Most visited Nigerian sites in February 2010

As usual looking at how Nigerian website feared in the recent month. It again no surprise that nairaland.com remains on the top spot but its good to note how punchng.com rally from shadow of its formal glory to take back the second spot. We predicted last month that punchng.com will battle it out between 1st [...]

Nigerian Pidgin Bible; Crowd-sourced Project on Facebook

Pidgin english is a simplified English language people in Nigeria use for casual conversation.
A project developed by 9ja BusStop; the Facebook application hopes to translate the Christian Bible to pidgin english.
As Nigerian developers evolve; this is a welcome development as I still await more business viable applications and web services.
The Application is available here
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Technology Outlook 2010 starts today

I wrote last week about the event agenda for this year’s technology outlook. The event proper will be starting anytime from now. I will try as much as possible to live blog and tweet as the event proceeds.
Today’s topic will focus on;
TELEPHONY FORUM
Keynote: Ikra Bilbis, Minister of State, Information & Communications
Ernest Ndukwe, NCC
Wale Goodluck, MTN [...]

Nigeria Communication Commission opens a twitter account, yet to tweet

As Nigerians catches the Twitter fire, the Nigerian Communication Commission (Regulator authority) as opened a twitter account. Available via @ngcomcommission
Twitter is a microblogging platform that helps you say what’s on your mind in 140 characters.
A visit to the twitter page of the commission, I saw no tweet, I think they can tweet something, how about [...]

Mobile Payment on the rise, Kenya and SA where is Nigeria

This post is a food for thought for my fellow technologist from Nigeria. Mobile Payment on the rise, Kenya and SA where is Nigeria?
Nigeria currently have more than 75million mobile phone users and no single viable mobile payment system to drive m-commerce in the country. I want to believe we have creative developers, sound investors [...]

G-Nigeria Day 2010, What has it changed?

We covered the event live on our website and twitter through out the three days. I wrote a follow up article on the impact of Google on Nigeria and African Internet market.
The Organization of the event was above average, except for the first day when all startup glitches showed up. The second day was the [...]

This week on the Web, weekly recap

Interview with Chiemeka Ozumba, CEO of ishopinlondon.com
As Nigeria ecommerce market continues its aggressive growth, ishopinlondon.com joins the league of site launch this year.
Mpesa comes to South Africa
In a move that could pitch Vodacom competitively against local banks for the first time, its parent Vodafone has announced that it will launch M-Pesa, Kenya’s wildly popular mobile [...]

Impact of Google Presence in Nigeria Internet Market

I was at the Google event for 3 straight days and covered the event; it was very interesting as hundreds of developers and internet business people in came around. Read more on Day One, Day Two and Day Three.
The Nigerian internet market is growing progressively; in recent stats, Nigerian internet users are over 11 million [...]

G-Nigeria Event, Day 2 Live updates recap

We followed the event live here from our twitter page and on this site, you view day 2 live feed here.
Day 2 started off with introduction on setting up online business.
Session 2 Adwords and Adsense
Second session focused on Adwords and Adsense; the two Google advertising product helps you to reach your target audience and also [...]

G-nigeria day 2010 live feed, follow the event

Google Nigeria day is going on currently in University of Lagos.
You can stay connected to the event on twitter here with the hash tag #gnigeria.
Google Buzz back channel here.
Nelson Mattos delivered the key note speech, highlights below;

More than 50% of 16yr olds who are familiar with the Internet don’t use it due to “lack of [...]