One of the hottest Nigerian dot-com brands today is “Naira”, and for good reasons. The Naira is the currency of Nigeria and many have found creative ways to use it for their dot-coms. It is short and relieves it’s users of the burden of the word “Nigeria” whilst still maintaining some appeal to Nigerians. The [...]

On the 15th of October 2004, Ecobank Nigeria Plc made history when it launched the first ever internationally accepted credit card in Nigeria – the Ecobank MasterCard. With the launch of the Ecobank MasterCard, Ecobank availed Nigerians the benefits and privileges of a convenient international payment card for online and offline financial transactions. The challenges [...]

I chuckled to myself this morning when I read this headline on the homepage of Nairaland (the leading Nigerian Internet discussion forum): “The Nairaland Forum Is Now On A Break!” I prayed silently, “Lord, let this be just one of those pranks by this Seun guy. Lord let this not be true”. Okay, those were [...]

So you run an online business or are an affiliate of a big online MLM or you want to promote your blog and have a low budget and thus cannot advertise with the big boys on Adwords, ValueClick Media, DoubleClick and other big ad networks? Not to worry. You can still get a piece of [...]

Earlier today, I did a post on Nospetco and other so-called “wonder banks”. This evening, I visited Nairaland (a forum targetted at Nigerians) and came by this thread titled: “Hyip Scheme Horror Stories: ‘Investor’ Beware“. This thread was opened by the forum admin Seun Osewa, and started with the text: Hello, If you have lost [...]

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, [...]