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Geomarine Systems Is A Nigerian Player In Marine Technology

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Geomarine Systems Limited (GSL) is an indigenous Nigerian company specializing in hydrography and geosciences. GSL has performed very high caliber work for CGG, PGS, Emerald Energy Resources Limited, Conoil Producing, Chevron Nigeria Limited, Oando Plc., ExxonMobil, Addax Petroleum and Alscon / Rusal. 

 

GSL projects have included the provision of complete Nigerian crew for 3D Shallow Marine (using Ocean Bottom Cable, OBC technology) to PGS Limited for Chevron 2005 – 2007 as well as seismic operations support for CGG between 1991 and 1993 for Shell. GSL has also been very active in seismic QA / QC taking advantage of pioneering experience obtained at Western Geophysical in the swamps of the Niger Delta.

 

GSL has an agreement with Mitcham Industries, Inc. of Canada for the provision of up to date equipment for swamp, land and shallow marine seismic data acquisition.

 

In the area of shallow geology and marine geophysics, Geomarine Systems Limited owns a brand new GeoAcoustics multibeam wide swath bathymetry system in addition to other instruments and equipment. Our engineers have been trained on the system in the manufacturer’s plant in the UK and have used it extensively for pre – dredge survey of the Lower Imo River for M.T.S of St. Petersburg, Russia for Alscon / Rusal and for jack up rig footprint detection offshore.

 

Their Services

  • Seismic Data Acquisition
  • Seismic Data Acquisition QA/QC Services 
  • Seabed Geophysics  . 
  • Singlebeam and Multibeam Bathymetry  . 
  • Geotechnical Engineering 
  • Survey, Navigation and Positioning.

The Health Of Nations – Nigeria Is Still A Sick Nation, Yet To Revamp Its Healthcare

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You must have heard the report created by Economist Intelligence Unit for GE in order to access how countries are positioned to meet the critical healthcare challenges facing them in the years ahead. The developed world will continue to access cost efficiency- that high cost does not mean good healthcare delivery; firms that take better care of their workers tend to outperform the market; healthcare is a long-term national strategy, etc.

 

But in mother Nigeria, we are still trying to solve problems that have since been removed in the dictionary of most modern world. TB, polio, malaria, etc are all problems. The following are summarizes of  the report:

 

  •  Total expenditure on healthcare in Nigeria was an estimated 2.6% of GDP in 2008, of which around 70% was spent in the private sector. At around US$28 per head, spending on healthcare in Nigeria was lower than in most other Sub-Saharan countries.
  •  The backlog of work that needs to be carried out on the healthcare system, coupled with the growing demands on it, will ensure that the state health sector remains seriously under-funded, with many hospitals and clinics in poor condition.
  •  Increased government spending has gone on providing new facilities, largely in primary healthcare. However, government facilities lack modern medical equipment, have poorly qualified staff and suffer shortages of drugs. Although government-funded primary healthcare centres account for the majority of medical facilities in Nigeria, the private sector provides the majority of secondary healthcare facilities.
  •  As with many African countries, Nigeria is facing a huge potential health crisis caused by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Nearly 3m people in Nigeria are living with HIV/AIDS, with a prevalence rate of 3.1%: after South Africa, Nigeria rivals India for the second-highest rate of infection in the world.

 

In June 2006 the government launched a five-year scheme to reduce malaria, including better use of insecticide-treated nets. Although the government says that it is making headway in tuberculosis treatment, a recent World Health Organisation report found that Nigeria had the fifth-largest number of tuberculosis cases in the world in 2006.

 

You can read more about this on the  GE Health of Nations

The Big Decay In Nigeria’s Telecom Sector – Service Quality Has Hit Rock Bottom

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Tekedia will publish a report tomorrow about the decay in Nigeria’s telecommunication industry. From our industry data, the telecom sector in Nigeria is under a big threat. Service has gone from bad to worst that even some people in Owerri are switching from MTN to Multilinks (is that a good plan?).

 

Service is poor and the telecoms are not investing because the ARPU (average revenue per user) is going lower and lower. The reality is that the paying and profitable customers are gone and finding new areas of growth is becoming a huge problem. The business of prepaid card is a commodity one and Nigerians are not ready to pay for Value Added Services (VAS).

