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[size=14pt]Titi Obala[/size]



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHy-kI4BSdo


Cube enables anyone (whether individual or business entity) to accept card payments in person with their existing phone (even a basic phone), anywhere, anytime, real-time without the internet (and can also work with Internet, if preferred).

Cube has great potential to disrupt the current payments markets (especially in developing countries) because the mobile phone is very-popular/everywhere, however, a popular means of making payment (aside from cash), which is the card (debit/credit-cards) cannot be accepted by everyone, in person, just as cash can. With cube anyone and everyone can now accept card payments in person just like they can accept cash, and wthout relying on an internet connection (just like you wouldn’t need internet to accept or pay-with cash). In developing counties, there is poor to no internet coverage in a lot of places; since Cube doesn’t depend on internet to work, accepting card payments with Cube will not be affected. In addition Cube can work with ANY phone (even a basic/feature phone), so an individual/business/entity wouldn’t need to get a new phone to use Cube. Its Revolutionary!

See the website: http://www.cubeplus.net

[size=14pt]Oladapo Ayodeji[/size]

Founder of Cribpark is an e-commerce site for all Housing related products and services.

See the website: http://www.cribpark.com


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-S-cdtsH-c

[size=18pt]Tope Olutola[/size]

.Connect Finance is a software written from the ground up to serve the needs of the business market. It allows companies to track their finances, create invoices, quotations, sales orders, way bills, payments etc. It also helps companies track their inventory levels in all their locations.
.Connect Finance has a highly integrated CRM system with SMS / email and status reporting technology with the ability to automatically communicate with existing as well as potential clients.
.Connect Finance is highly flexible as it also integrates seamlessly with other financial software e.g SAGE, Microsoft Dynamics etc
With rich reporting modules, .Connect Finance gives the decision maker the ability to make quick and effective decisions with ease.

See the website: http://www.etnconnect.com

[size=18pt]Top 40 startups selected for DEMO Africa 2014[/size]

My people, come see all the Yoruba names full this tech startups

https://vc4africa.biz/blog/2014/07/10/top-40-startups-selected-demo-africa-2014/

Too many to post. They all deserve individual recognition.


Southwest needs to up it's tech startup support.....from Lagos to Ogun to Oyo.


I'm beginning to fall in love with Ogun state.

[size=14pt]Top 40 Investment Highlights in Africa 2012[/size]

WEMPCO Cold Steel Mill: Western Metal Products Company Limited (WEMPCO) test- ran its new multi-billion naira integrated cold roll steel mill at Magboro, Ogun State, Nigeria. The steel plant is expected to fill in the vacuum that has riddled the Nigerian steel industry after the failure recorded at the Ajaokuta Steel Company.


Oando ConocoPhillips $1.79 Billion deal: Nigeria’s leading indigenous energy group, Oando PLC announced that its affiliate Oando Energy Resources (OER) entered into agreements with ConocoPhillips (COP) to acquire its entire business interests in Nigeria for an estimated cash of $1.79 billion including customary adjustments. Earlier in the year, Oando Plc made a landmark move as it completed its reverse takeover (RTO) of Oando Energy Resources Inc. (OER), previously known as Exile Resources Inc., with the pioneer listing of the company’s shares on Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX). Thus, becoming the only Nigerian company with three trans-border listings – Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) and the TSX.

[size=18pt]Multi-billion Naira (60bn) Steel Mill Opened At Magboro, Ogun State[/size]

