Posted on 21 May 2012 by Information Desk

Bogobiri House
9 Maitama Sule Street, off Awolowo Road, South-West Ikoyi
South-West Ikoyi
Lagos, Lagos 23401
Nigeria

Monday, April 30, 2012 at 5:30 PM (GMT+0100)

Remember, he is recently signed to mercury music in the UK for Europe distribution.

He currently have a little above 200k users and with is continued push in the international market, you can only wish him good luck. Follow him @iamdbanj

Here are the contest rules;

1) You must be unemployed or employed/self-

employed and currently earning less than

?251k per month.

2) You must develop your JAMB result checker

with Python 3.2 , CherryPy , MySQL 5+ , & hg

on Google Code.

3) You must indicate your interest immediately

by posting a link to your repo here.

4) You must complete the result checker

before 11pm on Sunday 8th April and link to

it on the thread.

Theme of this year’s event is “Taking monetisation and content creation Dialogue to the next level”. Interesting list of speakers and discussant is listed for the event. I sure believe it will be a superb event. You can read the full Agenda here.

Date: 24th (Developers’ day), 25th and 26th April, 2012

Venue: Oriental Hotels, Lagos

To attend, simply register here.

Samsung is world’s leading mobile phone company having overtaken Nokia recently. If you are currently using Blackberry phone, I think it’s right time to switch to Android phone that will fit your lifestyle easily. A big plus is that you can use two sims on this phone!

I got my hand on this new Samsung Galaxy Y Pro duo and I’m really impressed with the ease of use and Android interface. Immediately I turned on the phone, I got all my data (Apps, Contacts etc)from my Galaxy S2 transferred to the new phone and whola! Ready to use.

The Keyboard is a full QWERTY interface and allows you to type like you are on your keyboard If you are comfortable with touch (like I am) you are fully taken care of I found it faster than trackpad for me!

Full Specification

Conclusion, I think this phone is a good deal for anyone willing to get a new phone. You get access to Google Market and you can download as many apps as you want. The price is affordable, under N30,000 (You can compare the price here.)that is a good price for a double SIM Android phone from a powerful brand in Samsung.

 To give the developer community a chance to interact face to face with some of the great guys behind a number of Google products, there will be “An Evening with Googlers” at the hub [CCHUB] next week Wednesday (the 14th) from 5 to 7pm. The Googlers are in town for the upcoming GNigeria 2012 event (15th-17th) and their working areas span across several products and APIs. I’m talking

• Cloud & HTML5
• Google Apps APIs
• Google Maps
• User Experience
• Google+ APIs
• App Engine
• Android & Mobile
• Google Webmaster Tools

If you are interested in being at the hub for the event – please register here:
https://docs.google.com/a/initsng.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHltYTItNlpmbTUwdDBfbnhmMjN6X2c6MQ

I got a couple stats regarding Eskimi, the burgeoning mobile social networking site making waves in Nigeria. It is interesting to note that, the company has as a matter of top priority stated recruit able hands for business development in the country. It was reported last month that a top consultant from Goal.com has joined the company as Business development manager.

Stats

2,200,000+ registered users in Nigeria alone.
10,000+ new users every day in Nigeria.
5M+ registered users across the world.
130,000+ unique Nigerians access the site on average per day.
They open 7,000,000+ pages and
spend more than 50 minutes on site per day.

Growing Scammers

Meanwhile, spammers are now making use of the site to lure users to part away with their money. Yesterday I received an email from a user who wanted to confirm if truly he’s won an award. The email he got directed him to make deposit to someone’s bank account to claim the award. I forwarded the message to the site’s CEO and he said they are dealing with the growing threat.

In case you receive any email claiming you have won an award, please ignore it.You can get in touch with Eskimi directly! If you receive call from person named Mark from this number, 07032832854. Kindly ignore it.

Eskimi could be called Nigeria’s Social network as Nigerians make up more than 40% of it’s users.

As the country set to enter e-commerce phase, a site that help you get best deals for your product is really needed. Enter prices.com.ng, a new startup which was launched some months ago. The site currently has thousands of products from hundreds of merchants. It covers categories from: Home Appliances, Books, computers, Phones, Games, Electronics, Clothing, Bags and other products.

A quote from the press release;

“Our aim is to help Nigerian internet users find and compare product prices from reliable shops across Nigeria. We provide concise product description and prices from multiple shops and allow users compare, then choose the one they are comfortable with. With our service, we believe we will save users the hassle of shopping around to find quality products at good prices online and offline.”

How it works

To compare prices, simply log on to the site; select the category of the product or simply use the search box to get the product you need.

It also has an alert system that sends you an SMS or email to notify you if a product price changes.

As the e-commerce in Nigeria is about to take off, this is definitely a needed startup in the country and one to watch too!

Visit: www.prices.com.ng/

Disclosure: Webtrendsng.com and prices.com.ng share investors.