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When I listen to radio stations, I here da Wizkid, Davidos, etc. U know the popular ones and those who made it. I respect them but what about a radio station app for the upcoming artists? The ones who dont have enough money to have their song on a big radio station? The ones who are not yet popular. The local ones, regardless of tribe? We should make a radio station app to play only songs from upcoming artists.

Im yet to find this. A website where I can schedule a danfo or bus trip from Lagos to Abuja. The price, how long it will take and the distance.

What about a reverse Nairaland app/website. On Nairaland, people make post/threads depending on their knowledge or articles they read from the internet and Nairaland's bot bans some and claims that some threads are spam. What about if instead of the people making post/threads, Nairaland's Artificial Intelligence Bots made post/threads and humans banned what they like or didn't like and from there let the bots comment and talk to each other.

A website where businesses or food servers or restaurants can rate their customers.

A Shazam for Nigerian songs? Is there something like this on the market already?

Is there an app for Nigeria's Stock Exchange (NSE)?

A location based police rating app whereby we can take a picture of each policeman at each checkpoint and comment on them.

What about a dating app whereby u can match people depending on their hobbies? Like what do they like to do for fun? What do they like to read? Etc.

JackOfAllTrades:
Yeah strictly Nigerian app store with all made in Nigerian apps from different categories, great!
NigeriaAppStore.com someone should buy this domain already and let's get started, bitbucket? anyone

I like how this thread has alot of interesting people talking about good stuff. I wish we had like a ranking algorithm whereby for each idea/post that we like or dislike we can upvote or downvote and from there depending on the idea/post with the most points we can come together as one and create it.

dhtml18:
^^^based on what you said, when i first started coding and i come up with "awesome" ideas, i get way excited and proceeded to code with immediate effect. But now that I am an enterpreneur/techpreneur, I test those "wow" ideas with fire first before I start coding. I dont want my "wow" ideas to just sit down quietly in the store with gazillions of other apps staring themselves down - get my point?

I definitely get your point bro. I understand where you are coming from. I don't think the app is a bad app, but I just don't need presently. I still think it's good.

ballantyne:
mgb4reel, notice how people say your app is a nice app but you haven't gotten up to 50 downloads?

Well you do have to understand that there is a difference between an app being nice/impressive and it being useful. Personally I love the app, but I don't need it. I still think it's a great app and it would be useful for those who need it. Like who is your market? Who are your customers?

What if there was an app that could trade in data for food? Like 10 MB for a fish tail or 100 MB for a bowl of jollof rice?

JackOfAllTrades:
Lol those guys are drunk, they are highly unpredictable, sometimes they follow a pattern sometimes they just go haywire, good luck with that

Dats pretty crazy, but I think every chaos has a certain patter to it. Like what if we could determine wheneva they go drink dat is when they'll take light. How do u feel on dat?

What about a song translation app. Like if an Igbo person wants 2 hear Hausa/Yoruba songs in his/her language or watch certain movies in his/her languages. or vice versa. What do u think? With that said. This has been a great thread. We need more creative ideas.

PenSoftCorp:
names that came to my head.
naijalife.com
ournaija.com

do u have any name suggestions?

As far as now, no but I like your name suggestions. As long as it is easy and catchy, it should be okay.

basbone:
My two pence: create a gaming war app between nigerian troops and boko haram, the user will be the air commander, at the last level, the user will engage abubakar shekau, the invincible predator shouting 'Allahu akbar' and engaging the user in a very fierce deadly battle. And remember that shekau must have nine lives. At every shekau successfully killed, you write an inscription, 'the DSS has confirmed that the nigerian troops has killed shekau, blah blah blah......'

I love this idea basbone. There should be more gaming apps. Educational gaming apps if possible.

Emeka71:
Screen-shot for NOKIA X2-01.

Another great idea Emeka71. I love your time and patience. I really appreciate it.

Oxasbi:
Office suit pro for android
Microsoft office 360 for windows

Thank you for this Oxasbi. I'll get it on it as soon as possible. These are great ideas.

