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110.43 Million SIM Cards registered by 95.89 Million Subscribers in Nigeria

110.43 million lines have so far been registered in the ongoing registration of SIM (Subscriber Identification Module) cards against official figure of 95,886,714 active mobile lines in the country.This is a huge difference of 14.54 million According to the Executive Vice-Chairman, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Dr. Eugene Juwah: this is More »

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5 Reasons Why You Should Start a Business as a Student

Are you among those who think that running a business is the game of experienced graduates and professionals? I am going to show you five reason why that believe is wrong. If you are a student reading this or you are a fresh graduate and you have never thought of More »

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How You can Buy or Sell on Google Trader through SMS

You can now search, buy, post or sell your products/services on Google’s classified ads site Google Trader. It is very simple, you only have to send a message to a short code via SMS. To start using the SMS service Text START to 6007. Posting on Google Trader is free! More »

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Wikipedia to Go Free on Mobiles in Africa and Middle East This Year

The Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organisation that operates Wikipedia and Orange, a mobile network provider have concluded a deal that will allow millions of people from Africa and Midddle East to gain free unlimited access to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia from the mobile phones. The project is targeted at the More »

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Google+ integrates with Google Trader: Personalize your Listings

Google announced today that it has integrated Google+ (its social network) with Google Trader (it classified ads site). This means users on google trader can personalize their listings. According to press release on Google Africa blog: We wanted to make Google Trader a little bit more personal. So today, for More »

Category Archives: Business Ideas

Why Product Design is vital for your business

January 16, 2012   Andy Chuks   No comments

Product design is very vital to not only the success of any product but to its survival. The design of a product bears directly on its acceptability in the market. Quality product design can only come if you think and plan well. Product design and development, has a direct relationship to the success of any

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The 9 Most Promising Areas/Niches to Launch a Business Startup in 2012

December 31, 2011   NairaBrains   5 Comments

As we go into year 2012 we bring to you a critical analysis of the most promising business niches for startups. These are niches we believe will further push the limits of tech based business in Nigeria and Africa. These are potential areas that will make impact in the coming year and hopefully make a

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Six Reasons Why The YOUWIN Initiative May Fail

December 13, 2011   Andy Chuks   2 Comments

Several months ago (precisely October, 2011) the Federal government came up with an initiative called the Youth Enterprise With Innovation (YOUWIN) aimed at empowering Nigerian youths with the right ideas to create businesses or grow existing ones and as a result stimulate job creation and human development. According to the official YOUWIN website, “It is

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FG Extends Deadline For YOUWIN Submissions Again

November 18, 2011   NairaBrains   No comments

The Youth Enterprise With Innovation in Nigeria program business idea submissions which was supposed to close earlier this November is now to end on November 25, 2011 following the latest shift in deadline by the organizers. YOUWIN is a collaboration of the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Communication Technology (CT), and the Ministry of

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