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Ms. Opeke was ranked alongside other notable women including Nombulelo Moholi, the Special Adviser to the Chief Executive Officer of Telkom; Dr. Sebiletso Mokone-Matabane, a member of the South African Presidential National Commission on Information Society and Development and former CEO of Sentech, and Angela Gahagan, the MTN Business Managing Executive and a twice-nominated candidate for the Africa Business Woman of the Year award.

In a reaction to the feat, Mr. Adebayo Oyewole, Main One’s Head of Marketing and Strategy said everyone at the company was proud of the achievement. “We are thrilled about the position our CEO has attained among so many leading corporate executives, not only locally, but internationally.  To be ranked among the top ten women in ICT in Africa is an exceptional achievement. It is our hope that she will retain her place in the league of achievers who are playing key roles in changing the African ICT landscape”, he said.

Mr. Oyewole described the feat as remarkable because it was the first by a Nigerian female executive. “This is the first time a Nigerian female business executive has made it to the top ten most influential women in Africa. This further underscores Ms. Opeke’s profile as a key player not only in the Nigerian ICT sector but also across Africa”.

Mr. Oyewole further said the accolade was a culmination of years of hard work, dedication and intense focus on building successful ICT enterprises for which Ms. Opeke has become renowned across the world.

Ms. Opeke is an experienced telecommunications executive who founded Main Street Technologies in 2010. She returned to Nigeria in 2005 as the Chief Technical Officer of MTN Nigeria Communications (MTN) after a twenty-year career in the United States.
Prior to her return, she was the Executive Director of Verizon Communications Wholesale Division. Subsequent to MTN, Ms. Opeke advised Transcorp on the acquisition of NITEL and briefly served as the interim Chief Operating Officer, post acquisition of NITEL. She obtained a first degree in Electrical Engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife Nigeria and a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, New York.

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About Main One Cable Company

Main One Cable Company Limited (‘Main One’) is the first submarine cable company offering open access, wholesale broadband capacity in West Africa. Main One is wholly African-owned with a vision to expand the much needed capacity on the African continent ensuring reduced costs of broadband communications across Africa. This vision has been realized in a submarine cable system that commenced operations in July 2010 with initial landing stations in Nigeria, Ghana and Portugal – connecting West Africa to the rest of the world via Portugal and the United Kingdom.  Today, majority of the telecommunication operators and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Nigeria and Ghana are subscribing to broadband capacity on the Main One network.