TECHNOLOGY
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...
Data Of 1.5 Billion Facebook Users On Sale At Hacker Forum
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
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
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
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...
Don’t Entertain Fear, 5G Not Harmful To Our Health, Pantami Assures Nigerians
The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami has urged Nigerians not to entertain fear, noting the fifth-generation (5G) network is not harmful. There has been apprehension in many quarters that deployment of 5G could pose a risk to public health. Pantami spoke after the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting in Abuja on Wednesday where he also said the National...
5G Network To Roll Out Soon In Nigeria As FG Approves New Policy
The Federal Government has approved the National Policy on the fifth-generation (5G) network in Nigeria. This is according to the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, who addressed journalists in Abuja after the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting on Wednesday. He explained that the benefits that accrue from using the 5G network include larger capacity, higher data rates, among...
NCC, Telecos Agree On Frequency Spectrum For 5G Deployment
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and major telecoms companies have agreed on instruments necessary for the deployment of 5G technology in the country. The instruments are the Annual Operating Levy Regulations and the Frequency Spectrum (fees and pricing) Regulations. The agreement followed a Public Inquiry organised by the NCC on the two key instruments at its headquarters in Abuja on Thursday. It...
10 Things Every New Nigerian Blogger Must Avoid
Do you intend to go into blogging, or you’re a newbie who just stumbled on some random post about how lucrative blogging can be and decided, “yeah, let's own one” It wouldn’t be such a terrible idea, would it? Blogging is quite rampant in Nigeria, well, in a good way! But let's face it, how often do you see upcoming...
After Ban, Buhari Sends Six Ministers To Engage Twitter In Talks
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved a federal government’s team to engage with Twitter over the recent suspension of the operations of the microblogging and social networking service in Nigeria. Buhari’s approval of the team was contained in a statement issued in Abuja Tuesday by the minister of information and culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who chairs the team. Mohammed said, “The federal...
