Update: We contacted Nairahost’s Emmanuel who emailed to say that Nairahost will release an official press statement later. We are eagerly looking forward to that.

I’m wondering how we missed the story about Nairahost appointing a Chief Executive Officer in January. But wait, didn’t they have a CEO before?

We didn’t know that Nairahost has faced a lot of problems regarding running the company smoothly, managing funny customers and financial limitations not until we saw the information posted on their blog.

Nairahost is the leading web hosting company in Nigeria founded in 2004 by Emmanuel Oluwatosin and Kayode Muyibi and two other people who we don’t know.

Nairahost recently sought for external funding (due to financial limitations, I guess) and in a deal that fetched them $500, 000 (about N85 million), according to information on their blog, they were able to appoint a CEO who’s supposed to oversea the company’s goals and visions.

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NetAfric, a web hosting company has set a daunting task to register one million subscribers in Nigeria within one year. The company recently introduced products such as web hosting, email accounts, data transfer bandwith to the business community, non-governmental organisations, professional bodies and individuals in Nigeria.

The company which is positioning itself to become one of the leading web hosting companies in Africa has started operations in Nigeria, and after attaining one million subscribers, they plan to introduce their services to other Africa countries such as Ghana, South Africa and the Gambia and Angola.

But is the one million subscriber mark really feasible? Is it a reasonable goal given the current economic recession?

While we are skeptical about NetAfric achieving this huge feat, it seems they have a definite strategy to achieve their target. NetAfrica has come up with a web hosting package that is uniquely different from other related products in the Nigeria IT market.

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If you want to host a website in Nigeria, you may decide to choose the .ng domain name registration since it is the official Internet Country Code Top Level Domain of Nigeria sponsored by the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) with the Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA) as the Registry.

To register the .ng domain name, you must have actual physical presence in Nigeria (as an individual or as an entity) and you can make the registration through several registry services that offer the .ng registration. NiRA has announced that it expects to gain 2 million users over the next 18 months, fueled in part by a January 2008 memorandum of agreement between NiRA and NITDA.

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If you are wondering what web hosting companies are leading the pack in Nigeria, perhaps this web host ranking information from WebHosting.Info would give you an idea of what web hosting or managed hosting company to choose when registering domains or getting a webhosting package from Nigeria.
The ranking is based on the overall market share and total domains registered as at November 11, 2008.

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proCareersNigeria.com is a professional networking site for colleagues and contacts interested in careers in Nigeria. The site was launched in March 2008 and now has over 1000 members making connections with friends and colleagues. With this service, users can invite their workmates, classmates and business associates and build their network and thus progress with their careers and relationships.

Update: Site doesn’t exist anymore

The site has a similar idea like LinkedIn (as a professional network of business contacts), but also has a Facebook approach as it leans towards social networking in Nigeria with the usual features of blogs, events, photos, etc As part of it’s marketing strategy, proCareersNigeria.com is offering a FREE Nokia E65 mobile phone for any of it’s members that has 300 friends or connections by August 31st, 2008. Sounds cool, huh?

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