Nigeria.

Nigeria now has its first smartphone assembly plant.

History was made in Nigeria this month as AfriOne Limited launched the country’s first smartphone assembling plant located in Nigeria’s financial hub, Lagos. The plant is geared towards the first indigenous smartphones and other consumer devices for sale in the Nigerian marketplace.

Lagos State Governor - Akinwumi Ambode - was at the unveiling which marked a significant move in technological terms as the country gears towards products made in Nigeria and the realising of a dream where goods and services are produced locally. Champagne was of course drunk, an increasingly common custom in Nigeria.

The opening of AfriOne assembly plant launched with the unveiling of the Champion and Gravity range of smartphones but would still offer a wide range of products. These products include feature-rich and technologically loaded product lines from dual sim mobile phones to educational tablet PCs and even android smart watches.