Spinlet offers an array of multi-national, award winning music and has signed hundreds of artists and labels to the service. Additionally, any music rights holders can upload their music for sale on the Spinlet platform.

Official website: www.spinlet.com

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MTN Mobile money 5 million + users will because of the Visa technology be enabled to send funds to each other, send and receive international remittances, make purchases at merchants or online where Visa is accepted or withdraw funds at a Visa ATM.

MTN will make the new product to customers in Nigeria and Uganda during the pilot phase.

[Source:Engagdet ]

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Vlisco has reviewed its own craftsmanship, rediscovering its uniqueness and creativity, and experiencing its drawing technique in a completely different light

This is what the video articulates visually.

Delicate Shades Collection.

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Where: Transcorp Hilton Hotel,Abuja,Nigeria,West Africa

When:October 19th-20th

Who:Executive,Entrepreneurs,Governors,Chairman,Industry Leaders

The speakers include Babatunde Raji Fashola , Executive Governor of Lagos State
Madhu Mantena, Bollywood Film Director
Guy Harington, Head of CEMEA, Public Sector Group, CitiGroup
Aliko Dangote, Executive Chairman and Founder, Dangote Group
Ali Faramawy, Vice President and President, Middle East and Africa, Microsoft International
Oscar Onyeama, Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian Stock Exchange
Jubril Adewale Tinubu, Group Chief Executive, Oando Plc.

The Agenda

-The world in 2012
What trends, discoveries, issues and ideas will dominate global discussions over the year ahead? How will developments in business, finance, politics, science and technology change the lives of Nigeria’s citizens?

-The nation finances
Which factors will shape Nigeria’s growth over the next five years? Will the Government be able to put the nation’s finances in order? We discuss what lies in store for the economy, talking through GDP, inflation, currency rates, industrial output and consumer spending, and explaining how global trends will directly impact Nigeria’s performance

-Reforming Nigeri’s business landscape: Investors and Government in dialogue
The operating environment for business in Nigeria remains challenging, with wide disparities across states in terms of the ease of paying taxes, registering property, enforcing contracts, obtaining permits or setting up a business.

-Spotlight on Nigeria Film Industry
In just thirteen years, Nollywood has become the world’s third largest producer of feature films. Now worth US$ 250 million each year, Nigeria’s film industry is the brainchild of entrepreneurship and digital technology.

-Business in Lagos: How to improve the working environment in Nigeria’s biggest city
Join Babatunde Raji Fashola, Executive Governor of Lagos State for an exclusive interview on what steps he is taking to improve the infrastructure of Lagos. How will Lagos transform itself into a modern hub and what examples can the city give to Nigeria and to Africa?

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the site attracts over 50,000 unique users each day

Mfonobong Nsehe :Jobberman started out only in 2009, but it’s already one of the most popular job sites in the African region. What’s been the catalyst for such rapid growth?

Ayodeji Adewunmi:If you are going to be huge in Africa, Nigeria must be a key part of your strategy. This is so true, ‘Africa is the gun, Nigeria the trigger’. So by sheer market size, we are addressing a very large and interesting problem. Nigeria is a large country, large working population, and internationally growing.

MN:The Nigerian web space is crowded with a legion of job sites and recruitment boards. What’s your comparative advantage? What does Jobberman do differently from Njorku, or any other classified websites for jobs?

AA: We’ve paid relentless focus to quality listings, anti-spam and products that people generally want.We are spending heavily offline and online on marketing, and increased significantly our budget for research and product development.

|Read more on Forbe.com |

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Editor’s note

Consumer spending in Africa is expected to roughly double by 2020 and give rise to a nascent middle class.Morocco,Ghana,Tunisia,Nigeria,Ivory Coast,Mozambique,Kenya ,Rwanda should among the economies experiencing such a trend.

In some other news ,Nigeria is thinking about the establishement of a sovereign wealth fund.

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-Yakouba Konaté (curator of the Dakar Biennial) at Primo Marella Gallery, is putting together “an important group show focused on contemporary art from Africa”. Mounir Fatmi (Morocco), Soly Cissé (Senegal), Barthélémy Toguo (Cameroon), Moridja Kitenge Banza (Republic of Congo), Vitshois Mwilambwe Bondo (D.R.C.), Jöel Andrianomearisoa (Madagascar), and Peter Eastmann, Cameron Platter, Stuart Bird, and Athi Patra Ruga of South Africa are included.

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Cement prices in Kenya may fall as much as 10 percent this year because of increased competition, Business Daily reported, citing the heads of two domestic producers of the building material.[Africa Investor ]

A wave of Western investment in African cinema has focused on sustainability and long-term growth. The emphasis is on discovering fresh talent, increasing the visibility of emerging filmmakers, opening up networks for distribution and building bridges with African helmers.[Variety]

Carlyle,The US private equity group plans to raise $750m to invest in the continent that would be overseen by a team of three with a presence in Johannesburg, Zimbabwe and Nigeria [FT ]

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Nigeria’s economy is forecast to climb to about $400 billion by 2016 from $268 billion this year( 2011).Nigeria’s economic boom may push the market value of the equity index to $1 trillion in five years time from $74 billion( 2011).Source |Business Week |

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-Africa accounted for 10% of the world’s mobile subscriptions at the end of 2010
-There will be almost 360 million users of mobile money services on the continent (africa) by 2014
-36.9% of the African Internet traffic is directly from Nigeria
-CISCO sees in Africa 900 Million potential clients and a Market worth $978 Million USD
.Africa has 110 Million internet subscribers today, Cisco’s Vision is to enable 200 Million by 2013
-Safaricom using Health Presence to do remote diagnosis by doctors. Improves access to health care.
-CISCO has allocated $2 million for grassroots projects. They prefer dealing directly with communities

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