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tellwisdom: Wht is wrong with these Nigerians with their poor low mentality.

Seun is still a poor boi trying to stay at the top. But the way you foolish and poor children are goin about it makes it look like he is in millions already.

INSOLENT TWERP

More pix o

Intresting even though i missed the pix of sum babes i was hoping to see....... Too many preety gals here.

[quote author=buJu-234]this mega lagos city frame work plan its like it doesnt have consideration for the poor and average people of Lagos oo..

8hrs

so how will the poor gate man that closes his work@ ikoyi or VI @ 7pm get to his house at Sango Ota.

Or

How will he be able to resumed as early as 6am at his place of work .... when there will b no danfo bus at that time[/quote]Please read b4 u comment buses wont stop working it's the drivers..... And they can continue working after getting some rest. The law says 8hrs stretch not 8hrs per day.

deols: Sabitiyu is not a Yoruba name..it is arabic.

Correct..... Salam Alaikum Malama deols

Gbadegesin, shekoni, salako, Adedo, kunbi, ibidun. Olaoti, Abeke, Sabitiyu ..... All this names are missing

@Op the translation of my name is wrong. OLASUNKANMI; WEALTH IS CLOSER TO ME.

This op is a bloody liar

I was tops in my interview

MeGaStReEt: So many Jumians on here then. Why don't they simply tell the buyer they can't deliver the next day. Why lie to your customers and then give unnecessary excuses?

They never told him they'll deliver the next day, read the topic before you make comments.

Nothing impressive about that bank. That was how fidelity bank was calling me 2yrs after i applied, told them i ain't coming back to lag again........ House rent in lagos island na die. Am enjoying my fed work right now stress free with allowance yafun yafun.

[quote author=mondi_cheeks]Hello im from Ekiti in the Northern Cape [/quote]Agbaya

agbameta: I was actually expecting you to show us 1 single MW your master initiated and built, but you are either of course too lazy and incompetent to do that or your master is yet to dream up 1 or even incapable of such task hence you lying and praising your master for other people's hard work.

It's preety obvious you can't win this one.......... Just follow and be quiet.

berem: It is called Isi nkuwa or Nke wa isi. In Yoruba it is called Ila. The ailment could be very fatal if not treated well. It makes the child to loose weight drastically and can make him convulse.It is mostly treated by traditional medicine. Another way of treating it is by using an oitment called "SILVERBIRD". Mixing the ointment will petroleum jelly and rubbing it on the child's head with gradually close the opening of the skull.

Any child with such an ailment should avoid being given antibiotics because it can make the child's head to grow bigger than normal.

Ila na okro....... It's called ela

My name is kisanyo born in karzan republic of tartarstan in russia, originally from swat valley in kenya. Poa sana? Currently schooling in Nigeria and a naturalised south african. NAKUPENDA Y'ALL....... Sala kahle.

In other news. President Goodluck Jonathan Rings the closing bell at the new york stock exchange and...........US SHUTDOWN.

Men hmmm!

Tundeolaniyi: You don't have a point when you say that people who came does not last. If not all these big men here in GRA, Omagba, Housing estates with their families and relations who came back for long vac from UK. My cousin visited me last month from Germany and he spent over a month in my house here in Omagba estate. He goes to stadium every morning for jogging all thru his stay here. He told me he never knew Onitsha was this serene and organized more especially GRA, Federal Housing, Awka road, Omagba etc..

There is no economic city without security challenge. People are murdered and shot anyhow in Lagos. Major cities as Lagos, PH, Onitsha, Kano etc should have more layer of security due to heavy flow of capital in them.

Opuro o ni jewo iran to'nse abi? ATURO TA BI ELUBO.

Tundeolaniyi: Please address this rot in our region or back off from omo Ibo thread.

Tundeolaniyi: Please address this rot in our region or back off from omo Ibo thread.

Aturo ta bi elubo

berem: LOL at comments above me! jobless fools displaying their stoopidity! You people should go and apply for driver jobs and stop wasting your time chasing and massturbating after a woman. silly things!

U don become celebrity

Mr Aboki: I hope their juice ends up being better than the piss that CHIVITA, Coca-cola and Dangote groups are serving us..

Try CERES it tastes better.

Andro Blaze: Kai Nigerians....... pls can this poster tell us what country HTC originates from...... ignorance is bliss

Olodo HTC is from Taiwan.

berem: Are you a bigot? If yes ,then that comment was meant for people like you. If you are not a bigot, you have nothing to worry about the statement.

