EVENTS DIARY | Events From The World: Wizkid make AFRIMA List

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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Maven Pro"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lagos, Nigeria, July 31, 2017: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Maven Pro"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nigeria’s most innovative
telecommunications company, 9mobile has partnered with Africa’s Talking to empower
software solutions developers and Small and Medium-scale Enterprises with access
to telecommunication infrastructure through mobile communication Application Programming
Interfaces (APIs).</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Maven Pro"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Maven Pro"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">9mobile’s partnership
with Africa’s Talking, a Pan-African company focused on providing developers
with an easy and reliable way to access telecommunication infrastructure, aims
at boosting the activities of Nigerian software developers and enabling SMEs to
effectively engage customers across multiple channels.</span>

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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Maven Pro"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Maven Pro"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Director, Digital
Business, 9mobile, Adia Sowho, said that through the direct connection to 9mobile’s
infrastructure and the unified API platform that Africa’s Talking provides, developers
will be able to access and build innovative applications while SMEs can use the
platform to improve their marketing capabilities.</span>

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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Maven Pro"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Maven Pro"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She said, “We at
9mobile are delighted to partner with Africa’s Talking in our bid to support
Nigerian software developers and small businesses as they build viable and
scalable businesses. This partnership will provide businesses with quality and
affordable mobile communication tools like 2-way SMS and USSD APIs that they
can then embed into their day to day business activities. With these tools,
SMEs can improve their marketing capabilities and interact easily with their
customers”.</span><span style="font-family: "Maven Pro"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span>

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<span style="font-family: "Maven Pro"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Maven Pro"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“In the past decade,
mobile communication has proven beneficial for businesses seeking to create and
maintain meaningful relationships with their existing and future customers. It
is through this that businesses are able to offer effective customer support,
real time communication solutions, collect data as well as optimise their
operations. With this solution, SMEs will also be able to tap into the local
developer community to build systems that enhance business efficiency, leading
to job creation and overall support of local talent.” She added.</span><span style="font-family: "Maven Pro"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span>

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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Maven Pro"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Maven Pro"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“With an estimated
250,000 developers in the country, having easy access to this infrastructure
will encourage more developers to build innovative solutions that can directly
impact the lives of the Nigerian populace. At 9mobile, we are always passionate
about providing technology based support to innovative thinkers,”Sowho said.</span><span style="font-family: "Maven Pro"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span>

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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Maven Pro"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Maven Pro"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She added that 9mobile
and Africa’s Talking were dedicated to working closely with the developer
community across the country through supporting training workshops, hackathons
and other developer activities, with the aim of educating and encouraging
developers to take advantage of the tools that are now available to them
locally.</span><span style="font-family: "Maven Pro"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span>

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<span style="font-family: "Maven Pro"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Maven Pro"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Africa’s Talking has also provided a
sandbox environment for developers to use while learning how to work with the
APIs as well as testing out their applications before taking them to
production.</span></div>
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make AFRIMA List</span></b>

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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Fast rising dancehall act, Etnik-Dyragga, popularly called
Etnik, narrowly lost out in the race to be crowned the “Best Artist Male
Category from West Africa at the ongoing AFRIMA Music Awards. The ragga artiste
who is tipped to be the next biggest thing in Africa will have to wait next
year for his second <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>attempt at the trophy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">However, Runtown, Teckno, Wizkid, Mr. Easy, Davido, will
still be flying the Nigerian flag for the male category why Tiwa Savage, Sheyi
Shay, Aramide, made the female list that will compete with other talents from
Africa and diaspora.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Etnik-Dyragga recently released three massive singles which
are currently on the MTN network as ring back tunes: “The Question”, featuring
late OJB Jezreel (1032682); “Diva Demon” (1032683) and “Follow Follow” -
1032684. All three songs will be downloaded when the codes are sent to 4100 on
the MTN network.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The artiste has not hidden his disappointment at not going
the extra mile and feels reggae and dancehall artistes shouldn’t compete in the
same category.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Speaking about the outcome of the nomination Etink said: “This
reduces the chances of a reggae or dancehall musician because singers have
different genres and compete on different platforms but reggae and dancehall
which are different genres are clogged together as one. Everyone wants to
compete at AFRIMA and win because it is the best awards but reggae and
dancehall have to be separated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“A singer and rapper like drake gets awards for singing and
rapping which are completely different genres but reggae and dancehall which is
also a rap kind of music are placed on the same category.”Etnik-Dyragga said.</span></div>
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