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Slok Group To Launch Made-In-Nigeria Phone, Soon
The Slok Group will
soon launch a Nigerian made smart mobile phone into the local African and Asian markets. The phone will be sold at giveaway price in order to make it affordable to the ordinary users.
Chairman of the Slok Group and former governor of Abia state, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu, said the phones is being manufactured in the country and would be rolled out soon.
Kalu said the phone would have the lowest end of the mobile phone market and assured that the presence of the phone in the market would meet the yearnings of Nigerians for the type of utility phone they have long desired.
He said “very soon the Slok Group will roll out the first ever indigenous made mobile phone called Slok Mobile. It is a phone we have built to be sold in Nigeria and across Africa.
“I am rolling out the Slok telephone in less than eights time. We will have the lowest end of the mobile phone market.’
The Slok telephone, he added has all the packages of a modern phone and it is going to be a utility phone that Nigerians have been looking for.
He noted that Slok Group is truly an African company but proudly Nigerian. “So, this is what is coming on board. In the next eight weeks, the phones will be on the streets of Nigeria. We are going to roll out the phones on the Nigerian, Congo, Guinea, South Africa and other African markets.”
According to Kalu, the phone has patent right in the United States and other countries as well as Europe.
The former governor also said as a business man, he would want Nigeria to remain one, united country and that is the wish of every business man and woman in Nigeria including foreign investors.