A Sting In A Tale, the latest movie from Sparrow Productions premiers next weekend at Accra International Conference Centre in Ghana. It features Adjetey Anang, Lydia Forson, Majid Michel among others. A twisted tale of two unemployed graduates who embark on a journey to make it in a world where you need more than what [...]

I could easily write a damning report on Nigeria’s local movie industry, known as Nollywood. This is because most of the movies churned out are very mediocre in many ways. It is heart-warming to note however, that out of the ashes of mediocrity, many straight-thinking individuals within Nollywood are raising the standards to new heights. [...]

This blog post is part of a series of blog posts focused on how to blog more effectively. Last week’s blog post in this series makes a case for the importance of statistics in the business of blogging. Running a successful blog requires that you give your readers what they want. This requires that you [...]

I unveiled a new look of this blog Oluniyi David Ajao over the weekend. For regular readers, you might think this is one change too many. I am thus using this blog post to explain. The previous blog design in recent times have been largely cosmetic. They lacked the functionalities I wanted in this blog [...]

This blog post is part of a series of blog posts focused on how to blog more effectively. One critical part of effective blogging is having a good idea of the visits to your blogs. Stats programs tell you a lot about your blog including: what countries most of your readers come from, which blog [...]

A recent temporary change in algorithm for blogs ranking by Africa’s most authoritative blogs aggregator attracted a lot of debate and suggestions. After complaints by bloggers, Afrigator soon made a formal announcement via their blog: Blog ranking changes A lot of bloggers have noticed that there has been quite dramatic changes in the ranking of [...]

I’m live at the West Africa Internet Governance Forum (WAIGF) in Accra, Ghana. The event started on a good note yesterday with a lot of introductory speeches by various stakeholders in the African Internet industry. AfriNIC, the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for Africa, has a mission to support Internet technology usage and development and to [...]

MTN Ghana is annoying a lot of their subscribers with the persistent text messages from 2010, yours truly included. All a subscriber has to do is text “Go” to the number 2010 and he/she is then burdened with the misfortune of being bombarded with text messages morning, afternoon and evening entreating him/her to keep texting [...]

I would be delivering a presentation at the up-coming ComBIT Africa event, organized by AITEC Africa. The event holds between 2nd and 4th November 2009 at Lagoon Conference Centre, Lagos, Nigeria. I would be speaking on Day 1 during the second session on “The impact of submarine connectivity on the region’s web hosting industry” and [...]

I was interviewed by Wayan Vota of ICTworks.org during the recent Maker Faire Africa 2009 in Accra Ghana and we discussed the present e-payment challenges in West Africa. A challenge that presents an opportunity since Paypal is ignoring Africa. The interview has just been published in a post titled: “Google & Paypal Leaving Cash on [...]

The Nigerian web space is maturing rapidly. Compared to just a few years ago, a lot more well-focused and niche websites are appearing, all geared towards meeting the needs of Nigerian web professionals and web users. One of such websites I have been monitoring for a while now is Web Trends Nigeria. Located at webtrendsng.com, [...]

I received an email from Hassan in Lagos recently, asking for guidance on how to use Paypal in Nigeria. I choose to answer him publicly so other interested parties can learn from my answer to him. Find his message below in full, unedited: Hello David, Saw your blog from search on Facebook. I was trusting [...]

Virgin Nigeria has been re-branded to Nigerian Eagle Airline. In a press statement released by the management of the airline, the Chief Executive Officer of Nigerian Eagle Airlines, Captain Dapo Olumide said that the birth of the new airline is not just about name change but a new dawn that has birthed an aspirational airline [...]

Each time I had a tough time travelling within Nigeria, I always wished there was an electronic Nigerian travel information service that met the needs of the business traveller. A service that offered flight, hotel, car rental information via SMS, mobile web or a full-fledged website. Though there are several websites that offer air travel [...]

The .NG domain name registry has been problematic for about two weeks now. New domains could not be registered via the Internet and some old ones stopped working. I had been sniffing around to find the root cause. It turned out that my suspicion on the problem was right – the problem is linked to [...]