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21 December 2012 Comments

Twitter Verified – Banky W & Wizkid

It seems the wave of Nigerian celebrities getting verified on twitter is still moving and not likely to stop anytime soon because the Baddest Boss and the number one Baddest Boy just got verified. They join the likes of the Choc Boiz, Don Jazzy, Asa, Nneka amongst others. Although the crew is busy planning for [...]

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10 September 2012 Comments

Breaking: GoDaddy’s Server Taken Down.

In a what seemed to be a sort of vendetta against the domain registrar, GoDaddy, their servers have been attacked by a member of the popular group of hackers known as Anonymous. The member known as AnonymousOwn3r claims to be attacking GoDaddy to test how safe their security is and also for a few undisclosed [...]

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09 July 2012 Comments

LAGBook signs deal with BlackBerry Nigeria

Prominent Nigerian social networking website, Ladies And Gentlemen book, popularly known as LAGbook, on 18th June, 2012, signed an 8 weeks sponsorship deal with Research in Motion (Blackberry) Nigeria, valued at N1.2million. Before the deal, LAGbook had over 75,000 registered members with international media attention from Webrazzi and TechCrunch, the world’s foremost technology news portal [...]

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17 June 2012 Comments

Telcos agree to pay NCC fines

Almost three weeks after missing the deadline given the four GSM operators – MTN, Globacom, Airtel and Etisalat – to pay a N1.17 billion fine imposed by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the companies have agreed to pay the fine by next week. The telecos were fined for poor quality of services and failure to [...]

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09 April 2011 Comments

Governor Bukola Saraki Tweeted false result, deleted instantly…see screenshot

In what will be anticipation of victory as usual, the current Governor of Kwara state, Bukola Saraki, took to twitter to broadcast victory in the ongoing election as against the results. Immediately 10s of his followers retweeted and some tried to tell him the true result, he deleted the tweet. Incase you missed it, here [...]

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10 February 2011 Comments

Are you smart? Compete in the Google Young Minds

Google is currently looking for the next world changers between the ages of 18-24. You will have the opportunity of meeting with world leaders come May 2011. To apply you need to make a video to talk about your story and upload on Youtube. Young Minds is a competition supported by Google and hosted on [...]

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10 January 2011 Comments

GTBank’s CEO to Engage customers on Social Media

We have predicted that social media will go mainstream further this year and brand will pay more attention and efforts online. In what is Nigeria’s first, GTbank‘s CEO will be engaging customers on their social media platforms tomorow; 11/1/11 at 11am. An interesting one you will say! GTbank as we have covered several times is [...]

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17 October 2010 Comments

[Breaking News] @eggheader becomes P.A to Dr. Fayemi Ekiti State Governor thanks to Twitter

@eggheader (Odewale) a popular Nigerian on twitter has just got a new job from the newly confirmed Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Fayemi. Last Friday, Appeal court in Ilorin, Kwara state of Nigeria confirmed Dr. Fayemi as the winner of the 2007 and2009 run-off election in Ekiti state. @eggheader followed the court process from the [...]

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