The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Musa Muhammed Sada, has said that a new era await mining and steel production in the country will soon experience a lift in activities, going by policy input and restructuring being undertaken by the ministry in the two divisions.
According to him, the government is ready to offer necessary support to operating firms in the steel sector, just as mining is being made to benefit all segments involved in the mining process.
The minister stated this when he visited the new integrated steel mill belonging to Western Metal Products Limited, situated at Magboro, Ogun State. Western Metal Products Company Limited on Friday began a test run of its new multi-billion naira integrated steel mill.
The minister said while the government would continue to initiate new policies and schemes to encourage investor participation in mining activities, informal mining sector would continue to be taken care of. Besides, he said plans were in the offing to ensure that Ajaokuta Steel Company, the backbone of steel rolling mills in the country, got required attention in terms of the appointment of the right management.
He said the government made a peculiar mistake in its past efforts to privatise the Ajaokuta Steel Complex by putting emphasis on possession of money as the most important consideration in its choice of management team.
He said, “Past efforts did not achieve the desired results because money was put ahead of other considerations in the selection of management team. In such a process, three things are important: money, requisite management skill and adequate understanding and belief in the environment.
“In past attempts at privatisation, capital was given the most important place. After all the ongoing scuffles over with the immediate past management have been settled, the Federal Government has decided to be careful by emphasising possession of the right management skills and in-depth understanding of the environment and belief in its peculiarity as key conditions for selecting a new management for Ajaokuta Steel Company.”
The minister said his visit to the new WEMPCO integrated steel mill, ahead of the formal inauguration of the new facility, was informed by the importance the government attached to the position of steel in its economic transformation efforts. He said a quick resolution of all the problems associated with the non effective working of Ajaokuta Steel Company would have multiplier effects on the operations of steel rolling mills and other sectors of the economy.
Besides, he said under the new management of Ajaokuta Steel Company, “the government will not step back; it will be involved in a supervisory role.”
The Group Managing Director, WEMPCO, Mr. Lewis Tung, while conducting the minister round the sprawling facility, said steel remained the basic metal-backbone of all industries, just as it happens in advanced countries of the world.
He said the new integrated steel facility had production capacity of 700,000 metric tonnes and a production machinery of five-stand Tandem Mill, which is the first of its kind in Africa.
He described the factory as one set to produce cold roll steel sheet of up to 0.15mm in thickness and coils of the same dimension and above.
Tung listed the facilities at the plant to include a 52-megawatt generator for power supply; a water treatment and recycling plant; an acid generating plant; an air purifier and an annealing line.
He listed the benefits from the steel companies to include a boost in economic activities of the immediate communities, local, state and the country; increase in downstream economic activities, general empowerment and job creation for artisans, like technicians, drivers, auto technicians and fabricators; and training and technology transfer.

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modath:
Aint a swiirat!!
3 E_ ... A head too dey diaa!!
Seun, speak to your mods !!
We don't agitate but we always get our point across.. Thx...
Kogi Yoruba are sitting on "goldmine" ... Dangote's Obajana cement factory is the biggest (I can't swear) in sub saharan Africa..
Osun has gold in Ilesa, but the tourist atraction in osun more than make up for any shortcoming in the oil angle...
How are you all doing....
Pleasant news today about the perm seconds, half of the ministries are are jubilating...

Ogun state also has a large goldmine.

Not much, but we're getting there


[size=14pt]Local rice: ‘Nigeria to make N360bn, Ekiti N6bn’[/size]

Ekiti State can make N6billion annually from the production of rice while N360billion accrues to Nigeria every year.

Ekiti State is one of the leading 13 rice producing states in the country,and was leading in the first republic with the production of Igbemo rice.

Speaking with newsmen in Ado Ekiti, yesterday,the Public Relations Officer of Association of Rice Processors,Millers and Traders Union(ESARPROMT),
Mr Segun Filani, urged the state government to assist in the production of rice by giving about 5,000 rice growers an enabling environment. ’’The daily consumption rate is over N17million.

That translates to over N6billion naira per year in the state”, Filani said.”The sector will definitely increase the IGR of the state, create large employment throughout the value chain right from production to distribution. ”It will further encourage urbanization of the rural areas due to industrialization and this will curb rural-urban migration”.

The image maker listed the health advantages of eating local rice to include production of fatty acids that make healthy forms of cholesterol because of its fiber richness and ability to keep healthy bowel function.
”Brown rice keeps things moving in a way that promotes weight-loss and metabolic function”, he added.

[size=14pt] Igbemo Rice Processing Company Limited, Ekiti [/size]

Igbemo Rice Processing Company Limited is the first privately-owned rice processing and branding company in Ekiti State, Nigeria.

Genesis of greatness lies in pursuit of vision and commitment to hard work and human values.

Igbemo Rice Processing Company Limited has moved through monumental stages from its inception, growth and expansion to deliver quality rice.

The company is expanding into newer horizons with a missionary zeal and a dynamic team under the leadership of a strong visionary.

