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FKO81:
More from Onitsha IT market, Anambra host more than five major IT markets, these pictures are Onitsha IT market Okwe street.

madridguy:
Kudos to our Igbo brothers.

God Bless them all.

Omeokachie:
Hafiz Mustapha is also an igbo man?


That was how they tagged January 1966 coup and "Igbo coup" even though Yorubas and other tribes were in on it.


Una well done oh

sarrki:
https://www.channelstv.com/2017/08/22/police-arrest-suspected-cattle-rustlers-ogun/

kn23h:
Y'all I'm gonna start tagging those romance section one-nigeria folks here. Cuz he be like say dem no know anything.

totit, laudate, deomeelo, ODVanguard OoduaVanguard scholes0 Bolustical

NameCheckers:
Afonja specialise in skullaships

laudate:
Nice suggestion, but how do we implement it? We have listed so many different businesses in no particular order in this thread, so how do we go back and regroup such firms into separate pages? How do we move them from their present locations on this thread, and regroup them into a separate location, or insert them into an earlier page? Can pages be moved or rearranged within a thread on NL? Is that even possible?

Then we have also had to battle with the annoying spambot that knocks posters out of the thread for long periods of time. It really slows down a lot of stuff we can put up at any particular point in time.

I think the best way to go about it, is to have a contents page or an index page on the last page of the thread so that businesses can be classified into groups with their corresponding numbers attached as a hyperlink, so that readers can locate them easily.

As for entertainers, actors, actresses etc, we had earlier agreed to set up a separate thread for them, as they are so many. A few had been featured on this thread, but we decided to stop, when it was starting to distract us from the objective of the whole exercise.

Historical figures would also be profiled on a separate thread too, so that people can do justice to the facts and info that is available on such legends. Hope this makes sense.

okasebe:
Lmao

Na yorubas full that section.

Na dem dey always say "I'm yoruba by the way" for politics section

okasebe:
Laudate, Deomeelo, kn23h, ODVanguard.

Please can you guys dedicate a sector to few pages and then another sector to few pages and so on

E.g Oil and gas - pages 1-30,
Fashion, entertainment, banking, education, insurance, technology, health etc and then we can include others like law firms, accounting firms etc


. .. We have gone a long way with this thread but then I think we need to organize these businesses... Laudate and Deomeelo can then moderate thread to ensure everybody that wants to post will follow the laid down rules


It's just a suggestion though... Don't mean to derail


Thanks.. Good job everyone... God bless

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djevino:
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OneAfricanChild is a non profit initiative founded primarily to aide children on the African soil into realising their true identity and place in the society they belong.

We serve by executing community projects that seeks to educate and transform the lives of children. We help children build on their physical and mental skill, we believe that a sound generation is a powerful generation.

Vickii Onabolu is an amazing baker (trust me I know) and owner of Ermioni’s Bake Shop. She is self taught and was inspired to start baking by her grandmother. She's gone from baking treats for friends and family to baking for large events and weddings and is on the path to opening her very own bakery!

She started business based on a craving she had and over the last few years has gone from baking in her kitchen for friends and family to owning her own commercial business location serving some of the world’s largest companies like Google, Microsoft, Coca-Cola, CNN, AT&T, to name a few. In this interview, Modupe is sharing a ton of awesome information on how she got started, what mistakes to avoid and what makes her business a success

BeauBelle Africa was inspired by simply wanting to have ready-made Ankara/African Print clothes for Children, I felt Adults were well catered to and there was a void for children, also having my daughter in 2014 was a big push for me because I pictured seeing her in cute clothes made from vibrant prints. The idea for BeauBelle Africa was birthed April 2014, and a full year after May 8th 2015 BeauBelle Africa’s site went live and ready for people to shop. I currently run BeauBelle Africa while working full time.

My name is Modupe Ibironke Sarumi. I am the creative director and founder of Ronke Sarumi Footwear (RSF). We are the stylish working woman affordable footwear line. We believe that all women are beautiful and exquisite and they deserve to look it. Our goal is for women to complete their outfits with beautiful footwear without breaking the bank.

Introducing Damilola Okuboyejo, owner of Parchment by Dami which specializes in luxury invitations and fine stationery. Dami's business started after she made the invitations for her own wedding - They were such a hit, she started receiving several inquiries to make invitations for other people. Fast forward a few years later, she is now a full time business owner of a very profitable business and on the verge of launching a new business.

In this interview Dami shares how she prices her worth, her business mistakes and successes and startup advice for other female entrepreneurs. Beyond working with amazing clients and creating amazing work, Dami loves cake, reading, living in the moment and creating memories with her husband and twin boys in Harlem, NYC (where they reside) and around the world. Enjoy!

