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Are you excitedly awaiting the newest tech-gizmo in Nigeria? Or just your usual technology equipment supply that's flown in by air freight? Then be prepared to wait as there is an air freight embargo to Nigeria airports:

Temporary Embargo to Lagos and Abuja
Due to the regulation requiring an electronic manifest for Nigeria customs, Delta Cargo is temporarily unable to accept any freight for transportation to Lagos, Nigeria (LOS) and Abuja, Nigeria (ABV). Mail is not affected by the embargo. This embargo on the carriage of freight to Nigeria will remain in place until further notice. Please continue to check deltacargo.com for further updates.

Oddly, there is no mention of this issues outside of the freight forwarder community, thought it should be of up most concern to everyone in the Nigerian business community. Air freight is a key importation method for many industries and its cessation should be causing financial pain across the country.

Recently Rebecca Wanjiku started talking about free WiFi hotspots in Nairobi, and Mac Jordan has followed up with free WiFi hotspots in Accra.

To join the theme, I've decided to add my list of free WiFi hotspots in Abuja. Here it is:

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That spot is intentionally left blank, as I looked all over Abuja and didn't find a single free WiFi hotspot. I did find that you could pay 3,000 Naira for an hour of WiFi at the Transcorp Hilton, which is 1,000 Naira more than a day's enjoyment of their pool.

The utter lack of free WiFi in Abuja saddened me. It showed a lack of foresight by businesses who would earn back much more in patronage by net savvy customers. Or is shows that net savvy Yahoo Boys have already ruined any open access with bandwidth hogging 419 scams and dubious file transfers.