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

The Next Web

Slowly overcoming its reputation. 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

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

My idea was that during market downturns, people need to invest in marketing and reputation management because that’s when marketing matters most. 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.