When Dealdey started with a humble ice cream deal on March 22, 2011, many felt it would be just another e-commerce service that would soon bite the dust. Two years later, the daily deals start-up is gradually becoming an e-commerce giant in the likes of LivingSocial or Groupon, the world’s leading players in that space.

Leading daily deals service, Dealdey has appointed Nigerian female singer and rapper, Mo’Cheddah as its brand ambassador in a deal rumoured to be worth millions of naira.

The last time we wrote about Dika Oha was in March 2011 when he controversially left a Nigerian Groupon clone called Grop.ly to join another daily deals site, Dealdey.

In this four-part video interview with Loy Okezie, he shared with us his company’s success secrets, how Dealdey.com has enabled good customer service, what major challenges they’ve experienced and Konga.com’s e-commerce strategy.

You’ve probably heard of the soon-to-come online retail site, Konga, by now. What you might not know however is that its coming from the stables of serial media and technology entrepreneur, Sim Shagaya. You know, the guy behind DealDey…

We’ve learnt that Rocket Internet, a German-based incubator is planning to launch a new e-commerce service in Nigeria, with huge potential to compete in the West African region’s e-commerce market.

Nigeria’s leading daily deals service, Dealdey is now offering what could be described as the most high profile deal ever since its launch.

Websoft is offering its new device-charging product, Vantium Power Capsule for N5,000 on daily deals site, DealDey, which previously sold for N10,500.

The group-buying service which was founded on March 22, 2011 has successfully changed the e-commerce space in Nigeria, allowing its members in Lagos and Abuja to get discounts on a range of products and services in restaurants, spas, as well as retail shops.

There are indications that InfoMob, one of the local search engines in Nigeria could bite the dust due to challenges in the business listing space, a reliable source has revealed to TechLoy.

TechLoy’s inaugural list of the fastest growing Internet companies in Nigeria takes a look at the companies that are disrupting their industries, changing consumer’s lives and building the most market share. From e-commerce services to online entertainment hubs, here are Nigeria’s fastest growing Internet companies of 2011.

Nigeria’s leading daily deals site, Dealdey is offering a 16% discount on the Steve Jobs authorised biography by Walter Isaacson. Steve Jobs who resigned as CEO of Apple, a company he saved and guided to its position as the world’s most innovative and valuable technology company died on October 5, 2011 at the age of 56. Based on more than [...]

Paga, the Nigerian version of Mpesa has just hit 20,000 users on its mobile money service. Barely 3 weeks ago, the service had about 16,000 users and about 6 months ago had only 500 users. The service which officially launched its commercial and marketing operations in early September this year has done over 18,000 transactions [...]

aurum valley, an internet group buying service providing up to 90% off daily deals has launched its first set of offers over the weekend. The service offers its members discounts on great restaurants, fashion labels, spas, travel opportunities, electronics, and much more in Abuja and Lagos. Speaking about the service, Chika Ekeji, MD/CEO of aurumvalley.com [...]

Nigerian daily deals site, DealDey is now offering 32% off the DStv Drifta device on their site which saves you N4,800. So for N9,900 you can begin enjoying the best of DStv mobile on your PC, laptop, iPad, iPhone & iPod touch as well as tablets and other smartphone devices with the DStv Drifta. In [...]