WOW!  Yesterday  was MJ's memorial service and was aired globally!  Naijaborn Team paid  its last respect to the king of pop by placing an ad on our home page for 24 hrs to honor the man that changed the face of music globally,




RIP MJ NAIJABORNS LUV YA !

A Legend bows to the world.


Team Naijaborn

show ya sef ! MJ!

Wow another interesting meeting with Gareth Knight ( Founder of  Technologyforafrica.org



He was in south africa from His Uk base and the Naijaborn.com team got a chance to discuss about the future of our platform and he adviced us and gave us  a nood to keep doing a great work.

we are  very proud of you mr Gareth and we are ready to take Naijaborn.com to the next level and we hope to have you register on the platform and also advice us from time to time.

On behalf of Team Naijaborn.com I am loyal. LOL

N.B

Gareth is the director of Product Management(Myheritage.com) and  co-founded kindo.com with associates. He is a brilliant speaker and social media guru.

Catch him on : www.oneafrikan.com

Show ya sef !

The naijaborn.com module that introduces naijaborn members to the world a.k.a INTRODUCTIONS, formerly displayed only 5 recent members on the home page to the public. To view all members, you had to be logged in. After talking with a couple of users, advisers and having some meetings internally, we decided to make it open to the world.

What are the implications ?

Search engines will get more pages to index and searching Google for a member's name will give results that go to naijaborn.com and further exposing the platform.
The INTRODUCTIONS module shows only brief information about a member for privacy reasons. To view the member's full profile, you must be a registered user and you must login.

What do you think ?
Should we keep it public or make your brief introduction accessible only by members ?
thanks for your answers

Waking up from bed today and checking what is making news online, I stumbled on a blog post from Billzimmerman www.27months.com. He reviewed the naijaborn.com platform and talked of a lot of exciting things. Below is an extract from the blog post and link.

There’s been a lot of buzz in African tech circles lately about Naijaborn.com, a web community for Nigerian residents and diasporans, which entered its public beta on June 1st. The self-funded startup is a partnership between Francis Omokhape Oghuma of Qubestreet (Nigeria and South Africa) and Mambe Nanje Churchill of AfroVisioN Group (Cameroon). Churchill was interviewed on this blog in November of last year....

for the full blog post please visit this link
http://www.27months.com/2009/06/naijaborn-the-nigerian-social-network/

YOUNG,BOLD & DYNAMIC

Founders of the future awards , a project to celebrate young nigerians globally

http://www.thefuturenigeria.com

They are proudly naijaborn


Emilia Asim-Ita

(Marketing Director)

Emilia continued her successful streak as the presenter of Youth Talk with Emilia on the NTA Network, completing five years on the beat in 2008. Emilia was also Lifestyle Editor of Variety Magazine, editor of Sleek magazine and is presently the Editor of Tour Nigeria, a publication of the federal Ministy of Tourism. As an event anchor, she has been the emcee of the UNITeS concert, the Guardians of the Nation International and was a facilitator at the RISE Magazine “Dare to be Different” seminar. Co-presenter of Rubbing Minds on Channels Television, Emilia was selected as one of the 101 Young African Leaders at the African Business Forum in Ghana, she was also one of the 12 winners of the highly coveted Leap Africa Youth Leadership Awards. She is presently a Mass Communications student of the University of Lagos.

Adebola Williams

(Operations Director)

Easily the voice of RedSTRAT, the Operations Director, Adebola, continued this year to set new standards with the rave TV show, Nigeria International, which shows on the NTA Network, AIT International, STV, MBI, and Ben TV. He left the employ of the show mid-2007 to concentrate full time on RedSTRAT, retaining a position as Consultant Producer.He also proved his mettle this year as Consultant Producer with the Canadian Broadcasting Commission, and Consultant Producer with Lifestyles in Africa with Mnet. Debola was a Human Resource Consultant with the Close-Up Salsa Challenge, as well as Consultant Partner with testify Music, being one of the key organizers of the Naija Facebook Carnival, as well as working briefly with The Apprentice Africa in Publicity. He is presently a Producer with the Amstel Malta Box Office reality TV show.

Chude Jideonwo

(Creative Director-at-large)

Chude has in the past one year written for True Love Magazine, Time Out Nigeria, Thisday, The Guardian, Made, Takaii amongst others. Chude was in the same period consultant editor to a number of magazines including an official magazine of the Nigerian Airforce and Tour Nigeria. Chude was called to the Nigerian Bar in November 2007, and was soon after selected as one of the 101 Young African Leaders by the African Business Forum. He also became arguably the youngest receiver of Nigeria’s most respected media award, the Nigeria Media Merit Award, when he was announced as Entertainment Journalist of the Year.Co-presenter of Rubbing Minds on Channels Television, Chude was also until June 2008 the Publicity/Website Manager for The Apprentice Africa, a project of Bank PHB. He recently completed his National Youth Service in the External Relations department of the Nigeria LNG, and is presently a managerial executive with a leading Nigerian airline.

