•X owner Elon Musk Elon Musk’s social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, is now worth almost 80% less than when he bought it two years ago, according to recent estimates from investment firm Fidelity. Musk acquired X for $44 billion in October 2022, but Fidelity’s latest evaluation suggests the platform is currently valued […]...
•Minister of Education, Prof Tahir Mamman The phone line of the Minister of Education, Prof Tahir Mamman, has been hacked. According to a disclaimer issued on his official X account yesterday, Mamman warned the public to avoid communicating through the affected number. “My phone line has been compromised. Please refrain from calling the number...
•A sample of the national identity card. The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has disclosed that 110 million Nigerians have been enrolled into the National Identification Numbers (NIN). The Director General of the Commission, Mrs Abisoye Coker-Odusote, stated this at the 6th National Identity Day celebration in Abuja yesterday, r...
•NIN linkage Telecommunications operators are expected to start disconnecting mobile telephone lines that are not linked to National Identification Numbers, following the expiration of the September 14 deadline set by the Nigerian Communications Commission. The NCC said in a statement in August that it expected that no SIM card would remain ac...
•Apple CEO Tim Cook Apple yesterday announced a new iPhone built for generative artificial intelligence as it seeks to boost sales and show it is keeping up in the technology race. The tech giant has a lot riding on what would be the iPhone 16 and will hope that customers are enticed to buy the […]
Just six hours before the highly anticipated iPhone 16 launch event, Apple’s official store website has gone offline. Visitors are currently met with a message stating: “Be right back. We’re making updates to the Apple Store. Check back soon.” This temporary outage comes as the tech giant prepares to unveil its latest products, reports AM [&he...
The federal government through the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has reminded Nigerians and legal residents that the September 14 deadline by for the linkage of the National Identification Number (NIN) with the Subscribers Identity Modules (SIM) remain sacrosanct. The Commission said its equipment and workers in the over 10,00...
Electronic-related financial crime is gaining massive ground in the country. This is anticipated because as technology continues to modernise different operations, crimes like identity theft will also gain traction, reports Vanguard. Identity theft occurs when someone dubiously gains access to another person’s personal information, like name, ...
Telecom operators in Nigeria have begun to implement load shedding in response to the Nigerian Communications Commission’s (NCC) reluctance to address their demands for a tariff hike. Load shedding is a deliberate shutdown of telecom services in a part or parts, generally to prevent the failure of the entire system when the demand strains th...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has announced significant progress in the federal government’s 2020 policy to link all Subscriber Identification Modules (SIMs) to National Identity Numbers (NINs), noting that September 14, 2024 is the final deadline for linkage exercise. In a state made available to our correspondent and signed by...
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