Moniepoint’s co-founder only African on TIME’s inaugural Tech, Data list
By Juliet Umeh Nigerian engineer and Moniepoint Co-founder, Felix Ike, has joined some of the world’s leading technology executives after emerging as the only African representative on TIME magazine’s inaugural Executives of the Year: Tech and Data list.Ike, who serves as Chief Technology Officer, CTO, of Moniepoint, was named among 50 technology and data leaders […]
Twitter to negotiate with FG over indefinite suspension
Following the indefinite suspension of Twitter by Federal Government of Nigeria, the micro-blogging platform on Friday said it had opened communication channels with the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration.
Buhari receives 1st Made in Nigeria cell phone
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday received the first made in Nigeria cell phone, known as ITF Mobile. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Minister of Industry, trade and Investment, Adeniyi Adebayo, presented the phone to the president, before the commencement of Wednesday’s Federal Executive Council meeting in Abuja. According to Adebayo, the […]
Twitter: Impose visa ban on Buhari, Malami, Lai, PDP tells US, UK, others
The statement read: “The PDP urges the countries to bar President Buhari, Lai Mohammed, Abubakar Malami and their family members from entering their territories for any private purposes whatsoever.
Why newspaper, govt websites knocked offline
Major Websites around the world were briefly taken offline on Tuesday, apparently due to an outage at a U.S.-based cloud computing provider. Leading media organisation such as the New York Times, the Financial Times, Bloomberg, the Guardian, BBC, CNN and Le Monde were affected, with users often receiving “Error 503 Service Unavailable’’ messages. The British […]
Financial Times, New York Times, Bloomberg, Guardian UK, BBC, Other websites down
Major media websites across the world are currently down. Some of the sites identified so far include: New York Times, CNN, Bloomberg, Guardian UK, BBC, Financial Times. Some of the sites are however back with some serving their cache page. The reason for the downtime is currently unknown but could be connected to the fact […]
