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Microsoft 'lends Security Expertise' To Nigeria
News Neil Holloway, the president of Microsoft for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, said the company will lend its "time, technology and resources" to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the Nigerian organisation that tackles...
[October 14, 2005, 17:50]
Nigeria Mobile Marketing : The Uncharted Waters
Blog The percularities of the Nigerian lanscape should have long prompted Brand managers to start asking their agencies questions about Mobile marketing, in face of the gradual decline in all other media channels.Television viewship is declining at a...
[April 2, 2008, 16:03]
Can Number Portability Drive Etisalat Nigeria Market Share
Blog This will significantly reduce capex cost and reduce roll out time in different regions in the vast Nigerian land mass for a new operator like Etisalat. The Nigerian Communication Commission recently approved the use of number portability for the...
[July 21, 2008, 14:03]
Can Number Portability Drive Etisalat Nigeria Market Share?
Blog This will significantly reduce capex cost and reduce roll out time in different regions in the vast Nigerian land mass for a new operator like Etisalat. The Nigerian Communication Commission recently approved the use of number portability for the...
[April 2, 2008, 15:08]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback And,.if you want to attack someone for doing massive damage to Africa,why don't you talk about that ex-leader of yours, one Sanni Abacha ,who was Nigerian head of state for 6 years and in that time managed to steal to the the tune of billions of...
[January 28, 2004, 12:17]
News Schmooze: Gaming Gets Ugly
News The South African cops may have finally found a solution to the main trauma that has accompanied the growth of the Internet -- this being, obviously, those Nigerian spams. The police arrested three men responsible for the marauding missives, only...
[May 24, 2002, 15:27]
Opportunities And Challenges Of WAP Media In Nigeria.
Blog The Nigerian WAP opportunities opens up the frontiers of m-advertising which is significantly cheaper than all other types of media.All factors necessary for success are already on ground. Media planners need to understand the Nigerian wap market...
[July 22, 2008, 9:42]
US Charges Email Scammers
News A quartet of suspected email scammers — three of them Nigerian citizens — could face scores of years in prison if convicted on fraud and conspiracy charges, the US Justice Department said on Thursday.
[March 24, 2006, 9:45]
And On The Eighth Day, The Lord Created Spam
News However, similar mails have preyed on victims' gullibility in variations of the Nigerian 419 scam. Body text: "Eternity is a really long time. It's been around for a long time, but has tended to be below the radar," said Sergeant.
[November 19, 2004, 10:45]
The Week In Review: The Kids Are All Wired
News One of the most notorious scams operating on the Internet has been blamed for the death of a Nigerian diplomat in the Czech Republic. Fatal shooting linked to Nigerian email fraud It's 'hold the front page' time: Intel is going to concentrate on...
[February 21, 2003, 16:48]
December Inboxes Clogged With Junk Mail
News Scams, such as the notorious Nigerian money scams, accounted for 6 percent of all spam. In terms of its share of total email traffic, spam broke through the 40 per cent barrier for the first time -- meaning a staggering four in every 10 emails sent...
[January 10, 2003, 14:06]
Nigeria Renews Efforts To Stop 419 Scammers
News The Nigerian government has launched a new crackdown on organised criminals who attempt to con email users with get-rich-quick schemes. The notorious email scam is also known as the 419 scam -- 419 being the part of the Nigerian criminal code that...
[November 27, 2003, 10:10]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News It's a good thing that this technology wasn't around when apartheid was still in force in South Africa, but perhaps there's still room for a Home Office edition with scarpering gypsies and Nigerian refugees being bundled back onto a plane when the...
[December 6, 1997, 7:00]
NCC Grasps At Straws To Save Telecom Consumers In Limbo- Part 1
Blog This writer’s experience is quite illuminating and demonstrates the levity with which mobile telephone operators hold their Nigerian customers. The manner in which some of them rip off their customers’ phone credits leaves very few people in doubt...
[March 10, 2008, 9:03]
SCO Takes On US Government Supercomputers
Talkback The uppercase text reminded me of all those nigerian 419 scams (as does this whole SCO affair). Their stock has been on a downward slide recently so it was only a matter of time before they threatened legal action *again*.
[March 22, 2004, 13:18]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It's a good thing that this technology wasn't around when apartheid was still in force in South Africa, but perhaps there's still room for a Home Office edition with scarpering gypsies and Nigerian refugees being bundled back onto a plane when the...
[December 6, 1997, 7:00]
Nigeria Renews Efforts To Stop 419 Scammers
Talkback At the same time my fiancee has been told by the Nigerian that he knows the President who is interested in them building a club-house on his golf course, and says that they will need to meet the President.
[May 10, 2004, 18:00]
Mandriva: Microsoft Changed Nigerian Minds Over Linux
News Microsoft and representatives from the Nigerian government had not responded to a request for comment at the time of writing. The chief executive officer of Mandriva, François Bancilhon, has taken Microsoft to task over the Nigerian government's...
[November 1, 2007, 16:31]
Alternative Title: Greedy People Lose Money
Talkback As a landlord letting my property to foreigners I should have been hit by the ol' cheque scam by now, but I always phone the issuing bank before I cash a cheque and I have just recently shredded a cheque from a Nigerian model who told me she would...
[April 14, 2007, 12:14]
419 Spammers Use Holocaust To Boost Credibility
News In what appears to be similar to a Nigerian 419 scam, the fraudster has used legitimate organisations to plead his case. The ICEP appears to exist, but at the time of writing, its Web site was unavailable.
[October 1, 2004, 17:40]
