Dangote is Africa Richest Man of all Times-Forbes

 

 Aliko Dangote is not just the richest african alive, he is the richest man of all times.in a recent article published by Forbes on its website, Dangote's profile appeared as the first African businessman and billionaire to reach the $20 billion line.

REPORTER'S DIARY:GOOGLE NIGERIA WORKSHOP IN LAGOS

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By Niyi Tabiti/Gistmaster.com

When i got an email inviting me for the workshop organized by Google in Nigeria. I was anxiously looking forward  to powerful presentations from staff of the online company.

I knew Larry Page and Sergey Binn, the two founders of Google must have a productive team working in what I call a multi billion dollars online empire! I looked at myself in the mirror and said "Niyi Tabiti, one day you are going to build an online empire like this too!Dreams, dreams,dreams....lol

I attended the two day special session workshop at Civic Centre, Lagos for webmasters and reporters. of course I had a pre- knowledge of some of these things but it was great being there because it served as a refresher course.

Facilitators at the event did well. Eve Andersson was my favourite!

From what gistmaster.com gathered, Google has an office in Nigeria but the address is hard to find because it is still small and they just can't take the large turn out of people that would be interested in going there.You can always reach them online. Google office in Kenya is  bigger than the one in South Africa.

Insight into Google Workshop in Lagos

Google seeks to help online news publishers build bigger audiences, keep their audiences productively engaged and generate more revenue. In a recent workshop, by Google in Nigeria, certain tools and platforms, which enables effective use of the search engine by web users of all kinds were highlighted. These includes  quick search tips, specialty tools, advanced image search, and special copora.Other tools include Trends and Research comprising of  insights for search,google trends, Google books Ngram viewer and public data explorer.

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There are other Google Apps and tools aimed at helping one manage materials and  sources and these are Maps, The get tool Map which helps  you customize maps to  your story, Google applications, Google alerts and Google translate.

For field reporters, Google provides, “Google on the go”(mobile).It comprises Google OR codes which creates 3D barcodes that can be embedded in print publications, Google goggle which allows journalists embed their reporting in physical landscapes. It also provides Google maps for mobile phones, this gives spoken turn by turn directions when a particular destination is spoken into the phone. Finally is the search by voice App and it gives weather reports, flight times, directions, images etc on your mobile phones.

On the publishing side, Google news, web search and igoogle helps increase traffic by sending about 4 million clicks monthly to news publishers. Advertising and analytics were also discussed.

YouTube Direct allows the media or public request, review, and rebroadcast user submitted videos. Others include Google earth, Google map, Google translate and Google fusion. Google also provides a Google news archive and Google fast flip which stores newspaper publications and articles in partnership with media houses  and allows you flip through Google pages at a fast pace respectively.Joseph Mucheru the google lead in Sub Saharan Africa is from Kenya

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Recently, Google brought together over 1000 tech savvy entrepreneurs and developers at a web and mobile conference, focused on the future of web application development and training on Google’s products and online business skills.

Google seeks to get more Nigerian users online by developing accessible, relevant and sustainable internet ecosystem. According to worldinternetstats and international telecommunication union, Nigerian internet users make up 28.9% or 44m of the population.

Therefore in Nigeria, Google’s activities are directed towards helping to reduce access barrier facing potential internet users, helping to make the internet relevant and useful to Nigerians and then generally strengthen an internet ecosystem in Nigeria and across Africa that is viable and sustainable.

Specifically, Google has embarked on the Google university access program that will impact over 100,000 students in 6 Nigerian  universities ,and has localized its products in Nigeria such as  Google search in local languages .it also provided information on elections through out Nigeria through the Nigerian elections portal among other recent developments.

Google in Nigeria operates on the G-Nigeria platform under the leadership of these ambassadors:

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Joseph Mucheru,Google lead for sub-Saharan Africa ,Juliet Ehimuan, lead/country manager Google nigeria  and Lola Masha, business development manager ,Google Nigeria.

