Mobile Clinic Nurse, Forgiveness Charles attends to a baby at Kokona in Garaku LGA of Nasarawa State, at the weekend during the arrival of Pampers Mobile Clinic, a CSR initiative of Procter & Gamble West Africa going through rural and Semi urban communities to give free medical consultations to young mothers who may not easily be served by hospitals

STARCOMMS REWARDS BOXING HERO

It was a day of double celebration for youthful boxer, Taiwo Agbaje who was adjudged the Starcomms overall best boxer in the Lagos State Boxing Hall of Fame Boxing Competition for the month of December as he had the honour of receiving his prize from the governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola for displaying unmatched skills.Agbaje, an amateur boxer in the 56KG category from Young Star Boxing Club, Lagos who also won the governor’s belt applauded Starcomms commitment to boxing development in the country thanking Starcomms for its regular sponsorship of the competition.The Starcomms overall best prize recipient was full of excitement and jubilation as his fans raised him shoulder high running round the indoor hall of Mobolaji Johnson Sports Complex, Rowe Park, Lagos, venue of the competition.In his appreciation remark, Agbaje said he was excited about the double honour saying that the honour was not just for him alone but for the Fashola administration that created the platform and Starcomms which makes sure that the competition holds every last Saturday of the month, although the December edition was held on boxing day, December 26, 2010.Excited about the level of commitment of Starcomms to grassroots boxing development in the state, the Starcomms boxing hero said that he was extremely happy that Starcomms involvement in boxing sponsorship has helped to bring him double honour noting that he is proud to be a double winner of an outstanding and a winning brand. He further said that the double honour, which came to him from Starcomms and the governor, is a sign that the investment of Starcomms in the development of grassroots boxing is yielding fruits.

P&G Takes Mobile Clinic to Nasarawa, Gets Applause from Beneficiaries

December 2010, Young mothers of Kokona community in Garaku Local Government area of Nasarawa state have praised leading consumer goods company Procter & Gamble for the benefits they derived from the Pampers Mobile Clinic, the company’s corporate social responsibility initiative which berthed in their community.
The Mobile Clinic is an advisory “Clinic-on-wheels” programme designed to meet mothers and babies, right where they live. The clinic is taken to mothers and babies in semi-urban areas where challenges such as finance, transportation, education and inaccessibility of facilities are usually a hindrance to taking the best care of their babies.
The mobile clinic in Nasarawa, which comprised a team of medical practitioners, led by Dr. Eze Ifeoma docked at the market square in Kokona last Thursday and witnessed an influx of hundreds of young mothers who trooped there to be attended to. Many of the mothers who are excited and grateful for the free baby care/hygiene education, health checks and diaper samples they got from the clinic said that the initiative has helped them to know how better to take care of their babies.
Garaku mothers who availed themselves of the opportunity of Mobile Clinic were given instructions on issues like feeding habits, breast feeding, sleep patterns, vaccination, and common ailments, which are usually the source of their worries.
Mary Haruna, one of the young mothers said: “The clinic has done well for us. We were taught about how to feed our babies, how to help them sleep well without waking up many times in the middle of the night. The nurse weighed our babies to know how well they have been doing at their age. Then the doctor attended to our babies and told us what to do in case they are not feeling fine. After that, we went to the general shed where another nurse spoke to us and gave us gifts of Pampers. It is a very good thing they are doing for us.”
Rahinatu Gaya, another mother who attended the Mobile Clinic in Kokona said: “We are very happy. They are teaching us many things we did not know.”
According to the brands operations manager, P&G West Africa, Ogbemi Kesiena, “Pampers Mobile Clinic is part of the broader P&G purpose of touching and improving lives. The clinic passes through several hundred communities every year. By June of next year, we hope that the current round of Mobile Clinic will have reached 700 Nigerian communities.”
The public relations manager, P&G, Busola Adetosoye, said Mobile Clinic forms an integral part of the “Live, Learn, and Thrive”, the company’s global corporate social responsibility platform, which focuses on the development of children in need between the ages of zero and thirteen years. The Mobile Clinic which ensures a healthy start for children covers the “Live” aspect of the platform.
“At P&G our purpose is to touch and improve lives. We look out for communities where access to primary healthcare facilities is not easily available and reach out to the mothers and babies with health care and baby care education, thus enabling a healthy start for the babies.”

From centre, Chief Commercial Officer of Starcomms Plc., Tushar Maheshwari displaying the Starcomms myPAD to journalist during a press conference at the company’s corporate office, Adetokunbo Ademola Street, Victoria Island, Lagos, yesterday. With him is Nkiru Onono, Marketing & Communications Manager, Starcomms Plc and Managing Director, TPT International, Limited, Charles Igbinidu.

