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

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 More »

Top Ten Most Visited Nigerian Sites (November, 2011)

December 01, 2011   Andy Chuks   2 Comments

Top ten Most Visited Nigerian Sites (November, 2011) November, 2011 ended with little shift in the list of top ten most visited Nigerian sites. We have started this monthly analysis of the Top ten Nigerian sites by traffic in order to bring to the fore the current trends in internet usage in Nigeria. With Nairaland

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Investment Advice: Why Investing In Tech Startups May Be The Better Way To Grow Your Money

December 01, 2011   NairaBrains   No comments

I am never going to say that investing in stocks and bonds is out of vogue. With the right strategy you can still take your savings and increase it substantially investing in stocks. However if you are the type that never has it going for stocks and the stock market and you certainly have got

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Nigeria to Hit 152 Million Telecom Subscribers By 2016 – Report

December 01, 2011   Andy Chuks   No comments

Currently Africa’s largest economy Nigeria is forecasted to hit 152 million telecom subscribers by 2016 in a report by Informa Telecoms and Media, a provider of business intelligence and strategic services to telecom markets. According to the report Africa has become the second most connected region in the world in terms of mobile subscription count,

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Airtel Africa Reaches 50 Million Subscribers in Africa

November 30, 2011   NairaBrains   No comments

According to a report by The Economic Times, Bharti Airtel, India’s leading telecom provider announced today that it now has over 50 million subscribers in Africa and is looking to double that figure by march 2013. Airtel started operations in 15 countries in Africa last year when it acquired several established carriers there for a

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Google Launches YouTube Analytics to Let You Know Who Watches Your Videos

November 30, 2011   NairaBrains   No comments

Before now video publishers on YouTube used Insights to discover key stats on who watches their videos. That is now being replaced as Google introduces YouTube Analytics to be released to everybody who uses YouTube. The new features will include a new overview section which provides the key information quickly, while also enabling easy access

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Hoping To Raise Funds for Your Startup? 7 Questions to Expect From Investors

November 30, 2011   NairaBrains   2 Comments

Getting needed funding for your business idea or startup is probably the biggest hurdle you must pass if you are to succeed as an entreprenuer and grow that idea to worth millions or billions. I had personally witnessed how difficult it can be for an especially young entrepreneur (In my case in his early 20s)

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All About Convergence Africa – Meeting Point for Ideas Across Africa

November 29, 2011   NairaBrains   No comments

The much publicised Convergence Africa conference bringing together business leaders, CEOs, investors from across the African continent to deliberate insights on emerging business issues and provide a connecting ground for investors and growing companies in Africa is set to hold on December 8, 2011. The conference will culminate in an exclusive session designed to match

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WordPress Introduces WordAd Program for Bloggers

November 29, 2011   Andy Chuks   No comments

WordPress has announced a new advertising platform for bloggers in a bid to rival the much successful Google run Adsense program. WordPress is teaming up with Federated Media to provide advertisng to WordPress bloggers. According to the WordPress blog, “Over the years one of the most frequent requests on WordPress.com has been to allow bloggers

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Central Bank Governor Sanusi Lamido Named Forbes Africa Person of the Year

November 29, 2011   Andy Chuks   No comments

Nigeria’s Central Bank Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has been voted the Forbes Africa Person of the Year 2011. He was nominated alongside five others including Nigeria’s richest Aliko Dangote and Nobel Peace laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Mr Sanusi, 50, has headed reforms in Nigeria’s banking sector since his appointment in 2009. under his watch the

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How MicroFinance Banks in Nigeria Can Take Over the Savings Deposit Market

November 29, 2011   Andy Chuks   No comments

After the Central bank’s consolidation exercise in Nigeria’s banking industry Microfinance banks (formerly known as community banks) were also made stronger with the increase of their capital base. Ordinarily microfinance banks are grassroots banks. they are supposed to be closer to the average Nigerian (trader, student, worker) than the commercial banks. However most microfinance banks

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