Although the advancements of technology and revelatory phrases such as “catphish” have helped many people avoid scams, there are still many who fall victim to the age-old traps. Most recently, a 67-year-old man from Louisiana was arrested for running an international “Nigerian prince” email scheme
Former governor of Lagos state, Akinwunmi Ambode has reacted to the raid on his residence by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in the Epe area of Lagos. According to Punch, the former governor in a statement through his media aide Habib Haruna, stated that the EFCC has
Coconut oil is known to be one of the most famous organic products in the world, not only for its amazing health benefits but also as a skin beautifier. There are people who for ages have been enjoying the amazing health benefits of coconut oil.
Davido has always been one of those celebrities making the headlines for all the good reasons but today he is on the list of debtors owing to the Federal Government of Nigeria in taxes In a post shared on Sahara Reporters, the list of debtors was
Yes, you read that correctly. About 16 years after the last movie in the series, Warner Bros. has confirmed work on a fourth movie in The Matrix universe. And it doesn’t appear to be a spinoff — Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss will star in the picture. Only one
Fast-growing UK tech companies secured a record £5.5bn in foreign investment in the first seven months of this year, according to research for the government’s digital economy council. The study for the Department of Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport (DCMS) body revealed that the UK
Nigerians spent big at Cinemas in the month of July or so the recent stats released by the Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria (CEAN) show. This sees both attendance and movie grosses reach their highest points this year. According to the stats, 580,978 people went to watch
The White House has called on social media companies to build technologies that could help curb the spread of violent ideologies online. The appeal was made during a meeting between officials from the White House and big social media companies on Friday. The gathering came
The opera-founded startup, OPay, has just introduced OTrike, a tricycle hailing service, in the commercial city of Aba, southeast of Nigeria. In 2018, the disruptive startup started operations as a mobile payments platform reaching Nigeria’s huge unbanked population. It has since diversified its product offerings
24 final year students of Bayero University Kano (BUK) have been expelled from the institution as confirmed in a statement released by its management on Friday, August 9. The statement released by the spokesperson for the university Lamara Garba revealed that 6 students presented fake results from their institutions
Facebook has filed lawsuits against two app developers accused of generating fraudulent revenue using the social media giant’s advertising platform. The company announced the legal action in a blog post-Tuesday. “The developers made apps available on the Google Play store to infect their users’ phones with malware,”
At the third Google for Nigeria event, Google announced new products and features to make it more helpful to more people in Nigeria and across Africa. The announcements include navigation instructions in a Nigerian voice for both motorcycle and car driving modes, new Street View
Uber just reported its second quarterly earnings ever as a public company, and hoo boy! That’s a lot of red ink! The ride-hailing giant reported losing a whopping $5.2 billion in the last three months. No, there isn’t dirt on your screen. That’s billion with a “b.”
Huawei has officially announced HarmonyOS, the operating system it was rumored to be developing to replace its reliance on Android. In China, the software will be known as Hongmeng. The company says the operating system, a microkernel-based distributed OS, can be used in everything from
It seems like every YouTube creator has a podcast these days, and that now includes Marques Brownlee. Brownlee, one of YouTube’s most prominent creators who has more than 9 million subscribers on his tech-focused channel MKBHD, is launching a new podcast called Waveform: The MKBHD Podcast.