9jabeats.com is an online community for artistes, fans, and record labels as well as up-coming (unsigned ) artistes who are yet to gain recording contracts with various labels. The site allows Nigerian artistes around the world to showcase their music without any cost.

The idea of 9jabeats is to bridge the ever expanding gap between the Nigerian music stars and their fans as well as other talented youths and the record labels that can actually transform these talents into fortunes.

With 9jabeats, you can get:

• FREE MP3 music downloads
• Image storage and embedding
• Blogs, Gallery, Forum, EPK
• Editors - Review Artists and Songs

Like any other social networking site, 9jabeats features music, videos, blogs, radio, photos, free mp3 downloads, etc. The site currently has about 1500 users and artists, 91 gallery images, 148 artist reviews, 64 blogs, with over 100 fans.

Perhaps you’re looking for a social networking site where you can find beautiful African women, men, girls and guys from cameroun, cote d’ivoire, ghana, nigeria, south africa, togo and so on. Lurrenzinc.com is the place to be.

Lurrenzinc is a new Nigerian social network that connects Africans all over the world and has been described as Africa’s fastest growing social network by some media.

With lurrenzinc.com, you can:

• Meet beautiful African girls, guys, women and men
• Build your own network of contacts who share your interests
• Promote yourself, your company and your services
• Share photos, music and videos
• Find old friends and work colleagues

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As the year 2008 smiles to say goodbye, I’ve been thinking about launching a poll that will award the “Best Social Network of The Year 2008″, for bringing smiles to Nigerians. Here on StartupsNigeria, I’ve reviewed quite a handful of social networks from Nigeria, and I must say its been an interesting experience for me (even though I’ve done so without taking a dime;-)

Why Social Network Award?

Social networking sites have grown and evolved in Nigeria in more recent times and are occupying a larger part of Nigerian new webspace. When you hear the word ‘naija’ (slang word for Nigeria), it’s often the prefix or suffix of the name of a social network in Nigeria.

If I’m not exagerrating, there are probably over 80 social networks in Nigeria and more are launching everyday. (I get emails every week from people who need ideas for launching a social network). Most of these sites are not real social networks, which made me wonder if social networks should merge or re-start?

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NexiaCulture, formerly ng-nexus, is a professional networking site that offers Nigerian graduates and professionals the opportunity to interact with one another and make strong connections regarding job placements and entrepreneurial opportunities. I have reviewed the site earlier here.

The site is currently offering a free Nokia E65 mobile phone for a member that has 300 friends on or before September 30th, 2008. Obviously, the site is using this marketing strategy to penetrate into the overcrowded business of social networking in Nigeria.

With an Alexa traffic rank of 14 million, why shouldn’t the site give away a free Nokia phone to attract members?

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Afrizi was initially launched last year as a city business guide before it was re-launched as a social networking site. The Alpha version was launched on the 4th of June, 2008. Afrizi attempts to connect Africans and friends of Africans within Africa and anywhere else in the world.

Like other social networking sites, Afrizi provides basic services such as photo sharing, blogs, discussions etc However, the site has added a feature called “ad place” which allows users to post free classified ads.

What is unique about Afrizi?

The site offers a unique service whereby users can generate income by promoting their own pages and attracting advertisers to place ads using the unique “URL” which is automatically allocated when users sign up. Other features of the site include a Public Trail that allows users to see what activities other users are engaged with in their network.

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