| ONI LAUNCHES GLO FREE ACCESS PROGRAMME, DIRECTORY FOR EKITI WORKERS |
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| Written by Lere Olayinka | |
| Monday, 15 February 2010 | |
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Ekiti State Governor, Engr Segun Oni has launched the Glo Free Access Programme (GFAP) for public servants in the three arms of government and traditional rulers in the State with an assurance that his administration would support any programme that would make life better for the people.
Chief Press Secretary to
the Governor, Mr. Wale Ojo-Lanre said in a statement that Governor Oni,
who was represented at the ceremony in Ado-Ekiti, by his Chief of
Staff, Mr Samuel Adekunle commended the communication giants, Globacom
for the initiative under which free SIM cards and directories would be
distributed to all public servants in the State Public ServiceHe stressed that the program would make communication among government functionaries easier, more accessible and affordable, adding that the directory would make cross-functional accessibility possible for all personnel in the State public service as officials in the same department only have to remember the last four digits of the telephone numbers of their colleagues as the numbers are serially arranged. Oni, who urged the Management of Globacom to increase its presence in the State stressed that his administration would continue to provide an enabling environment for businesses to thrive in the state. Earlier in his remarks, the Head of Public Sector of Globacom Limited, Mr. Tunde Amunikoro noted that the essence of the Glo Free Access Programme was to provide a platform for all categories of civil servants including drivers, stewards and top government officials to call each other at remarkably low rates and check up names and numbers of their colleagues in the three arms of government in the Ekiti state directory provided by Globacom. He disclosed that his company had mapped out a Rural Telephony Programme for the State, which the State Government has approved in principle under which people in the rural area in the State would have the same privilege of making telephone calls like others in the urban area without having to travel long distances. |
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