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  • Familiar nexus

    Familiar nexus

    • It’s not enough to draw a link between kidnap ransoms and terrorism, but to curb the trend

    Terrorism in the three zones of Nigeria’s northern region is at the heart of the threat to national security. This apparently informed the disclosure by Coordinator of the National Counterterrorism Centre in the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) that a nexus has been established between kidnapping for ransom and festering insecurity in the land, especially in Zamfara, Niger, and Katsina states as well as parts of Kaduna. That disclosure is expected to aid security forces in combating the crime and support the Federal Government in its food security drive.

    The resurgence of kidnapping in the northern region has raised fears that not much might have changed, and that life could remain brutish and short for a while, with people forced to live as if they were in the Hobbesian state of nature.

    Under the previous administration, orders were issued many times that criminals be rooted out, equipment were procured for the armed forces and recruitments made; but all these have not re-written the narrative of insurgency activities. What Nigerians want now are no excuses for failure to achieve the goal. The security service chiefs have a duty to prove that they are fit for purpose. Even in the Northeast, there have been fresh rumblings, especially in areas of Borno State where soldiers have been ambushed and some killed of late.

    If proceeds of kidnapping have now been officially confirmed as oxygen for terrorism and other violent crimes in the northern part of the country, the National Security Adviser has a duty to come up with strategies and tactics to cut off this oxygen as soon as possible.

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    It is gratifying that President Bola Tinubu has highlighted the international connection in the growing phenomenon as arms are procured through the Sahel region, while foreign terrorist groups like Al-Queda and Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) have been identified on the battle field. Funding is, therefore, not sourced through kidnapping alone but also channelled through this network. The President’s first participation at the United Nations General Assembly meeting, and bilateral discussions on the sidelines pointed in the direction of seeking international cooperation to wiping out the scourge.

    It is painful that 11 prospective members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC)  being commuted to the orientation camp in Sokoto from Akwa Ibom State were kidnapped on August 21. In the aftermath, three escaped and one got rescued. It is unfortunate that lives of young persons about to be enrolled into a mandatory national service could be so toyed with. Realising that they were posted to a hazardous territory, what plans were made for their safety by the NYSC management, and probably the Akwa Ibom State government? Couldn’t they have travelled by air, even if that would warrant their being given special rebate? And if that was considered too expensive, couldn’t they have been accompanied by armed security men?

    It is time to comprehensively review the NYSC model. Areas that are unsafe should be avoided when posting fresh graduates. The anguish of parents of the kidnapped young persons is best imagined. Worse still, the NYSC has been quite stingy with providing information and showing empathy. For days, NYSC Director-General, Brigadier-General Yaminu Musa,  failed to speak on the sad occurrence, and neither did he visit affected families. It was even suggested that some in the NYSC management team gave the impression that the abducted graduates were not yet under their oversight as they were on the way to the orientation camp. This is an untenable notion because the lads were already in possession of their call-up letter, which served as the Corp’s formal invitation to them.

    Fifty years after the establishment of the scheme, there is need to evaluate its contribution to nation-building vis-à-vis hazards posed to innocent youngsters who may be venturing to the area of their service posting for the first time ever. For now, states in throes of critical insecurity should be excused from the scheme. Leaders of tomorrow should not be exposed to avoidable danger.

  • Summit on work opportunities, recruitment holds

    A group of concerned Nigerians has come up with an idea of bridging the gap between the industry and the classroom to tackle unemployment in the nation.

    They reasoned the initiative will further open many to gainful employment and other opportunities.

    Speaking with reporters on Education, Nexus, Industry, Project, (ENIPRO), the Convener, Jesse Ogabu, stated the initiative is to transform the lives of young people through recruitment opportunities.

    He said it will further creating a foundation through the newly designed academy, which will help reposition youth and make them industry- friendly.

    According to him: “Today, information Technology has taken over the industry creating opportunities for only those who are ready to add value to the industry which gave birth to the theme of discussion for the proposed 2.0 Enipro Summit, which is workplace/classroom: The future of work, local content, an inclusive strategy scheduled to hold on the 11th of April at the University of Lagos Main Auditorium.”

    The summit will have in attendance Prof. Pat Utomi, Fatai Folarin, Tope Fasua and a host of other captains of industry.

