Perhaps you’re interested in discovering new Nigerian slangs and can’t afford a Nigerian Pidgin English Dictionary (if at all there’s one), this new social site called Naija Lingo is a new Web 2.0 site where you can discover Nigerian slangs and Pidgin English. It is an online free dictionary for people who want definitions to Nigerian words or slangs, names and phrases, etc created by the people who know them.

The idea is to build a dictionary of pidgin English words that Nigerians all around the world use everyday. Thus, when you sign up, you can add or edit words and also rate words that you feel have better definitions of the slang or pidgin word. There is also “word of the day” - a randomly generated word daily that is shown on the home page.

The site has a nice plugin that allows you to search Naija Lingo straight from your browser while on any site, just as you do with popular search engines such as Google and Yahoo.

Naija Lingo currently has about 370 unique words contributed by over 60 “lexibutors”, as contributors of words are called on the site. In my opinion, this is an interesting and fun site for people who are interested in Nigerian slangs and who want to learn the latest slangs in Nigeria.

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proCareersNigeria.com is a professional networking site for colleagues and contacts interested in careers in Nigeria. The site was launched in March 2008 and now has over 1000 members making connections with friends and colleagues. With this service, users can invite their workmates, classmates and business associates and build their network and thus progress with their careers and relationships.

The site has a similar idea like LinkedIn (as a professional network of business contacts), but also has a Facebook approach as it leans towards social networking in Nigeria with the usual features of blogs, events, photos, etc As part of it’s marketing strategy, proCareersNigeria.com is offering a FREE Nokia E65 mobile phone for any of it’s members that has 300 friends or connections by August 31st, 2008. Sounds cool, huh?

The site also offers a ‘Featured Member’ service where members can have their profile and picture on the homepage. Only 20 featured members have their pictures on the homepage and the pictures rotate to give every featured member exposure. The ‘Featured Member’ service would be a paid service from June 1 2008.

proCareersNigeria.com is powered by Careers Nigeria - a weblog that publishes latest jobs, employment gist and careers opportunities in Nigeria for graduates and top candidates. Careers Nigeria reaches a huge community of jobseekers, graduates, experienced professionals, recruiters, human resources experts and corporate bodies operating in Nigeria and Internationally.

I have been on the site since it’s launch date and would recommend it to Nigerian professionals who want to change careers or establish business relationships or maybe do more.

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The African Mobile Marketing & Advertising Summit is the foremost event of the year dedicated to communication and loyalty on the mobile in the emerging markets. With the huge growth of mobile communications in Africa, this event will be bringing together advertisers, communication agencies, content developers, and mobile service providers.

Estimates for the value of the mobile marketing market vary from $2billion - $11.5 billion by 2011. What is certain is that this industry is growing, and growing fast. By attending the first annual African Mobile Marketing & Advertising Summit 2008, delegates will learn how to take advantage of new revenue streams to drive growth in mobile data usage and generate highly profitable advertising revenue. Read more>>

Source: zdnet.co.uk

Perhaps the long awaited Nigerian version of Classifieds UK has launched today. The site named Classifieds Nigeria (still on Alpha) is a free classifieds site and Nigerian online marketplace where users can buy and sell items and goods from cars to clothing. The site has similar features with the UK’s Classifieds site and ClickNigeria, but has fewer categories compared to the UK’s site which has over 700 categories.

Classifieds Nigeria is a one stop online portal that allows users to easily find and get whatever they need in their everyday life. You can buy and sell laptops, cars, computers, electronics, clothes etc on the Nigerian free Classifieds site. You can easily browse, search or post a free ad, so your credit cards would be of no use on this site when you’re posting an ad.

People can also make friends in the dating/friends section by posting classifieds ads on what kind of person they are looking for and around which location. The dating angle is designed to be discreet and allows users to decide on the nature of the friendships they intend to establish.

While this would be a welcomed development for Nigerians all over the world to buy and sell items, it might be another marketplace for scammers such as the eBay case. But perhaps Classifieds Nigeria has a better way to deal with this inevitable trend in online market places.

Other Nigerian online marketplaces include firstnaija.com, ebuynigeria.com amongst others.

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Afrigator is a social media aggregator and directory built especially for African digital citizens who publish and consume content on the Web. Afrigator attempts to use social media tools and technologies to showcase the best digital content that the African continent has to offer, ranging from syndicated news feeds to blog posts, podcasts, videos and images.

The site started with two guys named, Justin Hartman and Mike Stopforth who later hired a designer named Mark Forrester and formed a partnership together with Stii Pretorius to produce Africa’s No. 1 Media Aggregator.

Within the past year, Afrigator has developed web tools and technologies, thus improving the site’s functionality. Here are some major milestones:

• Mobile Version 1
• Public Beta
• Mobile Version 2
• iPhone, iPod Mobile

The site has been reviewed by sites such as Read/WriteWeb, VentureBeat.com, and Killer Startups amongst others and is dominated by sites from South Africa. In the future, Afrigator plans to aggressively tap into a more accurate reflection of social media in the African continent.

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