 

So, we see that the telecom industry is under severe stress.   The drop calls are unbearable and the signal strength is most areas is lower. No wonder, the House of Representative  has asked for assessment into what is causing this problem when the Committee on Communications reconvenes.

 

This is just the beginning. Tekedia thinks that most of the telecom players are not investing. They are watching their expenses because it has become tough in the nation. Airtel expected the magic in India to work, but is learning the hard way. The industry is under threat. Multilinks is gone, Starcomms trades as a junk in the Nigeria Stock Exchange. The big three are not pumping more money and service has gone down.

 

Mr Eddie Mbadiwe, a House member has summarized this when he said recently: ”The country needs efficient telecommunications in order to grow Nigeria’s IT and telecom sector.”. We hope someone can look at the problems and get them solved.

 

Mr. Idris Azizi, a telecom analyst that spoke with Tekedia from Kano noted that if the government does not save the nation from these telecom crises, the nation will reverse years of progress made in this sector. He also noted on the high cost of the service despite being sub-standard.

 

Tekedia will release the report tomorrow and we ask you to visit here for it.

 

Fasmicro Is Bringing Integrated Circuit Design To Nigerian Universities – Working With Global Leader, Cadence

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Fasmicro will form a Cadence Academic Network in Nigeria very soon as it is done in other parts of the world.

 

This is the vision when we authored the national Microelectronics thematic area on Vision 2020 for Nigerian government. What this means is that the selected school will help us with primary data to push for a national program which we will author and send to the Senate.

 

 

EUROPRACTICE is a European Commission initiative, funded by the EU Seventh Research Framework Programme (FP7). The aim is to improve the competitiveness of European industry by the adoption of advanced electronics technologies.

EUROPRACTICE is a quality brand name for European service-type projects in the Microelectronics, Microsystems and Photonics fields. The EUROPRACTICE brand name covers a wide range of FP6 and FP7 projects.

 

Meanwhile, we invite schools that want to join the network in Nigeria to send an email via the Vice Chancellor to info@fasmicro.com. Every aspect of this program is free and we are not accepting anything in return.  As we build more schools, we will help standardize SDK, PDK,  techfiles and other process and technology parameters for Nigeria. That way you can design your chip and send to partner institutions for fabrication. Fasmicro has already initiated contacts with MOSIS and CMP France for prototype chip fabrication. We will formalize all aspects in coming weeks. We hope to design on AMI 0.5um  and TSMC 0.18um processes as a start,

 

As soon as the systems are ready, we will run a three month program on the Cadence design process. Our pivot university will most likely be Federal University of Technology Owerri, Nigeria with Babcock University Nigeria as the next one.

 

 

 

Cadence Design Systems, Inc is an electronic design automation (EDA) software and engineering services company, founded in 1988 by the merger of SDA Systems and ECAD, Inc. For years it had been the largest company in the EDA industry. The name is pronounced with the stress on the first syllable.

Multilinks Staff In Confusion Over Their Future – Layoffs Loom Without Compensations

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The saga surrounding Visafone purchase and later cancellation of Multilinks. Then Telkom sale of the company to Helios Towers. And then, then; it is still evolving! But it seems that one group of people are losing badly – the workers of Multilinks.

Helios Towers rents out towers so that telecommunication operators can provide network coverage and build. They do this largely in Africa with Nigeria as one of its big markets. Helios Towers is a division of a private equity firm founded by a Nigerian UK based Harvard graduate who also invested in First City Monument Bank before the crash. This company has quite a war chest under management. Tekedia confirms that Helios Investment Partners holds rights in Helios Towers as our previous report confirmed.

Tekedia reports that Multilinks workers are troubled over what has happened in the last few months, if not weeks. They are not sure that the new management will need them or if they are to sack them will even compensate them.

The workers are visibly concerned that the Helios Towers driven by private equity firm in London will take the short pathway of firing and not paying any compensation. They are expecting the worst with some are not even expecting any kind of compensation. Everything now depends on the clause in the sale of the company by Telkom to Helios.

What is certain is that problems loom as even those that will be retained cannot be sure how long this Multilink metamorphosis will end. The new management will not remove competition from GSM players which continue to undermine any efforts from the CDMA small players, including Multilinks. Multilniks is a losing entity and its loses is expected to continue in the already saturating Nigeria telecom sector.

Tekedia has stated the only way out of the CDMA players is to merge. But for now, the workers of Multilinks will have to live the next few weeks.

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