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Twitter Back Online After An Hour-Long Crash

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Twitter is back online after being down for thousands of users worldwide who had issues with the website, app, and logging in, DailyMail reports. Problems began around 12:50pm ET on Monday and were impacting some users in the U.S., the U.K., New Zealand and other countries – but the crash appeared to be fixed around 1:30pm ET. Many users said tweets are...

Nigeria To Produce Drones In Near Future – Minister, Ogbonnaya Onu

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The Buhari administration has said Nigeria would produce and specialise in state-of-the-art technology such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (drones) through “reverse-engineering”. The Minister of Science, Technology, and Innovation, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, revealed the idea when he inaugurated an Inter-Ministerial committee to implement the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Federal Government and Aeronautic Ltd (now Wise Guide Technology Nig. Ltd)...

We Gained Over 70m New Users During Facebook Outage — Telegram

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Messaging app Telegram gained over 70 million new users during Monday’s Facebook outage, its founder, Pavel Durov, said on Tuesday, as people worldwide were left without key messaging services for nearly six hours, Reuters has reported. Facebook blamed its outage, which kept its 3.5 billion users from accessing services such as WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger, on a faulty configuration change. “The...

No SIM Card For Any Nigerian Below 18, Says NCC

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The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC has announced the disqualification of anyone below the age of 18 from registering and owning a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) in Nigeria. This is according to the draft copy of the modified registration of Telephone Subscribers Regulations published on the commission’s website. The commission in modified regulations only allowed subscribers above the age of 18 to...

How To Use WhatsApp On Computer Without Data

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You can now use WhatsApp on a desktop or laptop computer without your internet data on. Whatsapp Web syncs with the mobile app to let you send and receive WhatsApp messages from your computer. You can access WhatsApp on your phone and computer at the same time. The Nation on Monday reported that over three billion users of Facebook-owned apps and...

Facebook Domain Allegedly Stolen

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Facebook services spanning Whatsapp, Instagram, and Facebook itself have been shut down following an attempt to hijack the company’s domain name. There has been a widely reported inability to access the services since Monday afternoon after a yet to be identified hacker nuked the DNS A; an address file that holds an IP address of the domain name and AAA...

Data Of 1.5 Billion Facebook Users On Sale At Hacker Forum

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Amid global outage of Facebook along with its associated platforms, the data of its over 1.5 Billion users are now being sold in the dark web. A report said the data are being sold on a Hacker Forum. Sputnik News reported that in late September, an announcement was posted on a hacking forum that claimed to have the name, email, phone...

Facebook, Instagram, Messenger And WhatsApp Currently Down For Everyone

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Facebook-owned services, WhatsApp and Instagram, are down on Monday, leaving some three billion online users frustrated and unable to connect all over the world. The social tools including Facebook’s own Messenger service were first reported as not being available from 04:25pm on Monday. Users visiting the social platforms owned by Silicon Valley guru Mark Zuckerberg are confronted with error messages. On Twitter,...

5G Network Will Be Operational By January 2022 – Isa Pantami

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Isa Pantami, the Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, stated that fifth-generation (5G) cellular networks will be operational in January 2022. The Minister was represented by Ubale Maska, NCC commissioner for technical services, during a town hall meeting in Maiduguri, Borno state, on Thursday September 23. He said the deployment was necessary because there are over 50,000 telecommunications sites across the...

Nigeria To Lift Ban On Twitter In A Few Days – Lai Mohammed

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The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said this while answering questions from State House journalists at the end of Wednesday’s cabinet meeting chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari. “I think even Twitter itself two days ago gave what I will call a progress report on our talks with them, and I think if I want to quote them rightly...

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