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Afam:
What is the site address again?

His website URL is on his profile page. I must admit that he does have a mesmerizing portfolio.

http://www.techimpactwebs.com/portfolio

nairahost.com.ng and web4africa.net are both active members of this forum. They both offer Windows hosting.

hanen:
Afam the \'developer\' strikes again.

lol

@ My2cents,

There is a difference between constructive criticism (which this place should be about) and public ridicule.
IMHO, since these knocks are unsolicited, they are completely unjustifiable and iniquitous.

I remember your not-so-pleasant reeaction to taunts you got from this post you made a while ago:

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-57724.0.html

Please let us be fair to others.

@ Cactus,

Since you started this thread that is bashing website designs and Ranking them the worst in Nigeria, you have succeeded in drawing attention to yourself.

Now, out of curiosity, may I request on behalf of all webmasters here that you submit your website portfolio for review?

Thanks.

Rejection of Cards Issued by Nigerian Banks has nothing to do with Racism like a poster put it. Rather, it is due to the reputation that Nigerian scammers created for Nigerians before the issuance of cards by Nigerian banks commenced.

During the Late 90s when internet penetration was very low in Nigeria, you could place an order for any product online and have it shipped to Nigeria with no questions asked. During this period MasterCard and Visa were none existent in Nigeria. Folks who had access to cards either had friends/relatives abroad who allowed the use their cards or were fraudsters that obtained card information fraudulently.

During this period Nigeria fraudsters drew the attention of many online Merchants by their brazen schemes of using stolen credit card to pay for various stuff; ranging from airline tickets to tuition fees for universities. This is the real period when Nigerian IP addresses were blacklisted and the country became a forbidden shipping destination.

The algorithms of an online fraud detection systems are designed to out-rightly reject orders that emanate from countries with a very high fraud risk like Nigeria because there is no corresponding data to show that there are high volumes of genuine orders from Nigeria as well. That is why orders from countries like Russia, Ukraine and Brazil are still accepted. The fact is that these countries also have a very high number of legitimate orders. So in their case, the online merchant has to do more work to verify the authenticity of orders, so legit orders can scale through.

On the other hand, our banks are quite lazy and they do not see beyond the card fees that they earn from these cards. They can do a better job by liaising with major online merchants by educating them that Nigeria has officially joined the MasterCard and Visa market, and by giving them tips to on how to differentiate the scammer from the genuine customer.

But for now, Nigeria Issued cards are fairly accepted for low-priced virtual products and services, where no physical shipping is required.

hanen:
It\'s rubbish. You have to pre-register the people you\'re transferring to, and then, you can only register three. so they\'re basically saying you have to know in advance who you\'ll be sending to, which isn\'t always convenient.

That is not the case anymore. This limit has been removed; users can now transfer funds to any GTBbank account online.

niyyie:
Yeah its back but what makes it more secure this time? Aside the PIN pad on the login page, I see nothing new.

That is Incorrect! A code (Something similar to E-gold\'s accent pin) is now sent to your email address or Phone whenever you attempt any transfer. It has to be submited to authenticate your transfer Request.

Thank God! They have come up with a more secure way for customers to Transfer Funds to each other online. I hope the service is here to stay this time; it saves so much time and effort.

I really don’t know what the People or government of Lagos State stand to gain from this fiasco. It is on record that obama was against the dept relief Nigeria got from foreign creditors. Here is a Man that told Pat Utomi, that the US considers Nigeria a failed state, during Pat visit to the US to solicit support for his presidential bid last year.

Or do they feel obama will make US Visa easier for them?

Due to the high rate of debit card frauds in Nigeria, some banks have started blocking the online feature of ATM cards. So this restricts the use of these cards to ATM machines only.

What now happens to folk that spent 150k to incorporate Interswitch to their websites? I guess most of these Nigerian Banks did not really do their homework properly before introducing these online innovations here in Nigeria.

We are back to the days of endless queues at the banks, even to make paltry payments for services.

Here is an excerpt from an email I received from ReloadNG.com regarding this issue:

Please make use of the cash deposit feature to keep enjoying our services till the banks activate back online access and for our customers who don\'t have ATM cards you can also make use of the pay cash option.

We appreciate your patronage.

For any additional information required please call 01-7412703 or email admin@.com

Thank You and Happy Valentine\'s day.

