Chief Executive Officer of Cydene Energy Services Ltd, Mr Skalid Obi, on Monday unveiled an App known as Cydene Express to help Nigerians make efficient use of household utilities.
Obi also a software developer said at an interactive session in Lagos said that Cydene Express would be useful in helping households and offices to pay for and track use of utilities.
He said the app which would be launched on Wednesday August 3 would be used to access electricity, cooking gas, diesel, call credit and other related bills.
According to him, the users of the App would exploit the utilities from the comfort of their homes.
The tech entrepreneur said he developed the App following an industry experience h gained while working as an intern in Exxon Mobil and at the Strategy Department in Techno Oil Ltd., Lagos.
“The experience helped me immensely in understanding the Nigerian business environment and how to provide engineering solutions to some teething problems.
“At Techno Oil, I handled dealer’s agreements from station management to product allocations. I quickly realized that the process of product supply is structured in all parts of the supply chain, except to the very end user.
‘’The challenge for consumers was their inability to know when and how they would track their daily needs and services as and when needed.
“I decided that if I could automate the process of purchasing and distributing energy products on a retail level, then I would have solved a huge part of the problem faced by consumers’’, he said.
According to him, industry experience has also played a big role in his floating and nurturing a data science company, called Cydene Data Solutions.
He said the company provided solutions on various energy needs such as diesel supplies, cooking gas, energy tokens and other household needs.
According to him, with Cydene Express App, one could order cooking gas, fuel, diesel, airtime credit and electricity tokens from the comfort of your home.
The tech entrepreneur said that the idea was to create an energy wallet that serves all household’s energy needs, including taking advantage of energy merchants around you.
Obi recalled that his interest in the development of IT solutions started a long time ago after his high school and was humbled to make a contribution to the growth of the Nigerian economy.
He said no fewer than 10,000 people in the country had embraced the Cydene Express App.
Also speaking at the session, Mr Sam Ochonwa, Non Executive Director said that the app which is leveraging on Artificial Intelligence helps to ease the stress of Nigerians through its tracking method.
Ochonwa said that a form of contributing to support the Federal government in easing the stress of citizens.
