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...
Airtel subscribers and customers in Bayelsa State experienced network outages today as youths said to be members of Ijaw Youths Council (IYC), shut down Airtel’s distribution mast in Yenagoa, the state capital. The IYC Worldwide is staging a protest to demand the reversal of the diesel supply contract awarded to a non-indigenous contractor, re...
•NIMC portal In recent times, Nigerians have faced significant challenges with identification verification, particularly the stress of queuing at National Identity Management Commission offices and designated centres. As the agency responsible for managing Nigeria’s national identity database, NIMC has been pivotal in this process, but the ass...
A global cybersecurity company found that governments, military, telecommunications and judicial systems are facing the highest number of cyber attacks and threats worldwide. In the second quarter of 2024, Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) released a report which observed that, while some threat actors maintained their usua...
Telecom operators yesterday warned that the excruciating financial obligations may affect the sector in providing telecom services in the country. But the regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, in a swift reaction, said it would not be arm-twisted by the operators’ threat, reports Vanguard. Load-shedding is a formula that the ...
Northern Youth Assembly (Majalisar Matasan Arewa) on Wednesday kicked against calls for the relocation of NCC IT park from Kano to Kebbi, sequel to attack on the facility by hoodlums during the nationwide protest. A statement by the Arewa Youth Assembly signed by Dr. Aliyu Mohammed, President, and Dr. Hafiz Garba, Secretary respectively, that ...
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