An app that can predict when NEPA will take light depending on past data or information.

PenSoftCorp:
ki lo fe sele, it is just a site to relate whats going on around u

What should we name the site? Also should we allow pictures and videos?

What apps will you like to have on your phone (for free or paid)? What do u want? What do u need? Let us know? What do u wish to have?

NAIRALAND!!! As long as u have internet connection, u can pretty much learn it online. However, I think it's better to learn it on Nairaland, since u have fellow Nigerian developers/programmers who pretty understand u n your problem, as well as will give u detailed answers to your problems. People might not agree with my next statement, but I've always believed that Nairaland = Nigeria's (StackOverflow+Quora+Google+Twitter+Reddit+Facebook+Badoo).

ps3o:
not as you think!
a lot of developers would not want to join or partner with people or in a program that isn't lucrative

The funniest thing is that many of the successful startups 2day didnt seem lucrative at first.

Link ~> http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31438226

The card aiming to end Nigeria's fraud problem
By Tom Jackson
Business reporter
eID
Nigeria's president was the first to receive the new ID card
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Nigeria has a bad reputation when it comes to fraud.

"Dear Friend" emails originating from the country - also known as 419 scams - are among the most notorious in the world, with statistics from Ultrascan AGI suggesting losses from such schemes totalled $12.7bn (£8.2bn) in 2013.

And the number of scams is growing by 5% each year.

"Nigeria certainly has a problem," says Cormac Herley, principal researcher at Microsoft Research, who has looked in detail at 419 scams.

"[The country has] become associated with a particular form of scam that's very visible and known to everyone who receives those emails."

However, identity fraud is also a serious problem.

Identity problems
In May last year, 16 people were charged in the US for using stolen information to obtain money and goods and then shipping them to Nigeria.

Those arrested, most of them Nigerian, were charged with taking over bank or stock brokerage accounts, removing all the money, and making purchases. They were eventually sentenced to seven years imprisonment.

Nigerian cityscape
Nigeria's banks have lost millions of dollars to fraud
And it is not just foreigners who are targeted by such fraud.

Nigeria's Inter-Bank Settlements Systems estimates the country's banks lost 159 billion naira ($800m; £515m) to electronic fraud between 2000 and 2013.

Faced with its negative international reputation, and local banking losses, the Nigerian government is seeking to address the issue centrally.

Last year, the National Electronic Identity (e-ID) Card was launched in collaboration with MasterCard, with President Goodluck Jonathan the first recipient.

Ending impersonation
The smart card's Match-On-Card technology matches a holder's fingerprint against a profile stored in the embedded chip.

The card is also a travel document, conforming to the same standards as international passports. It contains electronic identification information, as well as Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) technology that allows for document signing, non-repudiation and encryption.

Fingerprint
The eID card contains users' biometric data, including fingerprints
The National eID card is "capable of identifying two identical twins by the use of biometrics," says Chris Onyemenam, chief executive of Nigeria's National Identity Management Commission, which is handling the rollout of the cards.

Part of the problem for Nigeria, which has a population of about 170 million, is that until now it has had no unified national system for recording identity data.

Rooting out fraudsters
The new card is "actually addressing the issue of multiple identities by some Nigerians," explains Mr Onyemenam.

"It is addressing the issue of stolen identity. It is helping security agencies verify and fish out who the real culprit is."

Aside from its identification features, the card offers can be used as a form of payment.

Separated from the other services by a firewall, the payments function uses MasterCard's prepaid technology and is chip and pin certified.

Daniel Monehin, division president for sub-Saharan Africa at MasterCard, says the fact the card has a computer chip embedded protects cardholders from fraud, and protects against the creation of counterfeit cards.

The rollout of the payments-enabled e-ID card will also go some way to addressing another of Nigeria's major issues: lack of access to banking.

Fully 70% of adult Nigerians do not have a formal bank account.

"By giving every Nigerian of 16 and older an identity card with payments functionality, the government can effectively eliminate financial exclusion in Nigeria, and help citizens to improve their livelihoods," says Mr Monehin.

