Recently updated on October 24th, 2022 at 02:55 pm
E. F. Network Limited, has developed ‘ephonetaxi’, which is a mobile application to curb theft or resale of mobile phones and other gadgets in Nigeria.
Mr. Ameh Ochojila, the company’s public relations officer said this in a statement on October 27, 2020 in Abuja.
Mr. Ameh Ochojila said that the application named ‘ephonetaxi’ will help provide solution to the growing number of stolen phones in the country and across the globe.
In his words:
“The application ‘ephonetaxi’; helps to lock out anyone who is unauthorised to use the phone, making it unusable and unsellable.
The application helps retrieve and send the user’s stored contents to his email. It also locks the phone, prevents either unauthorised access to stored pictures, videos, messages, or contacts of the phone owner.
The app alerts the phone owner of any change in SIM card, monitors, and tracks the phone location including taking pictures of criminals in possession of the phone and sending the pictures to the email address of the owner.
The owner can do all these remotely in spite of the phone being lost or stolen. Once a phone is locked remotely by the owner, buying it will be a mere waste of money.”
The technical manager of the company, Mr. Kelvin Raymond said that the application could also be used to trace kidnappers as it can reveal real-time location of mobile phones.
Mr. Gideon Egbuchulam, Chairman of the company said that the application was one of the application lined up by the company to meet technical and software needs of Nigerians.He further stated that the company had opened an incubation centre in Abuja where he planned to recruit brilliant young Nigerian Information Technology (IT) professionals.
According to Mr. Gideon Egbuchulam:
“Given enabling environment, Nigerian youths will take Nigeria to the next Silicon Valley in Africa.
Almost all giant tech companies in the world are interested in the Nigerian market and that is the reason our company is recruiting over 1000 people by the end of 2020 to support talented youths.”
