Mobile phones can enable Banks and their existing and new customers to interact remotely in a trusted way through local retail outlets like the super markets, Gas stations, lottery points, post offices and even airtime dealers.
By any standards The Punch Newspapers is a favourite of most Nigerians because it offers deep insight and objectivity in its publications hence I have been addicted to the Website to get the juiciest news. So it came to me as a shocker when a few months ago they decided that access to the hitherto…
Nigeria with 5 Mobile Operators and 7 CDMA operators with total subscription of 62 Million under an addressable market of 140 Million people is the largest market for Mobile telephony in Africa.
Firefox: What’s all the noise about! Firefox is one of the most useful browsers with tons of extensions and according to w3schools is already used by 47.9% of computer users. Firefox is already a standard (default web browser) on most if not all Linux O.S and will become increasingly popular with the advent of Windows…
In the late nineties, cybercafé business used to be a very lucrative business with lots of abnormal profits. The market became contestable and lots of entrepreneurs entered and exploited the abnormal profit and then it became a normal profit venture. Put together 10-20 systems in a strategic location like a campus environment, with a dependable…
The Challenge It is intellectually lazy as well as factually inaccurate to treat emerging markets as a homogenous group. While there is no doubt that mobile telephony is rapidly progressing in a pretty impressive fashion in some parts namely Latin America and the Indian subcontinent, in others mobile telephony faces the systemic problems that hamper…
Internet brands or brands on Internet? The advent and use of Internet has really changed the way business is done. Businesses have become smarter with increased technological development. The business potentials of the Internet which is characterized by the semantic features of web 2.0 has given birth to web-applications that help small businesses grow with…
The best way to strengthen a society and increase development, they say, is to improve health, education and other services for its citizens. Over the years the government and people of many nations have sort to ensure that these necessities are met by employing the most up to date advances and trends in science and…
Prelude: As I conclude this series on “It’s Time to Listen to Emeagwali and one million Nigerians under “Part four” of this write-up, I wish to thank all those who have read and followed this presentation on issues of knowledge, technology and brain drain; and the need to refocus our development national mindset to positive…
Mina, a Ghanaian Lady that I met on my recent trip from Accra, the capital city of Ghana to Aflao, the border town with Republic of Togo, was traveling to conduct withdrawal transactions with her ATM card and nine other cards belonging to friends. The distance to Aflao from her rustic roadside village is close…
For those who live in the developed economies, mobile telephony has surpassed its raison d’etre of exchange of information between peoples and seamlessly moved into the socio-political realm of politics and consumption. With the unrest following the Iranian presidential elections of 12 June (whaoh! June 12 again!), the leading question in media and academic circles…
Facebook is the fastest growing social networking website on the Internet today with over 200 million users world wide, founded by Mark Zuckerberg in February 2004 with fellow computer science major students and his roommates Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes at Harvard University. It is a free-access website organized by city, workplace, school, region to…
There is no doubt that technology has come to stay. And more importantly, it has come to reshape and redefine the way we live. Technology has bridged the time, making what was seemingly impossible yesterday, possible today. It has still gone ahead to show us that anything we ever imagined can be achieved with time….
NIGERIA YOUR TREASURE: Today, if man or history challenges us to produce our treasure house (our legacy?) what will it be? The ‘Accumulated Hydrocarbons, the ‘Rain Forest’ or ‘Human Resources’? None of the above! Truth is, we are yet to consciously recognize, appreciate, collect document and preserve nationalknowledge – which is and remains the greatest…
The internet is a honey pot of information. No hyperbole. Often described as one of mankind’s greatest innovations yet, it is versatile, indispensible, invaluable and useful. This unfortunately also makes it a veritable tool for criminals. The media around the world is awash with stories of scams particularly those in which Nigerians have ripped foreigners of their monies. However, this piece will dwell on how to tell a scam email, what to do when you receive a scam email and how to avoid becoming a victim of scam emails allegedly known as “The Nigerian Crime”.
Nigeria with only 18 million Bank accounts and 62 million Mobile Phone subscribers is posed to be Africa’s biggest market for Mobile Money in coming months. Despite the late start of Mobile Money in Nigeria, the strong compelling needs of the millions of unbanked populations will propel it to enviable heights that will surpass Kenya’s…
Looking back to what life used to be for all of us before the GSM evolution in Nigeria; it gives one a clear understanding of the positive impact GSM has on Nigerians. The way we used to communicate and do business have changed tremendously, the life of the common people has also been touched in…
The Brain Drain Challenge! First, there is a fundamental need to refocus the nation’s information mindset from the current standard of “WHO YOU KNOW” to “WHAT YOU KNOW!” In order words, it’s time to start to pay homage to ‘knowledge’ (technology) than to (individual) Wealth – Dr. Pius Okigbo’s wisdom on building a knowledge-based society…
In recent times, many people have taken to online business transactions in one way or the other, some even without knowing it are already living a ‘web lifestyle’like me. People who do not have their businesses online at least use e-mail facilities, do online transactions or get online to search for one information or the…
Before you start reading this piece, just pulse for a moment and ask yourself why do I visit the websites I go to every time am online? Why do I have to use Google for my search, why do I add to my favorite list those websites I visit regularly even to the extent of…
I decided to put together this writeup to help discerning entertainment consumers and aficionados make the best possible decision in modern video entertainment, actually my motivation stems from my costly adventures while trying to seek out the latest in HD entertainment. HD, HD-DVD, Blu-ray are some of the most common terminologies used by electronic manufacturers…
Time might be perceived, defined and configured as being relative. But, ironically the law of relatively is some kind of wisdom that spurs the mind and commands us to search the universe for better solution. Such a phenomena challenges the thought process and requires in-dept observation – this critical mass that makes us to listen…
For Millions of Africans that are still formally excluded from any formal financial services, how and where they get such services is of less importance to them, than getting the service. The Banks are still trying to lure people in through their gates by offering lots of Innovative services that can deliver value to customers…
People are currently serving jail terms in the UK and the US because they infiltrated other people’s computers that they weren’t told to. Similarly in Nigeria, some people’s liberty is currently being restricted because they use the computer to make phony deals online. In Microsoft vs. Alexander Pononsov, a Russian court passed a verdict of …
People who think and act differently achieve success in business. The challenge of every business whether online or offline has always been how to increase the number of its customer base by getting its marketing message in front of the target prospects. Another challenge is how to persuade those prospects to buy their product or…
The easiest and cost effective method of positioning your business for higher profit during this economic recession is getting it online. Like I explained in my book titled: How to Create Unlimited Internet Wealth, every idea has a place on the Internet, and every business should be online for higher profits. Bill Gates opined that,…
It must be said that the book-How to Create Unlimited Internet Wealth, is a very timely book, particularly in Africa’s most populous black nation,Nigeria.It comes at a time when the image of the country is continuously rubbished by the activities of internet fraudsters popularly called 419. The 90-page book set in 10 chapters and published…
The art of selling whether on the Internet or offline is as old as man, it is a way of life, and there has always been a way of exchanging goods and services for monetary benefits. Selling on the Internet is an art that should be mastered in order for one to excel in it;…
The reason most businesses in Nigeria have not really established their online presence is because of their opinion and the way the internet is being seen. Like I have always said in my previous articles, every business should use the infrastructure of the internet in one way or the other if they want to survive this…
It is a common feature in Nigeria to see businesses not having websites, the ones that have do not maintain them. Your business website is a representation of your entire business on the World Wide Web. It should reflect the status and stature of your organization, this is where vital information about your business can…