Oluniyi D.Ajao
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Nigerian Internet Business Opportunities. An #ICT4D Skype Chat.
The following blog post is culled from ICTWorks.org and involves me. Nigeria is the Giant of Africa, with 1/8 of its population and all the possibilities and problems that come with such size and diversity. It also should be the ICT leader for Africa. Nigeria has the more mobile phone subscribers, at 68 million, than Egypt or [...]
Continue reading...Is Kenya beating Nigeria in Internet Business Opportunities?
Monday, March 15, 2010
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...Is the Internet constraining how we develop as individuals?
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Whilst in Nairobi Kenya on 3rd February 2010, I was invited by the BBC World Service to join a discussion on “Is the Internet constraining how we develop as individuals?”. The week day radio show was “World Have Your Say” and that happened to be my second time on the programme. That day’s programme was [...]
Continue reading...A review of MTN Nigeria Mobile Broadband service
Sunday, February 21, 2010
I picked-up an MTN Nigeria mobile broadband kit recently and have used it heavily, since then. Find below my review of the service. The entire kit cost N18,650: HSDPA USB stick: N8,500 MTN SIM: N150 Airtime: N10,000 (24/7 monthly plan) The MTN agent asked for an ID and passport photo. As I had no prior knowledge they would demand this, [...]
Continue reading...A review of MTN Ghana Mobile Broadband service
Thursday, December 24, 2009
With over 7.4 million subscribers as of September 2009, MTN is easily Ghana’s leading telecommunications network, offering mobile telephony services, Internet connectivity and more. I recently picked up an MTN “Exclusive 3G Pack” for 100 Ghana Cedis (about $69) and have used it extensively for about 14 days mainly in Accra. The information below is based [...]
Continue reading...My expectations of Glo Mobile Ghana
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Glo Mobile is very likely to be launched in Ghana before the end of this year 2009. Having shifted their launch date severally, a launch in December 2009 seems imminent. Glo Mobile’s entry into Ghana comes at a time when Ghana’s mobile communications industry appears to be saturated already. For a population of about 22 million [...]
Continue reading...Cyber crime in Ghana: How to tackle the menace
Monday, November 16, 2009
The following was what I extracted from a presentation as a part of Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Accra Remote Hub Participation. Cyber crime in Ghana: How to tackle the menace as presented by Charles Nelson of “Youth Against Cyber Crime”. Cybercrime can be described as crime perpetrated by the assistance, use of and enabling of technology and [...]
Continue reading...Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Accra Remote Hub Participation
Monday, November 16, 2009
I am participating remotely in the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2009 currently going on in Egypt, from Accra. The Accra remote hub participation is under the theme “Internet Governance – Creating Opportunities for Ghana”. Promoting IPv6 adoption in Ghana: An important step towards bridging the digital divide was presented by Ivy Tuffour of AITI-KACE. I spoke on [...]
Continue reading...West Africa Internet Governance Forum (WAIGF) starts off
Thursday, October 15, 2009
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 promote [...]
Continue reading...MTN Nigeria, SAT3 Woes, IT convergence & Why West Africa needs more sub-marine connectivity
Thursday, August 27, 2009
The Internet is a very powerful medium of communication. IP protocol (the backbone technology of the Internet) allows just about any data to be encoded and transmitted from node to the other. Riding on this power and ubiquity, many means of communication in today’s world are now increasingly relying on the Internet. Projections are that [...]
Continue reading...Another Fibre Optic Cable Internet Connectivity for Africa
Saturday, February 7, 2009
It appears Internet connectivity on the African continent especially in Ghana and Nigeria is about to get better soon. The Ghana News Agency (GNA) reports the launch of yet another private effort to improve Internet connectivity in Africa: Work has begun on a 200-million dollar undersea fibre optic cable, which aims to provide reliable Internet and [...]
Continue reading...Making Money Online: Getting Paid via Paypal
Thursday, April 3, 2008
In the first part of this blog post, I discussed Making Money Online: Getting paid by cheque and explained why you should avoid getting paid by cheque where and when possible. In this blog post, I will be highlighting another means of getting paid online: Paypal. There are several forms of e-currencies. There are digital gold [...]
Continue reading...Interswitch Nigeria: Lower your Webpay entry fees
Sunday, February 17, 2008
What is InterSwitch about? According to their website: InterSwitch Limited is an electronic transaction switching and payment processing company with a business footprint that covers the provision of shared, integrated message broker solutions for financial transactions, e-commerce, telecoms value-added services and e-billing in the Nigerian environment. Most of the local debit/ATM cards issued in Nigeria are linked [...]
Continue reading...Poor Internet Service delivery in Nigeria. The need to take on the ISPs.
Saturday, February 2, 2008
I do not know why the government or its agencies do not call the erring Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Nigeria to order. Perhaps, the federal government and state government institutions, the regulatory body Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the federal and state legislature(s) and other leading institutions in Nigeria are all connected to the Internet [...]
Continue reading...If Microsoft buys Yahoo: What happens?
Saturday, February 2, 2008
The web was ablaze (still is) yesterday with news about Microsoft’s latest unsolicited offer to buy web portal giant Yahoo! for a whopping $44.6 billion in cash and shares. According to BBC News, the offer, contained in a letter to Yahoo’s board, is 62% above Yahoo’s closing share price on Thursday. I am not entirely surprised [...]
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- Nigerian Internet Business Opportunities. An #ICT4D Skype Chat.
- 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
- 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?
- Man G from nigeria: Happy weekend all. Pls our darling multi tv,i.ll like you to gradually spread your tentacles to other european leagues like turkey dutch russia be...
- Moses Tei Nartey: I am really impressed for the initiave that has taken by your company (Glo)to estiblish in ghana which i discribe it as a good tele-communication net-...
- Shittu: After enjoying the peace in Ghana for all these years you open your mouth and say Nigeria and Kenya are better than Ghana in EVERYTHING!!!! Man go was...
- Ismaila Ibrahim kira: bbchausa mu na jindadin shirye-shiryen ku. Allah ya taimake ku amin....
- Justin: Fair enough, might just get an unlocked modem and only buy the card from MTN, so I can switch between provider when I travel between countries. Thx....
- Peprah-Amankona: I praying unceasingly to see the veryday glo will start operating in order increase the keen competition in the communication industry.i am a gradua...
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