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The Story of Blackberry Mania in Nigeria

December 24, 2012 By 6 Comments
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The Canadian company Research in Motion (RIM) introduced their leading mobile device Blackberry into the Nigerian market in 2006. Since then, the nation as well as Africa has taken fancy to the device. Within the first three years, the phone earned a premium image becoming a status symbol amongst the masses. Today when the rest of the telecommunication world is gaga over androids and iPhone, the Blackberry business in Nigeria has hit an all time high by becoming the largest selling smartphone. So how did RIM manage to create this Blackberry mania? Well, being first always has its own advantages. BB entered the emerging market in Nigeria shortly after service providers had made an entry … [Read more...]

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Fund And Withdraw Paypal Funds Easily In Nigeria

September 9, 2011 By 7 Comments
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Carrying out some online transactions without a paypal account is almost impossible since it turned out to be the most widely used form of online payment solution over the years. Paypal is not supported in Nigeria and you have to go through certain steps just to open and verify a paypal account as a Nigerian and I made a post earlier on that. Despite getting a paypal account through the backdoor, withdrawing your money earned online and funding it to facilitate your online transactions and purchase items remains a problem to most people. There are lots of Nigerian internet marketers parading themselves as paypal gurus but you'll definitely think twice if you happen to witness a scam. I'm not … [Read more...]

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List Of Nigerian Web Hosts And Domain Registrars

August 22, 2011 By 28 Comments
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Some years back, it wasn't easy hosting a website in Nigeria without a paypal account or a valid credit card. Back in 2008, I remember running countless google searches, looking web hosts that accept liberty reserve for web hosting and domain name registration since I didn't have a paypal account back then and the debit card I had never worked. The last few years has been very good in the Nigerian ICT industry with the emergence of local web hosting companies. It's now easy to host a website and register domain names, paying for the service in Naira without necessarily having a credit card or paypal account. I have to emphasize that the list of Nigerian web hosts in this blog post is … [Read more...]

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Open and Verify Your Paypal Account in Nigeria and Unsupported Countries

November 11, 2010 By 43 Comments
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It's no longer news that paypal is not supported in Nigeria and certain countries like Pakistan ans Sri Lanka. You can, however, open and verify your paypal account if you live in Nigeria or any of these unsupported countries to facilitate your online transactions.If you do not have a liberty account, please read my previous post on that and fund your Liberty Reserve account before proceeding. Fund your liberty reserve account with about $10 ( you're going to need this to buy a virtual credit card for verification)Now, go to http://www.paypal.com and register an account. I'll advise you to use a Your-Freedom client server to do this. It's not a bright idea doing this in a cyber cafe using a … [Read more...]

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