Celebrating Ndi-Igbo

Serial entrepreneur Hugo Obi is currently pioneering the African electronic gaming world with Maliyo Games, a Lagos-based startup that specialises in creating games with an African stamp. The online games company has already published several African themed titles including Okada Ride, Kidnapped, Class Fight, Football Goal, Aboki and Mosquito Smasher. The firm is set to release additional titles throughout 2012 making African games available not only to Nigerians and Africans, but to Africans in the diaspora and people the world over. Maliyo Games titles are currently available as web browser based games and the company is on track to release their first mobile title in Q3 2012. Hugo has a B.A. (Hons.) degree in International Business, Finance and Economics from the University of Manchester. He also studied Strategy at Singapore’s Nanyang Business School before joining General Electric in London as a Financial Analyst. Hugo is one to watch. Source: Mobile Ente...

Emeka Okoye is a Software Engineer and a Techpreneur based in Lagos and Nairobi. He is also the co-founder of Next2 , an outfit whose mission is to create social and economic value for its users by connecting them to people and organizations nearby with whom they share common interests or concerns. Emeka has over 19 years of progressive experience in Web, Enterprise & Mobile Software development and Project Management including management, strategic technical analysis, architecture design, planning and product development using object-oriented approach, agile methodology with best of breed technologies. In 2011 he was named among the Techloy ’s Best People, Brand & Events of 2010. His Ozii mobile application was named the second best mobile application at the 2011 Mobile Web West Africa Expo. During the same year, he built the first Mobile App for Election reporting and violence, monitoring elections in Nigeria & Liberia. In 1996, Emeka designed the first banking we...