Nigerian currency
Many Nigerians still use cash for most transactions
"The broader economic impact of the card will be felt as the previously unbanked and under-banked are able to gain access to the mainstream economy and the visibility of their assets allows them to build a financial history and establish creditworthiness with financial institutions."

This will be particularly helpful to small and medium-sized enterprises, Mr Monehin adds, which will now be able to access the financing that they need to grow their businesses.

Privacy concerns
The eID card has, however, caused some controversy.

Civil liberties organisation Privacy International has raised concerns about the data integration, saying it would make it easy to link together pieces of information about a person.

It is also concerned about the combination of the identity scheme with a strongly commercial initiative such as the bank card.

Concerns were also expressed on popular Nigerian social networking site Nairaland.

"The future of 170 million Nigerians sold to MasterCard," said one user, while others said they were worried about their personal data and how it would be used.

MasterCard
Some Nigerians have voiced concerns about MasterCard's involvement with the eID
MasterCard, however, has reiterated that the banking function is separate from the others and it does not have access to the identity information of any Nigerians.

'Time will tell'
Nigeria is actually ahead of the game globally in terms of rolling out such identity cards, with identity analyst firm Acuity Market Intelligence forecasting half the world's population will have a chip-based National e-ID card in five years time.

For Nigerians themselves, however, the proof will be in the pudding.

Paul Adepoju, who lives in the city of Ibadan, says many Nigerians are not aware of the threat of identity theft due to the low level of education about e-banking.

He added, however, that if the government could facilitate easier uptake of the cards, there was nothing to say this would not be successful.

"At least they are doing something, and we have to be optimistic that something somewhere and somehow could, would and should work.

"It could be this one - we will only know when every Nigerian has got it."

Link ~> http://www.infoworld.com/article/2893706/mobile-development/javascript-native-ios-android-and-windows-phone-apps.html

NativeScript, a Telerik technology for building multiplatform native mobile apps from a single code base, is set to go to a 1.0 release in late April. Telerik is launching a beta program this week for the open source NativeScript.

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The NativeScript website and GitHub page describe the runtime as enabling developers to use JavaScript and TypeScript to build native apps for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone (via the Windows Universal strategy) and share code across the platforms. "Developers who have that Web skill set who want to build truly native applications should be really excited because there is now a way for them to do that" without having to learn custom languages or frameworks, said Telerik Vice President Todd Anglin.

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NativeScript produces apps that have a native UI, Anglin said. "That is, the app is not HTML-rendered in a Web view -- as you get with hybrid apps or traditional browser apps. ... [NativeScript enables] the underlying JavaScript engines on iOS, Android, and Windows to control a native UI layer."

Developers use NativeScript libraries, which abstract away the differences between the native platforms; they also use CSS and ECMAScript 5. The Node.js server-side JavaScript platform "sort of [helps] play that JavaScript engine role that powers the mobile app," Anglin said.

NativeScript provides full access to the native platform API, and it features a prepackaged JavaScript virtual machine; JavaScript written for a NativeScript app still runs as JavaScript on a device. "NativeScript will execute this JavaScript on the native JavaScript virtual machines provided by iOS (JavaScriptCore), Android (V8), and Windows (Chakra)," Anglin said. NativeScript provides "a JavaScript proxy that exposes all of the underlying native iOS/Android/Windows APIs to these JavaScript engines, thereby giving full control to JavaScript to control native device capabilities."


NativeScript also handles the cross-platform native UI, providing a markup language that gets parsed in to platform-specific UI widgets when an application is built. "For example, when a developer adds a button to an app, NativeScript will automatically use the appropriate native button UI control from iOS, Android, and Windows."

Anglin sees NativeScript as being different from other mobile development technologies, such as Appcelerator Titanium, which also purports to enable the building of native mobile apps via JavaScript. Titanium has too much customization, making it proprietary, Anglin contends.

"The big distinction between a NativeScript app and a hybrid app [such as PhoneGap or Sencha] is that NativeScript does not rely on the browser/Web UI layer to render the app. It renders a native UI, independent of the browser. ... That browser/Web UI layer that is usually the performance bottleneck in mobile apps that want to have buttery smooth animations and scrolling."

