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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: Career

5 Ways to Use the Web to Create and Seek Career Opportunities

February 01, 2012   NairaBrains   No comments

Nothing has had as much impact on career advancement in recent times as the web. In this guest post David Beastall explores five ways anyone can use the web to promote and enhance their career goals. Get on LinkedIn Unlike the other major social networks, LinkedIn very much has professional overtones, which will be of

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5 Signs You Should Quit Your Job

January 30, 2012   NairaBrains   1 Comment

We all have had bad days at work. Maybe some of us had a whole week or two. But if you can’t remember when you had a good day at work, you have a problem. We spend more than half of our time in the office and our colleagues can become our friends or our

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Nigerian Labour Congress Website Hacked! #NaijaCyber Hacktivites

January 28, 2012   NairaBrains   2 Comments

Nigeria Labour Congress‘ official website was hacked yesterday by a group known as the NaijaCyber Hacktivites. This hacker group claimed the leadership of the Nigerian Labour Congress were traitors and sold the rest of the citizens out during the recent fuel subsidy protests and strike action. A visit to the Nigeria Labour Congress website shows

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A Career Development Plan: Why You Need It

January 20, 2012   NairaBrains   No comments

An architect first draws up a plan before ever starting to build a house. The engineer designs the car before the actual construction. Right? So virtually any worthwhile achievement must have a plan even if sketchy at first. The purpose of the guide is to show you the way so you don’t blindly thrash around

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Pursuing a Career in Human Resources? Why You Should Consider an MBA and Possible Career Paths for The Human Resources Professional

January 07, 2012   Andy Chuks   No comments

As the modern workplace gets more competitive one of the emerging lucrative career paths is that of Human resources management. If you are considering pursuing a career as a Human Resources professional there are things you should know to help you achieve success in a career path full of growing opportunities and possibilities. Education and

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Losing Billions Yearly to Non-Existent Workers; Time to Go Technological

December 15, 2011   NairaBrains   No comments

The incidents of ghost workers being paid salaries and allowances in the federal and state civil service has become an something of a recurring enigma. Most recently Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo Iweala revealed that about N1 Billion was being paid in salaries to ghost workers or unidentified police pensioners. What this means

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Eight Things They Don’t Teach You in College About Business and the Labour Market

November 22, 2011   NairaBrains   10 Comments

There will always continue to be the argument on whether college or university prepares the average individual for success in the real world. Of course college has its uses. There is abundant theoritical knowledge on almost any discipline you can think of. Still I hardly know of any successful fellow who made success based only

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The New Minimum Wage and Its Implication On The Labour Market

November 15, 2011   NairaBrains   1 Comment

Several months ago the Nigerian government passed into law a new minimum wage which stipulates that the least paid workers shall earn N18,000 ($120) monthly. This was a leap from the previous minimum wage of N7, 500 ($50). As paltry as the new minimum wage may seem, especially when exchanged to the dollar there are

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How To Manage Your Time Between Your Business and Your Job

November 11, 2011   NairaBrains   1 Comment

This is a unique topic because not everybody who has a job understands the need for his/her own business as well. Is my job not my business? You ask. Your job is definitely not your business or you wouldn’t be paid what the owner wanted. If you are working for someone else then that’s your

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One Powerful Tool for Your Job Search and How to Use It

October 28, 2011   NairaBrains   No comments

Just recently LinkedIn, a popular business networking site went on an IPO and is now worth $9 billion. What importance does LinkedIn.com have for a career person or job seeker? LinkedIn.com is the single largest and most popular networking platform for business people with over 100 million members and counting. What it means is that

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