Yemisi Izuora
Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management
has rewarded its hard working personnel just as it expressed its willingness to partner with relevant authorities for the realisation of the country’s power sector reforms.
The company also promised to liaise with key stakeholders to ensure the country’s full power potential is achieved for the overall benefit of Nigerians.
Speaking at the special recognition and award event for employees, the Country President, Schneider Electric Nigeria, Mr. Walid Sheta
stated that the company will forever be indebted to their staff who worked tirelessly, ensuring that the company’s objectives were met and surpassed.
The past decade has seen Schneider Electric’s operations in Nigeria, driven towards the actualization of the Federal Government’s effort of national development through the Energy and IT sector.
This could be seen in some milestone projects like its collaboration with MainOne on the finalization of the first of its kind Tier 3 datacenter in West Africa, the launch of its retail business to gradually develop a network of accredited retailers, stemming the rate of counterfeit products, its participation in the ‘’Light Up Rural Nigeria project’’ in collaboration with the Federal government, and launch of APC by Schneider Electric experience center, another first of a kind in Africa to mention a few, he said.
As part of its focus for 2015 and beyond, Schneider Electric has concluded plans to addressing emerging markets in Nigeria where the middle class is experiencing exponential growth rate.
“With over 170 million inhabitants and 10 cities among the 30 biggest cities in Africa, there is a growing need to address the building and construction gaps.
The key word for Schneider Electric is geographical coverage, being available to serve not only big infrastructure projects but also the small and medium scale building sector. We are going to address these diffused markets”, Walid Sheta revealed.