ReloadNG Team

1. I want to register a domain (without Hosting, because it’s cheaper). Can I publicize all my goods and services on it?

2. I don’t want to register another domain; can I modify my existing domain name (After months of Registration)?

3. Do I have to pay for the registration of addon domains? You stated on your site that you provide unlimited addon domains.

4. Is your server capable of sending mass emails (Most likely a spammer)?

5. I have uploaded my files (to the wrong directory), how come your server is not displaying it?

6. Since your 50 MB hosting plan is N4000, can I pay N500 for 5 MB?

7. I uploaded my asp web pages (on a Linux machine), but they are not showing.

8. Why is my website taking so long to load (when graphics on the home page are over 2 MB in size)?

9. The layout of my website is disorganized, fix it.

10. Please email me details of your web hosting service (Already stated boldly on the Website).

11. You deleted my account (for spamming)! Can I have my money back?

WebMonk:
But seriously,why would you blame anyone for going low?the company that redesigned interswitch (something netzero dot com. Check the site credits) have a business package of 10 pages for 20,000. I almost wept.
People should know their worth. Word!

What exactly are you talking about? The Interswitch website was designed by http://www.woointeractive.com . Based on their portfolio, it does not look as if their service comes cheap.

Seun,
You don’t need to get emotional about this. As someone who has been offering Internet related services for the past 7 years, I can authoritatively say that a great proportion of Nigerian Internet users are naïve about a lot of online stuff.

Unfortunately, no matter what efforts you exert towards sanity here, your forum might continue to be associated with scams. Some are even so ignorant that they do not know that the ads that run on Nairaland don’t belong to you. So let’s say an ignoramus clicks on an ad that claims to be a job recruitment agency. If this agency turn out to be fake at the end of the day, after extracting money from him in the guise of processing fees, guess who would be labeled the scammer at the end of it. Your prohibition of certain topics is a step in the right direction, but it is not a panacea to the image issues you are trying to curb.

To be sincere, the name “Nairaland”  on first impression, strikes the average Nigerian as money making scheme itself. It is only enlightened minds who have been here long enough that know that this forum is not one that promotes frivolities.

My advice to you is this; don’t fret when people say stuff like this as long as your actions and intentions are noble.

I am highly flabbergasted by the position most webmasters have taken towards this topic. I cannot help but suspect that most of the contributors to this thread probably had their secondary education outside Nigeria.

The Fact is that WAEC Usually sends a Master copy of results to all secondary schools, since they (the schools) are the ones responsible for the issuance of Statement of Result to the students. The online result checker is just a recent development and is meant to compliment the old methods. It is only the private WAEC exam (external) that results are gotten exclusively on the online portal. So the issue of gaining access to WAEC’s database does not arise.

The school probably wants all its manual WAEC data (old and current) put into a database, and make it accessible to all its graduate students at a fee. This should be a straightforward task.

Webmonk,

You guys don’t have to end this issue on such a sour note. Nairahost is not based in the moon, so you could easily have referred the owner of the website to the nairahost website, so he could personal contact them on the real position of his hosting account.

Many web hosts both home and abroad go through technical problems once in a while, that is why I find such public derision of nairahost unacceptable. They have a contact phone number on their website, did you try making use of it before going public?

Nigerians are getting more and more creative with Flash. I was very impressed when I saw this tura website.

http://www.turadreamgirls.com

I bumped into this “Web Hosting Company” and I felt everyone should see this.

Happy Viewing.

http://www.nouptime.com/

False Alarm!

How can the sub-domain of a genuine domain name be referred to as a fraud? I advise seun to delete this thread, since it is capable of misleading the public.

Authorities of Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State, have been barred from further conducting compulsory HIV and pregnancy tests on its students and staff. The university, owned by the Living Faith Tabernacle, a.k.a Winners’ Chapel, had made HIV and pregnancy tests mandatory for both staff and students, at the point of entry and exit into the institution.

The exercise had precipitated widespread public criticism, with parents of some affected students expressing their reservations on the first-of-its-kind idea.

But the National Agency for the Control of Aids (NACA), a Federal Government parastatal, recently waded into the controversial matter by calling a stakeholders’ meeting involving representatives of the university, the Federal Ministry of Education and the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC).

At the end of the deliberation, it was agreed among other things, that: “the issue of HIV and pregnancy is very sensitive and hence should be removed from the battery of tests conducted by the university at the point of entry and exit.”

