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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 »

Made in Nigeria Entrepreneurs’ Conference to Hold in Nigeria, January 19th-21st, 2012

December 17, 2011   NairaBrains   2 Comments

Nigerian entrepreneurs, CEOS, business leaders, executives and managers are to gather at Ibadan early next year (Jan 19-21,2012) for the Made in Nigeria Entrepreneurs (MINE) Conference. The networking conference is organised by the Young Nigerian CEOs Network, an online network of upwardly mobile young Nigerian CEOs, entrepreneurs, business leaders and managers across the world founded

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Globacom Nigeria Launches Nigeria’s First Mobile Money Service

December 16, 2011   Andy Chuks   2 Comments

Mobile Payment Service in Nigeria got a huge boost with Globacom Nigeria lauching its mobile money service in partnership with UBA and Stanbic IBTC bank. In its press released Glo announced: Globacom has partnered with two major licensed banks to launch Nigeria’s first mobile money service. Glo Txtcash, the new addition to the long list

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2012 Nigeria Budget: Allocations to Technology Sector Almost Doubled (But Is It Still Enough?)

December 16, 2011   Andy Chuks   1 Comment

The budget for the 2012 fiscal year has been finally announced by the Federal Government and there was a little bit of something to cheer about for the nation’s technology sector. from the N28 Billion allocated to the Science and Technology sector in the 2011 budget there is an increase of N3 Billion for the

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Needed: A Silicon Valley for Nigeria’s Emerging Tech Business Ecosystem

December 15, 2011   NairaBrains   No comments

Silicon Valley is a term which refers to the part of San Francisco which is home to major technology corporations of the world. According to Wikipedia Silicon valley originally was used to refer to the region’s large number of silicon chip innovators and manufacturers but eventually evolved to become a term for all the tech

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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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Highest Tweets Per Second: Japanese Movie Sets Record

December 14, 2011   NairaBrains   No comments

Previously news of singer Beyonce’s pregnancy got the highest tweets per second (at almost 9,000 tweets). That however is now history as according to Twitter, the TV screening of the highly popular Anime Castle in the Sky screened earlier this month got 25,088 tweets per second (TPS). This much was revealed by Twitter’s Communication team.

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Steve Jobs Biography Tops Amazon 2011 Bestseller List

December 14, 2011   NairaBrains   No comments

The 630 page comprehensive biography of late entrepreneur and Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been announced as the Amazon’s highest selling book for 2011. The book written by Walter Isaacson on the life of the iconic co-founder of the world’s most successful tech company has been sold through a variety of means; traditional hard copies,

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Four More Mobile Payment Operators to Get Licenses

December 14, 2011   NairaBrains   No comments

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has announced that it will soon issue licenses to four more mobile money operators to deepen the emerging mobile money market and make it competitive. The apex bank’s Director, Banking and Payment System, Gaius Emokpe stated this at a Stakeholders’ Forum on Mobile Payments System in Nigeria. There are

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AfriTickets: New Website for Buying and Selling Event Tickets Launches in Nigeria

December 14, 2011   NairaBrains   No comments

We announce the entrant of a new service based website Afritickets which is a startup poised to provide gateway services for event ticketing in Nigeria. A lot of challenges face event organisers in Nigeria and ticketing is one of them. Challenges range from printing quality tickets, preventing counterfeiting, ensuring their tickets are distributed in as

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Prof Bart’s Tweet-Meet: PHCN To Be Closed Down, Power Stations for Enugu, Gombe and Benue

December 13, 2011   Andy Chuks   2 Comments

Nigeria’s Minister of Power, Professor Bart Nnaji had an exhaustive tweet-meet yesterday as we initially wrote on. The tweet-meet which was an engagement between the Minister of Power and his followers on twitter dwelled on the various actions his ministry is taking to stabilise power supply in the country. The Minister tweeted that by December

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