Nigeria: How Cybercafés Are Struggling to Remain in Business

25 April 2015
analysis

As smart phones, tablets and other information technology gadgets allow people access to the internet from the comfort of their bedrooms, cyber cafes which hitherto provided such services are now struggling to survive as patronage has dropped to the barest minimum.

Cyber cafés are not as crowded as they used to be. Not like back in the days when owning a desktop computer, laptop, palmtop, tablet or blackberry and android phone was a very big deal. Then, the Nokia 3310, recorded to have sold 126 million models, was particularly popular in Nigeria between 2000 and 2005 and had none of the facilities today's mobiles have.

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