A new broadband internet called SWIFT Hotspot has just launched in Lagos, Nigeria which claims to be the fastest broadband service available in Nigeria. (You will be able to download a 200MB file in 2 minutes!) Hmm, sounds awesome!

What is SWIFT Hotspot?

SWIFT Hotspot is the wireless broadband internet service from SWIFT Networks, a leading broadband network that  provides subscribers with a faster and more reliable way to communicate, collaborate and succeed. They have Broadband Internet, Digital Telephony, Data and Video surveillance solutions which are ideal for businesses, professionals and homes.

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Naijapals, the leading social networking site in Nigeria has suspended the user account of Profile ‘Impersonator’ Chinwenduu.

According to Naijapals,

Profile impersonator “chinwenduu” is now indefinitly suspended from the Naijapals community for gross disregard for the Naijapals “Terms of service”.

The user has repeatedly ignored warnings from the Naijapals admin after creating fake profiles with names such as shaniqua, shanique1 and recently mushabcd. The user has created over 30 Naijapals account in total for purpose unknown to the administrators.

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This week, the Naija Bloggers Award was launched with the theme: Who You Be? and nominations have already commenced. Hmm, so quick??? 

Nominations started from Tuesday, February 24th until Wednesday, March 5th to nominate bloggers for Category A. After that, the nominees for each category and voting for category A will begin.

The 2009 Naija Bloggers Award is being organized by Sting, Toluwa, Naijagirl, and the now retired Geisha.

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WebTrendsNg.com is a new web analysis website that allows you to keep tab of happenings on the internet as it relates to Nigeria. The idea is to make understanding and usage of the internet in Nigeria more beneficial for business decision and planning.

The site recently started a survey tagged Nigerian Internet Usage Survey to know how Nigerians use the internet and what they do. The survey relies on a poll to get votes from users on the different categories. While this is a good approach, it might not prove very effective, since there’s no web analysis tool to measure Internet Usage in Nigeria.

However, I think it could help businesses in Nigeria determine where and when they should spend their money on online ads, as Nigerians become more aware of online advertising media platforms.

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Paul Graham says:

One of the things I always tell startups is a principle I learned from Paul Buchheit: it’s better to make a few people really happy than to make a lot of people semi-happy. I was saying recently to a reporter that if I could only tell startups 10 things, this would be one of them. Then I thought: what would the other 9 be?

When I made the list there turned out to be 13:

Want to know what his 13 sentences to startups are? Read on