{"id":78036,"date":"2025-11-04T11:08:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T11:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78036"},"modified":"2025-11-04T11:08:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T11:08:16","slug":"onafowokan-unveils-africas-largest-fibre-optic-cable-plant-in-ogun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/04\/onafowokan-unveils-africas-largest-fibre-optic-cable-plant-in-ogun\/","title":{"rendered":"Onafowokan Unveils Africa\u2019s Largest Fibre-Optic Cable Plant in Ogun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samson Adeyanju<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Chairman of Coleman Technical Industries, Asiwaju Solomon Onafowokan, has inaugurated Africa\u2019s largest fibre-optic cable factory in Sagamu, Ogun State, to boost Nigeria\u2019s digital infrastructure and reduce reliance on imports.<\/p>\n<p>The launch, which marked Coleman\u2019s 50th anniversary, drew senior government officials and telecom executives.<\/p>\n<p>The 350,000-square-metre facility can produce 9 million kilometres of fibre-optic cable yearly, alongside smelting units for aluminium and copper.<\/p>\n<p>Onafowokan said the project reinforces Coleman\u2019s commitment to local manufacturing and supports the government\u2019s digital economy agenda, targeting \u20a615 trillion in domestic and export revenue.<\/p>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu, represented at the event, lauded the project as a milestone for industrial diversification and broadband expansion.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Communications, Dr. Bosun Tijani, also announced a $500 million World Bank-backed partnership to deploy 90,000 kilometres of fibre nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samson Adeyanju &nbsp; Chairman of Coleman Technical Industries, Asiwaju Solomon Onafowokan, has inaugurated Africa\u2019s largest fibre-optic cable factory in Sagamu, Ogun State, to boost Nigeria\u2019s digital infrastructure and reduce reliance on imports. The launch, which marked Coleman\u2019s 50th anniversary, drew senior government officials and telecom executives. The 350,000-square-metre facility can produce 9 million kilometres [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":78037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78038,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78036\/revisions\/78038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}