Information Technology Unit of AFIM Software Services Ltd wishes to announce to the general public that the IT Training programmes sheduled to commence on 4th June to 27th July,2007 is now scheduled to 18th June to 10th Augsut, 2007.
AFIM Software Services regrets and apologize for any inconvenience this change might have cause.

Indigenous Coy Launch New Software Programmes
By Reuben Buhari in Kaduna, 03.21.2007

source: Thisday Newspaper  

A Kaduna based indigenous Software Service provider, Afim Open Source, said it has concluded arrangements to launch 15 new customised software programmes worth N500 billion into the Nigeria market. Describing the 15 programmes as a final product of research on the specific and peculiar IT needs of the country, the Managing Director, Abdulkarim Hussein at the launching of two of the software, Afim Sturm and Afim Royale, said the two software programmes aims at resolving school record management and hotel management problems. Hussein told newsmen in Kaduna at the weekend that the two software launched have undergone several tests and found to be reliable. However, according to him, the other programmes are undergoing test-run processes while young graduates are already being trained on how to render maintenance services on the software. "We have developed 15 software programmes which are currently undergoing test to ensure that they are reliable and effective, but two of them are ready; The AFIM Sturm which is a student record management software and AFIM Royale, an hotel management software; have been thoroughly tested and analysed. "The other programmes include AFIM Pharmacy for pharmaceutical records, AFIM Payroll for employers, AFIM Humera, a human resources management software, AFIM Final account, AFIM Inventory and AFIM Content Management System Website Portal. The packages are customisable to our clients specifications, integrated with biometric scanners, bar code readers, thumbprint, eye care scanning, backward reading and internet enabled." Speaking on the mode of payment and maintenance system available, Hussein who called on Nigerians to encourage the youth to expose the abundant potentials hidden in them in order to develop the country and move it forward said: "There are different payment options meant to assist Nigerians own the software instead of seeking for them abroad. "We have trained 48 university youth on Firebird and Reportman for free. The two are other programmes that we have developed at the beginning of the company. 22 other students are currently undergoing training on the maintenance of the software programmes." He noted that being youth themselves they want to create job opportunities for youth in the country and be tools for motivating other young talents. He said they have also set up AFIM Foundation to give back a little of what they have gained from the society. He added that they intend to increase the number of programmers in the company from 22 to 100 before the end of the year and then to 1000 at the end of 2008.

AFIM software services core activities is the development of software applications aim at aiding business activities.
The company has developed a number of software and are ready to hit the Nigerian market in particular and the world market at large.
Interested Software vendors are to apply via our website(contact). For further enquiries, Please Call this no's.
+234 62 394907
+234 62 394905
+234 80 23276210
+234 80 39310295
+234 80 34580323

Afim is currently conducting an Information Technology(IT) Training for people with Basic computer Knowledge and also Novice. The programmes that are currently being undertaking in the IT Training unit are:

Software Programming Using Visual Basic .Net.
Database Administration Using FireBird RDBMS.
Web Development Using Drupal.

Also, the IT Training Unit conducts corporate and executive Training classes for Government, Corporate organisations and Group of individuals on request.

AFIM is set to launch Two of its numerous software to the Public at a date to be announce soon. The Software's to be launch are :

The Student Record Management Software (STURM)
The Hotel Management Software (ROYALE)

The Two Software's are 100% Designed and Developed by the Company's Programmers taking into consideration, the Nigerian Content thus localizing the software's to siut our local environment. This is very vital as no other imported or foreing software can meet our local demand effectively as they were initially built to suit their Home Countries operational system.