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Startups Nigeria
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Alan Patricof of the Huffington Post writes about his time spent in Kampala, Uganda; Nairobi, Kenya; and Abuja, Nigeria following the election of Barrack Obama to Presidency of the United States. In it talks about the growing middle class of Africa and what Obama represents for them…
While Africa clearly has a very high level [...]

Emeka Siwe and Jonathan Elandu, two U.S. bloggers who cover African politics, have been detained in Nigeria apparently without charge. Read the full story at Africasia…
A US journalist’s rights group said on Friday that Nigeria is holding a US-based blogger without charge, in the second such incident in two weeks.
Emmanuel Emeka Asiwe, editor of [...]

Sabella Abidde writes..
Intellectual work, as Thandika Mkandawire puts it, is “quintessentially the labor of the mind and soul.” Intellectuals have played a major role in shaping passions, ideologies and societal visions.This is principally true in Nigeria, where for several decades — in spite of military autocracy and repression — intellectuals helped shaped public [...]

Will Larson put together this study at Irrational Exuberance that explores the global popularity of programming languages. The languages he chose to look at were: Common Lisp, Erlang, Groovy, Haskell, Java, Objective C, OCaml, Perl, Python, Ruby, Scala, and Scheme. He performed the search using Google Insights, then restricted them using the programming filter. [...]

Globacom is laying a 9,500 kilometres telecommunications cable at a cost of about $250 million from London to 14 West African countries. The cable is expected to reach Ghana by May 2009 and then extended to Nigeria and other countries in the sub-region.
Via IT Africa

The Nigerian firm Phase3 Telecom has announced it will spend US$200 million on fiber-optic coverage throughout the country.
The company, which has operated in Nigeria for five years, currently delivers fiber optics over high voltage power transmission lines, a method Jegede hails for its reliability. Underground fibers will be used to compliment these lines where required, [...]

The Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF) is a US$50-100m private sector fund, backed by some of the biggest names in development finance and hosted by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). Their aim is to encourage private sector companies to compete for like-for-like investment support for their new and innovative business ideas.
The [...]