Unwanted advertising. Every Nigerian has been exposed to this; medicine marketers fill Lagos buses selling one magic pill for whatever ails you. And whether you live in the North, South, East or West, you’ve experienced that belly-aching feeling when your favourite television programme is interrupted by an ad break. When it comes to your mobile phone, you hope to find some relief, but the reverse is the case. Network providers flood your devices with unwanted text messages and calls time after time. It doesn’t cost them anything. But it cost you battery life, focus and good old peace of mind.

One man’s meat, they say, is another’s poison. Although tech giants, Apple and Samsung may not be familiar with this Nigerian proverb, it no doubt refers to their current situation.

A composite professional service and business consulting firm, TM Hays Consulting Ltd, will from September 23 to 24, 2016 hold a Microsoft Excel advanced level training, entitled “Basic to Advance of Microsoft Excel Course”, and designed to enable participants transform data into meaningful dashboards, database reports, automatic calculation, charts and visualizations.

Apple is out to make a splash with new waterproof iPhones and a smartphone game starring Nintendo’s beloved “Mario”, but it has raised eyebrows by eliminating headphone jacks in a push for wireless.

Apple on Wednesday unveiled two upgraded versions of its iconic iPhone, in a move aimed at capturing more consumers in an increasingly saturated global smartphone market.