TECHNOLOGY
Twitter Threatens Lawsuit Over Meta’s ‘Copycat’ Threads App
The microblogging site, Twitter has written to Meta threatening to take legal action over its new app, Threads. ABN TV reports that the app went live on Apple and Android app stores in 100 countries at 2300 GMT on Wednesday and will run with no ads for now, but its release in Europe has been delayed over data privacy concerns. In...
FG Orders MTN, Globacom, Others To Block Twitter Access
The Federal Government has through the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC ordered service providers, including MTN, Globacom, and others under the aegis of Association of Licensed Telecommunication Operators of Nigeria (ALTON) to immediately block all access to Twitter. Confirming the development, ALTON in a statement signed by its chairman, Engr. Gbenga Adebayo and executive secretary, Gbolahan Awonuga, revealed that the directive...
Anonymous Hack NBC Website, Threaten To Expose Government Secrets
The Twitter account of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has been hacked. The hackers put up a message threatening to reveal secrets of Nigerian authorities. “We #Anonymous are out to expose government’s secret and dirty files”, it read. “Put an #ENDTOPOLICEBRUTALITY #Twitterdown #NBChacked”, the message added. The website was also not opening as at 9:25 am. NBC regulates the Nigerian broadcast industry. The commission says...
Conversion Of Petrol Vehicles To CNG To Cost N600,000 Only — FG
The federal government has disclosed that Nigerians are expected to pay between N300,000 and N600,000 to convert their petrol vehicles to Compressed Natural Gas, CNG. The Chief Executive Officer of the Presidential Compressed Natural Gas Initiative (P-CNGi) Steering Committee, Engr. Michael Oluwagbemi revealed this in an interview with Daily Trust after the official commissioning of CNG conversion centres and a...
Minister Of Communication, Bosun Tijani Makes Revelation On Why Nigeria Is Not Progressing
The Minister of Communications, Innovation, and Digital Economy, Dr Bosun Tijani, has underlined reasons why the country is not progressing as it ought to, despite the enormous resources and manpower. Tijani, lamented that Nigeria, was not progressing because Nigerians are not applying knowledge and innovation for the development of the country. He said this while delivering the 33rd convocation lecture of...
Iphone Experts Share Secret Setting That Charges Your Device Four Times Faster
Charging an iPhone from 0% to 100% might take up to four hours. Given our addiction to our phones, those few hours might feel like a lifetime. However, IT experts, including Verizon, have revealed a simple trick that will charge your smartphone four times faster and charge it to 90 percent in just one and a half hours. The key is in...
Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey Fires Back At Trump, Zuckerberg
Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey has fired back at President Donald Trump after he accused the social media platform of meddling in the US election which will be taking place later this year. He also tackled Mark Zuckerberg after he suggested that Twitter was trying to be “an arbiter of truth”. The exchange ensued after Twitter applied its fact-check label to two tweets shared by President Donald Trump, which...
FG To Promote The Use Of Technology In Education Infrastructure
VP Kashim Shettima has said that the FG will incorporate technology into the educational infrastructure to improve the nation's learning outcomes. He said this on Wednesday during a meeting with the World Bank Nigeria team at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Shettima, who said that the move would address human capacity and resource challenges to improve learning outcomes, assured that President Bola...
Facebook Domain Allegedly Stolen
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...
Oyo Govt Partners Media And Digital Skills Centre To Commence Training On Coding, Robotics, AI, Others
Oyo State government in partnership with the Advocacy Unit of Media and Digital Skills Centre, Nigeria will commence a pilot training programme on Coding, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence And Drone Technology for 3 Public Secondary Schools in the st...
