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Is Etisalat Trying Too Hard To Trend #NigerianIdol and #Easynet on Twitter?

By Loy Okezie On February 22, 2011 · 1 Comment

Getting your name, brand, product or cause to trend on Twitter requires a lot of tweets and retweets from passionate and loyal twitterers.

Some of the best Nigeria-related twitter trends we’ve seen so far are #abaversion, #MI2 and #englishmadeinnigeria…

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Full List of Sowambe Awards Nominees Unveiled. Start Voting Now!

By Loy Okezie On February 19, 2011 · 5 Comments

Sowambe Awards aims to recognize the best social media adopters, talents, agencies, celebrities, politicians, personalities and professionals as well as social media-based web platforms in Africa.

After about three weeks of nominations from the public and a rigorous editorial…

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Mysifty.com – Prioritize Your Social Media Feeds From Friends, Fans and Followers

By Loy Okezie On February 6, 2011 · 1 Comment

Mysifty is a social media site that helps you prioritize your sometimes overwhelming social media feeds.

The site allows users to sift through their list and choose priority friends and brands they are following but had somehow lost track…

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Announcing the 1st Sowambe Awards. Nominations Start February 1.

By Loy Okezie On January 30, 2011 · 5 Comments

Sowambe, the pan-African social media lifestyle brand is proud to present the 1st Sowambe Awards.

Sowambe Awards will recognize and celebrate the best social media adopters, talents, celebs, brands, professionals as well as social web platforms in Nigeria.

The Awards…

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Nigeria’s First Blackberry Constitution App Hits 10,000 Downloads in 72 hours

By Loy Okezie On January 16, 2011 · 13 Comments

The news first broke on Twitter @TechLoy that a cool blackberry app for the Nigerian constitution has been released and available for free download.

Developed by a Nigerian web (now mobile apps) developer @zubairabubakar, the…

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3 Ideas That Might Get Seed Funding At Social Innovation Camp

By Loy Okezie On January 11, 2011 · 4 Comments

This week at the first Social Innovation Camp in Africa to be held in Lagos, Nigeria, a total of 6 ideas out of 46 submitted will be given attention.

The launch48-like event will hold between 13th – 15th January, 2011.…

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Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt Funded Identified.com, A Startup By Nigerian Founders

By Loy Okezie On October 30, 2010 · 5 Comments

At a time when Nigeria’s tech scene is gradually becoming the centre of the world’s attention, a Silicon Valley based startup, Identified.com, founded by Nigerian tech entrepreneurs has received seed funding from some of the Valley’s finest angel investors.…

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11 Must Read Technology and Social Media Books

By Loy Okezie On October 27, 2010 · 1 Comment

Editor’s Note: This is a great list of some of the best technology/social media books in town that you have to read. The list was compiled by Lauren Fisher, Co-founder of Simply Zesty. I’ve republished them here,…

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If You Love Lagos, Tag Her. You Might Win:)

By Loy Okezie On August 18, 2010 · 3 Comments

An initiative to give everyone a chance to say what they love about Lagos has been launched using a Facebook application and offers prizes to the most

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Sowambe, a pan-african social media brand

By Loy Okezie On August 10, 2010 · 5 Comments

Social Media seems to be powering just about everything on the web. Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, RSS, Mashups, etc are the engines that run things on the web. They seem to be telling us: “No matter what you do, you’ll…

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