Recently naijafeed.com had an interview with me about naijaborn.com. I found the interview interesting so I decided to post it on our blog too. Below is an extract from the interview and a link


Our current generation is beginning to shape the future of Africa. And from the looks of things so far, it's going to be one pretty face. With the inherent creativity and ingenuity ingrained in most Africans DNA, a crop of very internet savvy Africans have taken the internet by storm. I had the privilege of chatting with one of the creators of the new social network that's about to hit the interwebs and here's how the interview went down:


NAIJAFEED How far, can you tell us who you are and what Naijaborn is all about?


Interviewee My name is Mambe Churchill Nanje. I'm a 23yr old African who is currently the CEO/Creator of AfroVisioN Group www.afrovisiongroup.com. I'm also the co-founder and president of technology at Naijaborn. I've been in the software development business for four year....
click here to read the full interview

Mike Adenuga Junior (April 29, 1953) is the Nigerian chairman /Chief Executice Officer of Globacom.

Adenuga's rise to wealth and accompanying fame is an interesting story. His resolve to succeed against all odds started when, while in America, he worked as a taxi driver and security guard to sustain himself in school.

Born on April 29, 1953, Michael Adeniyi Isola Adenuga had his secondary school education at the Ibadan Grammar School, Ibadan, Oyo State, before proceeding to the North-Western University in Oklahoma and Pace University, New York, both in the United States where he studied business administration.

At age 26, Adenuga had already become a millionaire with connections in high places. With his unique flair for risks and sheer tenacity of purpose, in no time he started reaping profits in billions.

He owns Equitorial Trust Bank and Consolidated Oil, which carries out crude oil drilling, refining and marketing.His first shot into the consciousness of Nigerians was when his company, Consolidated Oil became the first indigenous company to strike crude in December1991.

He recently made foray into the telecommunications sector. With his Communications Investment Limited, CIL, he was issued a conditional licence in 1999 and frequencies to operate the Global System of Mobile Communications (GSM).

The licence was later revoked. Again, when in 2002, the government through the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), organised new auction for the GSM licence, the CIL participated and was one of the four that won the bid.

He paid the $20 million mandatory deposit.However, in the process of effecting the release of the balance payment of $265 million, the company was adjudged to have failed to pay within stipulated time.

CIL lost both the licence and $20 million deposit. He later went on to bid for the Second National Operator (SNO) licence, and deposited another $20 million. This time, he was lucky.

He won the bid in August 2002 through his Globacom Limited. The SNO has a wider range of operations as Globacom has the right to operate as a national carrier, operate digital mobile lines, serve as international gateway for telecommunications in the country and operate fixed wireless access phones.

Adenuga's estate business and company shares traverse several countries in Western Europe, North America and the Middle-East.

A Mentor to Nigerians globally.He is proudly naijaborn

Naijaborn a social networking startup for Nigerians from Francis Omokhape Oghuma and Mambe Nanje Churchill has just launched the site publicly.. I have been keeping a tab on the site ever since i found out about it and i am glad they have finally launched. I know what you are thinking, not ANOTHER social network.

However i think naijaborn is different for a few reasons:

read up the article on his blog :

Find the post by clicking this link
http://www.startupafrica.com/2009/06/naijaborn-nigerian-social-network/

article by Ismail Dhorat

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

(Nigeria)

Qubestreet Media and the AfroVisioN Group have partnered to produce NaijaBorn.com, a playground that connects Nigerians & friends all over the world. The site launches this month in its first beta release.

Through this platform, Nigerians can connect, interact and share their best experiences in Lagos, London, Lisbon or anywhere they should find themselves.

With the vision of Qubestreet Media's Franics Oghuma (NaijaBorn.com CEO and co-founder) and AfroVisioN's Mambe Nanje Churchill (NaijaBorn.com CTO and co-founder), NaijaBorn.com features a custom built social networking engine that will create a searchable, detailed, user-generated database of the global Nigerian community.

While in beta, NaijaBorn.com features profiles of active members, a public user-generated blog, and a place for users to upload music, art and other media from their experiences. So far, over 100 members have joined the budding site from places such as Iwate, Japan, Sugarland, Texas and of course Lagos, Nigeria. Members are established and novice entreprenuers, medical and pre-law school students, software developers and more.

This website will be a valuable way to network for people looking to reach out to the Nigerian audience, as large and diverse as it is. There are plenty of other resoruces and features coming to the site in the near future. Don't miss out on this opportunity to connect! Sign up today at www.naijaborn.com

By Ann Daramola
Community Manager
NAIJABORN
www.naijaborn.com

whats up people!

Its a new week,we launched naijaborn.com on friday 12am central african time and we still excited about the platform!

can we describe a perfect example of a true naijaborn?

lets connect and share this link