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Intercontinental grocery shopping, a recently launched website offers a new way for Guineans

abroad to support family back home. As an alternative to traditional funds transfer companies,

Wontara.com gives Guinean migrants the opportunity to buy groceries online so recipients in

Guinea can immediately pick them up from their local grocer against a simple phone transaction, or

even have them delivered to their home.

Forty one year-old Guinean engineer, Aboubakar Kourouma-founder of the project, said this “e-

social transfer” is a new concept that aims to ensure food security and contribute to the local

economy. Kourouma came to France six years ago with no papers. The idea for Wontara came

to him while working...

Read more: GUINEAN IMMIGRANTS IN FRANCE SEND FOOD HOME ONLINE

Graduating from university is normally an occasion for a family get-together, and this was

certainly a big celebration for the Ogunsanya quadruplets who were handed their well-

deserved degrees from the same university on the same day. The 23-year-old quads, identical

sisters and the oldest by four minutes, Toks and Temi, and identical brothers, Tobi

and Tolu, graduated from Warwick University with Master Degrees.

All four have landed jobs in the city already. Toks graduated with an M.Eng. in manufacturing

and engineering, and Temi, Tobi and Tolu all gained an MSC in management from Warwick

Business School.

The quads, originally from Lagos, Nigeria, have been living in the United Kingdom since the age

of seven when...

Read more: NIGERIAN QUADRUPLETS GRADUATE WITH MASTERS SAME DAY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.

Mr. Tunde Ogunrinde returned to Nigeria two years ago and now runs a fast-food chain.

Armed with a winning smile, the 42- year old chats easily with the staff working at the fast

food restaurant,  Chicken Republic. But this is all relatively new for the chain’s chief

operating officer. For two decades the father of three lived in the United Kingdom working

in a management position for a hamburger chain. Then two years ago he took the difficult

decision to move his family back to Nigeria, and now he is responsible for 65 Chicken Republic...

Read more: NIGERIA’S THRIVING ECONOMY LURES NIGERIANS BACK HOME.

In the aviation industry in Nigeria, it is common knowledge that foreign airlines

always foist arbitrary fares on Nigerians. They know Nigerians travel a lot and generally do

not question fares they are asked to pay. This informs the relatively high fares they are made to pay for international travels, which many consider highest in the world. This is the main reason big airlines try to outwit one another in the Nigerian market.

Even within the sub-region, passengers from Nigeria pay high fares to other parts of the

world. For instance, where it costs a Nigerian $9846.19 to buy British Airways first class

return ticket to London Heathrow, a distance...

Read more: THE EXPLOITATION BY BRITISH AIRWAYS AND OTHER AIRLINES ON THE NIGERIAN ROUTE.