    Leading recruitment website Jobber-man and Poise Nigeria have also shown interest by creating opportunities for recruitment as well as polishing institute for graduates who still needs to learn the industry language.

    The head of Enipro Academy, Afolakemi Ogunnusi, stated the job place is a translation of what is learnt in the classroom, which many youths find it difficult to effectively replicate.

    He explained that enipro Academy has come up with solutions to effectively tackle that by putting our young graduates back on the right track.

    She also advised students, graduates, corps members and unemployed youths to take advantage of the initiatives and launch into a world of opportunities.

  • Veritas varsity and peace-development nexus

    A conference on Peace and Development in Nigeria by a centre backed by a university is bound to occupy a striking presence on the radar of those who, perforce, have to maintain such radar, either as peace journalists, peace activists or as formal students of Peace Studies. This is the fortune of Veritas University, Abuja, (also known as The Catholic University of Nigeria) and the conference on Peace and National Development it is holding on November 20 – 21, as part of activities marking its 10th anniversary. Peace and development remain two of the five most contested concepts in the post Cold War era, the other three being security, power and the state. So much contestation around peace that Peace Studies, for instance, which jumped out of International Relations (protesting realist framing of peace as absence of war and, Strategic Studies as a performance of war), have come round to inhabiting the same academic homestead with the same IRs and Strategic Studies. Now, they are all studied under Critical Security Studies.

    This time though, all three have, to a great extent, pushed out realism and its rationalist epistemology and, substantially, replaced it with the emancipation analytics. Contestation around development has been no less fierce, including the argument that even talks of post-development or of ‘death to development’. Professor Aturo Escobar, the American educated Colombian anthropologist and the leading exponent of post-development theory says this is because development has been a story, an alienating narrative by which the story tellers nurture underdevelopment instead of development. There is no likelihood this conference would escape manifesting a Nigerian version of this contestation.

    This is more so if it is linked to the question of where the African voice is in all the debates and contestations. It is no national chauvinism to say that asking about the African voice is also asking about the Nigerian voice. It is not only that Africa is still the centrepiece of Nigeria’s foreign policy; it is also that there are no alternative countries to Nigeria in terms of territorial, demographic, resource endowment stature vis-a-vis the responsibility of leading Africa. It is thus a tragedy that Nigeria has been going down over the years in terms of a coherent, stable and focused polity. But what it means is that there would be nothing surprising if a Nigerian entry point and an African voice are heard at the Veritas conference.

    But why an African voice on peace and development? To what extent would such a voice be African in a terribly fluid and an ambiguous world? If concepts such as peace and development are nothing but what we make of any or each of them, then the implication is that a conference on peace and development by a university in a country desperately in search of both peace and development as Nigeria must be some turning point in itself. We can say so because such a conference opens up the space for imagining or producing peace and development in accordance with Nigeria’s specificity. The Nigerian specificity becomes important in the context of the critical credo that every theory is for someone and for some purpose. If theories are not innocent interventions, then the Nigerian specificity is the only way to achieve originality in thinking and doing peace or development or constructing the nexus between them. In other words, peace is not about some universal master codes, master keys or master techniques with which to resolve conflicts. Peace is more about the voice that constitutes the power that frees all those structurally constrained from freedom and self or collective realisation. This is another potentially big angle to the Veritas conference.

    Closely related to that is the point that Peace Studies has been growing in Nigeria lately, beginning with the pioneering efforts at the University of Ibadan which now has a full-fledged Institute for Peace Studies. However, the totality of Peace Studies in Nigeria still lacks an overarching paradigmatic wager in the same manner that History, for instance, defined itself distinctively in the 1960s and thereafter in Nigeria, beginning with the Ibadan School of History and its methodological feat and then the ABU, Zaria School of History. If the African voice is the Nigerian voice and vice-versa, then this methodological self-definition is an imperative. The way peace is studied is constitutive of peace itself. This conference being substantially an academic exercise offers Nigeria her closest and earliest opportunity for an insight into how academia is constructing and constituting peace or the Peace – Development nexus.

