Breaking up is hard to do, especially when it's with one of those oh-so-clingy social networks. Harder yet when there's a deactivation period. The major social networks don't want you absconding with your precious data, so deleting your accounts requires some determination. How to Lock Down Your Facebook Security and Privacy Settings The
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Despite continued progress in the expansion of mobile service and Internet connectivity, 50 per cent of Africans (680 million people) did not use mobile phone in 2019 while about 75 per cent or 950 million people did not access mobile Internet in the same period. Africa is said to be home
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Six Nigerian innovators have been shortlisted among 10 others for the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation (APEI), UK Royal Academy of Engineering. This year’s Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation shortlists includes the creators of a low-cost ventilator powered by water instead of electricity, a digital financial services solution that audits users
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The small West African country of Benin has the biggest share of women graduates in the field of engineering in the world and ranks sixth globally in terms of its female ICT graduates, a new report shows. A chapter on gender in science in the forthcoming UNESCO report, The Race against
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The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority has lifted the ban it placed on Boeing 737 Max aircraft in the Nigerian airspace. The ban was announced by the Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, following the crash of two Boeing 737 Max aircraft, Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines flight 320, which occurred
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New details have emerged about the case against Instagram influencer Ramon Abbas, who wowed the internet with pictures of his clothes, cars, money and lifestyle between 2012 and 2020. In July, Abbas was charged by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles with conspiring to launder hundreds of millions of
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Sometime last year, Goke, was hospitalised for days alongside his son after they broke down with what he described to me as “a strange type of malaria.” One day, he is up and about, doing his regular work and the next, he is hinged to a hospital bed battling a disease
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Enterprise Resource Planning (also known as ERP) software and solutions can be a multibillion-dollar industry, with systems that track business management resources across the entire company. The problem is that ERP systems are often built upon legacy hardware and complex, intertwined systems that are a beast to update. Recent trends, however,
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With Texan power outages hitting the headlines this week, it’s worth looking to a startup that’s developed the world’s first renewable, hydrogen-powered energy storage system. At full charge, it can furnish a house with electricity for about three days. LAVO CEO Alan Yu, LAVO If you’ve ever said to a friend that
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Over the last 12 months, there has been plenty of buzz around the potential for blockchain technology to transform and secure supply chains across different industries. Especially since the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic, the pharmaceutical industry also sees tremendous value in blockchain’s ability to securely exchange serialized data from
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