FG Orders 53 Gold Plated Iphones To Celebrate Independence

Gold and Co iPhone

British luxury products company, Gold and Co, has revealed that it has an order from the federal government to deliver 53 customised gold iphones for the celebration of the 53rd independence anniversary on October 1.

The founder of Gold and Co, Amjad Ali, was quoted as telling  the United Kingdom's Independent Newspaper that the Nigerian government had made an order of "53 gold iPhones to mark the country's 53rd year of independence from Britain next month."

Ali said the order from the federal government was that the iPhones "will be engraved with Nigeria's coat of arms, a shield and two horses."

Ali's Gold and Co. clients include royal families, governments and wealthy individuals from across the world.

A gold-plated device costs between £3,000 and £50,000 (N750,000 to N12.5 million).

The order from the government with its customised coat of arm is believed to be among the constant premium orders the company gets.

The London-based company recently received an order from the Saudi Arabia royal family for "a gold iPhone studded with hundreds of diamonds, including a giant piece that served as the device's 'home' button."

Asuu Strike: Jobberman Tasks Student's On Website Training.

Jobberman.com, a popular job website in Nigeria and one of the top 10 Tech Startups in Africa has called on students of tertiary institutions to use the occasion of the ongoing strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), to learn new and profitable skills in website design and development.

"ASUU strike need not be a negative phenomenon for Nigerian undergraduates. During an industrial strike in August 2009, three young students used the opportunity of the strike to start online jobs after the acquisition of website skills," Jobberman founders said in a statement.
The founders of jobs portal known as Jobberman, shared the story of how they started as undergraduates in the country.

According to the Jobberman story, it all started with three young men: Opeyemi Awoyemi, Olalekan Olude and Ayodeji Adewunmi who were all university students. They shared the same interest in the Internet space and started Jobberman from the Obafemi Awolowo University campus during the Industrial Strike Action by ASUU in August 2009.

They agreed to work on the job space for a number of reasons including: a low capital requirement (considering that they were students at that time), huge market opportunity and superior product differentiation.

Jobberman at inception was financed from a pool of funds created from their stipends. To kick off their business, they needed to get a company registered and they approached a leading legal luminary, and incorporated the business as a Limited Liability Company. And that was the beginning of Jobberman.

According to Jobberman CEO, Ayodeji Adewunmi, "The Ongoing ASUU strike has presented itself again, an opportunity for Nigerian students to hone skills early enough in the workplace and gain competitive advantage in the labour market."

Today Jobberman has grown to become one of the biggest job websites in West Africa with over 800,000 users and 14,000 companies providing the latest jobs in Nigeria.