Oluniyi D.Ajao
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Is Kenya beating Nigeria in Internet Business Opportunities?
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...Africa Magic Yoruba launches; a 24-hour Yoruba channel on DSTV
Monday, March 1, 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...DStv moving to new satellite Eutelsat W7
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Eutelsat W4, the satellite that beams DStv signals to residents of West Africa, is fast nearing the end of its life span. It was launched on 24th May 2000 from Space Launch Complex 36B at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in the USA. According to Wikipedia: Following its launch and on-orbit testing, it was placed [...]
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...How to add more TV & Radio channels to your Multi TV decoder
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Before reading, I assume you already have a Multi TV subscription or intend to do so and that you have read my earlier blog posts on Multi TV. Else, you should read Multi TV Ghana, a new free digital satellite TV and Early review of Multi TV + Satellite information before reading this post. The principle [...]
Continue reading...Free-to-air Ghanaian TV Stations on Satellite
Monday, November 9, 2009
Ghanaians abroad are keen to stay in touch with social and political affairs back home. Some relatively comfortable Ghanaians within Ghana live outside the urban areas, deep in the rural parts. Friends of Ghana living in nearby countries who are interested in following news and entertainment from Ghana. These three groups of people are not [...]
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...The impact of submarine connectivity on West Africa’s web hosting industry
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
I would be delivering a presentation at the up-coming ComBIT Africa event, organized by AITEC Africa. The event holds between 2nd and 4th November 2009 at Lagoon Conference Centre, Lagos, Nigeria. I would be speaking on Day 1 during the second session on “The impact of submarine connectivity on the region’s web hosting industry” and would [...]
Continue reading...West Africa ePayment Opportunity: Video Interview with Oluniyi David Ajao
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
I was interviewed by Wayan Vota of ICTworks.org during the recent Maker Faire Africa 2009 in Accra Ghana and we discussed the present e-payment challenges in West Africa. A challenge that presents an opportunity since Paypal is ignoring Africa. The interview has just been published in a post titled: “Google & Paypal Leaving Cash on [...]
Continue reading...Ghana is the size of Lagos! Or is it?
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Nigeria is a country of superlatives, no doubt. Being Africa’s largest population, it is only natural that many things to do with Nigeria would be on a relatively larger scale since the large population can be used to an advantage. Nigeria also has a land mass that is blessed with natural resources. The good mixture [...]
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...NileSat 101 & 102: More TV Channels than you can handle
Saturday, August 22, 2009
I had the opportunity to visit Zaria, a town in Northern Nigeria, on my recent trip to that country. I was pleasantly surprised to have observed so many satellite dishes as I was being driven into the city. You can thus imagine my excitement when I got to my relative’s apartment and saw that he [...]
Continue reading...Early review of Multi TV + Satellite information
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Introductory note: To put this post into a proper perspective, you should read Multi TV Ghana, a new free digital satellite TV service first. Multi TV is at Testing Transmission phase and therefore, some of the glitches I have observed should be understandable to some extent. I got this installation since Thursday evening, my writing is based [...]
Continue reading...President Obama in Ghana. Why not Nigeria?
Thursday, July 9, 2009
From the moment the US government released information that President Obama was visiting Ghana between 10th and 11th July 2009, there have been a lot of grumbling from neighbouring Nigeria. Now that the US President is just a few days away, the grumbling is getting even louder with Senator Jubril Aminu (Chairman of the Foreign [...]
Continue reading...Multi TV Ghana, a new free digital satellite TV service [updated]
Friday, July 3, 2009
Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah, the host of Joy FM’s Super Morning Show has been teasing his listeners’ for some days now about a new service from Joy FM’s parent company Multimedia Group Limited. The service is essentially a free multi-channel digital satellite system available in every corner of Ghana. From the group’s website: MultiTV is a nationwide free [...]
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- A review of MTN Nigeria Mobile Broadband service
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- 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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