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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 [...]

FINALLY, YOUNG NIGERIANS GET ANGRY!!!

Monday, March 15, 2010

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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 [...]

How Aero Contractors offers very low airfares. The catches!

Monday, March 8, 2010

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Aero Contractors in my view is a budget airline only that it is not so-called. The airline has been advertising very low fares to all its destinations, for some time now. I dragged myself into flying Aero twice in recent times, to satisfy my curiosity on how they could offer such low fares. This blog [...]

Africa Magic Yoruba launches; a 24-hour Yoruba channel on DSTV

Monday, March 1, 2010

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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 [...]

A review of MTN Nigeria Mobile Broadband service

Sunday, February 21, 2010

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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, [...]

Kenya’s Tourism Industry is back & a trip to Nairobi National Park

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

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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 [...]

Kenya: Mobile Web East Africa 2010. Free MobileWorld magazines.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

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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 [...]

The “Sick” Attah Mills still lives while…

Sunday, January 24, 2010

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This is a guest post by Nunya Akumey-Affizie. Presidents do fall ill all the time. Sometime in 2004, former South African President, Thabo Mbeki, was whisked to hospital after experiencing breathing difficulties as he addressed a political rally. Not quite long after that incident, former president of Tanzanian Benjamin Mkapa took ill for several months and even [...]

Angola 2010: Nigeria faces Egypt

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

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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!!!) [...]

President Yar’Adua seems alive; Important Questions

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

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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 [...]

Jobberman.com: A Job Search Website for Nigeria

Thursday, December 10, 2009

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With a population of about 154,729,000 (UN estimate), Nigeria ranks as the 8th most populous country in the world. Add the fact that a sizeable percentage of this population is made-up of the youth, plus Africa’s 2nd largest economy (GDP nominal) and what you have is a very vibrant job market. It is thus not [...]

More Naira dot-com Websites

Sunday, December 6, 2009

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I have noticed a few new naira dot-com websites since my initial blog post: The Naira Brand: Naira dot-com websites earlier this year. Nairaparking.com The domain parking website is owned by AIMTECH NG web hosting service, itself an enterprise of Ahmed Mukoshy. It basically offers a free platform to residents of Nigeria to sell their active domain [...]

Why President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua should resign

Thursday, December 3, 2009

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I am starting my commentary by stating in very clear terms that I wish the President Umura Musa Yar’Adua well. I really do. I had stated my confidence in him in the past. However, I cannot fool myself or cloud my sense of judgement with emotion. Umaru Yar’Adua, in my view, is no longer fit [...]

My expectations of Glo Mobile Ghana

Sunday, November 29, 2009

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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 [...]

Africa’s Got Talent. $1 million Grand Price.

Sunday, November 15, 2009

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America’s Got Talent is a talent-hunt show in the United States of America, seeking to find the very best of raw showbiz talent in that country. It is open to people of all ages, and does not restrict what type of performance the contestants put up. As a result, it has featured singers, dancers, magicians, [...]

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Posts Tagged with "Nigeria"

Is Kenya beating Nigeria in Internet Business Opportunities?

FINALLY, YOUNG NIGERIANS GET ANGRY!!!

How Aero Contractors offers very low airfares. The catches!

Africa Magic Yoruba launches; a 24-hour Yoruba channel on DSTV

A review of MTN Nigeria Mobile Broadband service

Kenya’s Tourism Industry is back & a trip to Nairobi National Park

Kenya: Mobile Web East Africa 2010. Free MobileWorld magazines.

The “Sick” Attah Mills still lives while…

Angola 2010: Nigeria faces Egypt

President Yar’Adua seems alive; Important Questions

Jobberman.com: A Job Search Website for Nigeria

More Naira dot-com Websites

Why President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua should resign

My expectations of Glo Mobile Ghana

Africa’s Got Talent. $1 million Grand Price.

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