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Tech Round-up: This Week’s 10 Biggest Tech Stories

By Loy Okezie On June 4, 2011 · 5 Comments

This month, we launch a new feature that I’m hoping will be regular: a weekly round-up of the biggest technology stories both locally and globally. Now by biggest, I mean stories that got our attention big time.

So then,…

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Facebook Beats Yahoo! To Become Most Visited Site in Nigeria

By Loy Okezie On January 1, 2011 · 5 Comments

Facebook, the social networking behemoth has toppled Yahoo! to become the most visited website in Nigeria, claiming the number one position which has been Yahoo!’s for years.

Before now, Yahoo! has been the number one most…

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Pagatech’s CEO Tayo Oviosu to Speak at Tech4Africa Conference

By Loy Okezie On June 14, 2010 · 3 Comments

Tayo Oviosu, a leading expert in M&A and private equity investment opportunites in Africa will be speaking at the inaugural Tech4Africa Conference in Johannesburg, August this year.

Tayo founded Pagatech in April 2009 with a vision to enable a cashless society and bank…

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Google Zeitgeist 2009 for Nigeria

By Loy Okezie On December 1, 2009 · 5 Comments

Last year, I wrote about Google’s 2008 Year-End Google Zeitgeist for top and rising search words/phrases around the world and wondered why Google deliberately left out Nigerian top searches, but

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Loy Okezie: Version 2.8 Released!

By Loy Okezie On November 12, 2009 · 7 Comments

Recently, I’ve been working on a huge project being managed by one of Nigeria’s top branding companies that will redefine the way we search information about Nigeria online.

The project’s mission is to “organize Nigeria’s information” in one place and…

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Why You Should Start a Business, not a Startup

By Loy Okezie On August 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Jason Fried at 37signals.com has an interesting piece which I thought is worth sharing here…

Startups can bring new ideas to market. They can give people a chance to change the world on their own terms. They

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10 Best Places to Create a Startup Hub in Nigeria

By Loy Okezie On July 21, 2009 · 7 Comments

Recently, I wrote about the most critical factors to consider before creating a startup hub in Nigeria. While any state government can actually make this happen, there are particularly some cities that could get it done faster within…

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5 Key Factors to Creating a Startup Hub in Nigeria

By Loy Okezie On July 5, 2009 · 14 Comments

A few years ago, an ex-Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja, said

…the Nigerian government has worked out to invest 600 million US dollars (about 100 billion Naira) to establish

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