According to reports from Businessday Nigeria will likely secure some $3 billion facility from the Chinese government to finance the completion of some key priority projects if ongoing loan negotiations between the government and China pull through. The projects are; completion of the ongoing Abuja light rail, construction of part[...]
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[...]
The Mobile Money Service industry is getting more competitive as yet another Nigerian bank Unity Bank launches a mobile payment service QikQik. According to Unity bank QikQik is expected to create hundreds of jobs. Speaking during the launch the bank’s Group Managing Director, Alhaji Ado Y. Wanka: The new UnityBank[...]
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![...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
Globacom, Nigerian second National carrier has entered a partnership with the Nigeria Police Force, to provide seamless and effective telephone connection to officers and men of the force, geared at enhancing their crime fighting capabilities. The project titled, FORCECOM 700, will see Globacom providing an initial 10,000 connections on a[...]
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,[...]
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[...]
Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) has commenced sale of thee three nationalised banks Mainstreet Bank, Keystone Bank and Enterprise bank. You can recall these banks where nationalised in August last year According to Mustapha Chike-Obi, Chief Executive Officer, Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON). any moment from now, expressions[...]
Google+ Hackatons to Hold in Nigeria, Ghana and Uganda Google announced it hold Google+ hackatons in Ghana, Nigeria and Uganda next month (March 2012). A Hackaton is an event when programmers meet to do collaborative computer programming. The spirit of a hackathon is to collaboratively build programs and applications. According[...]
The Jim Ovia Foundation has during a week long ICT youth empowerment programme it organised in partnership with Google, IBM, Visafone, Microsoft and TLC Solutions announced a grant to the tune of N50 million for 10 most successful young Nigerians after the training held in Lagos last week. More than[...]
It has been long awaited, the ability to migrate to another network provider without losing your current phone number. According to reports from Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) it would issue the first licence for number portability (NP) service in the first week of February. The licensee would be given six[...]
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.[...]