STARCOMMS BLAZES TRAIL WITH FIRST OF ITS KIND myPAD

Driven by the passion to keep adding value to the lives of its customers, Starcomms Plc, Nigeria’s innovative and multiple award winning telecommunications company has introduced the first of its kind myPAD into the Nigerian mobile telephone market. It would be recalled that starcomms recently blazed the trail as the first CDMA company in the world to introduce international inter-standard roaming between CDMA and GSM operatorsInnovatively designed as a high-end tablet/data device, the stylish hi-tech device is technologically crafted to support multiple and up to date data functionalities that helps the user maintain his /her high social profile.Besides being powered by a 2.1 Android operating system that gives the best of processing speed, the Starcomms myPAD comes with an exquisite and attractive appearance that radiates the grandeur that the Starcomms brand is known for in the telecommunications industry in Nigeria.According to the Chief Commercial Officer of Starcomms, Tushar Maheshwari, myPAD is only available in Nigeria on the Starcomms network saying that the introduction of the device is timely in this convergence era.He said that in line with Starcomms passion in ensuring that its customers have access to innovative products and the service that keeps them in tune with technological trends, myPAD has embedded functional applications that will excite the user saying that some of the applications include: Skype, Yahoo, YouTube, MSN, Yahoo messenger and FaceBook. He further said that there are entertainment applications for music and games with free downloadable games. MyPAD has a wider screen of 10.2 inches that offers the user excellent visibility while using the tablet.He explains that the device, which comes with an optional branded luxury leather case carrier, has a 10-giga byte memory that can be expanded to 64-giga byte, 2 USB and LAN port, an HDMI out and a 2.0 mega pixel webcam, a user friendly manual and a battery charger. MyPAD offers an exciting movie experience for movie lovers as it comes with an HDMI out for connecting and downloading video to TV.
With an introductory offer of N74, 999 the Starcomms myPAD comes with a bundled offer of free i-zap Internet Router that connects up to 5 Users and 3 months Internet. Without the router and Internet access myPAD sells at a price of N54, 999.While speaking on the value that the Starcomms myPAD will add to the life style of the user, Maheshwari said that the new mobile device, in addition having exciting features that makes its use pleasurable, it has been designed specifically to leverage on the desire of every upwardly mobile individual. Hence, he said that Starcomms has creatively kept to its tradition of innovativeness in the delivery of unmatched quality products and services while designing the myPAD noting that it conveniently suits the data communications needs of its customers and that it is a device everyone will find very useful.

L-R: Starcomms Chief Commercial Officer, Tushar Maheshwari presents the key of a Kia Rio to Titilola Tokun, an educationist and Smart Center operator who won the star prize of a car in the just concluded Bonuzee promo for payphone operators during the presentation at The Place in Ikeja GRA Lagos Tunde Odetunde, Starcomms Senior Manager, Dealer watches during the presentation at The Place in Ikeja GRA Lagos on Saturday 18 December 2010

STARCOMMS PRIZES EXCITE BONUZEE WINNERS

Starcomms Smart Centres operators, are now set for an exciting celebration in their homes during the yuletide as prizes, which they won in the third edition of the Starcomms Bonuzee Loyalty promotion has be redeemed at a ceremony full of funfair and jubilation.
Excited by the several prizes, which they won and the impact such prizes will have on their families, the elated winners did not hide their joy and appreciation for Starcomms Plc as they pour encomium on the award winning telecommunications company for bring the good things of life into their homes.
All Smart Centre operators who were present at the presentation prize ceremony went home with prizes ranging from cars, television sets, microwave ovens, DVD players as well as huge sums of money.
Titilayo Tokun, an educationist who combined the Smart Centre business with her career said that although the car was not her first, she is so excited that the news of the new car will add colour to the yuletide celebration in her family.
Tokun who operates her Smart Centre in Ibadan said that the news that she has won a new Kia Rio car initially did not jolt her into jubilation saying that the prevalence of fraudulent claims made her to doubt the news.
She however said that arriving the venue of the event and seeing the cars packed outside the premises of the event venue increased jolt her into excitement about the prize thanking Starcomms for putting smiles on her face and that of other Smart Centre operators who have been loyal to the Starcomms brand.
Describing Starcomms as a worthy partner to do business with, she called on all other Smart Centre operators in the country not to relent in their commitment to the Starcomms brand noting if they did not win today tomorrow they will win.
As for Sylvester Chukwuebuka Orji, the Onitsha based Smart Centre operator who brave all odds to confirmed the authenticity of the promised prize from Starcomms, the excitement of having a new car to drive his family around during the yuletide began when he was presented the keys to the brand new Kia Rio car.
According to him, it was a thoughtful thing for Starcomms to reward her loyal business partners during the yuletide saying that such gesture adds value to the Starcomms brand, which has brought joy into his family.
Also Idiong Justice who won the cash prize of N750, 000 describe the gift offer from Starcomms as an opportunity for a celebration galore for him and his other colleagues who won other cash prizes of N500, 000 and N50, 000.00 saying that “we are happy that Starcomms is giving us this gift at a thing like this in the year when families are looking for money to celebrate the Christmas and the New Year”.
Presenting the prizes to all the winners, Chief Commercial Officer of Starcomms, Tushar Maheshwari said that the Starcomms Bonuzee Loyalty, which began in 2007 was designed to reward diligence and good business sense noting that it is the tradition in Starcomms to reward loyalty in business.
He said that as a Nigerian company, Starcomms is poised towards making every citizen it does business with to enjoy the fruit of their labour saying that a total of N25 million was won in cash and item prizes.