Lagos State Deputy Governor Host XHS Nigeria Team on 21st Century Smart Office Delivery


His Excellency, the Deputy Governor of Lagos State government – Dr. Kadri Obafemi Hamzat has expressed contentment to the management of XHS Nigeria Ltd. for consistently delivering quality euipment and solutions to the Lagos Examination Board for the past 14 years which he said has enhanced the productivity of the state board and encouraged the XHS team to keep up with the good work.

Dr. Hamzat made this statement recently during a courtesy visit of XHS Nigeria Ltd. management team to the State House led by the MD/CEO – Engr. Femi Okunade on delivering 21st Century Smart Office Solutions to Lagos state.
The Deputy Governor expressed readiness of the state government to partner with the company and encouraged Engr. Okunade to meet and propose solutions that will be beneficial to the state through the Hon. Commissioner for Science and Technology, Hon.Hakeem Popoola Fahm and his team

Responding, Engr. Okunade expressed his team’s gratitude to the state government for giving XHS Nigeria the privilege to share in its responsibility of executing the state T.H.E.M.E.S. agenda by providing Print Management solutions across the MDAs to support e-Governance, reduce cost of printing and enhance productivity.

Also, he informed the Deputy Governor of his team willingness to partner with the State Printing Corporation by deploying the world class Xerox Iridesse production press. “We are ready to provide a 21st century smart office solutions (digitization of documents, Scanners, Multifunctional Printers, Industrial and high-end production devices) to the corporation”. He stated
Lagos State government’s promise came after the recently held five days physical and virtual open house exhibition of XHS Nigeria Ltd., sole distributors of Xerox print equipment and consumables, Document Solutions provider in Nigeria in partnership with Lagos State Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) themed “21st Century Smart Office Exhibition” at the Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu ICT Centre, Alausa, Lagos.

The exhibition was organized in order to address the pressing challenges of having 21st century smart office solutions like Lagos State. It showcased Xerox array of 21stcentury office solutions and had in attendance at the opening ceremony – The Honourable Commissioner – Ministry of Science & Technology (MoST); Hon. Hakeem Popoola Fahm, The Permanent Secretary Ministry of Science & Technology; Mr. Segun Adeniji, Senior Special Advisor to the Governor on Science & Technology, Mr. Saheed Balogun, Mr. Yinka Soroungbe; Director ICT, Ministry of Science & Technology, Mr. Kadri Samsideen, Unit Head of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Centre and many more senior staff of Lagos State Government who joined the exhibition virtually

During paper presentation, The Honourable Commissioner – Ministry of Science & Technology; Mr. Hakeem Popoola Fahm said that Xerox is partnering with MoST to braze the trail in deploying the RIGHT TECHNOLOGY to meet the POST COVID-19 office work infrastructural requirements of Lagos State MDAs. According to him, the exhibition of document technologies was to empower the over 57,000 employees of Lagos State MDAs to work SMARTER in the office environment and even remotely anytime from any part of world workplace using Xerox Connectkey Technology which is reshaping the 21st century office into a SMART OFFICE. “The exhibition displayed globally tested XEROX hardware and software solutions that would enable our MDAs to seamlessly generate DOCUMENTS and turn them into SMART formats that can be moved across our MDAs LAN, WAN & CLOUD network to deliver SMARTER SERVICES to achieve the T. H. E. M.E agenda of the administration of His Excellency – Governor Babajide Sanwo-olu “ Hon. Fahm said.

Also MD/CEO of XHS Nigeria Limited, Engr. Femi Okunade in his address said “the objective of smarter workforce and smarter environment can be achieved with Xerox enhanced document management solutions and information management system. The application of Xerox equipment on retrieval cannot be overlooked, Lagos State Government (LASG) has the advantage of buying, using and sticking to Xerox Products; because Xerox is a trailblazer and foremost document solutions provider”.

Also, General Manager, Sales and Marketing Mr. Femi Abidoye said that Xerox has award winning products & services globally; with unparalleled technology that will uplift the already smart environment provided by Ministry of Science & Technology to LASG.

Xerox Smart Office Solutions include – XEROX CONNECTKEY TECHNOLOGY that helps businesses to discover new ways to work smarter and create the most productive workplace in today’s business world. It stops the user from thinking about printers as standalone but as task-specific workhorses.

Xerox ConnectKey Technology-enabled multifunction printers are the hub of office productivity ecosystem, bringing together all devices, delivering an intuitive user experience, providing mobile and cloud connectivity, complete security and access to value-extending services right out of the box. It does more than print, scan or copy.

Among other products Xerox exhibited is Xerox Docushare software for Electronic Document Management Solutions.
Other solutions by Xerox are Managed Print Services, Xerox Digital Press, Xerox Business Services, After Sales support by trained engineers, etc.