    There is, unarguably, a rather Veritas University specific but no less a plausible explanation for the excitement in the air. Veritas University articulates a notion of a Centre for Peace and Development that is a cross between the old and the new as well as the ecclesiastical and the academic. In addition to the goodwill and collective standing of the Catholic establishment in Nigeria which owns the university, there is a uniqueness in this that cannot escape attention as well as attraction of many. The argument here is that there must be something inherently promising about a conference organised by such a centre backed by such a university. By the old, one is referring to the sense of the centre espoused, for instance, by Prof Mike Kwanashie, the Vice-Chancellor and the intellectuals around him. Prof Kwanashie is not a formal student of Peace Studies but an economist. But he speaks to holism in Peace Studies that formal students of the field would envy. This is not sycophancy but a recognition of the height their generation of scholars took academia to before the coming of crisis into academia in Nigeria. That is the element of the old in Veritas University’s Centre for Peace and Development while the new are the contemporary environment, attitudes, agenda and analytics enveloping the study and the production of peace.

    The ecclesiastical and the academic are self-explanatory in terms of ownership of Veritas and academic nature of the venture. Being a combination of the old, the new, the ecclesiastical and the academic necessarily turns the centre into a torchbearer in the prospects of returning Nigeria to the culture of debate, the death of which is at the root of the current, steady deterioration of the country. Some egg heads have been shouting themselves hoarse that the quantity and quality of debate in Nigeria is not adequate to sustain the country. All such voices are absolutely correct. Every country is as good or as hopeless as the quality and direction of debates taking place in its universities, policy mills, think tanks, bureaucracy, the military, political parties and the media, among others.  There is no great power today that is not a product of such debates. Neither Britain, the United States nor China, the newest great power, has attained that status without debates provoked by their Halford Mackinders.

    Nigeria does not seek to be an empire in either its territorial or discursive senses. Still, it needs quality debates on the key requirements for managing complexity in the 21st century. This makes contestations over ideas on peace and development a matter of priority. No university is inherently indebted to the country in terms of producing such ideas. The long connection between Catholicism and the education industry would, however, appear to tie Veritas University to the task of rising to the challenge of discourse and power in the search for peace and development in Nigeria, Africa and the world. This conference has the potentials to fulfil that. It cannot but be so for a Centre for Peace and Development imagined into being within just 10 years of the university’s existence and which at barely one year of age is able to stage a conference at which all voices are scheduled to be heard – Christians, Muslims, Judaism, Hinduism, traditional religion and more. That would be a remarkable statement on governing diversity that Nigeria itself cannot but note.

     

    • Onoja is a researcher in the Department of Political Science and Diplomacy at Veritas University, Abuja.
  • The Nexus

    The Nexus

    Like a streak of light, alpha Governor Akinwunmi Ambode illumined the Nigerian economy at the opening of the ultra-modern headquarters of The Providus Bank in Lagos recently. He saw the chaos in the foreign exchange impact on interest rates. He did not like it. He called the Federal Government and the CBN to harmonise them. Barely a week later, former central bank governor Chukwuma Soludo articulated the same sentiment.

    Governor Ambode was speaking as the man at the crest the creative hub of Africa’s fifth-largest economy. He mooted the idea as a nexus between investment and prosperity. The giddy up-and-down of the current exchange rates makes for an unstable market and it spills onto investment market where all labour is hired and profit minted.

    He also said this as a dreamer. The governor sits in the middle of transformational ideas like the Lagos Smart City projects, fourth mainland bridge, Oshodi transport interchange, Badagry Deep Sea Port, Lekki Free Trade Zone among others.

    He showed this verve at the weekend at the Guild of Editors convention when he said, “recession is not a crime,” rather it is a wake-up call to reset the economy’s buttons. Infrastructure is the main key. That is what he is doing with massive infrastructure work, one of the signal landmark is the Abule-Egba bridge that will open in a few weeks and turn a riot and rut of traffic into thoroughfare.

    He needs the dollars and rates to coalesce in a stable atmosphere, not only for his projects but also for the suite of big investors who partner Lagos for a raft of ambitious projects. Where most states struggle to pay salaries, Lagos is humming as a major buoy of the Nigerian economy. All stops in its way should step away.

  • NEXUS opens showroom in Ibadan

    NEXUS opens showroom in Ibadan

    Home appliances giant NEXUS operating under the Deekay Group, has opened a big show room in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.

