Ugi Augustine’s 20-year tech journey started with a secondary school conversation

In 2002, Ugi Augustine, then a laboratory prefect at the West African Peoples Institute in Calabar, Cross River State, Southern Nigeria, stood beside a visiting MTN technician. The telecoms employee had come to the school for computer laboratory maintenance. But for Augustine, that encounter was his first brush with technology. 

“I got inquisitive, asking questions about the internet and…