Presently, the company is fostering relationship with both local and foreign companies in the areas of rice farming, improved processing technology and business ties.

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Aare and his oversized gifs. Reduce am na

Shymm3x:
@ Aareonakakanfo

Are there any basins in Osun?

I think the Yorubas in Kogi might also have oil potentials based on where they're located.

Should that ever happen, taking Kogi or some parts of Kogi with Odua land will be a battle

dovetark:
See how Obasanjo once a President bows to the President. Thats power talking... But you can still see the President respects him.

That's Yoruba culture talking. You greet your elder or someone in a superior position by showing respect.

dfrost:
Men that control things...

OBJ shouldn't be controlling things.

What did OBJ do for Ogun state or the SW during his term?

onoja12:
my friend shut up, you have never been to either of those countries you read one report then assume expert status

And you're certain of this?
Have we discussed travel plans before?

Sagamite:
Fuuktard nation!

Fuuktard people!

Fuuktard youths!

Fuuktard future!

Look at all the cretins talking from their moronic arsse where their brain is located.

Cretins that cannot understand the implications of actions. All they know is "Us vs Them".

Moronic fuuktards!

A country that is currently broke and in dire need of investments to create jobs, in environments where these same cretins don't have jobs or are underemployed, has some fuuktards in NCC helping them to destroy their future.

I have never been so shocked in my life when I heard the news of the fine.

How can fuuktards fine a company about 20% of its total market value?

How can fuuktards fine a company about 75% of its total annual revenue in Nigeria?

How can fuuktards fine a company more than 3 years of its annual profits in Nigeria?

All for an offence that was not even market manipulation?

That is not heard off.

How is that going to be encouraging to foreign countries that want to enter Nigeria?

To these NCC fuuktards, a fine is suppose to completely cripple a company?

This is a company that is one of the largest foreign direct investors in Nigeria helping to diversify the economy. The company that has been the lead case study in showing that the shithole called Nigeria, despite all the bad portrayals it has, is a place you can invest profitable outside of the Oil & Gas sector. If they are being treated like this, how can it encourage others to invest and create jobs?

This fine is going to already lead to thousands of job cuts and more people (previously well paid) on the streets looking for job.

The Nigerian CEO of MTN Nigeria and the Corporate Services Executive are goners for sure. No Doubt! They are going to be sacked after this is settled.

When foreigners don't invest. You will have more Nigerian-owned companies where Baba Salas and products of a failed education system treat people like animals and cannot apply best practice.

Unlike Nigerian banks, do the likes of Stanbic IBTC, Citibank and Standard Chartered send young girls out as ashawos to attract deposit calling them marketers? And the CEOs of these Nigerian banks are calling themselves "Bankers". Awon fuuktards!

Do foreign lecturers behave like Nigerian lecturers? Another example of what happens when you have Nigerians running things unchallenged by foreign competitors.

Fuuktard people!

The directors of NCC need to be sacked ASAP!

The fine should never have exceeded more than 50% of annual profits (EBIT).

GEJ has finished destroying the economy, public sector salaries cannot be paid, the country is broke and yet you are rejoicing that cretins in the NCC are chasing investors away.

*I come in peace*

Cool?


Sagamite, do you work for MTN? Ibeere lasan ni o.

I knew Nigeria wasn't going to carry through.

Always disappointing me.

Aareonakakanfo:


Iya Agba I can feel the pain in your comment.Eeyah epele .No worry,dem sef don find their own oil for Lake chad.

Honestly, I hope they find oil in all Northern states. Nigerians don suffer enough. We need to divide. We don't have to be together, we can have a diplomatic international relationship.

Fulaman198:
Topic has been moved to the politics section

*Hug*

The only Fulani guy I like (don't move it again o, na joke )

Igbo people and diabolical rituals. Selling their children for money.

xtrorse, come and chop food.

Aareonakakanfo:
Honestly there's nothing you need in a country that the South-west doesn't have

We're being held back.I don't even care If the romanis take the South-South away with them

True that.

I'm sorry, this is all good, but they need to stop discovering oil and resources in the SW. This is like a "come and eat me" invitation to the North.

LMAO @ the disunity and bickering on this thread.

