Mobaganda is a simple way to plan parties, meetings, get-togethers, conference calls, etc. and track who is coming, and who is not. You do not need to register or login at any time. Mobaganda is like Evite, without all the bloat, clutter and unnecessary crap.

I tried it out. And it comes out like this. Happy Buffday in advance, AYF!

What if we were all bound by 140 character sentences in real life? Olorun maje! Constantly being forced to stop mid word or sentence before being able to complete what we were trying to say.

Well two very funny Twitterers @zemoga and @WiltonBound and the team at FromBogotaWithLove, have put together this awesomely funny video to demonstrate the consequences. Let me have your comments please.

fring™ is a mobile internet community and communication service that allows friends to connect, share experiences and enhance their online communities together.

Using your handset?s internet connection, you can interact with friends on all your favourite social networks including Skype®, MSN Messenger®, Google Talk™, ICQ, SIP, Twitter, Yahoo!™ and AIM®. You can listen to music with your Last.fm friends, check out what each other are up to on Facebook, receive alerts of new Google Mail™ and tailor make your very own fring by adding more cool experiences from fringAdd-ons™.

fring puts all your online friends into one, dynamic fringFriends™ buddy list, which is always connected so you can enjoy free calls and instant messaging with all your online friends, see their real-time status, and even find each other’s actual location.

fring combines your multiple IM contacts into one dynamic profile, which shows each friend’s current availability at a quick glance and enables interaction, all directly from this combined mobile profile.

Yola.com

Now my mum can design websites. Thanks to Yola.com

Welcome web design made simple. 

Yola brings website building to the rest of us(rather you). Small businesses. Groups and organizations. Non-profits. My Mum. The guy in the next cube. Everyone. 

Yola is the world’s leading easy-to-use, browser based, website development software for SME’s and groups, and currently has over 2m users worldwide.

Their website builder lets you easily take what’s in your head and turn it into webpages in front of your eyes. Yola lets you make great-looking sites with webpages that work beautifully together.  And, they do it without imposing banner ads or throwing up pop-up ad windows everywhere.

Check out Yola.com’s exciting features.

Sneak peek: Yola.com was formally Synthasite.com. The startup was founded by South Africa’s Vinny Lingham . Vinny is the recipient of numerous awards, including Top Young ICT Entrepreneur in Africa (2006) & was also a finalist for Men’s Health Best Man (2009) & ICT Personality of the Year in South Africa (2008). He also previously founded Clicks2Customers, which also won the Top Technology Company award in South Africa in 2006, for it’s revolutionary search engine marketing software and services – servicing world class clients such as Walmart.

Ning is the social platform for the world’s interests and passions online. Ning offers an easy-to-use service that allows people to join and create Ning Networks. With more than 1.5 million Ning Networks created and 33 million registered users, millions of people every day are coming together across Ning to explore and express their interests, discover new passions, and meet new people around shared pursuits. Nigerians are not left out either.

Notable nigerian sites powered by ning .com include

1. naijaclimatecool.ning.com
2. lagosians.com
    
3. kickoffnigeria.com
4. naijabook.ning.com
    

Ning was founded in October 2004 by Gina Bianchini and Marc Andreessen.

Go to ning.com and build yours. However an extreme makeover like KickOff’s requires the expertise of a web designer.

gani in black maria

He was said to had died last night. Ganiyu Oyesola Fawehinmi was born in April, 1938, he dedicated his whole life to the defence of human rights and condemnation  of all ill government polices, fought the military junta with all that he had.

Here are 20 facts about Gani’s life, background, and travails as an activist.

