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Is Google's GNBO Trying To Kill Nigerian Web Businesses?

Here’s a little background. Google is launching an initiative called Getting Nigerian Businesses Online (GNBO). This scheme will provide one year of free hosting, domain registration, email and a website for participants. Loy raises an alarm saying this would kill Nigerian web hosting, registration and design businesses in an

11 Predictions for the Nigerian Tech Scene in 2011.

Happy New Year peeps! On the heels of Gbenga Sesan’s predictions for the Nigerian tech scene in 2011 I thought I should do mine. Enjoy! 1. Mobile Payments will take off: The Central Bank of Nigeria has given licence to companies to effect mobile payments. Although we will be

Race and Technology: Are There Renowned Internet Startups With Black Founders?

(CC) Brian Solis. www.briansolis.com. This was a very hard post to write. I wrote and deleted it several times. Reason being, issues about race is complicated and can easily be misinterpreted and have an unwanted outcome. I eventually made my decision to publish after reading the post A

Twitter is not Jesus and will not save humanity.

As much as writing this makes I feel like a ‘hater’, I think this post is necessary. I am really getting tired of seeing posts about how Twitter is going to save Iraq, Africa, and the world. I wonder why this start up is being shoved down our throats. I

Cleaning Nigeria's image on the Internet: The way forward.

This post concerns Nigeria’s image that pertains to ebusiness/ecommerce. As for the issues of politics, corruption e.t.c, we’ll discuss that another day. I got a true experience about the way we are viewed by people outside Nigeria during my first week of classes.During lectures,