711football.com is a football platform where Nigerian football fans meet to discuss and share views on football. Launched in June 2008, the site is gradually becoming Nigeria’s hottest destination for football news and entertainment from all over the world including the Nigerian Premier league.

The site features league tables, fixtures and player details for both the English Premier
League and Nigeria Premier League in the “match centre”, aggregates football news from some Nigeria newspapers in “media talk” and football pictures and videos in the “gallery”.

The blog and forum functions are also available on the site to get people expressing their opinions about match predictions, post match reactions, rumours, transfer speculations, as well as polls.

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Even though Nigeria has not featured in the FIFA World Cup since 2002 and is currently ranked the 17th best football team in the world, there are indications that the country has the most enthusiastic football fans than any other country.

A look at Alexa stats for Goal.com users around the world, reveals that Nigeria remains at the top with 9.0% of overall users.

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Whether you like it or not, Facebook has come to stay! If you’re a smart web entrepreneur, you need to start using Facebook to reach out to millions of Nigerian and African Facebook users who are actively involved with the most popular site for the year 2008.

In case you don’t know, Facebook is a social utility that connects people from all over the world (about 150 million). When the site was created, most people didn’t recognise Facebook’s business potentials. But today, most popular and successful sites such as CNN are using the Facebook’s utilities such as applications, etc to build their brands.

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Startups Nigeria is the leading technology blog for startups, innovation and entrepreneurship with an international focus on Nigeria. Since April 2008, we have been tracking tech trends within Africa, with particular focus on the Nigerian social media and web space.

With a fast-growing community of web & mobile enthusiasts, start-up founders, bloggers and social media players all around the world, we are poised to continue providing web and mobile content that would contribute to a vibrant community.

We are currently seeking a team of web and mobile enthusiasts to serve as mobile/web columnists for StartupsNigeria.com

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By now, it’s almost clear to everyone that the world’s largest search engine, Google plans to rule the world. If you are not yet aware of that, perhaps Google’s newest search pages in Nigerian languages, Hausa and Yoruba should be a testimony.

Today, I just noticed something strange about the Google Nigeria page, and I was curious. That’s when I saw this phrase:

Google.com.ng offered in: Hausa, Yorùbá

At first, I thought it was a fluke, not because Google lacks translation skills, but because I was wondering what Google has to do with Hausa or Yoruba language.  Not that I didn’t know that Google also offers search pages in Afrikaans, Sesotho, IsiZulu and  IsiXhosa all South African languages.

I quickly ran a search for a Yoruba word (since that’s what I understand better), and was amazed at the results the new Google search page provided. You’ll also find that the term ‘Nigeria’ is Naìjírìà for Yoruba and Nijeriya for Hausa.

Nigeria has over 500 languages, and based on population, the Yoruba language records 18.8 million users, and Hausa records 18.5 million users, while Igbo language records 18 million, according to Wikipedia.

It would be interesting to see Google offering an Igbo language search page in the nearest future. Until then, we are happy that Google has recognised two local Nigerian languages for its search interests.