Beyond Codes: My advice to Nigerian developers

Beyond Codes: My advice to Nigerian developers

I once had a PHP tutor in Agege, Lagos, who claims that he can put together all the codes used to develop Facebook. “There is nothing in Facebook, I can write the codes”, he often ...

A great product will sell itself BIG

A great product will sell itself BIG

Except you’ve not been paying close attention to foreign tech news, you must have heard about how Facebook moved the world with the $1 Billion Instagram deal. No, it’s not a typo; ...

Monetisation: Two Revenue Models for Tech Start-ups

Monetisation: Two Revenue Models for Tech Start-ups

One of the major things that confuse tech start-up founders is monetization. Truly mapping out income streams from an idea can be cumbersome especially with internet start-ups. Due ...

4 ways to make your passwords stronger

4 ways to make your passwords stronger

If you have nothing to lose if your account is hacked, then you can ignore this. Whether for Facebook, email, WordPress, accessing your computer or any other protected platform, th ...

Beni American University commences with beta testers

Beni American University commences with beta testers

Except you've not been paying close attention to the Nigerian tech news for the past two weeks, you must have heard about Beni American University. Beni American University is the ...

How to blog with little or no time

How to blog with little or no time

So, you’ve always wanted to own a blog but you’ve been limited by that one reason why many others have refused to start blogging -TIME. Time, Time Time! Of course, I agree that tim ...

I know what it cost to make my blog mobile-friendly

I know what it cost to make my blog mobile-friendly

This is first of all a confession. I wonder if I even have to confess since some of you, my mobile visitors must have noticed it. My site never had a mobile version until few hours ...

Beyond Codes: My advice to Nigerian developers

I once had a PHP tutor in Agege, Lagos, who claims that he can put together all the codes used to develop Facebook. “There is nothing in Facebook, I can write the codes”, he often say to me. My tutor has a working knowledge of virtually all the programming you can think of. As proof, he often shows me his por more ...

April 26, 2012 (5) comments

Faking it until we make it?

As I surfed the World Wide Web last week, I came across something disturbing. At first, I came across an ad pointing to a Nigerian developed “African” social platform on one of the sites I visited. At first, it looked interesting until I went deeper into the site. “Wow, this is a good Nigerian initiative” was more ...

May 09, 2012 (1) comments

Faking it until we make it?

As I surfed the World Wide Web last week, I came across something disturbing. At first, I came across an ad pointing to a Nigerian developed “African” social platform on one of the sites I visited. At first, it looked interesting until I went deeper into the site. “Wow, this is a good Nigerian initiative” was more ...

May 09, 2012 (1) comments

[Updated] Air Nigeria did it again: 18+ Hours Delay!!!

UPDATE: I was compensated with a free ticket back to Abuja which I used on the 2nd of January, 2012. Asides this, I have received numerous phone calls and tweets from the Air Nigeria team (Customer Relations) to console me since this happened.  CAUTION: Very unusual of me, this post is a very long one. I just more ...

December 23, 2011 (5) comments

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