By Prince Osuagwu

Two young Nigerian internet entrepreneurs at the weekend, emerged millionaires in the Nigerian Internet Group, NIG’s Internet for Job I4J competition.

The winners Olusola Ajayi and Dr Tosin Oguntuase who won with project titles EFIKO and VaccAlert  respectively became instant millionaires because according to NIG, their proposals displayed creativity, innovation, enterpreneurial skills among other qualities.

The one million naira grant is to kick off this year’s edition of its internet for Jobs (I4J) Initiative, which it designed to explore the potential of the Internet to create jobs for the people and transform the nation into a knowledge society.

The group said that the initiative if properly harnessed, would transform Nigeria to a place where business and government services are available on-line and the citizens are positively engaged in knowledge driven activities.

Apart from emerging millionaires, the duo also have the benefit of hosting their websites free of charge on the -com-ng Nigerian domain name, acording to President of the Nigerian Internet Registration Association, NiRA, Mrs Mary Uduma while delivering a goodwill message at the event.