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03 July 2011 0 Comments

Nigerian IT Talents Exhibition (NITTEX) holds this Wednesday: Computer Science Students to showcase their innovations

  Nigerian technology sphere is ready to takeoff, what is needed is talent and encouragement to make things happen. This Wednesday, Nigerian Association of Computer Science Students (NACOSS) will hold the talent exhibition event at University of Lagos. This will showcase what the innovators have been working on as they study for their degrees. Could [...]

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03 July 2011 0 Comments

Upcoming Tech Events in Nigeria – 2 this week

  Nigerian IT Talents Exhibition (NITTEX) To be hosted by NACOSS, it will give computer science students opportunity to showcase their talents and win prizes. It will also enable them to interact with successful tech entrepreneurs in the industry. Venue: University of Lagos Date: July 6th 2011 Time: 9am Details here Edunet Africa This is [...]

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02 July 2011 0 Comments

Nasir El-rufai, formal Nigerian minister arrested by SSS, tweeted arrest

Change have been tweeted several times, Nigeria is not excluded. Nasir El-Rufai, Nigeria’s formal minister of Federal Capital was arrested this morning on arrival at Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport Abuja. El-rufai, tech-savvy political figure in the country, tweeted his arrest and how he was being taken to their Head quarters. He tweeted till his battery [...]

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15 June 2011 0 Comments

GTBank, Nigeria’s Most Innovative Bank’s CEO is dead!

Late yesterday, Gtbank announced the death of it’s CEO, Tayo Aderinoku. Tayo was the co-founder of the company which was founded in 1990. The bank is the most innovative and forward-looking in the country. Remember earlier in the year he appear on the company’s Youtube page to answer questions from it’s customers. Nigeria has lost [...]

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14 June 2011 0 Comments

Yrn.me, ultimate URL Shortener gets new design

If you have been following my tweets for years now, you will notice I use yrn.me for the all my shortened URLs, yesterday evening, after much previews, a new design was launched! The site’s theme has been changed to blue and requires you to login with your email as oppose to username. The design is [...]

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14 June 2011 0 Comments

Nigeria gets own Innovation Hub, get involve now!

Can you remember the Social Innovation Camp (SiCamp) Held in December and Tech-in Governance held in March? The next stop is launching of much-awaited innovation hub for Nigerian developers. About Co-creation Hub CcHUB is Nigeria’s first open living lab and pre-incubation space being designed to be a multi-functional, multi-purpose space where work to catalyze creative [...]

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13 June 2011 0 Comments

Tech Industry slowing down

Nigerian internet industry which is expected to take off second half of the year, but seriously I think activities seem to be slowing down after the elections. It was understandable seeing all tech activities geared toward the elections but the elections are over, what is happening? Are guys on holiday? Your guess is as good [...]

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10 June 2011 0 Comments

June Mobile Monday is around the corner, register now!

  If you are a mobile developer or interested in mobile technology, it’s time for another interesting time for Mobile Monday, June edition. We covered the last event here. The focus this time will be on Mobile applications platforms and there will be Lawyers and Platform companies on ground. It will also be an interesting [...]

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10 June 2011 1 Comment

Nigerian Software Industry, a $6Billion market; to hit $50b in 5years?

Call it a day-dream…you might not be far from the truth but on one condition…that you are a professional fortune/doom teller! Lolz. The DG (Prof. Cleopas Angaye) of NITDA, the company in charge of our ccTLD I mean the .ng regulation said Nigerian software industry is potentially worth $6b and can replace Oil and Gas in [...]

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10 June 2011 1 Comment

Airtel Nigeria: a Lottery Operator or Network Operator?

I wonder why a network operator will want to charge you N100 daily for playing “lottery” to win millions and qualify for a daily draw to win LCD TV. I got the SMS on my phone, read through then played the game, since it was current affairs; I won all d questions sent. As I [...]

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