology to allow them to use their cash in the digital marketplace in increasingly secure and cost-effective ways.

We expect to keep growing as more customers trust the platform and enjoy the lower costs of sending money back home,” continues Ollie Walsh.

The COVID pandemic has accelerated the demand for digital financial products, and partnerships between financial technology companies such as Cellulant and Pipit bridge the gap between continents and make it easier for customers to access financial services with ease.

Kelechi Deca

Kelechi Deca has over two decades of media experience, he has traveled to over 77 countries reporting on multilateral development institutions, international business, trade, travels, culture, and diplomacy. He is also a petrol head with in-depth knowledge of automobiles and the auto industry

South Africa Launches First Electric Solar-Powered Public Transport Buses

July 7, 2021

Cape Town based leading public transport bus service operator, Golden Arrow has officially launched two fully electric buses to ferry passengers as of July. The Golden Arrow Bus Service (GABS) has been pushing to reduce the carbon emissions from its fleet of buses and begin using more renewable sources of energy. The bus service, which has been servicing Cape Town commuters for more than 160 years, began its renewable energy project in 2016, as a collaboration involving Golden Arrow, New Southern Energy, and the City of Cape Town.

Golden Arrow, which transports around 250,000 passengers daily, officially launched the two electric buses on Monday. These buses are expected to operate between Retreat and Cape Town, accommodating commuters who have been severely impacted by the collapse of MetroRail’s passenger train services in the metro. Golden Arrow, which transports around 250,000 passengers daily, officially launched the two electric buses on Monday.

The first phase of this electric vehicle programme involved the installation of a small-scale solar power system at Golden Arrow’s main depot in Epping. The second and third phases of the project expanded this small renewable power system to include 2,500 solar panels built on the roof of GABS’ Multimech depot.

Following the initial success of GABS’ solar power system, a 12-month pilot programme was launched to assess the feasibility of buses running on renewable solar power in the roads of Cape Town.

Business Insider reports that the pilot programme showed that fully-loaded electric buses had a range of around 300km before needing to be recharged. The pilot trial was an extensive one. It was supplied by China’s BYD with funding from uYilo eMobility programme and was conducted without human passengers.

Two buses were tested – one was completely empty, the other was filled with sandbags equivalent to the weight of 44 passengers.

“For the first few months we tested the buses in a range of circumstances without passengers,” explained Gideon Neethling, an engineer at GABS.

“The aim was to get to know exactly how these vehicles perform before incorporating them into our operations. Testing these vehicles has been a joy for everyone who is part of the project. Each time we carry out a new test or reach a new milestone, the level of excitement increases further.”

Kelechi Deca

Kelechi Deca has over two decades of media experience, he has traveled to over 77 countries reporting on multilateral development institutions, international business, trade, travels, culture, and diplomacy. He is also a petrol head with in-depth knowledge of automobiles and the auto industry

How AfriCrypt Founders Disappeared With $4 billion in South Africa Cryptocurrency Scam

June 28, 2021

AfriCrypt co-founder Ameer Cajee and Raees Cajee

Cryptocurrency investors in South Africa are facing a possible loss of nearly $4 billion in Bitcoin (BTC) after the disappearance of the founders of AfriCrypt, one of the country’s largest cryptocurrency platforms, vanished with their funds.

AfriCrypt was founded in 2019 by two brothers, Ameer Cajee and Raees Cajee but last week they were reported missing, together with 69,000 bitcoin worth roughly $4 billion of investors money.

In April, the exchange reportedly told its investors that its trading system was hacked and asked them not to report the incident to the authorities as it would “slow down” the recovery process. After the disclosure, Africrypt investors, which included several high-profile figures, celebrities, and high-net-worth individuals, lost access to the system’s back-end.

Some investors who were affected then hired Hanekom Attorneys to investigate the incident. Bloomberg cited the Cape Town-based law firm as saying it could not locate Ameer and Raees.