    The group said its expansion to the new market is in line with the brand’s vision to reach more consumers and deliver durable, reliable, and stylish home appliances all at prices that won’t break the bank.

    During the opening of the new show room, the Managing Director, Mr. Kavine Vaswani, said: “We assemble ovens, refrigerators and freezers right here in Nigeria and import a selection of other items. We wanted to extend our reach. We have presence in Lagos. But we also consider Ibadan, Oyo State market as a viable option to reduce our dealers logistics challenges, potential damages during transportation from Lagos to Ibadan and sustain the momentum of attraction and business opportunities we are getting from our client from Ibadan, Oyo state,” he said.

    He said further that Nexus pioneered the introduction of coloured home appliances into Nigeria allowing customers for the first time to colour coordinate their kitchens, “Deekay Group imports a wide range of quality and affordable home and kitchen appliances under the Nexus and Saisho brands. We have been offering our Nigerian customers high quality products since 1972. The key to our success has been our strong relationships with our partners and over the years, consumers have grown to love and trust our products.Nexus offers home appliances such as inverters, stabiliser, fans, water dispensers, gas cookers, fridges and freezers.

    “Saisho offers a complete kitchen appliance range at affordable prices. Nexus pioneered the introduction of coloured home appliances into Nigeria allowing customers for the first time to colour coordinate their kitchens. As a result, we are offering the Ibadan market the same thing we offer in Lagos as competitive as the Lagos is. We have brought the same products here on competitive ground,” he noted.

    Vaswani, however, assured the consumers of quality products, value for their money and friendly prices. “We are conscious of quality control and pricing, the adjustment that needs to be made to suit average consumers in Ibadan. We are aiming to give Ibadan market more affordable products compare to some Korean ranges that are available here. We will also offer after sales service,” he said.

    For dealers, he said the firm is obviously reducing their risks by bringing NEXUS closer to them. “What we are doing is bringing the products to Ibadan markets to reduce challenges of logistics and potential damages during transportation,” he assured.

    Meanwhile, the General Manager, Mr Parnesh V said NEXUS is a marriage between product and consumers and the company is here to fulfill its brand promises to consumers in Oyo State.

    He said the company will ensures quality products and services are provided to valued clientele and continue to act with integrity, confidence and accountability in exercising of its brand mission in Nigeria.

    Also, the Head of Sales, Mr. Christy Augustine, said the company will not undermine Ibadan market and has plan to extend to other states in an attempt to reduce dealers cost of moving the products from Lagos to their states.

  • Nexus opens shop in Ikeja

    Nexus opens shop in Ikeja

    Maker of home appliances, Nexus, has opened its first shop in Lagos as part of its plan to expand consumer touch points in the country and reaffirm its commitment to delivering quality customer service.

    The shop, which provides consumers with an exciting avenue to experience and interact with firm’ line-up of products is strategically located on the Allen Avenue, Ikeja.

    The launch witnessed a lot of fanfare, tour of the showroom, product trials and notable faces from the music and movie industry.

    Its Head, Brands and Corporate Communications, Deekay Group, Damilola Owolabi, said: “We are thrilled to unveil our first Nexus brand shop in Nigeria. Nexus is a dynamic brand that has over the years enjoyed a vibrant relationship with its customers and will not stop at brand shops to engage, but will initiate several consumer friendly activities and communications going forward to constantly thrill and delight its consumers. One of such initiative is the “Life has just begun” campaign with the sole objective of making home appliances a necessity for all. So, we are asking consumers to get ready for a journey with Nexus which will bring comfort, style, and pleasure to different homes across Nigeria.”

    Head, Sales Deekay Group, Christy Augustine, added: “With the opening of the brand shop, our customers can see our various range of affordable products. Consumers are also assured of genuine Nexus products and every purchase is backed up with a two year warranty and after sales service. This masterpiece is expected to foster a deeper and more meaningful connection between customers and the Nexus brand.”

    Nexus, a part of an ever-growing brand portfolio of Deekay Group; a premier mixed trading and manufacturing company with over 40 years’ rich legacy of launching business in the market, conceived the Nexus Home Appliances brand over two decades ago to demonstrate its belief in the seamless fusion of style, functionality and durability into the home appliances industry.

