Technology Africa, a fledging independent television production outfit, has honored some credible Nigerians with the National ICT Merit Award in an event organised last week, tagged Titans of Tech.  The 2-day event which began with informed lecture and workshop at the Muson Centre, Onikan Lagos, crystalized into a night of honour tagged National ICT Merit Award night at the Eko Hotels & Suites in Victoria Island, Lagos.

According to Don Pedro Aganbi, Managing Consultant, Technology Africa,

Titans of Tech National ICT Merit Award is designed to celebrate hi-tech revolutionaries, trail-blazers, pioneers, men and women of entrepreneurial integrity who are at the forefront of technology development in the country.categories of awardees; Legends of Technology, IT Technoprenuers and National ICT Merit Awardees were honoured.

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Disclaimer: This post has been designed to identify web developers/designers from Nigeria. The post title does not suggest that the individuals listed are the best from Nigeria. The post doesn’t need a criteria, since it is meant to allow people to recommend others they know (with a link to their work).

However, the goal is to run a future competition that will be determined by a panel of judges. The panel of judges made up of the world’s best web developers will eventually decide the best web developers from Nigeria. The author of this post will definitely not be one of the judges.

Recently I wrote about 10 Nigerian web celebrities to watch and that post drew a lot of mixed reactions from readers. I’m not sure if there’ll be a 2nd list before people start thinking someone has paid me to get him/her listed:)

That being said, we are now launching a competition to discover web developers from Nigeria around the world who are making an impact in today’s web space. Update: I’ve listed 10 web developers I know and can reckon with. Some of them were on my previous list, while some were not mentioned.

Note: They are not my top 10 web developers from Nigeria. I’m sure there are some of my friends who are not in my list that might be crossed with me, but hey, why please you and displease the whole community?

So if you are a web developer or you know any web developer from Nigeria who should be listed, please add them in your comments. And don’t forget to tell us what he/she does and a link to his/her site or project. I’ll endeavour to add them on the list.

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THISDAY, one of Nigeria’s leading newspapers recently awarded people, leaders and corporates with the most impact in year 2008. The 14th THISDAY Awards celebrated excellence and good governance while promoting the best of Nigeria by recognizing those making a difference in our lives, year after year.

Winners emerged after an online vote by the Awards Selection Committee, made up of all past THISDAY award winners and members of the THISDAY Board of Editors.
 
And the winners are…

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I just got the scoop yesterday about the so-called Nigeria Web Awards, so I thought it’d be nice to mention it here on StartupsNigeria.

The Nigeria Web Awards 2008 claims to be the National Approved Web site award program launched to honour Nigeria’s talented webmasters. The awards would name the Best Website in four industry categories, namely, Commercial Category, Entertainment Category, Community Category and  Webmasters Honours.

Nominations and votes for best web site would come from interactive agencies and web site marketing departments in more than 20 states from around Nigeria.

Voting for the Nigeria Web Awards is said to have begun, but I couldn’t find an open voting system on the website. Over 300 verified nominations is said to have been recieved so far and this has been narrowed down to the 3 most-nominated sites and services in each category.

Every winner of this award would be provided with a web-embedded award to be placed on their web pages as a recognition of their achievement and credibility, which would be followed by an indoor interview with all the winning webmasters at four different television stations, namely, Sliverbird, AIT, Channels, and Galaxy, while winners that could not attend the event would be interview online in a virtual world.

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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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