Nigerian Microblogging Sites Set To Displace Foreign Platforms Including Twitter And Co

Nigerian Microblogging Sites Set To Displace Foreign Platforms Including Twitter And Co

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It is no news that the Nigerian economy is grappling, owing to the slumps in global oil, insecurity, and over dependence on foreign imported items,  an organization of civil society coalition group has come out to champion for a change in attitude towards made in Nigeria items.

Speaking at the launching of their two microblogging sites: https://naijatweets.com and https://nairahangout.com in Enugu, South East Nigeria, the leader of the group, Linda Chisom Okafor contended that the amount spent on imported goods and services, if channeled to similar products in the country would go a long way to boost the country’s foreign direct investment potential.

The group called on Nigerians to devote more time and resources to building local contents for the growth, progress and development of the country.

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The American trained Information Communication Technology expert recounted that Nigerian youths spend 11.7 billion naira daily on social media sites that are foreign owned.

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She explained that the NAIJA TWEETS DOT COM https://naijatweets.com site does serve as a leading micro blogging site that has same feature and ability to connect various users across the globe like Twitter, according to her ” It will serve as a quality alternative for twitter blogging as well as to promote local contents, cultures and tradition of our people to the international communities”.

While speaking on the NAIRA HANGOUT DOT COM  https://nairahangout.com site, Ms Okafor outlined the features in the social media forum, said it has the ability to connect  hundreds of thousands even millions of users at once, “whereby we have 10 million subscribers , a subscriber would be able to communicate with the whole users at once as well as have separate media chat with people within his or her groups”.

Other speakers at the workshop reiterated the essence of catching in on the ICT tech world, being the nascent economic enhancer, “if properly put into good use by the people, by ensuring Nigerians make use of their locally made social media platforms for security and promotion of the people’s local content to the rest of the world”

The product launch featured the unveiling of the two site brand ambassadors, having Miss Zainab Usman-Bakko, as the brand ambassador for  https://naijatweets.com while Segun Oluwole Ariwajoye, is the brand ambassador for the  https://nairahangout.com.

Highlights of the event were different cultural displays by the three major ethnic groups in Nigeria and  formal signups by members at the launch.

The new Subscribers too  testified that, ‘ These two sites are  some of the best online social media platforms  coming out from Nigeria, 

“The security features on the sites and smooth browsing cloud bandwidth, can compete with all the big tech giant social media platforms”. Enemuo testified

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