If you try using Google maps to search for a business location, street, or hotel in Lagos, Nigeria you’re most likely not going to find any useful information. No kidding! Even though Google has very interesting satellite imageries of Lagos and Nigeria, the internet search giant really has no intelligence to support a simple search ultimately useful to the Nigerian environment.

MapNTL.com, Nigeria’s foremost online interactive map allows users to search for any street by name e.g Ilupeju Bye-Pass Road, Ilupeju or the location of any business by name, e.g Intercontinental Bank, Tejuosho Street, Surulere. With MapNTL, you can zoom in and see more details at street level and even get driving directions to any business from any street in Lagos.

Thus, if you as a customer are looking for the nearest Tantalizers on a particular street in the Lagos Island, you can use MapNTL to find the location. Something you cannot do using Google Map or Yahoo Map.

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With the economic crises around the world making the news daily, financial experts have been analysing the impact and implications in the world’s economies. One of the world’s leading financial management and advisory companies, Merrill Lynch has compiled a report, Global Economics, following several data requests from clients of the investment bank for key risk indicators for all major economies including Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).

The risk ranking was based on seven indicators which include current account financing gap, foreign exchange reser-ves/short-term external debt ratio, private credit-to-Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ratio, and private credit growth, loans to deposits and banks capital-to-assets ratio.

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It’s a great opportunity to be here as a guest blogger. My name is Mutiu Okediran and I had this interview (via email) with Francis Onwumere. He is a freelance web developer.

Enjoy the interview…

Francis said no matter the difficulty you are facing as a startup

Start by having a plan. At least start and don’t let the difficulties woo you

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

Francis: I’m a 25 year old freelance web developer and have been doing this professionally for close to four years now, mainly as a means of extra income while studying chemistry at University of Nigeria.

Originally it all started by chance. I had just finished secondary school in 2000 and while trying to gain admission into university, I came across this HTML book at one Akoka study centre in Lagos. Alongside my A-Level studies, I gradually began to explore the world of HTML and web design.

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Qubestreet is a pan-African media & entertainment start-up pre-launched in Nigeria in November 2006, with the goal of uniting Africans through interactive solutions, events, publications and new media interactive projects across different niche markets.

The idea of the site is to showcase the best of African talent to the rest of the world and, at the same time, connect top rated African brands to the global market through the use of technology and innovative portals. These portals will connect different people with shared interests, hobbies, occupations and backgrounds.

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When the announcement came in June this year that the 3G iPhone will be launched in Africa, I was eagerly anticipating to witness the hype in Nigeria, even though I had witnessed the hype first hand in France last year.

Before then, Vodafone had signed a ten-country deal with Apple to supply the iPhone to Africa. In September, the 3G iPhone finally arrived in South Africa after a lot of rumors and speculations.

Today, iPhone 3G is available in 64 countries across Europe, Asia, Australia, North America, South America, the Middle East and the Carribeans. In Africa, the 3G iPhone is currently available in Egypt and South Africa.

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