The e-payment for Government Summit 2014 held this past week from July 8th-9th, 2014 at the Shehu Musa Yar’adua Centre, with eTranzact International PLC, Nigeria’s first award winning multi-application and multi-channel electronic transaction switching and payment processing system in attendance, contributing to the conversation and showcasing some of its numerous products specially created to cater to the needs of the government.
The event in its third edition and organized by the e-Payment Providers Association of Nigeria, had in attendance other e-payment providers like Interswitch, Citiserve, Unified payments, Nibbs, NimC, etc. It sees an annual gathering of different stakeholders from the federal government,state governments and other government agencies coming together to design a roadmap for the e-payments sector in Nigeria.
This years’ event was themed “Increasing Government Revenue Generation Using E—Payment Services” and issues discussed ranged from ways to drive the adoption of mobile money, enabling e-payments for the National Housing fund, to the payments side to the national identity card scheme, the role of government in payments, etc.
Giving a keynote at the event, Mr Sullivan Akala, Executive Director (Business development) of eTranzact who represented Mr Valentine Obi, CEO of eTranzact International PLC said;
“This is a summit we particularly look forward to every year. Since its inception, it has provided an avenue for key stakeholders to come together and set agendas that would truly move e-payment in Nigeria to the next level. Every year at this summit, eTranzact has had several things to celebrate and even more this year as we have been working hard on different projects that will truly help achieve the different e- payment goals we have as a nation”.
eTranzact International PLC provides e-payment services for the Nigerian Police force, PHCN and several other government agencies, and also powers e-payment for the National Housing fund.
Other keynotes and presentations were given by Barr Chris Oyemenam, DG/CEO,National Identity Management Commission(NIMC), Mr Macauley Atasie, MD/CEO of Nextzon, MR. I. Kemabonta, Director Standards, Guidelines and Regulations, NITDA and other top dignitaries.
