The Federal Government of Nigeria has vowed to continue to support world-class manufacturing facility and the first certified smart card manufacturing plant in sub-Saharan Africa – SecureID Limited. This assurance was given by Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy – Dr. ‘Bosun Tijani during a courtesy visit to SecureID factory in Lagos Nigeria.
Founded by outstanding technology entrepreneur – Mrs. Kofo Akinkugbe OON, SecureID is Africa’s industry leader in card manufacturing, personalization/fulfilment and digital solutions, offering superior end-to end identity management and digital security solutions to public, private, finance, telecoms and retail sectors. This makes the innovative company the first Polycarbonate card manufacturing plant in Africa, committed to providing products and services to a wide variety of clientele in Nigeria and with distribution in 21 African countries.
Motivated Dr. Tijani expressed; “I am inspired by the resilience of entrepreneurs like Mrs. Akinkugbe and I hope we can all take inspiration from her as she contributes to deepening the capacity of our economy. I look forward to providing support to technology companies like hers”.
With a vision to be Africa’s undisputed leading provider of world class digital solutions, best suited for emerging markets, SecureID provides turnkey solutions for the smartcard identity industry from project start, through design and personalization to final card packaging/fulfilment. It also supports a wide range of card products such as EMV smartcards, GSM SIM cards, magnetic-stripe debit cards, loyalty cards, contactless dual interface chip cards, multi-purpose secure identity cards and Mifare cards. SecureID and its subsidiary, SecureCard Manufacturing are certified by Visa International, MasterCard Incorporated, Verve International, ISO 9001/2015 and Card Quality Management (CQM) for Smart Card Manufacturing and Personalization.
Picture credit: Dr. ‘Bosun Tijani
