Ms. Denise Cann, chief operating officer, 411ng.com, the company that developed 7411-national directory services has said that the service is open and can be used as counter terrorism number into which the entire nation may dial into at the hour of need. 

She said that such distress calls or emergency will be forwarded to police or the joint task force as the case may be for rapid intervention.

“We work with major companies like Google GPS, NigComSat, CBN, Glo1 and Main one to achieve these noble feat”

7411 national directory services went live thanks to the efforts of the Nigeria Communication Commission (NCC) and is multi-lingual services of highly interactive voice responses offered in English, Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, French, Spanish and German over the phone.

Commenting further, Mr. Matt Howard, head technical and integration, said that the service is “capable of connecting to all emergency units, and such would not deprive the citizens of Nigeria the right to instant help at critical time of need.”

411ng.com is an online presence where all important and critical information can be downloaded from.

A man/woman can actually stay on the website for 24hours every day learning new things and without getting bored, as the website is as interesting as the entire lofty programme, from dating, to health news, to finding your friends and loved ones, also co-locating job openings & vacancies, 411ng.com is the place to be he asserted.

“Coded and designed by advanced team from Nigeria, U.S.A, India and Canada, the web portal and telephone services will excite Nigerians for years to come” added Howard.

The services is aimed at helping Nigerians home and abroad make instant decisions and have access to much needed life saving tips.

Several businesses, schools, governmental bodies, ministries, banks, security agencies and the entire country will be opened to seek daily tele-guidance and co-ordinated information from this 7411 information bureau.

To have easy access into these information and life saving tips just dial 7411 on any phone in Nigeria and +2347411 from outside Nigeria.

Engr. Dr. B.M Sani, director, licensing at NCC said that federal government agencies and health establishments to find and be found in Nigeria cannot be overlooked or push to the back in the development process of any serious country wishing to make proper development.

He said that gone are the days when life changing information and tips are prized above money, we must not forget the role of information accessibilities in human per capita development.

“We at the Nigeria Communication Commission are committed to building information rich Nigeria” he added.

He enjoined the entire country to embrace the use of the services to aid information knowledge level, business development and contribute to progressing the Nigeria we all desire.

The centre presently receive in – bound enquiry calls from over 3,000 Nigerians at a time for now, and about 27 million enquiries can be processed every day.

When fully operational, the service can handle 670,000 callers at a time.

This is made possible by advanced simulative telecommunication technology, similar to that presently deployed in Israel, United States, Britain and Dubai.

As at today, the directory has over 3,000 Nigerians, majorly trained statistics and data dissemination experts, multi lingual distress experts; anti-terrorist negotiators, doctors, first-aid nurses, pilots, call centre agents, career development advisors, weather experts, IT and Technical experts and so on.