Link ~> http://techcabal.com/2015/03/10/applications-open-for-project-inspires-25000-grant/

According to a media release on Project Inspire’s website, MasterCard and the Singapore Committee for UN Women announced they’re calling for submissions from social entrepreneurs for this year’s ‘Project Inspire: 5 minutes to change the world’ challenge competition.


The competition is a global challenge that allows 18-35 year olds pitch their ideas to the world. Applicants are expected to demonstrate how they intend to use design or technology as a tool in their line of work to enable and empower women economically across Asia, the Pacific, Middle East and Africa (MEA) –hence, the title for this year’s theme: ‘Technology or Design for Economic Empowerment’.

“The impact that we’ve seen since 2011 through the competition for women and girls around the world, has truly cemented Singapore as the perfect environment to profile and catapult young social entrepreneurs on a global stage,” Trina Liang-Lin, President, Singapore Committee for UN Women explains.

Other partners to this women empowerment and social entrepreneurship programme are knowledge partner INSEAD (The Business School for the World), strategic partner Bain & Company and project supporting partner Top3 Media.

The grand prize is $25,000 while runners-up have $10,000 prize on offer to bring their dream to fruition.

“Celebrating five years of Project Inspire is a milestone that I am incredibly proud of. The strong partnership with long standing partner and co-founders, MasterCard as well as the much welcomed support from INSEAD: The Business School for the World, Bain & Company, Hilton WorldWide and Top3 Media are a testament to how much the competition has grown, and continues to grow over the years” she added.

Potential applicants are to submit a five-minute video explaining how they will use the $25,000 grant to improve the lives of women and (or) girls. Twenty semi-finalists will be chosen to move on to the crowd-funding stage of the competition. Next, finalists will be selected from that stage to attend the grand finals in Singapore; where they will pitch their inspired ideas to a panel of judges.

mgb4reel:
Good day guys,
My first android application goes live today. Its an educational App.
Ever needed a Time table manager with a great sense of simplicity?
Ever wanted an app specifically designed to help manage your lectures effortlessly?
Do you normally forget to put down the volume of you device during lecture?
Do you need an app that notifies you of lectures ahead of time?
Ever needed a grade point calculator?

Then, worry NO MORE! This app does all that and many more.
You can download from https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ahmedmolawale.timetablemanager
Don't forget to rate the app.
Enjoy!

Great work, I love this!!!

Nice. I love it. Please keep up the good work.

skillzy101:
I have been reading a lot of stuffs on Google prescribed sites regarding the issue of web development and java programming.
Well the thing is i am actually a web developer and i am beginning to love java due to the fact that you can use it to create mobile apps and a lot of other cool stuffs, which is actually where the world tech is heading to, but then i kinda get confused and discouraged when i stumble on a bunch of realistic and unrealistic things that certain people say about my dear Java. So my Question is; Why do most Nigerian Programmers prefer Web Development to Desktop Application Development(Java) ? and please what are the best6 measures to take when learning Java? [color=#006600][/color] .
Would also love it if there is anyone who is already in the field(Java programming) who would put me through the right path and possibly send me a p.m or something.

I dont think it is a matter of Nigerians preferring Web Apps to Desktop App, (although Web Development with HTML, CSS & JS is easier than Desktop Develpment with Java, C, C++, VB, etc) I think it is a matter of which one is more profitable. Think about it. People make WAY MORE MONEY with Web apps. than Desktop Apps. How many Africans (including Nigerians) have Laptops/Computers compare to those who have Feature Phones or Smart Phones? How many people in the whole world use Desktop Apps when there is about a Web App Replacement for each one?

Majority of Desktop Apps dont make money any more. Everyone is the on the net. Everyone uses web or cloud apps for desktop apps.

proxy23:
It take me 30 minutes to build the app

What framework or backend did u use? Is the framework or backend compatible with J2ME?

Man, I love this project of yours. I just want to know more about it.

What is the architecture of your project?