Have you ever tried to figure out what was going on in a location you lived when you were young or were in college? We have at several times found ourselves in that situation only to quickly find out that nothing on the internet could give us locational information in real time. There was no website or app that we could go to and type Lagos, Ilorin, Baltimore or Valencia and get locational user ge
nerated content. Through Pilar Murgui’s investment from Spain, Ayomide Otunba and I (Toyeeb Godo) set out six months ago in Ilorin, Nigeria to develop an app that would organize the world's locational information and our humble and ever-evolving solution is Loktional. Smartphone availability has given citizen journalists and everyday people all over the world the ability to report breaking news more quickly than traditional media; we just want to help them organize it. For example, you might snap a digital photo of a newsworthy event happening in your town and post it online or might videotape a similar event and post it on a site such as YouTube. Before Loktional
Since May 2012, with the help of a €250,000 angel investment from Pilar Murgui, a Spaniard mentioned above and a $100,000 student loan investment by our principal founder, Toyeeb Godo, a Nigerian-born American, we have been prototyping a model that has established physical and mobile libraries in five South-Western Nigeria cities: Ibadan, Offa, Ikotun, Ilorin, and Epe. Through the stylistic speaking approach of Godo, our several self-funded seminars across different universities and cities have served to glamorize reading and entrepreneurship. The problem of limited access to quality information for thousands of Nigerian youths was solved by the free access to mentorship and books (Mentorsnb) Godo gave to his thousands of mentees.