You're not protesting until I've seen fire, smoke and a few dead bodies on the ground


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quimicababes:
There is tracka http://tracka.ng/ but folks don't seem to be using it.

First time seeing this.

I don't want them to discover any more oil in the SW until Nigeria has divided.

I don't doubt that oil exist in Osun as well, but the more oil we find, the less the leeches are willing to divide this country.

Aareonakakanfo:
That was the same thing I suggested last week but those who promised us never fulfilled their promises

We need a "Project tracking website"

A website that can give us photo evidence of what's happening

I'd hate to never fulfill your promise because you never get

Chai, I feel sorry for those boys.

Who and where are they anyways. It seems like most of the people that actually give a shoit (besides modath/laudate) are NID and foriegners like quimi.

Most Nigerians in Nigeria (NIN) are complacent to incompetent work.

City of Boston has an app that allows citizens to report road bumps directly to the city
http://www.cityofboston.gov/DoIT/apps/streetbump.asp


UK developed an add where citizens can detect and report potholes
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-02/14/street-bump-app


Philadelphia: app to report road conditions
http://bicyclecoalition.org/ride-your-bike/reporting-street-conditions/


etc

Aareonakakanfo:
Ilekehd/Quimicababes.I've been hearing all these "we'll boost rice production" stories since Ade bantu was on dreadlocks and yet there's nothing to show for it so I'm not fazed
Infact I can post up to 20 links here of this same kind of news If you want me to
In other news

Nigerians sha.... they love hearing "We will do", but never follow up with "we have done" ......

If na America, na me sef go go to the site and take pictures. Someone needs to create an app for this; Citizen Engagement Innovation

Check this site out : http://www.statetechmagazine.com/article/2014/04/mobile-apps-enable-citizen-engagement-and-better-services

quimicababes:
Do Naija ppl follow up on these projects..to determine the level of completion? I saw BugIT have a tracka website for that...it would be good to know the progess of those rice initiatives by SW states.When I was reading Edo State 55 capital projects....a lot of them seemed to be uncompleted...some won't even started.

Exactly. I wish we have nlers who can go on these site and validate their completion. Of course government site will be bias.

Politics in naija sha.

This was when Igbos voted en mass for OBJ even though Ojukwu was on the ballot.

Aareonakakanfo:
Mo ni egbon nibe.Mo saa ti so ibi ti mo wa fun yin ehn Iya Agba

Igba wo lo so fun mi
Beere lowo egbon e, jor.
We can't just be listening to "we will do" from our governors, we need to ensure that they're carrying out their promises.

quimicababes:
Lol...I would have preferred Lagos to partner with other SW states

True talk. There's a partnership between Ogun/Lagos




[size=14pt]Lagos Rice Project in Ogun State takes off [/size]

The partnership between Ogun and Lagos State Governments which resulted into the allocation of a 500 hectare of land to the latter in Eggua, Yewa North Local Government Area of Ogun State has started yielding dividends as Lagos has commenced the cultivation of a part of the land in readiness for rice cultivation early next year.

The Ogun State Government had last year allocated the land to its Lagos counterpart under an agreement which among other benefits would enhance food production, regional integration and create job opportunities.

Speaking at the site, a Consultant in the Lagos State Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Dr. Rotimi Fashola said 50 out of the allocated 500 hectares are immediately being prepared for the cultivation of Faro 44 and Faro 52 as well as local Ofada rice.

He thanked the Ogun State Government and local farmers in Eggua and its environs for their support and cooperation as the rice project takes off.

Also speaking, the Ogun State Commissioner for Agriculture, Mrs. Ronke Sokefun said it is heart-warming that Lagos State has now moved to site for the full commencement of the rice project, revealing that the Ogun State Government has agreed to hire agricultural equipment to Lagos to ease the immediate take-off of the project.

She recalled that on its part, Ogun State has embarked on the clearing of a 1,000 hectare of land within the same locality for a similar purpose, adding that a rice processing plant that would add value had been scheduled to be established next year.

Sokefun also revealed that as part of measures to ensure an all-year round plantation and bumper harvest, plans had been completed to dam the nearby Yewa River for irrigation purpose and regular supply of water to the rice farm.
- See more at: http://tungamediang.com/lagos-rice-project-ogun-state-takes/#sthash.iFpmbTvl.dpuf