    Since the opening of the Nexus brand shop  in Ikeja, the store has become a hive of activities as lovers of quality from various parts of the Lagos metropolis have continued to throng the shop to purchase their household items.

    Brand Shop Manager, Mr. Oladosu Olalekan, said the patronage from customers had been wonderful since the shop was opened to the public few weeks ago.

    “Our customers have been coming to buy their favorite items. Some have been coming to make enquiries about the latest product from the Nexus range of quality products. So far, the responses are encouraging,” he said.

    He also enjoined customers to take advantage of the 15 per cent discount on all products. This special discount, however, will end by this month end.

    The well-stocked store parades the best in home appliances ranging from fridges of all sizes with elegant designs to meet the taste of its customers. Also in large quantities are: gas cookers, chest freezers, water dispenser, industrial fan, table top microwave, inverters and stabilisers.

    On display at the spacious showroom are: cookers – deep fryer, rice cooker, pressure cooker as well as ovens of various sizes and designs.

    With the opening of the brand shop, customers can seevarious ranges of affordable products. Consumers are also assured of genuine Nexus products and every purchase is backed up with a two-year warranty and after sales service.

  • Nexus opens shop in Ikeja

    Nexus opens shop in Ikeja

    Maker of home appliances, Nexus, has opened its first shop in Lagos as part of its plan to expand consumer touch points in the country and reaffirm its commitment to delivering quality customer service.

    The shop, which provides consumers with an exciting avenue to experience and interact with firm’ line-up of products is strategically located on the Allen Avenue, Ikeja.

    The launch witnessed a lot of fanfare, tour of the showroom, product trials and notable faces from the music and movie industry.

    Its Head, Brands and Corporate Communications, Deekay Group, Damilola Owolabi, said: “We are thrilled to unveil our first Nexus brand shop in Nigeria. Nexus is a dynamic brand that has over the years enjoyed a vibrant relationship with its customers and will not stop at brand shops to engage, but will initiate several consumer friendly activities and communications going forward to constantly thrill and delight its consumers. One of such initiative is the “Life has just begun” campaign with the sole objective of making home appliances a necessity for all. So, we are asking consumers to get ready for a journey with Nexus which will bring comfort, style, and pleasure to different homes across Nigeria.”

    Head, Sales Deekay Group, Christy Augustine, added: “With the opening of the brand shop, our customers can see our various range of affordable products. Consumers are also assured of genuine Nexus products and every purchase is backed up with a two year warranty and after sales service. This masterpiece is expected to foster a deeper and more meaningful connection between customers and the Nexus brand.”

    Nexus, a part of an ever-growing brand portfolio of Deekay Group; a premier mixed trading and manufacturing company with over 40 years’ rich legacy of launching business in the market, conceived the Nexus Home Appliances brand over two decades ago to demonstrate its belief in the seamless fusion of style, functionality and durability into the home appliances industry.

    Since the opening of the Nexus brand shop  in Ikeja, the store has become a hive of activities as lovers of quality from various parts of the Lagos metropolis have continued to throng the shop to purchase their household items.

    Brand Shop Manager, Mr. Oladosu Olalekan  said the patronage from customers have been wonderful since the shop was opened to the public few weeks ago.

    “Our customers have been coming to buy their favorite items. Some have been coming to make enquiries about the latest product from the Nexus range of quality products. So far, the responses are encouraging,” he said.

    He also enjoined customers to take advantage of the 15 per cent discount on all products. This special discount, however, will end by this month end.

    The well-stocked store parades the best in home appliances ranging from fridges of all sizes with elegant designs to meet the taste of its customers. Also in large quantities are: gas cookers, chest freezers, water dispenser, industrial fan, table top microwave, inverters and stabilisers.

    On display at the spacious showroom are: cookers – deep fryer, rice cooker, pressure cooker as well as ovens of various sizes and designs.

    With the opening of the brand shop, customers can seevarious ranges of affordable products. Consumers are also assured of genuine Nexus products and every purchase is backed up with a two year warranty and after sales service.

  • Nexus opens first shop in Lagos

    Leading maker of home appliances, Nexus, has opened its first brand shop in Lagos as part of its plan to expand consumer touch points in Nigeria and reaffirm its commitment to delivering of quality customer service.

