About a month ago, I announced that BarCampNigeria is planned for January 2009, but until now there seem to be no functional website, wiki page or even a twitter or blog page providing updates about the event.

Although, two domain names have been created, namely, www.barcampnigeria.org and www.barcampnigeria.com, these pages have no information about BarCampNigeria. Even the facebook group has not been experiencing the buzz it did when it was first created. And the wiki page was last edited about a month ago.

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Naijahotjobs.com, the largest online career development community of unemployed youths in Nigeria has launched a project that would provide startup ideas and solutions to youths that seek to better their future in the areas of entrepreneurship.

The project is an online career community that brings all the unemployed graduates in Nigeria together, to discuss issues ranging from small business startup, entrepreneurship, securing loans and capital for businesses, providing solutions to aptitude test samples, helping each other on assessments/interviews, notifying each other on new job openings, thereby reducing fraud & internet crime related cases amongst the unemployed.

The idea of the project is to reduce the rate of unemployment in Nigeria; reduce and eliminate fraud related cases that is been perpetrated by unemployement in the community; and reduce failure rates in test and assessments of candidates during job placement interviews by creating career knowledge base for various fields of study, assessments samples/ explanations, entrepreneurial ideas and entrepreneurship development skills.

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Superflux International Limited, Nigeria emerged the Grand Prize Winner of the 2008 Legatum Pioneers of Prosperity Africa Awards held last week in Kigali, Rwanda.

A leading secure prints solutions provider to major financial institutions, corporations and government agencies in Nigeria, Superflux International Limited also offers outsourced mailing services that require variable data printing (e.g. bank statements) with an increasing presence in the West African region.

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From this month, I’ll be featuring technology & telecoms events that are scheduled to hold in Nigeria every month. For November and December, I’m announcing the following events and will be adding more to the list in the next weeks.

1. VSAT Training

Practical VSAT Training is the focus of the premier African VSAT Telecom Event - ” Practical VSAT Training for Prospects and Opportunities in Africa”. And it isn’t just about opportunities in Nigeria, or Sudan or Liberia or South Africa - it is about AFRICAN VSAT Telecom prospects. It is organized in conjunction with a leading African VSAT company and with instructors and engineers who have worked on VSATs in over 22 African countries.

Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Date: Nov 20, 2008 - Nov 21, 2008
Contact: training {at} jidaw.com

2. Free IT Career Seminar

The Free Information Technology Career seminar addresses how to build and grow a successful career in information technology. The seminar provides unique career insights by looking at requirements and key certifications in two high demand areas of information technology.

Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Date: Nov 29, 2008
Contact: training {at} jidaw.com

3. CCNA Training

Cisco CCNA (Intensive) Intensive Boot Camp Training is being organized by Jidaw Systems Limited (Mastercomputers) to meet the need for Cisco Internetworking expertise in Abuja, the capital city of Nigeria.

Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Date: Dec 01, 2008 - Dec 05, 2008
Contact: training {at} jidaw.com

If you know about any event scheduled to hold in Nigeria, you can email me via loy at startupsnigeria dot com you can simply add it to the comments section.

This is a quick post to announce that there are ongoing plans to host the 1st BarCamp in Nigeria in January 2009.

BarCampNigeria is an ad-hoc gathering of passionate folks who want to share, interact and spread the love around what they spend their days and nights toiling away on. In participating in a BarCamp, here are some of TheRulesOfBarCamp.

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