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Did Fola Adeola Just Join Twitter?

By Loy Okezie On February 25, 2011 · 1 Comment

“Welcome to the official twitter page for Fola Adeola. The next Vice President of our country Nigeria”.

Those were the words that heralded what appears to be the official twitter account of Fola Adeola, the Vice President aspirant under…

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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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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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TechLoy’s Best People, Brands and Events of 2010

By Loy Okezie On January 1, 2011 · 1 Comment

The year 2010 was peopled with brands that were eventful. Here are the people, brands and events that moved and shaped the year 2010.

I’ve listed them with their twitter names in order to make it easily to follow them.…

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Vincent Enyeama Trends On Twitter. Domain Names Registered Today.

By Loy Okezie On June 17, 2010 · 3 Comments

In a world cup match soaked with adrenaline pumping tension, the Super Eagles of Nigeria couldn’t turn an adversity (10-man against opponents) into an adventurous victory over the Greeks.

But one man, Vincent Enyeama made a difference. His goal-keeping prowess and…

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Yarnable Goes Into Private Beta (Invites)

By Loy Okezie On May 6, 2010 · 15 Comments

With Twitter’s success in providing real-time information to users around the world, we’re left second-guessing what the future of the web would become. At the time of writing this, Twitter is the 11th most visited site in the world…

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It’s Official: Barcamp Nigeria 2010

By Loy Okezie On March 22, 2010 · 9 Comments

Described as “the best technology event that has ever happened in the history of the Nigerian web industry”, Barcamp Nigeria 2010 has been officially announced.

Born out of the desire to build connections between technopreneurs and…

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Another 1st from Starcomms!…Isn’t that MTN’s line?

By Loy Okezie On October 26, 2009 · 1 Comment

After about two weeks of announcing the launch of a new feature that allows their subscribers send Twitter updates via SMS on their mobile phones, Starcomms has today announced a new feature called Facebook…

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MTN Nigeria, Arik Air Tunes to Twitter

By Loy Okezie On September 17, 2009 · 9 Comments

It seems that Nigerian companies have started going crazy for social media platforms especially Twitter. I’m not surprised since Twitter has enjoyed a lot of global press coverage and positive reviews, even though they’ve been having…

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Can Internet Startups in Africa Be Profitable?

By Loy Okezie On June 21, 2009 · 3 Comments

One of my mentors, Paul Graham wrote, in one of his interesting articles, about his own predictions on the future of web startups. In the article, The Future of Web Start-ups, he said:

So my

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