A statement on the meeting’s outcome, signed by NACA’s Director General, however, said the university was urged to establish a separate pre and post testing counseling service for its students.

The statement added that “the university affirmed its willingness to continue with the teaching of the system-wide curriculum on Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights developed by the NUC for all universities.”

Also, NACA agreed to collaborate with NUC to facilitate the establishment of a Youth Friendly Centre in the university “to provide an enabling and congenial environment for counseling and testing of students.”

NACA, regulatory body of HIV/AIDS activities in the country, restated that the National Policy on HIV stipulates that “HIV testing must be voluntary and with the prior consent of the individual concerned,” which is in concert with the National Policy on HIV and AIDS for the education sector.



http://www.thenewsng.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3580

Nice try! However, you failed to mention that it is Google and not you that is giving away the free stuff. You are offering a domain registration service that comes with free Google applications. It is imperative that you state that fact to avoid misinterpretation of your offer.

It looks very much like a Scam. You better stay away from that fake company. Even the Grammartical errors will demonstrate that this is a scheming of a low-life crook.

Did you change your default password after receiving your card? If you did not, then it’s possible that it might be the job of an insider.

This has the footprints of a scam. Whenever there is so much story involved in something that is suppose to be straight forward, it is a scam.

The intentions of this website raises some questions. Biggjoe stated that he built this website as his CDS (Community Development Service) Project. CDS as I know it, does not involve building a website for an organization that can easily afford it. Be that as it may, did the state chapter of NYSC consent to such a project considering the fact that it will be a mere duplication of the national website that has been functioning for some years now.

Bearing in mind the escalating trend of online scams we are experiencing in Nigeria, having such a project in the hands of an unauthorized individual might not be such a good idea. If this guy wanted to build a website that will serve the purpose of serving and intending corpers, why did he not name it nysctips.com or something? I hope that this website will not serve any malevolent purpose.

Beware of China
By Blake Olisa and Chibuike Eze

CHINA is one of the last bastions of communism and the country\'s despots must be given credit for managing to somehow convince the rest of the world that they are an *okay *communist nation. While the two other remaining communist outposts, North Korea and Cuba, groan heavily under the weight of sanctions and have attained international pariah status, China has thrived economically and politically. It has done this through shrewd planning and realpolitik. China is now widely seen as the successor to the U.S.S.R in a world that is increasingly becoming bipolar. It is also an emerging economic power.

And despite the country\'s penchant for oppressing its neighbours and its citizens - it invaded Tibet, supports North Korea\'s paranoid regime, interferes in Cambodia and never misses the opportunity to intimidate Taiwan by staging mock invasions and issuing inflammatory statements - the International Olympic Community overlooked all these crimes and awarded them the right to host the 2008 Summer Olympics. This is China - a country that clearly understands that international politics is not about playing fair. The usually circumspect United States of America is so enamoured with China that it overlooks its abysmal human rights record when celebrating the entry of U.S. companies into China.

It is with great displeasure that we have observed China\'s increasing influence over the Nigerian economy. It is now very obvious that China is one of the major architects of Nigeria\'s economic problems and we will not be surprised if there are Chinese think tanks devoted to ensuring that the most populous black nation on earth remains a bottom feeding underdeveloped nation. Let us take for instance the Nigerian consumer goods market. Nearly everything Nigerians consume is now imported from China and the government makes no effort to stem the tide. Even when the Nigerian government announced that it had banned foreign textiles, it still allowed Chinese businessmen to erect the hideous Chinatown building in Oworonsoki where banned textiles are freely peddled by Chinese nationals.

The Chinese and other Asians who have discovered Nigeria are so unscrupulous that they actually come to the Nigerian market and undercut Nigerian traders with their imitation goods. This has happened repeatedly with hair extensions and Nigerian manufacturers are tired of complaining about the matter. However, because of the Nigerian government\'s inferiority complex and desire for all forms of Foreign Direct Investment, China floods Nigeria\'s markets with goods that they would not dare to export to Europe or America. Chinese companies have also become synonymous with death and disaster in Nigeria.

