A look at the latest Opera State of the Mobile Web report (March 2009) shows that Nigeria has displaced Germany to become the world’s 10th country with the most Opera Mini users. Back in September 2008, Egypt displaced Germany to become the second African country behind South Africa to join the top 10 countries.

At the time, Kenya and Nigeria Opera Mini users were surging, and we predicted that the mobile web will replace traditional web in Nigeria. With this report, Nigeria is now the 2nd African country behind South Africa (placed at 6th) to join the top 10 countries. Also noteworthy is the fact that Nigeria’s Opera Mini page-view growth since March 2008 was 4,322% with page-views per user at 324. Unique-user growth since March 2008 was 1,472%. 

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