I came by this event titled “Nigerian Bloggers Conference” via Deolu Akinyemi‘s profile on Facebook.com I added “2008″ to the title of this blog post because I believe there would be subsequent events like this in years to come. The host of this event is the man Deolu Akinyemi himself and it takes place tentatively [...]

Blogging as an online activity is increasing evolving in this part of the world. More people are getting online to share their expertise, experiences, passion, private life and more, for the fun of it or to earn some additional income to pay those bills. Although the motivation for blogging is as diverse as the various [...]

Are you you a fellow blogger in Ghana? If yes, you might want to meet like-minded people in Accra and Tema. Some bloggers are arranging for a meet-up sometime this week here in Accra, Ghana and I hope to be there too. Why? Just some social networking, discussion about blogging and some excitement. If you [...]

Upgrade of WordPress installation from 2.3.3 to 2.5

This young man named Oluniyi David Ajao has maintained a personal online presence since 2002. Well, in the context of Ghana or Nigeria, that’s quite early. I was then a Computer Science student at The Polytechnic, Ibadan (Nigeria). I simply wanted to acquire web design skills and wanted a personal website because I felt it [...]

In case you missed the news just like I did, be informed that e-gold Ltd, operators of the e-gold digital currency, now have an official blog at http://blog.e-gold.com and its blogger so far is their Chairman/Founder: Dr. Douglas Jackson. The closing text of the very first blog entry, read: Anyone remotely familiar with e-gold knows [...]

When I was publicly requesting naijalive.net to remove my blog from their “aggregator”, little did I know that Akin Akintayo had already blogged his critique of the very same service on 3rd July 2007. Amateurs aping professionals Thinking aloud – I received an email/blog comment yesterday from someone who had decided to exploit an opportunity [...]

Do you run a blog powered by WordPress software? Well, it might interest you to learn that WordPress.org has now released a plugin that works with WordPress-powered blogs that are not hosted on WordPress.com I downloaded and installed the plugin just yesterday and it worked smoothly for me. One downside though is that it doesn’t [...]

This concluding part of “Blogging the historic election“, highlights the blog posts by Nigerians, on Presidential elections. Election day posts We start with a post from Thinking…Imagining… In a post titled “Thank God Nigerians are not Suicide bombers!“, Segedoo highlights a recent attempt to blow up the national headquarters of the INEC (Independent National Electoral [...]

Just yesterday evening, I was chatting with a good friend via Yahoo! Messenger, and he pointed me to Afrigator.com, asking for my comment about the website. I immediately signed-up on the website and now I proudly carry an Afrigator badge on my personal blog. Afrigator is more than a regular blog aggregator. It comes with [...]

WordPress. Security update. All the time. Reminds one of Microsoft. Well, the latest security update is WordPress 2.1.3 and 2.0.10, depending on which version you are using. WordPress.org says, We are also now aggressively monitoring all downloads for any changes or modifications, and we are confident the same type of problem won’t happen again. Let’s [...]

Blogging can indeed be a nightmare, without the right tools. Why? Spam. Yes indeed – Spammers and their spambots, can make life a living hell for any popular blog. The aim is usually to gain links to their websites. Thus, they post irrelevant content in the comment section of a blog, with links to their [...]

This week’s round-up of Nigerian blogs starts with Naijablog (exp)‘s assertion that Nigerians change their political language and thinking. His blog is titled: “The sterility of political discourse in Nigeria” Nigeria at this time desperately needs a new political language. Instead of 3rd term, South-South vs North etc, fiscal federalism, percentage deviation blah di blah, [...]

The Nigerian blogosphere this week is again not unconnected to the ungoing MTN African Cup of Nations (Egypt 2006). Chippla starts the discourse when with this assertion: “The 25th African Cup of Nations 2006 has been on in Egypt since January 20, 2006. When one looks at the teams still left in the tournament, which [...]

This post Nigerian Blogs round-up was published in a modified form on “Global Voices Online” This week, Chippla comments on “What Oil Has Done“, in a write-up where he scrutinizes the development of Equitorial Guinea’s foremost airport, as well as the militancy in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria, that is as a result of [...]