The Chinese and other Asians have formed the habit of running slave factories in Nigeria. Here, they subject Nigerians to the most inhuman working conditions. These shoddy companies make billions in profit, pay little in taxes and wages and move their profits out of the country. Nigerian economists do not realise that they have to buckle up while the oil lasts. They have to realise that only fervent nationalism and realpolitik will take Nigeria out of the doldrums. Oil should be used as a bargaining chip, lest this country becomes a vassal state of China. While most common Nigerians complain that the price of Cassava is very high, Nigeria still exports cassava to China at lower costs instead of finding new methods of improving our agricultural output for our own consumption. We have to start becoming nationalistic.

Asian jails are full of Nigerians imprisoned without trial and yet when Chinese citizens are apprehended for crimes in Nigeria, they are set free. When the government has the good sense to shut down an Asian company, they return and set up the same company under a different name. We are not xenophobic. We are just annoyed that the Nigerian government always manages to make the worst decisions. Instead of seeking a partnership with a responsible pacifist and progressive nation like Japan which have a lot to offer in terms of technological transfer and other benefits, we have chosen to become a vassal state of China. Recall that it was the same Chinese that won the huge contract to revamp our railway system during the days of Abacha.

They took the money, resuscitated some obsolete trains and laughed all the way to the bank. The simple truth is that the Chinese have always had a policy of exploitation towards black Africa . Most Chinese people are deeply racist and consider Blacks a sub-human species. Some states have even done worse. Recently, the Yobe State Government announced its partnership with North Korea, the most paranoid nation and one of the most dystopian nations in the world. Could someone please explain what benefits Yobe State is supposed to derive from a country that is in the same situation as Niger and Ethiopia? We Nigerians have to get rid of our inferiority complex if we are to become a developed country. It seems that most of our companies and government agencies feel that once one is White or Asian, he is automatically good at what he does. Perhaps that explains why expatriate technicians come here and lord over well-qualified and educated Nigerian engineers.

It is pretty obvious that Nigeria is one of the few countries left in the world today with no concrete plan for development and while it is obvious that they have want to exploit us, the government just does not get the point. We think the Nigerian government should become more circumspect in its dealings with the Chinese government and realise that if we did not have so many natural resources, the Chinese would not be here. As the price of oil reaches new highs, we should do our best to take advantage of it while it still lasts.

www.guardiannewsngr.com

Na wa o! It seem English language is now very difficult to understand. The Guy is probably doing some research and asking for some data and statistics of this industry in Nigeria. However, what he gets in return is meaningless advertisements.

@adesong

The Link below should provide you with some useful statistics.

http://www.webhosting.info/webhosts/tophosts/Country/NG

I was just wondering if the present delays I am experiencing is a widespread problem. It has been about 3 weeks since my contact and server details were verified, but my domain is still not active.

@Afam

It is unfortunate that you are pulling such a cheap stunt with this issue. Spamming problems have nothing to do with inefficient services on the part of a web hosting company. Big Nigerian Web Hosting companies like signonafrica and Nairahost, have had their servers either shut or outrightly canceled as a result of spam. When such situation arises, even law abiding clients on that server will be affected as well.

The reason you do not have a problem with spammers is obvious. Your sky-scraping prices are affordable only to the high and mighty.

I am 99.9% certain that this guy intends to spam the universe with the requested web hosting service. The time and urgency with which he requires his own web hosting, depicts the very nature of yahoo boys.

Before day break, he would have been through with his scheme, leaving the Host server at risk of being blacklisted. These are the people painting Nigeria bad.

His previous post below says it all.

I need a php bulk mailer, or any material to send mass emails with please contact me on bushfellw@yahoo.co.uk let chat. i know it is not free as long as it delivers inbox i will pay for it but it wont be more than 1k for each php mailer or bulk mailer

The Registry has not authorized anyone to sell .ng domains. It is still FREE.

Any news regarding ng domains that you do not find on www.register.net.ng is not true.

Web hosting is a relatively cheap commodity the world over. That’s why you now find offers that give you 200GB of web space for as cheap as $6 a month all over the internet. So you simply cannot limit this observation to Nigeria.

In Naija, the prices do not really determine the service you receive. There are web hosts that charge awfully high prices, yet they have very poor customer relations and unreliable servers. I know of someone that paid N5000 to register a domain, at the end of the day, he got nothing. On the other hand, we have cheap hosts that offer great services.

https://www.flashmecash.net is the older website for flash me cash. This has existed since the bank was still known as First Atlantic Bank. However, https://www.firstinlandonline.net  is their current flash me cash Website, since they have merged with inland bank. The old one is still functional anyway.