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October 9, 2023 No Responses

Chief Of Air Staff To GOCOP: Fish Out Fake News Peddlers

The Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Hasan Bala Abubakar, has described online publishers as critical elements in the fight against all forms of criminality in Nigeria by virtue of their advantage of reach, penetration, speed and resilience....

December 7, 2022 No Responses

NCC: TikTok Challenge Used To Circulate Information-Stealing Malware

The Nigerian Communications Commission’s Computer Security Incident Response Team (NCC-CSIRT) has warned about the potential harm of taking part in the Invisible Challenge on short-form video hosting service, TokTok, revealing that it exposes devices to ...

November 23, 2021 No Responses

NCC Alerts Nigerians On False Davido’s Airtime, Data Giveaway Advert

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has alerted Nigerians about a false Davido’s airtime and data giveaway advert on social media. Dr Ikechukwu Adinde, Director, Public Affairs of NCC in a statement on Tuesday explained that a group of scammers ha...

October 27, 2021 No Responses

Twitter Profits Slump To $809m

Twitter lost more than half a billion dollars in the three months to September after it paid $809.5m (£588m) to settle a long-running lawsuit. The social media giant was accused of misleading investors over user engagement in 2015. However despite...

September 9, 2021 No Responses

NCC’S STRATEGIC VISION PLAN 2021-2025

SPEECH BY THE EXECUTIVE VICE CHAIRMAN/CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF THE NIGERIAN COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (NCC), PROF. UMAR GARBA DANBATTA, FNSE, FAEng, FRAES, FNIEEE AT THE LAUNCHOF THE COMMISSION’S STRATEGIC VISION PLAN 2021-2025, NCC PODCAST AND THE BOOK...

June 10, 2021 No Responses

NCC Charges Nigerian Youths On Responsible Internet Usage

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has urged Nigerian youths to leverage Internet/broadband access to unleash their potentials for innovation and creativity, as well as their quest for job opportunities and skills acquisition. The Executive Vic...

June 9, 2021 No Responses

Trump Hails Nigeria For Banning Twitter

Former U.S. President Donald Trump has congratulated Nigeria for suspending the operations of Twitter in the country. Trump, in a statement on Tuesday night, commended Nigeria for the action, calling on more countries to “ban Twitter and Facebook for n...

June 8, 2021 No Responses

GOCOP Faults Suspension Of Twitter

The Guild of Corporate Online Publishers,GOCOP has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to rescind his government’s decision to suspend Twitter in Nigeria. GOCOP made this call in a statement signed by its President,Mr Dotun Oladipo and General Secretary...

April 13, 2021 No Responses

Twitter To Build Africa HQ In Ghana

Twitter Chief Executive Officer and co-founder, Jack Dorsey, has announced that the social networking service will be basing its new Africa headquarters in Ghana. The announcement was shared Monday on&nbs...

May 4, 2018 No Responses

Power Of Social Media In Sustained Marketing

By 2025, Millennials will make up 75% of the global workforce. As their population grows, so is their influence. Award-winning author Jeremy K. Balkin calls this the “Millennialization of Everything.” Millennials – the generation born between 1980 and 20...

December 4, 2017 No Responses

Facebook opens London office, to create 2,300 jobs in 2018

Facebook is opening a new London office that will allow it to create 800 new UK jobs in 2018. By the end of next year, about 2,300 people will work for the social media company in the UK. The office...

December 4, 2017 No Responses

How Instagram friend drugged, had sex and took my nude pictures – Unilorin student

A University of Ilorin female student (name withheld), has narrated how a man she met on Instagram drugged, had sex and took her nude pictures in a Lagos hotel. Crying profusely while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...

July 27, 2017 No Responses

FG prepares information officers to tackle fake news

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the Ministry has strengthened the capacity of its Information Officers to tackle the menace of fake news with fact-based counter-narrative. The Minister stated this in Abuja on Wednesday in hi...

June 28, 2017 No Responses

Facebook hits two billion users

(BBC) More than a quarter of the world’s population now uses Facebook every month, the social network says. “As of this morning, the Facebook community is now officially two billion people,” founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg posted....