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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 »

Wasace Cable Company to Launch 100G Undersea Internet Cable to Link Africa

The need for high speed connectivity access across Africa looks more likely to become met as new efforts are being made to boost the internet backbone of the continent. A new Atlantic Ocean undersea fibre-optic cable is being launched by Wasace Cable Company that will connect Africa, South America, North America and Europe. The fibre-optic

New Bill Underway to Make Large Telecom Firms (like MTN, Globacom) to Get Listed on Nigerian Stock Exchange

A new bill is underway in the Federal House of Representatives to make large telecommunication firms like Globacom, MTN, Airtel to get listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange. In line with an earlier request by the Central Bank Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi to have big telecom firms listed on the stock market to boost its

Google to Shut Down Failing Products (Knol, Friend Connect, Wave, Code Search and more)

Google In has announced its intentions to close down some of its products which has failed to take off fully. In a bid to cut down on poorly performing products and concentrate more on its core offerings Google will shut down products like Google Knol (which was supposed to be the Wikipedia challenger) and Friend

NairaTweets Launches Digital Content Store

As an enhancement of the existing web platform NairaTweets, a crowd sourcing, social engagement service available to Nigerian Businesses and Twitter Users has launched its Digital Content Store. The aim of the Store is to provide digital content (music, mobile applications, themes, etc.) for twitter users. The store will cater for organizations and individuals who

Cowbell, Loya Milk Sweep Awards at 2011 Advertisers’ Association of Nigeria Marketing Excellence Awards

The 2011 Advertisers’ Association of Nigeria Marketing Excellence Awards has ended with Cowbell Milk and Loya Milk, two brands of Promasidor Nigeria Limited, a fast moving consumer goods company (FMCG) winning the Overall Marketing Excellence Award and the Brand Revitalisation Award respectively on Saturday, November 19, 2011 at Oriental Hotels in Lagos. The Cowbell brand

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

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

Facebook Introduces New and Improved Page Insights for Admins

Facebook has done some tweaking to its page insights for Page Admins which includes charts to make information very easily understood by administrators of Fan pages. Among the new changes page admins can now see “People Taking About This” – which reveals the number of people who have created a story from the content of

Nigerian Named Africa’s Top Businesswoman and Top 50 in the World

Nigerian women are really proving their worth in the business world, with recent pronouncement of Mrs. Funke Osibodu, Group Managing Director of Union Bank of Nigeria Plc by a global jury of experts consituted by Financial Times of London as one of the world’s top 50 businesswomen. Funke is the only African woman and a

Paypal Introduces New Send Money App on Facebook

In its latest bid to take its payment service to new frontiers PayPal has launched its Send Money app on Facebook that allows users to send money to friends and family for free without leaving Facebook’s friendly confines. While the application is designed for sending money gifts complete with e-cards, photos, videos and messages, users

Helios Investment Acquires Multi-Links Telecom

Multi-links, a CDMA telecom company operating in Nigeria has been acquired 100% from its previous owners Telkom South Africa by Helios Investment Partners (HIP). The Chairman, Multi- Links Telecoms Ltd, Martin Dirk made this announcement during a press conference, saying the long transition leading up to HIP’s acquisition of Multi- Links caused uncertainty about the