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Nigerian Launches Social Media App to Rival Twitter, Facebook

A young Nigerian app developer, Mohammed Aliyu, has launched a new app known as 'ShapClick' to rival popular social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and other social applications, Yusuf Babalola of Leadership reports.

ShapClick app - available on both App Store and Play Store - is a Nigerian app developed with the aim to share news, photos, videos as well market goods and services to the teeming clickers around the world.

Hyacinth Chinweuba, the app developer's spokesperson, said Nigerians were hungry for a new technology and needed something different that can be called "our own". "We are not in ShapClick for revenue purposes, we are in it to solve a bigger problem and create employment in the country," Chinweuba said.

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Screenshot of a promotional video for ShapClick.

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