    The shop, which provides consumers with an exciting avenue to experience and interact with Nexus’ line-up of products is strategically located in the heart of Lagos on the Allen Avenue, Ikeja.

    The launch witnessed a lot of fanfare, tour of the showroom, product trials and notable faces from the music and movie industry.

    The Head, Brands and Corporate Communications, Deekay Group, Damilola Owolabi, said: “We are thrilled to unveil our first Nexus brand shop in Nigeria. Nexus is a dynamic brand that has over the years enjoyed a vibrant relationship with its customers and will not stop at Brand Shops to engage, but will initiate several consumer friendly activities and communications going forward to constantly thrill and delight its consumers. One of such initiative is the “Life has just begun” campaign with the sole objective of making home appliances a necessity for all. So, we are asking consumers to get ready for a journey with Nexus which will bring comfort, style, and pleasure to different homes across Nigeria.”

    Head of Sales Deekay Group; Christy Augustine also added “With the opening of the brand shop, our customers can see our various range of affordable products. Consumers are also assured of genuine Nexus products and every purchase is backed up with a two year warranty and after sales service. This masterpiece is expected to foster a deeper and more meaningful connection between customers and the Nexus brand”.

    Nexus, a part of an ever growing brand portfolio of Deekay Group; a premier mixed trading and manufacturing company with over 40 years’ rich legacy of launching business in the Nigerian market, conceived the Nexus Home Appliances brand over two decades ago to demonstrate its belief in the seamless fusion of style, functionality and durability into the home appliances industry.

  • Nexus between politics, journalism

    Over the years, society has shown the curious interconnection between two major aspects of:  politics and journalism. There has been a mysterious link between the duo for a very long time. Many struggled and wished to stay at one end of both ropes, but such attempts seemed futile. Several people have crossed the boundary, dangling between both paths more than once. It is rather obvious that there is a clear firewall between two professions. There seem to be a very thin boundary, or perhaps, a reflective door in the firewall, such that with time, politicians and journalists cross the line  changing roles and moving from side to side. When they cross, there is somewhat complete attainment of different characters, thus, journalists have a shaky responsibility.

    As a direct consequence, it can be argued that there is nothing wrong with a journalist making on a foray into politics. However, it becomes knotty when a journalist aims to campaign while reporting. Otherwise, we get caught up in biased judgements.

    Today, the elites are often not comfortable with the media, and in the same vein, the media look at the government with contempt whenever its freedom is tampered with. The super-powers are often in war with reporters; and the reason for this is the suspicion that a free press could lionise an ordinary citizen to an extent of causing a shift in power base. This assumption, is erroneous in journalism.

    The most important attribute can be linked to efforts of antediluvian journalists cum politicians such as Nnamdi Azikiwe, Herbert Macaulay, Obafemi Awolowo and others, who all cut their first teeth in journalism before joining politics.

    The provision of Section 22 of 1999 Constitution confers the freedom of press on Nigerian media. It reads inter-alia: “the press, radio, television and other agencies of mass media shall at all times be free to uphold the fundamental objectives contained in this chapter and uphold the responsibility and accountability of the government to the people.”  This particular provision relates to all media practitioners and press outfits throughout the Federal republic of Nigeria. It also grants private individuals the power to run their own press outfits or consolidate the government-owned. In this regard, the media remains the sole watchdog of the three components of the government, to wit; executive, judiciary and the legislature.

    In a nutshell, the nexus between journalism and politics is divergent. Thus, there has been a growing case of symbiotic relationship between the two. For better outcome, all concerned parties need to define their responsibilities and maintain their niche without transgressing same.

     

    •Aminat, 400-Level Chemistry, UNILORIN

  • LG Nexus 4 testimony

    “Before buying the Nexus 4, I needed a good phone. But to me it is an investment. I don’t believe in buying a phone every now and then for the fun of it. It is better than nearly every phone in the market. It is a superior handset In more ways than one. This is a real Nexus.

    ”I have been using the LG Nexus 4 for close to two months now- it is super. Regarding capacity, I was concerned about it before buying, but now I see I don’t need much. All movies and audio I can get through DLNA from my external drives, with Windows Media Player and ArkMC installed on Nexus 4. Overall, the device is very convenient.

