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Web development, Writing, Learning languages and adventure travel, I love listening to music, watching sci-fi movies (Star Trek, Star Wars, ET – Extra Terrestrial, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind), I love books (I have read The Qur’an, The Bible, all Shakespeare’s Books, Novels: James Hadley Chase, Nick carter, Fredrick Forsythe and George Orwell, J.K. Rowling and Jane Austen), My greatest interest is my family: my 5 kids, Fatima my wife is the cornerstone of my existence!

I was a static web developer back in 2005, I was living in Nigeria then, and I would pine over how restrictive it was to build a site or web app that would do just what I wanted without building it 100% from scratch.

I sorely needed a platform to operate on. Frontpage and Dreamweaver just couldn’t satisfy my creative side.

Then sometime in late 2007, I read an online article about content management systems. Naturally, I was excited at the possibilities a CMS offered! I quickly read as many articles as I could find and quickly realized that WordPress offered the greatest potential for me – largest user base, ease of use (recall the famous “5-Minute Install” slogan?) and a passionate community.

I even ordered an excellent book all the way from the US – “Digging Into WordPress by Chris Coyier and Jeff Starr”, and I had to wait 9 months before it was finally delivered! This was when WordPress was at version 2.9. I still have the book, and I use it as a reference tool, and to teach budding devs how to set up WordPress websites.

I haven’t looked back since then, and I am happy to announce that since then I have developed more that 200 websites for clients inside and outside Nigeria. My clients include a UK based charity, and an orphanage based in Senegal, West Africa.