Hanekom, however, found that someone had withdrawn Africrypt’s pooled funds from the local accounts and client wallets where the coins were stored originally and put them through web tumblers and mixers, making it near impossible to trace the money.

The Cajee brothers reportedly transferred the pooled funds from a South African account before fleeing to the United Kingdom within days of the supposed hack. They are also alleged to have taken down the website and disconnected all contact, including their phone numbers.

According to the law firm, the scammers were “reckless enough” to drain the investors’ funds into some of the wallets that they had been using while simultaneously operating the scam and claiming to be hacked.

The Africrypt fraud is just one of the many massive crypto scams South Africans have suffered from in recent times. However, it could go down as the biggest cryptocurrency heist in history if the pooled funds are not recovered.

It is significantly larger than the approximately $200 million CAD that disappeared when the founder of Canada’s QuadrigaCX exchange died in India as well as the massive South African Mirror Trading International (MTI) scam that made off with close to $1 billion from over 260,000 investors.

According to reports, Ameer described himself as somewhat of a digital currency guru. In one of the pitches to investors, he reportedly said he first heard about BTC back in 2009 while watching the news with his father and had been hooked since. He was only 8 years old at the time.

He also claimed to have started mining ethereum (ETH) while in school and developing his own AI-powered trading algorithm. “It was this dynamic and innovative trading system that has fuelled Africrypt’s astronomical growth from a one-man operation running out of a bedroom to one of Africa’s largest and most successful AI trading companies in only a few years,” he was quoted as saying to investors.

Africrypt, as with many other scams, promised ridiculous returns. Sometimes, it claimed it could offer 10% daily Return on Investment (ROI). The pitch was able to lure wealthy investors with many clients investing upwards of $105,000 while some went as high as $1.4 million.

Recovery attempts will be complicated by the fact that cryptocurrency isn’t legally considered a financial product in South Africa. The country’s Finance Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) has said it can’t launch a formal investigation into the incident as no recognised financial product or services were provided.

However, Hanekom has notified South Africa’s “The Hawks”, a priority crime investigation unit, while exchanges around the world have also been informed of the supposed theft in case the brothers attempt to convert any coin. Also, a separate group of affected investors has started liquidation proceedings against the company.

Meanwhile, South African authorities have moved to embrace cryptocurrency trade and investment laws. A recent release of a position paper said that crypto assets will be brought into the regulatory scope in a “phased and structured” manner. The landmark Africrypt scandal is likely to further speed up the process.

Kelechi Deca

Kelechi Deca has over two decades of media experience, he has traveled to over 77 countries reporting on multilateral development institutions, international business, trade, travels, culture, and diplomacy. He is also a petrol head with in-depth knowledge of automobiles and the auto industry

Huawei Partners African Telecom Union to Boost Digital Transformation

June 26, 2021

The African Telecommunications Union (ATU) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Chinese tech giant Huawei that will see African countries and organizations build capacity for ICT transformation. Under the agreement, Huawei will provide training on skills development, including reskilling and upskilling for ATU members.

The MoU will also see the two organizations collaborate to support local innovation, share information on the latest trends, challenges and solutions in Africa and globally, and expand the digital economy as well as rural connectivity, in the continent, through furthering research.

According to a 2019 report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) on digital economies, Africa and Latin America together account for less than 5 percent of the world’s data centres. If left unaddressed, the report concluded, divides will worsen existing income inequalities. This, coupled with the fact that in the least developed countries (LDCs), only one in five people use the Internet as compared with four out of five in developed countries, is part of the motivation for the Huawei-ATU partnership.

“Huawei has transformed connectivity and made a major contribution to the continent through its investments in digital infrastructure, ICT skills, environmentally-friendly connectivity solutions, and cutting-edge technologies for rural areas,” says John Omo, Secretary-General of the ATU, speaking during the signing ceremony held yesterday in Nairobi, Kenya at the ATU headquarters.

“The organization is a trusted development partner of Africa. The document we are signing today aims at strengthening this partnership.”

