Nigeria New Millionaires from Zain Promo Receive Prizes

The latest group of people to join the Millionaire rank in Nigeria courtesy of the ongoing Zain Naira Rain Promo has been presented with their winnings across the country.

The new millionaires are those that emerged from the Week One Draw of the leading mobile telecommunications company Promo. The prize presentations were held in various locations in Nigeria.

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Nigeria: Zain’s ‘One Network’ Expands to Egypt

Zain, the leading mobile telecom provider in the Middle East and Africa, announces the expansion of its ground breaking ‘One Network’ platform to Egypt in a strategic partnership with Mobinil. Over 27 million Zain customers in Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait*, Saudi Arabia and Sudan can now benefit from ‘One Network’ services  when visiting Egypt for business or pleasure with a reciprocal benefit for Mobinil’s 24 million customers when visiting any of these Zain countries. Read more

Nigeria: Zain, Ericsson to Fight Poverty in Rural Ghana

Working with the Millennium Villages Project, collaboration between The Earth Institute at Columbia University, Millennium Promise and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) and Zain have deployed mobile communications services to fight poverty in the Amansie-West district of the Ashanti region of Ghana. Read more

Zain trio make the top 100 of most influential global telecom leaders

Leading industry magazine Global Telecoms Business (GTB) has ranked Dr Saad Al Barrak in 20th position in its Top 100 most influential telecom executives for 2009, up nine places on his 2008 ranking. Two other senior Zain executives, Zain Africa CEO Chris Gabriel and the company’s Chief Business Development Officer, Salah Al Fouzan, were ranked 46th and 95th respectively. The rankings published by the London based magazine are yet another indicator of Zain’s growing influence in the international telecom sector and further evidence that the company’s bid to be a global top ten mobile operator by 2011 is gathering momentum. Read more

Zain Appoints Nigerian, Otuyemi Otule as IT Director

Leading mobile operator, Zain Nigeria has announced the appointment of Otuyemi Otule, as its new Information Technology (IT) Director. Otuyemi, Nigerian, joined ZAIN Nigeria in January 2009. Read more

Zain Nigeria Offers Special Roaming Package to Hajj Pilgrims

Zain Nigeria customers, who are traveling to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for this year’s Holy pilgrimage in Mecca, will be able to keep in touch with friends and family members at very affordable rates, using their regular Zain lines. Read more