The National Sports Commission (NSC) reportedly spent N1.2 million in opening a Facebook account. Just so happens that opening a Faceboook account doesn’t cost a dime. My take: it is possible the Commission may have hired a consultant to create and manage the page for a fee or another smart way of embezzling funds.
Nollywood movie lovers all over the world will soon have a new destination for watching movies as IROKOtv launches on December 1, 2011.
Iroko Partners, the company that acquired the exclusive rights to distribute all of Nollywood movies online, currently…
Over the last four years, I’ve covered a lot of technology startups and companies, innovative products within the tech sector and the people behind them (I’ve lost count), but haven’t had the opportunity to organise them…
The word is out: Google is secretly working on a project that is capable of making it dominate Nigeria’s Internet ecosystem in years to come. That, I call Net-Colonialism! You may call it Colonialism 2.0, if…
Last week, I wrote and ranted about how ISPs spend millions of Naira advertising a lousy internet speed connection in Nigeria, rather than focusing on improving on their network infrastructure and keeping loyal customers.
My post and tweets got the…
Last wednesday, I launched with much excitement a new technology news blog at www.techloy.com!
After several months of intense planning (at times during the heat of the day) and spirited strategising (mostly in the quiet of the night) for…
Local URL shortener service, Yrn.me has redesigned its logo and website which went live today. The service which launched in February 2010 was the first URL shortening service to come out of Nigeria. [Here’s what it looked like before…
Last week, I introduced a new feature: a weekly round-up of the biggest technology stories both locally and globally. Check out last week’s biggest stories here.
So what happened this week? Which tech company made top headlines…
As web companies including Google and Facebook today test the Internet’s readiness for the future, 16 Nigerian institutions appear ready for IPv6, a new Internet protocol with 4 billion times as many addresses.
For years, the adoption rate of…
Two new satellites, NigeriaSat-2 and NigeriaSat-X would launch into the orbit before end of June 2011, several media sites have reported.
The NigeriaSat-2 is expected to be used to provide high resolution imagery…
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