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My attention was drawn to the following story, on 6th November 2008:
On the third of November 2008 on Muhri Okunola Street, Victoria Island Lagos, the traffic was chaotic. A young lady (Uzoma Okere) driving home from work didn’t move her vehicle out of the way of a military convoy on time, resulting severe beatings by [...]

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West Africa just got smaller. Literally. MTN, a leading telecommunications company in Africa has just launched a new service named MTN Seamless Roaming on a pilot basis. Though this name (MTN Seamless Roaming) is less funky than their usual product brands, it is in my view, the best value added service they ever launched. The [...]

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ChamsCity is a new subsidiary of Chams Plc and is a facility that is expected to become the biggest cyber café in the world. The ChamsCity ICT centre has 1,000 computers housed in a single building.
The cyber centre, located in Lagos, is one of several digital malls that are being built across the country by [...]

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The furore that followed the arrest and illegal detention of Jonathan Elendu of ElenduReports.com has yet to die down when the news broke that yet another blogger had been arrested by the State Security Service (SSS).
According to Committe to Protect Journalists: NIGERIA: Second U.S.-based Nigerian blogger held
Emmanuel Emeka Asiwe, editor of the Arlington, Mass.-based HuhuOnline, [...]

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I discovered a Google Maps beta feature that had been on my PDA for several months now, just last night. I had only been using my I-Mate JAQ3 as a digital assistant, without using the phone functionality – no thanks to Tigo’s network access expiry. Tigo Ghana has a way of disabling one’s access to [...]

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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 at [...]

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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 [...]

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