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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 »

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How You can Buy or Sell on Google Trader through SMS

February 17, 2012   Andy Chuks   No comments

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! However, your carrier may charge

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Website Outage was due to Upgrade – GTBank

February 16, 2012   Andy Chuks   No comments

GTBank responded yesterday evening on twitter that their website outage for several hours between Tuesday 14th and Wednesday 15th was due to service upgrade. GT bank website was redirecting to a parked page for several hours. Their twitter page @gtbank said: Our website became unavailable during an upgrade process.However,normal services have been restored.We apologize for

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Google+ integrates with Google Trader: Personalize your Listings

February 16, 2012   Andy Chuks   No comments

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 the first time, we’re introducing

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[INTERNET STATS] 28% of Nigerians Now Use the Internet

February 16, 2012   NairaBrains   2 Comments

According to research from Internet World Stats, as at December 31, 2011 the number of internet users in Africa has surpassed the 139 million mark. The report showed that compared to a global average of 36% users Africa has about 13.5% of its 1.037 billion population using the internet. Nigeria, Egypt, Morrocco, and lead in

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Top Ten Most Visited and Popular Nigerian Websites in January, 2012

February 15, 2012   NairaBrains   No comments

In continuation of our monthly review of Top Ten Most Visited Nigerian Websites and Blogs which we started in November of 2011 we bring to you the list of most visited Nigerian sites in January, 2012. 1. Vanguardngr.com: The online version of the well read newspaper has retained its top spot for months running now.

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GT Bank Website Parked or Expired?

February 15, 2012   Andy Chuks   No comments

Guaranty Trust Bank Plc website has been down for sometime now. It is not uncommon for websites to be down but here its showing the domain name gtbank.com as parked. A site domain could be parked for various reasons; expired hosting account, expired domain name or change of hosting account. Here is the screenshot you

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Google’s Acquisition of Motorola Approved by US and EU

February 14, 2012   Andy Chuks   No comments

Google $12 billion dollar proposed acquisition of Motorola has been approved by European Commission and the U.S. Department. This will make it the largest acquisition by Google so far. Department of Justice said in a press release yesterday: “The division concluded that the specific transactions at issue are not likely to significantly change existing market

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Top Three List of Failed Tech Startups in Nigeria and Why They Did

February 02, 2012   NairaBrains   2 Comments

On Nigeria’s Technology and Internet Business space there are littered many dead ideas and concepts from the ones that failed to take off fully to the ones that could not innovate and evolve soon enough to stay ahead of new trends. We bring to you our list of top three failed internet startup companies in

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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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Ngcareers.com Launches Mobile Version

January 25, 2012   Andy Chuks   No comments

In bid to Serve its job listing to mobile phone users, Ngcareers.com has launched a mobile version of its site. The mobile version is a lean version of the full version and can be viewed at http://ngcareers.com/m With this development Ngcareers joins other job sites like jobberman.com that already have a mobile version for its

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