1. Gani was forced by financial circumstance to drop out of the Holborn College as a full time student while studying Law. He then took a full time job as a Toilet Cleaner in Russell Square Hotel in Southampton Row, London. 
2. Gani Fawehinmi has 14 children from 2 wives. 
3. Gani’s biography is the most voluminous for any Nigerian dead or alive with over 4,300 pages. 
4.  A site has been dedicated to Gani. http://www.ganifawehinmi.com/. This site was built while he was alive.
5.  During Abacha’s regime, Gani was deported from PortHarcourt back to Lagos. This is the first of its kind when someone was deported from a state back to his home state.
6. His international passport has been siezed 7 times by security agents.
7. Gani has been detained 40 times by security agents.
8. Gani was an only son of out of six children born to his mum. He was the first child.
9. Gani Fawehinmi was the only person who on sympathizing with President Olusegun Obasanjo on Stella’s death,  blamed him and Nigeria’s health system for her demise. He said 

“The events of Saturday and Sunday the 22nd and 23rd October, 2005 which have thrown the country into mourning should never be allowed to repeat themselves. We do not want another plane crash and if you bring in another wife before you constitutionally quit office on 29th May, 2007, please do not allow her to go for a cosmetic surgery for beautification again. We cannot afford another death of the President’s wife in Aso Rock”.  Read full letter.

10. Gani was famous worldwide for his blunt and sharp words. Some of his memorable quotes are:

 “The disappearance of Charles Taylor from Nigerian soil is a humiliating disgrace to Nigeria. Obasanjo must explain why this happened.” – Gani Fawehinmi

“There is nothing new in the speech. It is the same old wine in new bottles. It’s a disappointing statement. In fact it is a disastrous speech.” – Gani Fawehinmi 

“I’m not surprised at this result, I’m saddened, not surprised. This government will do anything to keep its power by deceiving the people.” – Gani Fawehinmi 

 “This is incredible. This is fantastic. This gives us hope that something good will begin to happen soon.” – Gani Fawehinmi 

http://www.loyokezie.com/startupsnigeria/

http://www.startupsnigeria.com/2009/09/startups-nigeria-editor-or-blogger-wanted/

Chei, I thought it was all settled o. Until I saw it this morning.

For me, I wouldn’t bash an enemy online, talk less of a brother. These dudes have done it and as someone commented here, they will laugh over it someday.

That’s not my business though, my concern is “Who will fill in the gap?” and other close questions as well. I have learnt a lot from the whole saga, and this is my take:

1. StartUpsNigeria needs an outrightly new owner: Vic(CareersNigeria) will have to sell startupsnigeria.com outrightly to a whole new owner, as I do not percieve Nigerians as that forgiving (at least for them that know the story). Things might have been better if Vic hadn’t published the laptop story on the site. Next time do the bashing somewhere else and not on the site concerned. this way, startupsnigeria.com’s integrity would have been kept intact.
2. This is an opportunity for new people to step in: I am sure some chap will read this and say, if these guys are fighting, let me fill the gap. by all means, do so. This is Nigeria, and you can find your way to the top, if you keep at it.
3. Attitude will keep us at the top: Ain’t pointing any fingers, here. All I am saying is both brothers have displayed behaviors that is obviously puerile and unbecoming of ‘men’.

My advice to Vic & Loy, forget about startupsnigeria.com! Vic, sell outrightly. Loy, lick the wounds. Forget the startupnigeria.org, move on. Start techchop.com (I had once referred to Loy as our own Michael Arrington a la www.techcrunch.com, and my opinion on that still remains the same) or keep the game up with your www.loyokezie.com.

For all of us, we will keep doing our stuff and supporting those who do their stuff well too. Nigeria is getting better for all of these, and soonest our 150 million population will start making sense as far as the web, internet and social media is concerned.

Since the English Premier League began, www.Gamen11.com has been  provide breaking news,scores and fixtures by SMS to football fans who
have already registered on Gamen11.com and the service is absolutely free.

Friends and family can get the most up-to-the-minute news,fixtures and
scores on their favourite clubs, but only if they sign up, not before.

As a user, you may send a Yab,Did You Know, or Fan Shout to anybody, whetherthey are registered on Gamen11 or not: friends, family,enemy,by using Gamen11’s Free SMS service. All you have to do is choose the message that best says what you wish to communicate, enter the recipient’s phone number and then click send.

So what were you waiting for? Or what are you still waiting for?

The List of Major Debtors of Non-Performing Loans in Five Banks

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has released the details of major and largest debtors of non-performing loans of the five banks whose managements were sacked recently. The debtors include government agencies, corporate organisations and individuals in their personal capacities. Most of the directors are popular billionaires, politicians, retired military Generals among others.

The defaulting customers of the affected banks have been directed to pay the amounts without further delay their indebtedness, failing which the central bank would take all appropriate legal actions to ensure payment.

