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From email scams to e-commerce wins: How online shopping is helping Nigeria fix its Internet reputation

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In 2003, he was the founder of Nigeria’s first online-realtime Point of Sale (POS) electronic payment system and in 2004 created West Africa’s first locally issued and processed online-realtime international payment card: Ecobank MasterCard. “We This year’s Flying Donkey Challenge is likely to bring such dreams closer to reality.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

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Since coming to Australia in 2004 my passion for creativity was further boosted and was well alive while still doing my business degree and working in corporate world until 2011. Karibu Markets began after a trip I took to Kenya in early 2014. Thanks to Sarah Hill, Madison Holroyd & Fiona Whyte, Beetle Bottoms ! #35)