These kids could as well change the world. Meet the Google Zeitgeist.
Grace Ihejiamaizu
A passionate and committed graduate who is helping young people develop their leadership and entrepreneurship skills towards nation building, through her RYPE Project (Raising Young and Productive Entrepreneurs), an after-school youth development program.
Taleni Shimhopileni
Passionate audio and film student Taleni, along with her friend Karabo, have worked together to set up a community development programme for the children in South Africa.
After observing the poor conditions that the youth in Namibia lived with, Michael decided to work youths from one of the poorest communities in his region to start a poultry project as part of them generating an income for themselves.
An active Aids activist born HIV positive. Paul aims to empower other young people in Africa with HIV and help them to fight the stigma attached with their HIV status through his music and constant dialogue.
A budding entrepreneur with a passion for learning and mentoring who also invented the worlds first and only bath substituting lotion ‘DryBath™ Gel’ aimed at providing an alternative to conventional baths which saves lives and water.
Canalys has announced that the PC market grew 7% in Q1 2011, as the pad market, led by Apple’s iPad, continued to bolster growth. Once again, Apple set the standard in the pad market, mainly at the expense of notebook and netbook shipments, as pads competed for a share of consumer IT spend.
During the first quarter of this year, pad shipments reached 6.4 million units worldwide. Apple accounted for 74% of these shipments, while other vendors struggled to bring competitive products to market. Canalys expects that next quarter will see a significant change in the market, with products appearing from Acer, Asus, LG and RIM.
Apple continued with its strategy to dominate the pad market, with the iPad or iPad 2 available in 59 markets by the end of Q1. A combination of strong Q4 sales and the announcement of the iPad 2’s launch across major markets at the end of March contributed to Apple’s iPad shipments being down 31% sequentially. The full impact of the iPad 2 launch will not register until subsequent quarters, as Apple gets the product into the hands of consumers. While pad sales continued to lift Apple’s results, PC vendors with a focus on the consumer netbook and notebook market, such as Acer and Asus, did not fare so well.
Cashenvoy is in serious business. It could as well provide one key factor that remains elusive in Nigeria – a platform to make payment online. With the likes of Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover not ready to offer products that have value in Nigeria, this company could step in.
What is Cash Envoy?
Cash Envoy is the safest, easiest and most convenient way to make payment, send money and get paid online. It is an e-commerce business that allows payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet. A Cash Envoy account can be funded with Nigerian debit cards or through online bank transfer from specific local banks. Cash Envoy performs payment processing for online vendors, auction sites, and other commercial users. It charges a transaction fee for receiving money (a percentage of the amount sent plus an additional fixed amount). Cash Envoy is owned by Electronic Settlement Ltd, an independent, private sector led, limited liability Company located in Lagos Nigeria focused on providing secure and convenient online solutions.
Cash Envoy saves you time.
Keep all your financial information in one place.
No more hassle typing debit card numbers each time you make a purchase.
Faster than checks – no waiting in line at the bank.
Cash Envoy is safe
Your financial information is never shared.
Sellers never see debit card or bank account numbers.
Experienced fraud prevention team fights fraud before it happens.
Cash Envoy is cost-effective
It’s always free to make purchases.
Affordable pricing for all businesses.
We are very curious here, will government be allowing Nigerian mpayment companies to be making international cash remittances? We mean if paga, mpesa, and others could be allowed to play in the league of Western Union and MoneyGram.
We know that a big chunk of money could be lost via transaction cost. Western Union makes a great deal of this in two ways – the fees and then the foreign currency exchange float which always favor them. In some cases, you lose 10-20% just for sending cash to your family and business.
How will Nigerian government help customers in this area? Any insight will be appreciated. We have tried to understand the fees structure of these mpayment companies with no luck.
We are proposing for government to allow these companies to compete with Western Union so that fees will go down. If someone in Germany can wire money to someone in Nigeria via cellphone, that means the world has gotten one big fee sucking Western Union cut-out. And we will want the central bank to build alliances to enable interoperability at the global scale.
Paypal should be brought into the game so that someone in London can send money to another person in Enugu just through Paypal and mpayment linked. Your email and phone connected! The one of 100 Time Persons of the Year CBN governor has the reputation to get all these acts done, now.
By having these more avenues, we will eliminate the risk of informal money transaction which could be cheap but very risky. And reduce the fees wasted via Western Union.