Oluniyi D.Ajao
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Is Kenya beating Nigeria in Internet Business Opportunities?
This blog post is in reaction to The 3 Reasons Why Kenya is Beating Nigeria in Internet Business Opportunities as published by ICTworks. I was perplexed at the title of the blog post. Could the author Wayan Vota simply be courting controversy as a means of drawing traffic to the blog? I would attempt to review [...]
Continue reading...FINALLY, YOUNG NIGERIANS GET ANGRY!!!
Monday, March 15, 2010
Join young Nigerians to demand for a better Nigeria. Find below a release from a youth movement in Nigeria. Fellow Young Nigerians, Did you know that in Nigeria, young people are in the majority? Did you know that young people below 35 make up more than 70 per cent of the population? That means that we have [...]
Continue reading...Africa Magic Yoruba launches; a 24-hour Yoruba channel on DSTV
Monday, March 1, 2010
Africa Magic Yoruba and Africa Magic Hausa launched today Monday 1st March 2010. However, this blog post would focus on the journey of how the Yoruba channel came to be. There is no doubt that the country Nigeria is a very important market for Multichoice. Being Africa’s largest population and home to Nollywood, it not only [...]
Continue reading...Sighting Mount Kilimanjaro
Monday, February 8, 2010
We were cruising at an altitude of about 34,000 feet from the coastal town of Mombasa headed for Nairobi when the voice of the Kenya Airways pilot broke into the quietness of the flight. I took it to be another routine announcement but it turned out to be different: ‘…for those seated on the left side [...]
Continue reading...Mobile Web East Africa 2010 Photos
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Mobile Web East Africa 2010 conference photos. Click on the photos for a larger view. Some rights reserved.
Continue reading...Kenya’s Tourism Industry is back & a trip to Nairobi National Park
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Kenya’s tourism industry is back at full steam with earnings from tourism back to where they were before the 2007-2008 Kenyan electoral crisis. I watched Kenya’s Tourism Minister, Najib Balala, confirm the growth in an NTV news report a few days ago. Information available from Kenya’s Ministry of Tourism website further confirms the sharp decline in [...]
Continue reading...Akon – Oh Africa (feat. Keri Hilson)
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Music video by Akon performing Oh Africa. (C) 2009 Universal Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. and I.G. Records, Inc.
Continue reading...Kenya: Mobile Web East Africa 2010. Free MobileWorld magazines.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Nairobi, Kenya – Mobile Web East Africa, an event that focuses on “harnessing the potential of the internet and applications on mobile devices”, starts tomorrow 3rd February 2010 and ends on 4th February 2010, at Intercontinental Hotel in Nairobi. The innovative event already has a long roll-call of speakers and facilitators, and has special round-table sessions [...]
Continue reading...Earthquake scare in Ghana. Is Ghana prepared?
Monday, January 18, 2010
I woke up to a news report about an earth quake scare in Ghana. An earth quake was supposed to have happened somewhere close to where I live. Yet, I had slept soundly all night and was not ruffled at any point by the earth shaking. It all started with a call I got from a [...]
Continue reading...Angola 2010: Nigeria faces Egypt
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
The match between Nigeria and Egypt. My tweets: Somebody pinch me. Did Egypt just beat Nigeria? Ouch! That hurts! :-p http://bit.ly/5Eo1ft A well-deserved win for Egypt I guess. 4 extra minutes. The Egyptian keeper is super excited and jumping all over the pitch. What a night. Nigeria 1 – Egypt 3 http://bit.ly/5Eo1ft Agbena!!! (It’s over!!!) [...]
Continue reading...President Yar’Adua seems alive; Important Questions
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
I rose to back to life from a slumber when I heard a news headline on BBC World Service this dawn, mentioning “President Umaru Yar’Adua”. I have been keenly following the news about his health in the past weeks and mentally sifting out the plentiful chaff of rumours from credible information. The substance of the [...]
Continue reading...DStv moving to new satellite Eutelsat W7
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Eutelsat W4, the satellite that beams DStv signals to residents of West Africa, is fast nearing the end of its life span. It was launched on 24th May 2000 from Space Launch Complex 36B at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in the USA. According to Wikipedia: Following its launch and on-orbit testing, it was placed [...]
Continue reading...How I found my way to MEST Accra on Google Maps Mobile
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Meltwater Entrepreneural School of Technology (MEST) in East Legon (a suburb of Accra, Ghana) was the venue of the just-concluded BarCamp Ghana 2009. Aside having interacted with some of the entrepreneurs-in-training (as their students are called) in the past, I knew little about MEST and had no idea of its exact location within East Legon. I [...]
Continue reading...BarCamp Ghana 2009: GhanaBlogging.com Break-out Session
Monday, December 21, 2009
GhanaBlogging.com Break-out Session started at 15:20pm and is moderated by Kajsa Hallberg Adu. She started blogged to tell people back home (Sweden) about life abroad (Ghana). Blogging is a conversation and so she sort to meet other bloggers, thus facilitating the creation of GhanaBlogging.com Steve Danso blogs about how technology can affect our business. He blogs [...]
Continue reading...BarCamp Ghana 2009 Live Report
Monday, December 21, 2009
BarCamp Ghana 2009 took off to a great start here at MEST in Accra with Patrick Awuah delivering the keynote address. He cited examples from his experience at Microsoft and his current experience with Ashesi University, to drive home the importance of key values like honesty, integrity, trust etc. The theme of this year’s event is [...]
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- Is Kenya beating Nigeria in Internet Business Opportunities?
- How Aero Contractors offers very low airfares. The catches!
- A review of MTN Nigeria Mobile Broadband service
- Erik introduces iHub @ Skunkworks in Nairobi, Kenya
- Kenya: Mobile Web East Africa 2010. Free MobileWorld magazines.
- BarCamp Ghana 2009 Live Report
- Jobberman.com: A Job Search Website for Nigeria
- Mobile Web East Africa 2010 for Nairobi Kenya
- More Naira dot-com Websites
- 5 Liberty Reserve alternatives
- Big Brother Africa 4 (2009): The Revolution. Housemates. Forum.
- Multi TV Ghana, a new free digital satellite TV service [updated]
- e.Tv now in Ghana
- Early review of Multi TV + Satellite information
- President Obama in Ghana. Why not Nigeria?
- My expectations of Glo Mobile Ghana
- Nigeria: Why do you use Liberty Reserve?
- Re-branding Nigeria, a charade
- Vodafone, Zain, MTN, Tigo, Glo Mobile and their competition in Ghana
- Earthquake scare in Ghana. Is Ghana prepared?
- Nurudeen Abubakar: Why is it that you dont publicize ur employment? abi its too hot ne? at least allow other members who r on neutral ground to be employed! haba!, abi n...
- chi: I have all da channels working and i think multi tv is just coooool...@cher well i bought mine at A&C mall..b'cos i got a dish i pay 180 ghana c...
- jones: i need glo more than anything,, pls be fast....
- Uthman: Thanks Multitv, we in Nigeria are benefiting from your service. We pray for God protection for you and entire Corporation. We hope and pray that one d...
- Oluniyi David Ajao: Your ISP. Are using VSAT? My blog automatically attempts to track your location based on your IP....
- Ernest Kojo Ofosu: 1..Is Multi-tv going to add more channels to the decieving channels we already have or keep stick to the old ones. 2..Pictures of CRTV seems to be ...
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