SMSLive247 is a web-based application that lets you send SMS messages to your customers, members or anyone else directly from your web browser. You can message them individually or in groups, wherever they are and whenever you want.

Users can register to get 10 free SMSs and can send to people anywhere in the world. You can also buy SMSs via Nigerian ATM cards from over 2 banks in Nigeria. The service works with MTN Nigeria, Celtel Nigeria (now Zain Nigeria, Glo Nigeria.

The site claims to offer the cheapest bulk SMS service and provides a pricing calculator to compare prices. See full price list here

Superflux International Limited, Nigeria emerged the Grand Prize Winner of the 2008 Legatum Pioneers of Prosperity Africa Awards held last week in Kigali, Rwanda.

A leading secure prints solutions provider to major financial institutions, corporations and government agencies in Nigeria, Superflux International Limited also offers outsourced mailing services that require variable data printing (e.g. bank statements) with an increasing presence in the West African region.

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Last week, it was announced that the world’s biggest mobile phone group (by revenue), Vodafone may soon be venturing into the Nigerian telecoms market as it sees a lot of potentials in Africa’s most populous nation.

Speaking at the Morgan Stanley Annual Technology, Media and Telecoms Conference in Barcelona, Spain, Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao said Vodafone might be interested in expanding into the Nigeria market, noting that “it doesn’t take a very sophisticated analysis to see it is one of the very few large markets with decent GDP, a young population and the classic conditions for being interesting for Vodafone.”

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New Heights Microfinance Bank has chosen Clickatell , a leading global provider of mobile messaging solutions for financial institutions, to deploy mobile messaging services to its customers.

Launched in August 2007, New Heights has introduced its suite of microfinance solutions including loans, credit, savings, money transfer services, and microinsurance products to serve an eager underbanked market (an estimated 79% of the adult population in Nigeria are considered underbanked).

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Damilare Onajole started playing with computers in late 2002. His first computer was a Pentium II, Windows ‘98 runned computer, actually owned by his father for business. Engrossed by the awe the internet holds, he picked up his first HTML 3.2 lessons from www.w3schools.org

I had this interview with him recently. Enjoy it….

SN: Please tell us about yourself, your background and interests?

Damilare: I am Damilare Onajole, a self self-taught technopreneur currently studying Philosophy at Lagos State University. I started doing web development in 2003; it all started as a hobby, then became a business a few years later. Problem solving has always been my hobby, so I naturally fell into web applications development and internet businesses.

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