Out of the N210bn of the non-performing loan of the Intercontinental Bank Plc, the major and largest debtors as at May 2009 include Ascot Offshore Nigeria Limited which has as its directors Joey Chuma Obue and Samuel Aikhionbare owing N44bn, Rockson Engineering Limited that belongs to Engr. J.I.A. Arumemikhide having N36bn to offset, United Alliance Company of Mr. Aig-Imoukhede and Herbert Wigwe to refund N16bn, Rahamaniya Oil and Gas of Abdulrahaman Bashir with N12bn, Dansa Oil and Gas of Aliko Dangote and his brother, Sani Dangote with N8bn, Transcorp of Prof. Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke and others with N6bn, Lister Oil Limited of Alhaji Arisekola Alao to refund N5bn and Accountant General Special Project N14,5bn among others.

The major debtors of Afribank’s N141bn non-performing loans are Suleman Ibrahim of Kolvey Company that has Suleiman Ibrahim and Aisha Usman as director and owing the bank N16bn, Rehoboth Assets Limited of Chudi Ajaegbu to refund N15bn, Resolution Trust and Invest of Patience Orighommesan and Sarah Oritse to repay N12bn, Petosan Property and Dev of the same Patience and Sarah to pay another 10bn, Larix Nig Ltd of Alhaji idah to pay N6bn, Bro Works of Alhaji Ibrahim N5bn, Falcon Securities Limited that has Peter Ololo as MD to offset N29bn and African Petroleum of Femi Otedola to refund N12bn among others.

The major debtors in Union Bank nonperforming loans of N73bn are Transnational Corp where Dr. Ndi Okereke Onyiuke as prominent director to settle the indebtedeness of N30bn, MTS FIRST WIRELESS LTD of Chief Lulu Briggs with N9bn, Zenon of Femi Otedola N6bn, IRS Airlines of Khalifa Isiaka Rabiu N3bn, Avian Spec Ltd N1.7bn, Communication Trends Ltd of Engr. Uzo Udemba to offset N1.1bn, DJONES of Sir J. O. Eze N524mn. Others include Chanchangi airlines N423mn, Ikeja Hotels Plc N1,2bn, Bao Yao Huan N3,1bn, MINAJ Holdings N1,6bn, Ibeto Industries N2,4bn among others.

The major debtors in Oceanic Bank’s nonperforming loan of N278bn are Notore Chemical Industries Ltd and African Finance Corporation N32bn, Rahamaniya Global Services of Abulrahman Musa Bashir N28bn, LV Development of Michael Onasanya N2.7bn, Dangote Industries of Aliko Dangote N2.5bn, Falcon Securities of Peter Ukoritsemofe Ololo N22bn, Spark-West Steel Industries of Niyi Oyedele N18bn, Mid-Western Oil and Gas of Onajite Okoloko and engr. Adams Okoene N23bn, Oando of General Magoro and others N7bn, Honeywell Group of Oba Otudeko N1.6bn, BFCL Assets and Securities Of Okoro and Ibru N4bn, Global Fleet of Jimoh Ibrahim N14bn, Zarm Poultry of Muftau Gbadamosi N8.3bn, Imad Oil and Gas of Bashir and Abba Dasuki N10bn, Delta State N6.4bn, NITEL N7bn, Obat Oil and Petroleum of Prince Fedrick Akinrutan among others.

The major debtors in FINBANK’s nonperforming loans of N42bn are Aquitane Oil and gas Limited of Ike Okolo and Dahiru Wada N3.6bn, Falcon Securities of peter Ololo and Senator Jonathan Tunde N3bn, Spring Trust 1,9bn, Jevkon Oil and Gas N1.6bn, Reliance telecommunication N800m, Ebonyi State 587mn, Intercellular Nig N157mn and Ararume Godwin Ifeanyi N158mn among others.

The Tables of Defaulters

Major Debtors of Intercontinental Bank Plc

Major Debtors of Union Bank

Major Debtors of Afribank

Major Debtors of Oceanic Banks

Major Debtors of Finbank.

Source: ECONOMIC CONFIDENTIAL| | Factual, Authoritative & Accessible.