Recently, the Future Awards 2009 was held in Lagos, Nigeria which recognised young talented Nigerians in business, IT, the media, sports, arts, fashion and entertainment. The Future Awards 2009 for the Best Use of Technology was given to Bamidele Odufuye, MD/CEO of Tsaboin Tech World.

Bami is two time Future Nigeria Awards Best Use of Technology (2008/2009) winner and recently launched a new social network called tSarite.

I had this email interview with him recently where he shares his stints for tech and how his social network would change the social networking space in Nigeria.

Enjoy!

SN: Please tell us about yourself, your background and interests.
 
Bami: My name is Dele Odufuye, MD/CEO of tsaboin tech world. A firm specialized in Web Services Development and Business Process Automation. I grew up in Abeokuta Ogun State where I had my primary school education to University. I graduated an Environmental Scientist and Toxicologist but my interest has always belong to the digital and technology world.

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Ahmad Mukoshy is the brain behind Aimtech Hosting Company. I had this interview recently. Happy reading

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

Ahmad: That’s way too long to tell. But, I am Ahmad Mukoshy and I am still in college. I am 19 years old and I come from a family of education where studies mean everything in the house. I love reading books, meeting new people and working on my computer day and night.

SN: What is the name of your Company?

Ahmad: We all call it Aimtech Nigeria. But it is registered as Aimtech Hosting Co.

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Each time I visit Facebook, I’m keen on checking out groups that are making a buzz in the social media space. So far, I’ve found several groups including 1709 Media, FacemeIFaceU and Naijaborn being managed by a new media & entertainment start-up that has built a strong and vibrant community of fans on Facebook.

I caught up with the master-mind of these Facebook communities, Francis Oghuma, who is CEO of Qubestreet, a pan-African media & entertainment start-up launched in Nigeria in November 2006 and South Africa in November 2008, with the goal of uniting Africans through interactive solutions, events, publications and new media interactive projects across different niche markets.

Francis (listed as one of Nigeria’s Young Web Celebrities to Watch) and I met up recently in Lagos where he shared with me his craze for social media, his stints for the global social media space and some scoop on his latest projects.

Don’t be left out…be the next to know;-)

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Hello people!

Happy New Year ‘009. I had this interview with Lateef Olajide, an Internet Business Strategist. Lateef is a brain behind www.internetmarketingnigeria.com

Happy reading…..

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

Lateef: My name is Lateef Olajide. I am from Ogun State precisely, Abeokuta. I had my primary and secondary school education in Abeokuta. I found myself in Lagos sometime 1997 and since then Lagos has been my base.

I had a very VERY VERY humble background. I learnt how to feed myself and sibling while I was still in junior secondary school. After my secondary education I wanted to go to the university to study medicine just like my friend but couldn’t make it for some reasons. I stayed at home for couple of months after secondary school examinations. Eventually I found myself in a freight forwarding company in Lagos as an apprentice without my wish.

The company was full of greedy people so I couldn’t make it to the sea-port where the real action is to learn much. So I decided to take part time course in shipping to study import and export management. It is advance diploma course.

I made up my mind very early in my life that I am going to be an entrepreneur and create job for others here in Nigeria and will never leave this country until I become a millionaire. That exactly is what I am doing now. Making more money here in Nigeria than most of my friends that abscond to USA and UK years back.

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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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