Get Ready!AfriNolly-The African Entertainment and Movie App goes Live this Week!

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Afrinolly a mobile phone based application which allows users to stream African entertainment bundles will be available for download from Wednesday, September 7th 2011.The App built for both the Android and Blackberry devices provides access to African movie trailers, music videos, comedy online, celebrity gist and gossip, latest entertainment news and many more.AfriNolly is a finalist of the on-going ‘Google Android Developer Challenge- Sub-Saharan Africa’.Group photo

(Photo from left-right:Kenneth Omeruo,CEO Emerging Media and TechTrends; Loy Okezie,Founder Techloy; Chike Maduegbuna, CEO FansConnect;  Yomi Adegboye, CEO MobilityNigeria; Makinde Adeagbo, DropBox Software Engineer)

Speaking at the Afrinolly media parley held recently in Lagos, Chike Maduegbuna, the CEO of Fansconnect Online, assures that Afrinolly is a user friendly package as it is compatible with the popular mobile browser Opera Mini. He further highlighted that the application will be a useful tool that will enable African movie enthusiast to easily access content.

“AfriNolly has global appeal as more people are enthralled with Nollywood and other African entertainment industry” Maduegbuna explained.

Also speaking at the media parley, the company’s Creative Intelligence

Analyst, Bobola Oniwura, said the application is created to get people to interact and talk about African movies, music and comedies. Tope Omotunde, Fansconnect Online’s Head of Technology, also opined that the application will enlighten people about what is happening in the entertainment world and enable them have access to the world of entertainment.

Some of the features on the App include: Latest movie trailers, Celebrities Profiles and gists,Fresh entertainment news, the Community and lots more.

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Omeruo Ndukaku Kenneth is an Innovation Management expert,the CEO of Emerging Media,a new media company.He is a member of ISPIM - International Society for Professional Innovation Management and the US-Africa chamber of Commerce.He is the Founder of TechTrends Nigeria Blog,Nigeria Innovation Summit and the African Innovation Academy.Kenneth is a highly sought-after Internet Marketing Consultant who has through his seminars, articles, training and consulting, helped many organizations, Individuals, Businesses maximize the Internet for business purposes.Kenneth has also being featured as a guest on the TV show TODAY ON STV Nigeria and on Bloomberg Africa TV.He is the author of the best –selling Internet Book: How To Create Unlimited Internet Wealth.

He is a syndicated columnist with the following Newspapers in Nigeria: Daily Independent, Financial Standard, PUNCH, BusinessDay, and Sun.Kenneth organises the EduNet Conference for Universities in Nigeria. Kenneth is a member of Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria( ISPON ) Roundtable For Capacity Development in Nigeria,member pre-selection committee for Nigeria at the UN World Summit Awards,a Panelist for Youth Enterprise With Innovation in Nigeria(YouWIN)-a Federal government initiative created by the ministry of finance,supported by ministries of Communications Technology,Youth Development,Worldbank and DFID.

A 2013 Judge at the Google Cloud Developers Challenge for Sub Saharan Africa.He has been a contributing editor of Nigeria Communications Week,Africa Telecom and IT Business Magazine,ICT Today magazine,M2 magazine.Kenneth has been invited to the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation Forum, Oracle Open World Conference USA, Oracle Cloud World Dubai, and GITEX Dubai.

He now lives in New York with his family and presently working on an Open Innovation project for Nigeria.
You can contact Kenneth through email: [email protected]

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