Popular Billionaire, Elon Musk, has reached an agreement to buy Twitter for approximately $44 billion, the company has confirmed. The billionaire acquired the company at $54.20 a share, the same price named in his initial offer on April 14. “Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square […]
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Twitter’s stock soared by more than 25 per cent in pre-market trade on Wall Street Monday, after Tesla owner p Elon Musk took a major stake in the social media company. According to a document filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Musk acquired nearly 73.5 million Twitter shares — a 9.2 per cent […]
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The Federal Government has directed telecommunication companies to bar all outgoing calls on yet to be linked phone numbers from Monday, April 4, 2022. Unlinked lines are sims not yet registered and linked with the National Identification Number (NIN). The directive is contained in a joint statement issued on Monday, by NCC Director, Public Affairs, […]
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The Nigerian telecommunication industry has posted an impressive growth after subscribers hit a record 197.49 million as at January 2022. The industrial statistics released by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), disclosed that the industry had 195,463,898 telecom subscribers in December 2021. But year on year, the NCC revealed that subscribers fell by 2.71 million compared […]
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The President, Muhammadu Buhari has asserted that Nigeria’s future rests on its involvement in science and technology. According to Buhari, Nigeria’s active participation in science and technology would determine its survival in the nearest future. The President made the assertion when he conferred the Nigerian National Order of Merit (NNOM) Award for years 2020 and […]
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Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja directed all the security institutions to immediately leverage Fifth Generation (5G) technology, when deployed, to enhance security in the country. Launching the National Policy on 5G for Nigeria’s Digital Economy, Buhari in a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, said the […]
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The federal government of Nigeria has again extended the ongoing national identification number (NIN) and subscriber identity module (SIM) integration exercise. This time, the deadline was shifted from the previous date of October 31 till December 31, 2021. Isa Pantami, minister of communications and digital economy, conveyed the approval of the federal government to extend […]
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Social messaging/networking sites WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook have all gone down in what appears to be another major global outage. According to data on Downdetector, the three social media platforms – owned by Mark Zuckerberg — completely stopped working shortly before 5 pm on Monday, leaving millions of users worried. The outages began to trend on Twitter […]
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Imagine if your mobile phone could be used to spy on you, listen to your conversations and send information and images from your device to a third party? This is not an imagined, dystopian future, it is the story of the Pegasus spyware put on mobile devices by clients of Israeli spyware software firm NSO. […]
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NIGERIA – The Minister of information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has asked the House of Representatives to include internet broadcasting under the control of the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC). The minister’s request was contained in his submission at the public hearing into a bill to amend the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission Act organised by the House Committees on […]
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