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Well I'm just pointing it out : he's a tech entrepreneur and I'm sure he's really sick and sad to have that brought up all the time.

As punishment I ask you to go check out the tech hubs and the start up scene there http://cchubnigeria.com/about-cchub/ http://techloy.com/2011/06/27/5-reasons-nigeria-needs-tech-i...

:)

Nigeria has 175m people, GDP grew 6.5 pct since last year. They have huge amounts of oil money and they are the financial hub of west Africa. Large middle class, skyscrapers, online shopping, massive film industry.

One day soon you will probably be trying to optimize your on boarding of Nigerian middle class users.

and 419 scams are an old tradition dating back to the 60s when they would write letters. So don't knock traditional culture ;)




Ha! Nice punishment. Thanks man.

I actually joke about it sometimes but it is really messing things up for legitimate people.

The fact we do not have other renowned stories makes the spam one stand out so much.


Rocket Internet did an online clothing store in Nigeria. Not sure how well its done. They are famous for cloning sites into different foreign markets. German company. Not the most honorable business model just to clone, but it pays the bills.




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