Nigeria just got a verified Twitter handle – TechCabal

Today is Monday. The digest is short, but the reads in the clicks might be long and winding rabbit holes. Youve been warned. Grab your coffee.

1. While you were weekending, Nigeria got a Twitter handle. Anofficial Twitter handle that tweets stuff.Like Sweden, Israel, Canada and a bunch of other countries that use already the social network to promote their culture and positive developments. Check it out.

+ Apparently its called Twiplomacy. Hian

+ First it was a newsletter. Then a podcast. Then they started uploading stuff to Dropbox, blogging, announcing site outages, and even tweeting senate proceedings (far better than watching the stuff on NTA). These are not things Nigerian government bureaucrats usually do.Im pretty sure uncle Tolu(hes the head of Nigerias digital comms) had a lot to do with that.Im here for it, I must say.

2. This is what a typical electronic payment in Nigeria looks like, as told by Paystacks transaction logs. And it doesnt even begin to capture the pain. And dont even ask how bad it was in the pre-Paystack and Flutterwave era, thats not how you want your week to begin.

If you agree with overwhelming your love interestinto saying yes with the power of the internet, you wont mind this ad from Plaqad.com.Link

3.Ire,the god is sponsoring five Nigerian women to complete any Udacity nanodegree they set their sights on. Dont dull.Link

4. The Co-Creation Hubs annual Social Change Summit agenda and speaker lineup is looking very good. Date is the 22nd of June, in Lagos. Link

5. If you are an African startup, and you happen to be sitting on consumer data, the future looks good. The article is lacking the standard dont be evil line that is required where sharing data with third parties is concerned, but otherwise link

6. Ade Olabode is a London-based Nigerian startup entrepreneur that likes to interview other Nigerian startup entrepreneurs. His latest interview is of Lola Ekugo. Enjoy. Link

7. South Africas Telkoms is restructuring. CEO, Sipho Maseko describes the intended outcome as Remgro-style. If you know what a Remgro is, you probably care. Link

Devcenter is a verified community of African software developers. Our developers are tested with the same methods as Google and Facebook. Build your next technology product with us.Link

World Banks XL Africa application.Link

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Nigeria just got a verified Twitter handle - TechCabal