I granted the following video interview to ICTWorks.org in January 2011, and spoke about ICT for development, mobile communications, e-commerce, web hosting in Africa. Enjoy.

… a new dawn for web hosting and domain registration in Nigeria as Web4Africa acquires Nairahost 6th December 2010 Web4Africa Ltd (www.web4africa.net) today announces its 100% client acquisition of Nairahost, a company that provides domain name services and web hosting to Nigeria. Established in 2004, Nairahost started with a vision to dominate the Nigerian web [...]

A new blog aggregator for blogs related to Nigeria, has been unveiled at http://bloggers.com.ng The Nigerian blogosphere is easily one of the most vibrant on the African continent. Though figures are hard to come by,  a conservative estimate would put the number of Nigerian blogs at about 2,000. Following the thousands of blogs related to [...]

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 [...]

I have just noticed a new service from Google. It is called Google Sites and it enables an average individual to build a website through a simple web interface. This is their pitch: “Google Sites makes creating and sharing a group website easy. Google Sites is powerful enough for a company Intranet, yet simple enough [...]

Effective 24th November 2008, EstDomains ceases to be an ICANN-accredited domain name registrar. ICANN* is revoking the accreditation on the basis that the President of EstDomains, Vladimir Tsastsin based on records from an Estonian court, was convicted of credit card fraud, money laundering and document forgery. Hitherto, there had been a lot of hue-and-cry about [...]

So you are a Nigerian? Or perhaps you are not? Either way, you are a citizen of some country somewhere and there comes a time in your life when you feel like you really love your country and would want the very best for your country. I cannot fathom a better way to be patriotic, [...]

Residents of Nigeria: How to host your website from Nigeria and pay in Naira. Web4Africa Nigeria offers the best value for your money with world-class web hosting, friendly customer support, timely order processing, low-priced domains.

This blog post is a direct response to Erik Hersman’s blog post: The problem with e-commerce and online payments in Africa. Erik Hersman, a fellow African blogger, shared his thoughts about the need for an African e-payment system. He starts with a lamentation that is indeed true: A lack of true online payment options is [...]

Perhaps, you were a RegisterFly customer, and were paying for your domains and web hosting via e-gold. Perhaps not. Whatever the case is, I am selling GoDaddy Gift Cards for e-gold. With the e-Gift Cards, you can pay for any service at GoDaddy’s website if you’re their customer. ICANN has withdrawn Registerfly‘s accreditation as a [...]

According to DomainToolsBlog: Reports are flying in about RegisterFly’s implosion. Registerfly’s web site went dark for most of the Monday after the CEO Kevin Medina changed the root password and locked everyone out. It started earlier in the month, on February 12th, vice president John Naruszewicz threw the first major punch by suing the CEO [...]

BusinessWeek recently published an article putting e-gold in the spotlight, after its offices was raided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents, in the USA. Read on…