Bitcoin hits record near $45,000 after Tesla investment of $1.5bn
Bitcoin hit a record-high near $45,000 on Monday after Elon Musk’s electric carmaker Tesla invested $1.5 billion in the digital currency. Bitcoin hit $44,795.20 around 1325 GMT, before cooling slightly to $44,207.95. The cryptocurrency is up by around 50 per cent since the start of the year. “This is probably one of the biggest developments […]
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Teenager to spend 2 months in jail for constituting public nuisance
A Karu Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, on Monday sentenced a 19-year-old man, Hassan Amisu, to two months in correctional centre for causing panic and chaos within a community in Karu, Abuja. The Judge, Inuwa Maiwada, also gave him an option of N10,000 fine and warned him to desist from committing crimes. The convict, […]
Tingo Mobile PLC joins blockchain bandwagon, moves subscribers’ data for efficient service delivery
Banking on blockchain technology’s incredible attributes, Tingo Mobile PLC has introduced blockchain into its system to manage subscribers’ data in an immutable form. Because of its decentralised nature, blockchain technology stores encrypted and hashed authenticated data, which is immutable, and any changes or mistakes can be traced to the source of the alteration. Commenting on […]
Kachikwu: An expert’s gift to the world
On Thursday, February 4th, a former Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, publicly presented four new books at a classy virtual global event, which attracted over 2,300 participants from no fewer than five continents.
My wife is wayward, adulterous — Man tells court
A 42-year-old businessman, Olayinka Oyeniyi, on Monday told an Igando Customary Court in Lagos State that his wife, Sekinat was promiscuous and has slept with many men. Oyeniyi said this while responding to the suit filed by Sekinat, who accused him of impregnating another woman. “My wife is wayward and adulterous, she moves around in […]
Great Firewall: China blocks Clubhouse app
A rare uncensored app that had attracted Chinese internet users to freely discuss taboo topics, including the mass detention of Uighurs, democracy protests in Hong Kong and the concept of Taiwanese independence appeared to have been blocked on Monday night. Authoritarian China deploys a vast and sophisticated surveillance state to scrub the internet of dissent […]
