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…
A new study conducted by Techshielder has revealed that Nigeria is the second country in the world with the mostreported romance scams, next to the Philippines. Romance scam or Catfishing or dating scam has been defined as creating a fake profile to attract someone online. Fraudsters befriend victims over the…
Nigeria is estimated to have lost N132.8bn ( approximately $366,88m) since Twitter was banned in Nigeria by the Federal Government. The Federal Government banned Twitter in Nigeria on June 4 and the ban came into effect on June 5. It’s been 61 days since the ban came into effect. Calculating…
Actor, Idris Elba, has suggested that social media companies make it compulsory for people to identify themselves properly before creating an account, to reduce trolling on social media. He said a lot of faceless people hide behind anonymous accounts to say damaging things because they know they can get away…
Jeff Bezos has stepped down as the chief executive of Amazon 27 years after he founded the company. The American billionaire, 57, Amazon’s biggest shareholder with a stake worth about $180 billion, is being replaced by Andy Jassy, the mastermind behind Amazon’s cloud computing division. Earlier this year, Mr. Bezos…
PRESS RELEASE President Buhari Approves FG’s Team To Engage With Twitter Over Suspension President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the composition of the Federal Government’s Team to engage with Twitter over the recent suspension of the operations of the microblogging and social networking service in Nigeria. The approval was announced in…
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has warned that any social media platform used to bring down Nigeria will be suspended. The Minister who appeared before house committees on communication, justice, information and culture, and national security and intelligence on Tuesday June 22, added that the ban of Twitter…
The ECOWAS Court of Justice, Abuja in a landmark ruling today has stopped the Buhari administration and its agents from intimidating, sanctioning, arresting or prosecuting anyone for using Twitter in Nigeria, pending the final determination of the suit.
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has sued the Federal Government and the Minister of Information and Culture, Mr Lai Mohammed, at the Federal High Court in Abuja over the directive to all broadcast stations in the country to suspend the use of Twitter. The National Broadcasting Commission had given…
The House of Representatives has yet to take a decision on the ban placed on Twitter by the Federal Government as the 10-day deadline given to members lapsed on Friday. Recall that the Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, said the chamber’s intervention should be concluded within 10 days. There were strong indications…