“Africa has a tremendous opportunity to fully grasp the potential from new technologies,” he added.

Huawei and ATU Seek to Boost African Countries, Regulators and Citizens

The two organizations have a long history of working together and the ATU believes this new agreement will support African countries, regulators, and citizens in benefitting from the transition to a digital economy, adopting new technologies, promoting secure and resilient networks, and gaining the digital skills necessary to drive their economies forward.

“The ATU is playing a critical role in the region supporting member countries with their policies and strategies, sharing best practices, building capacity and driving innovation and we are delighted to be able to support them,” says Samuel Chen, VP at Huawei Southern Africa, thanking the ATU for leadership and promotion of ICTs in Africa.

“We have connected hundreds of millions of Africans to secure, high-speed broadband and cloud solutions in the last two decades and earned the trust and support of our customers and regulators; we look forward to doing even more,” Chen noted.

According to the MoU, the partners will also start offering cutting-edge training to ATU members, access to global experts to discuss the latest technologies and trends, and collaboration on research to help progress the continent’s digitization.

Kelechi Deca

Kelechi Deca has over two decades of media experience, he has traveled to over 77 countries reporting on multilateral development institutions, international business, trade, travels, culture, and diplomacy. He is also a petrol head with in-depth knowledge of automobiles and the auto industry

TECNO is to Re-define PHANTOM as a Flagship Sub-Brand

June 25, 2021

Leading smartphone brand in Africa and in the global emerging market, is said to re-define PHANTOM as its flagship sub-brand, aiming to tackle the premium smartphone market amid an ambitious global expansion plan. The smartphone industry never lacks changes and competition. As TECNO is gaining more and more reputation and attention in global markets, its relaunch of PHANTOM brand not only marks a jump forward of the brand to rival at higher-end market section, but also a significant change to the competitive landscape in global emerging markets.

According to an industry observer, with the economy recovering from the pandemic globally, TECNO captured the changes in market demand and heard the want of high-end consumers to try new brands that bring bolder and better innovations that can inspire confident and bright minds of better future. The relaunch of PHANTOM comes just in time. It marks TECNO’s determination as well as a solid step toward global outreach to high-end consumers.

Bearing the rich experience in global emerging markets of TECNO, PHANTOM brand is bound to reshape the competitive landscape and ecology of the entire smartphone industry of the mid and high-end segment by bringing industry the most-advanced technologies with fantastic innovative features.

As a new brand as well as a flagship to compete over other brands, the design and function of PHANTOM is expected to echo a premium level of care and respect which are far beyond expectations. Having features that accommodate the general needs and many of the overlooked aspects of daily life, with the added luxury of elegance in design, expectation is that the device will generate great interest and intrigue from high-end consumers.

According to credible source, the new device PHANTOM X is to be equipped with many industry firsts in target market segment, such as a 3D borderless screen, a special design of angle arc to present users with the best comfortable grip in hands, and an industry first curved glass surface etched texture, and more. While there will be improvements to the traditional advantages of a high-end smartphone brand, such as charging time, battery life and storage, the upcoming PHANTOM X will also feature the industry’s leading super large smartphone sensor.

In addition, PHANTOM as a new sub-brand, will also offer direct online purchasing service to consumers through its website, beginning with Nigeria and Kenya markets. The official website of PHANTOM will be formally launched in July, 2021. Here you will have access to browse PHANTOM products, as well as various options to exclusive VIP services including PHANTOM Club activities that customers and members are entitled to after purchase. With a convenient purchasing process, efficient logistics and distribution, exceptional after-sales service and customer-first focus in mind, PHANTOM aims to ensure consumers experience a first-class shopping experience.

Kelechi Deca

Kelechi Deca has over two decades of media experience, he has traveled to over 77 countries reporting on multilateral development institutions, international business, trade, travels, culture, and diplomacy. He is also a petrol head with in-depth knowledge of automobiles and the auto industry