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MALTA GUINNESS STREET DANCE AFRICA:X-FELLAZ CROWNED CHAMPIONS OF AFRICA STREET DANCE

Malta Guinness Street Dance Africa is a series of street dance competitions organized for the sole aim of finding Africa’s best street dance talent.

The Malta Guinness sponsored Street Dance competition for all National champions is to provide the opportunity for the best crew to dance to the top of the world in the continent of Africa. With the Pan African debut in 2007, the third edition held in Ghana was bigger, exciting and better than the previous editions.

The 2010 Pan African championship which happens to be the third in a row, the five competing African countries are host Ghana, Cameroun, Kenya, Tanzania and pride of Africa Nigeria. The National champions from the aforementioned countries were all represented by their National champion’s namely High spirit, Extreme Fusion, Sisko, Best Friend and X-fellaz respectively.

The Pan African championship which was aired on NTA Network for the viewing opportunity of Nigerians allowed to be a part of the mother of all street dance champions in the continent of Africa. At the championship venue in Ghana, series of themed dance performances were displayed  by all competing crew, which was full of creative flips, pops, stomps, locks, cramps, croppings, jumps, body moves and local dance routines. It was a keen contest for all competing crew which saw Cameroun, Ghana, and Nigeria scale through to the next round while Kenya and Tanzania lost out. The next round turns the heat on the last three crew and the judges so as to pick the two dance crew fit for the grand finale stage.

After the daunting task of selecting the last two crew, the judges, Glenn Ball from UK, Prudanse Maidou from Paris and Mike Ross from Uganda gave their nods to Nigeria and Ghana for the final round.
The grand finale round actually rekindled the old rivalry between the two familiar West African neighbours.  A coin had to be tossed to make High Spirit from Ghana the first crew to impress the judges before X-fellaz from Nigeria gave a stunning performance that wowed the judges and audience.
X-fellaz’s improved dance performance at the grand finale made them clinch the coveted prize of 35,000 USD as they were announced as the new African champions.

THE MAN WHO WILL DO DAKORE's BRIDAL MAKE UP

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By Niyi Tabiti
Just as Nollywood and Nigerian socialites are looking forward to the wedding of Nollywood actress, Dakore Egbuson and Olumide, son of Africa billionaire, Chief Harry Akande on Sunday 16 January 2010, many people are already looking forward to their designer clothes,posh automobiles, make up artist and so on

Gistmaster.com sources hinted that the bridal make up of the bride would be handled by celebrity make up artist, Bayo Haastrup of Ijade Egbin. Haastrup is one of Nigeria's leading make up artists and he has handled several jobs at local and international levels.

Haastrup is a veteran in the business and many people are comfortable with his work.He would work towards giving Dakore the super look that every bride  desire on their wedding day.

For event planning, Funke Bucknor- Obruthe the Chief planner of  Zapphire events have been mandated by the couples and both families to ensure that it has all the effects of royalty because of their celebrity status. K-square, one of the top event security outfits in Nigeria would be in charge of security for that day.

Dakore and Olumide Akande have been dating for about four years now. Despite the initial denial by the two lovebirds, they found out that there was no hiding place for them as they started stepping out at events together. Gistmaster.com gathered that at a point many thought they would go their separate ways as Olumide's parents allegedly kicked against the union citing her acting career and other things as excuse.

But love conquers all things.

Olumide Akande later denied the insinuations that his parents didn't want him to marry Dakore because she is an actress (Considering the way many people see actresses as people with loose character).

But Sources insisted that this is the case and that is why they have an agreement that after the wedding, Dakore would have to quit acting. Dakore confirmed in a recent interview that she would be saying goodbye to Nollywood. The reason, according to her is to enable her concentrate on domestic issues.

Details of Dakore and Olumide's wedding on 16 January 2010

Church Service would be at the Guiding Light Assembly, Ajayi Bembe Street, Parkview Estate, Ikoyi, Lagos.

Receptions follows at KFA event Centre along Lekki-Epe Expressway at 4 P.M