Berem o ti lenu ju.

berem: Are you a bigot? If yes ,then that comment was meant for people like you. If you are not a bigot, you have nothing to worry about the statement.

Berem o ti lenu ju.

chokl8candie: omg!! Did u seriously just expose ur level of ignorance by typing all that??
Ghana national team?,ghana football fans?, ghanaian porn?? LMAOooo
Lemme gues, u also think america is also paradise on earth based on the stuff u watch on tv ryt? N also i wd be justified to think all africans were poor and hungry cz of the stuff i watch on tv in d states?
Swtheart please save urself the embarrasement n dont mke this statement anywhere else
And FYI this thread isnt abt ghana so dont let us shift dis boat towards dat direction

Please ignore him

sholay2011: Aww...Tu me manque aussi. Lol.

Hwz ur dillish?

Kslib: La me la laugh when la moi de see people who la use la online translator to de come de la form say de know how to de speak la french...
La moi la hail una...
..
La all la well!

Kslib: La me la laugh when la moi de see people who la use la online translator to de come de la form say de know how to de speak la french...
La moi la hail una...
..
La all la well!

Tais-toi

sholay2011: Fermez la bouche. Merci.

U knw well

sholay2011: Je sholay
Tu sholays
Il/Elle sholay
Nous sholayons
Vous sholayez
Ils sholayent
Elles sholayent


Et tu as dit que je ne comprend pas francais? Tu n'as pas raison.

Se taire'

This is getting really boring

VENTURES AFRICA – With significant growth recorded in Africa’s e-commerce industry in recent times, MD of DHL Express South Africa, Hennie Heymans has said certain regions on the continent may soon overtake South Africa in e-commerce activity due to increased availability of broadband access, affordable data costs offered by mobile operators and the consistent deployment and development of mobile devices.

Heymans said “technological growth on the African continent has resulted in online shopping becoming a way of life for many citizens, and due to lack of customs challenges and high import tax present within the region, the sector is likely to expand rapidly.”

He posits that Nigeria, whose Information Communication Technology (ICT) sector has grown exponentially over the past five years, may soon rule the continent’s e-commerce terrain.

“With a population of over 160 million and an already thriving e-commerce market, Nigeria is becoming a game-changer in African e-commerce,” says Heymans.

Heymans added that with the recent implementation of Nigeria’s five-year National Broadband Plan which will see the country’s broadband internet penetration increasing by 80 percent by the end of 2018, Africa’s second-largest economy may soon overtake South Africa as the continent’s e-commerce market leader.

He pointed out that despite the continued growth and South Africa’s prominent e-commerce ranking, factors such as high import duties and stern customs regulations prevent consumers from benefiting from the expansive product choice and competitive prices abroad.

“If these obstacles are not addressed, South Africa’s e-commerce market may be in danger of falling behind other emerging e-commerce markets.”

DHL Express recently became a logistic partner of Jumia, Nigeria’s largest African online retailer.

“We recognise that the most challenging constraints for business operations in Africa are transport and logistics, and our logistics infrastructure now enables Jumia to service all of Nigeria’s 36 states,” Heymans said.

With the deregulation of the telecommunications sector and the introduction of GSM telephony into Nigeria, there has been a sustained growth spurt in all spheres of technology in Africa’s most populous country. The domino effect of this has spread evenly from computer software development, to phone manufacturing, to mobile phone applications and to online payment systems et al. All around smart, business-savvy companies and individuals are jumping into the boiling pot of this fairly untapped, burgeoning market. One of such forward-thinking entrepreneurs is Hugo Obi, the founder of Maliyo Games.

The genesis of Maliyo Games is mired in some sort of rancour (Obi and Jason Njoku, the founder of iROKO Partners started up but later fell out on a matter of strategy, Jason would later establish Kuluya Games with his own team). Nonetheless, the fervent entrepreneurial drive of Hugo Obi shines through and since Maliyo started, the accolades, speaking engagements and media attention from both the local and international press have been quite impressive.

