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Users stranded as Facebook, Instagram experience outage, Meta apologises
In a major disruption affecting millions of users, Meta’s key apps, including Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, have been down for ...ChatGPT experiences downtime as students, professionals lament
OpenAI’s popular Artificial Intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT, experienced a major outage early Thursday. Users who tried to access the platform were ...AI-driven approach key to tackle insecurity, health challenges in Africa, says Shettima
Vice-President Kashim Shettima says the adoption of artificial intelligence is necessary to address the insecurity, health and agriculture challenges facing ...Telcos reject 5% excise duty proposal, to meet Bosun Tijani to stop implementation
The Association of Telecommunication Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) have rejected plans to reintroduce a 5 percent excise duty on the ...Meta deletes 1,600 accounts linked to ‘Yahoo Boys’
Meta, the parent company of WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram, says it has deleted another 1,600 groups linked to ‘Yahoo Boy’ ...FG unveils ‘$56m’ technology to monitor national grid performance
The federal government has unveiled an advanced supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) technology (worth $56 million) to monitor the ...Telecom services risk disruption as 800 workers begin strike
Nigeria’s telecom sector risks shutdown as about 800 workers from the Private Telecommunications and Communications Senior Staff Association have embarked ...Ex-Punch editor, Oketola, to present book on digital economy
An ex-editor of The Punch Newspaper, Mr. Adedayo Oketola, is set to present a book he authored on the evolution ...NCC announces September 14 as ‘final deadline’ for NIN-SIM linkage
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has announced September 14 as the “final deadline” for the NIN-SIM linkage exercise. In a ...30 million GSM lines not properly linked to NIN — Telcos
The Chairman of the Association of Licensed Telecom Operators of Nigeria, Gbenga Adebayo, has stated that more than 30 million ...