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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 »

Dealfish Introduces Free Print Edition of its Classified Ads

December 13, 2011   Andy Chuks   1 Comment

The coming of competitors like Google Trader and Tradestable into the free classified ads market has certainly got Dealfish thinking outside the box. the free classifed ads site has announced the launch of a print version of its classified ads. In an attempt to get at number of its target market that are not active

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Startup Weekend Kenya to Hold Jan 27-29, 2012

December 13, 2011   Andy Chuks   No comments

According to information from Kenya’s Open Data newsletter StartUp Weekend Kenya is to hold from January 27 to January 29th in 2012. Startup Weekends are weekend-long events where entrepreneurs, developers, designers, marketers, product managers and startup enthusiasts come together to share ideas, form teams, build products, and launch startups.

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Julius Berger Goes into Health Industry With a New Subsidiary in 2012

December 13, 2011   NairaBrains   1 Comment

Nigeria’s largest construction company quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange has notified the Exchange of its establishment of two new subsidiary companies. Julius Berger announced the formation of PrimeTech Design & Engineering Nigeria Limited formed to provide design and engineering support services to the Company. Also it introduces Julius Berger Medical Services Limited (JBMSL) which

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Six Reasons Why The YOUWIN Initiative May Fail

December 13, 2011   Andy Chuks   2 Comments

Several months ago (precisely October, 2011) the Federal government came up with an initiative called the Youth Enterprise With Innovation (YOUWIN) aimed at empowering Nigerian youths with the right ideas to create businesses or grow existing ones and as a result stimulate job creation and human development. According to the official YOUWIN website, “It is

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Prof Bart Nnaji, Nigeria’s Minister for Power Joins Twitter

December 11, 2011   Andy Chuks   1 Comment

Professor Bart Nnaji, Nigeria’s Minister of Power has become the latest top government official to embrace the information sharing and micro sharing platform Twitter. The Minister’s Twitter account which already has 386 followers as at the time of the post shows three tweets. In his first tweet Professor Nnaji says; “Hello Nigerians, thank you for

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Beauty Pageant Business in Nigeria: How They Make or Lose Money

December 10, 2011   NairaBrains   No comments

Of recent if you are a follower of the entertainment business sub-sector in the country you would have noticed the increasing introduction of beauty pageants in various forms and shades. Are pageants lucrative business models to go into in Nigeria or are you better off doing something else? We sought to unveil the reasons behind

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LinkedIn to Change Weekly Email Notifications to Daily From Dec 14th

December 10, 2011   NairaBrains   No comments

LinkedIn, the business networking giant, has announced that it will be changing default weekly settings for notifications to daily starting from December, 14th. The email received from LinkedIn read, “We want to let you know about a change we will be making to some of our email notifications to make sure you get important messages

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Civic Media Institute Launches Public Interest Media Platform

December 09, 2011   NairaBrains   No comments

The Civic Media Institute of Nigeria, a multinational organisation formed in September, 2011 has announced its launch of a new media platform, Nigeria Intel that will seek to promote high quality, independent journalism in the public interest. Civic Media Institute was founded to assist Nigerian journalists in accessing professional training opportunities, providing a platform for

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Access Bank to Complete Acquisition of Intercontinental Bank by March 2012

December 07, 2011   NairaBrains   No comments

Access Bank has signalled its readiness to complete the acquisition of a 75% in Intercontinental Bank plc according to a statement in the Nigerian Stock Exchange website. It reads thus; “The Bank has notified The Exchange that following it’s completion of the acquisition of a 75% stake in Intercontinental Bank Plc. (“Intercontinental Bank”), it is

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40 Nigerian Developers Create Prototype Nigerian Government Website

December 07, 2011   NairaBrains   No comments

In line with our commitment to bring relevant information on achievements by Nigerian business people and professionals we bring you this report on a group of Nigerian web developers who earlier this week unveiled a prototype website for the Nigerian Government. In reaction to the belief in various quarters that the Nigerian Government’s official website

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