The platform is an online store gift superstore for seasons, occasions and events, making it easy for individuals and corporate bodies to order branded souvenirs, gifts, corporate gifts and promotional items for different purposes.
Users ordering sovernirs for parties, and events of any type can also customise the party packs/sourvenirs before ordering, and have it delivered.
According to the founder, “We have a network of manufacturers and suppliers locally and internationally, and we fulfill customer orders using a special drop shipping method”.
Need to shop for gifts for your next event? You should totally try Lucy.ng

In accordance with Education Law §2-d, as Chief Privacy Officer, Ms. Akinyemi’s duties will include to: lead investigations of security breaches and privacy-related emergencies and recommend required actions to NYSED executive management; provide technical assistance, including model policies, to educational agencies within the State on minimum standards and best practices associated with privacy and the security of student, teacher and principal data; establish a protocol for submitting complaints of possible breaches of student, teacher or principal data; and consult with the Commissioner to develop regulations establishing standards for educational agency data security and privacy. With input from parents, education and expert stakeholders and the public, Ms. Akinyemi will also review and enhance the Department’s existing Parents Bill of Rights for data privacy and security.

Lord knows there is a lot of online video out there these days, but only a tiny proportion of it has been transcribed (less than 1% according to some estimates). Searching the mountains of video generated by businesses, governments and educational institutions for the valuable information within is almost impossible because the words hidden in the audio are invisible to search. Waiting for it is not just the world, but the many people who can’t access that video because of their disabilities. Transcription unlocks the gold-dust buried in them there video hills.

This would involve transcription on a vast scale, but this is exactly the problem Koemei aims to tackle. It’s a SAAS platform for speech recognition in video. Today at TechCrunch Disrupt it announced it has completed an integration with YouTube’s API in preparation for a potential launch. It also announced the successful completion of its first pilot with the University of Geneva and IMD Business School.

Simple video lectures can be uploaded, translated, linked to and visible on other platforms like YouTube. Users get to see an interface where they can go through the lecture and check the transcription.



Based out of Martigny, Switzerland and with offices in San Francisco, Koemei is a startup leveraging years of academic research. It was spun out of the Swiss Institute of Technology (Idiap institute), which worked with Sheffield University and Edinburgh University on a seven year EU-funded project (which has about $30 million spent on it already). Koemei acquired all the IP under a transfer agreement, has a patent pending and now plans to use its platform to transcribe video content on a super-scale.

The problem they are out to solve is obvious. Manual transcription is expensive (as much as $5 per minute). They claim to reduce the cost down to $0.09 a minute. The startup estimates the market for video transcription is around $16 billion annually, given that there are around 120,000 people doing this work in the U.S. alone. It anticipates there will be a 21% year on year growth in the business. The market for corporate and educational video is clearly the most lucrative here.

Koemei claims its automated transcription program works better than current systems from the likes of Nuance, because it not only transcribes the video’s soundtrack into words, but also produces an interface for humans to check the transcription. This can be open to the public or closed off for designated users. In other words, it ends up being like a crowdsourced effort to check an AI’s transcription, making it far more accurate than AI alone. An hour audio takes an hour to transcribe, claims the startup.

The transcriptions can be pushed to YouTube, Vimeo etc and you get the first 10 hours of transcription free, just in case you need convincing that it works. Of course the technology needn’t just work for the likes of YouTube. There is also videoconferencing, telepresence, web collaboration, group meetings, classroom lectures, webcast; the list goes on.



So far they’ve done a pilot rollout with some university partners which has brought in some revenues and proved the model. Next up will be more partners, plus an enterprise solution they want to offer to the likes of Vimeo, Brightcove, and Kaltura among others.

On the horizon, their potential competition is Nuance, Google (Google Voice) and solutions like Amazon Mechanical Turk. This is not exactly a weak opposition, but they reckon they can beat all comers. They claim Nuance has issues with long conversations; Google Voice is low quality and closed for other platforms; and mechanical turk solutions involving people are pricey – and may even be customers for Koemei in the end.

The startup predicts it could have $44.9 million in sales by 2014, with a potential exit to any number of players including, not unexpectedly, most of their opposition.

Backed with Angel funding, they’re now raising a $1.5 million Series A round, following a commitment from a European early-stage VC.


The team is led by Temitope Ola, formerly of Silicon Graphics, and comprises three others, most of whom worked on the platform during its academic development.

djevino:
perfectly fixed