Nigerian President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari has received the first made in Nigeria cell phone, known as ITF Mobile.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Minister of Industry, trade, and Investment, Adeniyi Adebayo, presented the phone to the president, before the commencement of Wednesday’s Federal Executive Council meeting in Abuja.
According to Mr. Adebayo, the phone is one of the 12 mobile phones produced, using locally sourced components, by the Electrical/Electronics Technology Department of the Industrial Training Fund’s (ITF) Model Skills Training Centre.
He said: “Twelve indigenous mobile cell phones produced by the Model Skills Training Centre of the Industrial Training Fund; an agency under Ministry of Industry Trade and Investment was launched.
“It gives me great pleasure Mr President, to present you with one of the phones.”