    “From my observation, the LG Nexus 4 is also very popular with the younger generation; the phone is more like a status symbol for them. It comes complete with specifications and applications to brag about. When compared to other phones in its league, the Nexus 4 has better resolution, faster processor, newer operating system as well as an ergonomic body. “

    That was how Rosemary Osunde a 35 year old woman detailed her thoughts and experience after two months of using the Nexus 4 phone recently introduced by LG Mobile. The computer analyst could not help but say more about the mobile device and all the amazing impact it is having on her performance and productivity level at work and at home.

    “This new smartphone from LG comes complete with my favorite Google Apps, an amasing Photo Sphere camera, cutting edge hardware, and access to my favorite entertainment on Google Play – Nexus 4 puts the best of Google in the palm of my hand,” she added.

    For Mr Ebere Bieni, a business executive who resides in Lagos, the LG Nexus 4 phone has empowered him in a great amount of ways so much that he depends on his phone to carry out most of his office tasks, as he can easily access files and documents on his phone even when he is not at his work desk. His old phone which also happened to be a Smartphone was grossly ineffective and inept which made him seek to get a new Smartphone that can perform on many levels. When he heard of the new LG Nexus 4 smartphone, he decided to give it a try. And ever since he purchased the LG Nexus 4, he found that he has become more productive and successful at what he does.

    His words: “Prior to acquiring the LG Nexus 4 Phone, the smartphone I was using was underwhelming and boring; it had Wi-Fi connectivity issues which made connecting to the internet extremely difficult. The screen was also too small which made deciphering and reading from the phone a herculean task; the battery was also an outstanding issue because it does not last long enough; as a result I had to charge it again and again. Microphone malfunction was another low point of the device.

    My wife had requested that I get a new Smartphone, but I declined due to my experiences with most of the smartphones that were available in the market because in my assessment those phones’ ‘highlights’ are mere enhancements of old features or just plain gimmicks.

    “Out of annoyance and frustration, I returned to using a feature phone that I have long neglected, but discovered my performance level at work was dropping as I was unable to access my mails as well as social media. All that continued till a friend intimated me on the amazing capabilities of the LG Nexus 4 smartphone. I was a bit apprehensive, but decided to give it a try. But having used it for two months now, I am hooked.

    “In terms of price, this phone is simply amazing; I am impressed with Nexus 4’s affordable price and impressive specifications; it is precisely priced to niggle away at the overpriced market; with a flagship phone that leads the way in both hardware and software it is indeed a breath of fresh air to an overpriced consumer market.

    “I will also like to point out that it has got the latest processor, amazing performance, 2GB of RAM and internal memory of 16GB. The nexus 4 also works great for games as well as TV. The fast processor makes for buttery smooth running. On the whole, I am highly impressed with what this mobile phone can do.”

    The LG Nexus 4 E960 phone was introduced into the Nigerian market in mid-February and it has been enjoying rave reviews with many users finding it to be a refreshing new way to interface with a smartphone.

    With the Nexus 4, navigation is a breeze, as users are able to get to the places they care about quickly and easily with Google Maps. With turn-by-turn GPS navigation, live traffic info, and integrated driving, walking and public transit directions, getting from one place to the other has never been easier.

    Users can search for nearby restaurants, businesses and more; recommendations from people in their circles and from experts, as well as full place reviews and summaries from Zagat editors are also easily accessible.

    3D Maps and rich satellite imagery is another massive feature on this phone as it gives one a more realistic sense of what’s around while features like Street View and Indoor Maps make sure you always know what’s in front of you.

    Weighing a mere 139g, the LG Nexus 4  also known as the E960  comes with exciting features such as the Android Jelly Bean Operating System (OS), an 8 Mega Pixel camera, 16 GB internal Memory capacity, 2GB of RAM as well as a 2,100 mAh Li-polymer battery.

    The mobile device in a massive way solidifies LG’s position as a brand to be reckoned with in the global smartphone market. Since its introduction it has been highly rated by phone pundits.

    LG Nexus 4 is a powerful unlocked Smartphone with a beautiful minimalist design and fast performance. It wins on internal performance and user experience. The Korean giant, LG Electronics strategically designed and manufactured the E960 in partnership with Google. The introduction of this high-end phone is informed by the company’s quest to achieve its primal objective of meeting the needs of its esteemed consumers.