Hugo Obi for the most part of his 32 years has been a dream chaser. Right from when he was a school boy growing up in Lagos, Hugo was enthralled by the big American tech companies and their interplay with the stock market. The IPOs, the mergers and the acquisitions were all things that struck him as he read about them in the pages of Forbes, Time etc. This prompted his decision to study computer engineering/science at a Nigerian tertiary institution (University of Benin), since he thought this was the express route to get the tech credibility that would make him into the next Bill Gates, Larry Ellison or even Steve Jobs. However. and not surprisingly so, his expectations were not met. And as this did not fit into his big picture, he had to drop out from the diploma programme and seek out an alternative that would give him the global competitiveness he desired. He hustled his way to Manchester, changed direction from the tech side of the divide to the business side by studying International Business, Finance and Economics at University of Manchester. He also acquired a degree in International Strategy from Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technology University, Singapore. With a solid curriculum vitae that boasts a stint as a financial analyst at GE Capital, Obi returned home to become a part of the mobile/social gaming phase of the technological expansions brewing in the country. It’s safe to conclude that he’s prepared for the long haul no matter what successes or failures he might find in this relatively uncharted terrain.

The Maliyo name itself is buried in the psychology of children at play and concept of moonlight stories and games from the Hausa language. Hugo stuck with the name after soughting feedback from people close to him. With strong consciousness of the African/Nigerian experience, the Maliyo games are quirky, whimsical and extremely relatable with titles like ‘Aboki’, ‘Kidnapped’, ‘Okada’, ‘My Village’, attending to the perennial cry for adaption of local content into tech innovations and social interactions.

Going by Maliyo’s website, their mission is “to share the experiences of everyday Africans with a global audience through games. Our narratives, characters, environments and sounds help us achieve this”.

With Hugo Obi’s many years of experience on the financial side of things, he appears to have a put together a formidable blueprint that will make Maliyo Games an intrinsic part of the Nigerian way of life a la the global recognition of the country’s music industry and Nollywood. With a dedicated team of coders, graphic designers, user experience experts etc, he hopes to push the company to prominence and profitability. According to him, there are plans afoot to release more games on smart phone and mobile platforms – iOS, Android, Windows Phone and BlackBerry – while still maintaining importance on web and Facebook.

Presently he’s running with the mantra of ‘conceptualize, redesign, redevelop, retest, redeploy’ which explains the fact that they’ve reserved the release of new material for the third quarter of the year (Q3) or later. Hugo is also working on new partnerships – details of which he wasn’t ready to divulge yet but, in his words, will help Maliyo conquer more grounds in terms of distribution and probably income

“There no point in printing newspapers if people can’t get it in traffic at 7 o’ clock in the morning. If you build that relationship, you’ve got a business,” a calm Hugo adorned with dark Rayban shades, says at the penthouse of Lagos’ famed Cc-hub.

According to Hugo, distribution is almost the most important aspect of the gaming business. What’s the point of creating exceptional content if the people who paid for adverts or who its targeted at can’t find it without any hassle? This means the company will continually explore relationships, strategy and partnerships for the best and most prevalent channels of distribution.

Another area Hugo Obi is working diligently on is consistent releases from Maliyo Games. He acknowledges the fact that market penetration outside the ecosystem is still low but if things work his way, he wants to consistently turn out new products at regular intervals that would not only relate to a Lagos danfo bus driver or the roadside restaurant owner, but make them crave the mobile gaming experience. This, he hopes can be achieved by interpreting feedback from people who have played existing games, and improving the features they enjoy.

“The market defines itself, its not defined by individuals”

Outside of making all the decisions on project management, process and content strategy at Maliyo Games, Hugo Obi has bigger dreams of diversifying into other areas of business even if he accepts that the terrain for doing business in Nigeria might not be the most accommodating starting from our international airports down to the roads. He is not one to just moan, he believes that being a successful Nigerian means he should be able to help the country in terms of infrastructure as a form of corporate social responsibility and not having to care or wait for a government to do anything. And like experienced entrepreneur, venture capitalist and academic, Daniel Isenberg put it, “entrepreneurs … see economic value where others see heaps of nothing. And they see business opportunities where others see only dead ends.” Hugo has such entrepreneurial tendecies. And he sees Maliyo not just in the business of making games and earning money, but as an opportunity to inspire and motivate others regardless of the challenges faced.

Within the next two years, He believes the market will be defined and things in the industry would have come full circle. For now, he doesn’t believe any rival company has the right to gloat or even lay claim to producing better games until the verdict is reached by the people playing the games. He doesn’t seem to be bothered by the competition even though he has some strict battles to fight with the likes of Kuluya and Pledge 51 Games. Like an article put it, some of the best entrepreneurs are distinguished more by their ability to achieve the impossible than by the originality of their thinking. Perhaps Hugo is one.