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Internet addiction has a firm grip on myself and almost all the people I know or deal with. Undoubtedly,  internet addiction is operating at high speed in our lives. And I have realised that it is not just me . Many people are finding it difficult to unplug. As your blogger spends a growing portion of his waking hours online, he sought some facts from a health researcher based in Cairns in Queensland. I wanted to look into some driving factors and the impact it has on our lives.The researcher first gave me the accurate definition of Internet addiction, which occurs when a person has a compulsive need to spend a great deal of time on the Internet, to the point where other areas of life such as relationships are allowed to suffer. Perhaps that could be the reason why i dread anything to do with relationships and socialisation in general.  According to her, the person becomes dependent on using the Internet and needs to spend more and more time online to achieve the same high as...

Africa is a very fertile ground for small businesses and when it comes to technology  based business, the confidence is growing, especially among small businesses.  Most businesses doing well with the online revolution are not tech startups, but smart smaller firms that use online tools to run their core business better to trim costs, reach customers and suppliers, innovate and get more control .According to data your blogger has obtained, small and medium enterprises in Africa, specifically those with less than 100 employees employ two-thirds of private sector workers and contribute more than half of Africa’s private sector GDP. If advanced online technology becomes the norm among them, the productivity gains will spread through the whole economy. Thats why Internet is likely to benefit Africa in the long run than any other continent.  From my experience, I can confidently say there are several opportunities including but not limited to social platforms, mobile based sy...

As they say, sex is the oldest known industry and in Africa, it is thriving albeit in different channels.  The continent’s adult sexual content and culture has woven itself seamlessly into the fabric of the internet . Some of it is abstruse, and some not so abstruse, but there is now thousands of dedicated porn websites available with Africans acting and significantly growing demand to view the content is only the state of the sector to greater heights.One of the most popular site (for ethical reasons I can’t share the name), and  according to its 2016 data on visitors to the website, African countries audience watched more than 100 million hours of porn . The site, owned by a Southern Africa country entrepreneur, is just one of thousands of porn websites so these figures help us to gain some idea of just how much porn is available online. Overall, the chances of African children viewing porn online are high.  Data in my possession for 2016 shows about 5% of school aged ...

Cybercrime is defined as crimes directed at computers or other information communications technologies where the crimes are an integral part of an offence. In today’s Africa, the reality is that all individuals and organisations connected to the internet are vulnerable to cyber attack . The number, type and sophistication of attacks continues to grow. It isn’t only large organisations that are under threat. Even individuals or organisations that don’t believe they have much to offer hackers can be targeted. The dangers that cybercrime presents are obvious and they include among others the risk of sensitive, confidential information, privileged communications being leaked and the risk of unauthorised, external access to the personal and financial data. Cyberattacks on African businesses are now a question of when, not if . In Africa of increased connectivity and heavy reliance on digital technologies, extra measures need to be taken to protect firm and client data and minimise the risk...

In a disturbing finding, a security researcher has sounded a warning that Africa would continue to be organised  crime’s place of choice to smuggle illegal drugs too as long as demand keep growing.Data obtained by your blogger from the researcher indicate that organised crime gangs are making upwards of $50,000 a month from drug runs that deliver marijuana, cocaine, and ice to thousands of customers' doors across Africa.Your blogger can reveal  there are dozens of similar drug runs operating in Africa based on the researcher’s work .The drug runs are the lifeblood of West and South Africa crime gangs and fund other criminal activities and their lavish underworld lifestyles.  In South Africa, conflict over the turf of drug runs is often the catalyst for drive-by shootings across the country . One group operating in Lagos, which has for years been operating a drug run that has yielded its members millions of dollars a month, is said ...

Africa remains an easy target for the distribution of counterfeit products sold not only through the Internet but also in shops .Apart from urban cities, there are also fake products distribution hubs in rural areas.The distribution of fake products has continued despite raids by the authorities. We have tried our best to curb the distribution of fake products but those sold in shops are hard to detect because they resemble the real thing,anti counterfeit detective working for a multi national company in Africa told your blogger recently.It is believed that these counterfeit products enter the market through freelance salespeople.  Based on research in the respective areas, the distribution of fake products in both main cities and rural areas have reached 70 percent. The detective predicted that the amount of fake products in circulation would rise further because a number of retailers lacked the sufficient equipped to detect counterfeits.For example, detective shared how  Af...

The rising cases of counterfeit  pharmaceuticals in Africa is a testament how well organised Asia's criminal gangs venturing for lucrative new markets are behind the dangerous counterfeit products arriving in the continent of more than one billion people.Asian criminal network’s researcher working in Africa told your blogger that it is not just shoes, sunglasses, luxury handbags, CDs and DVDs being counterfeited. Highly sophisticated gangs are branching out into pharmaceuticals and auto spare parts and the number of fakes will only increase as demand keeps rising. Researcher says that poses major risks for consumer safety. It's particularly dangerous at the moment with the personal goods because these are items that people are sometimes putting into their stomachs, toothbrushes that contain lead, lead paint that can come away from the toothbrush while someone's brushing their teeth .Researcher pointed out that among the products are fake Toyota oil filters and air filters,...