Etisalat Update: CBN, NCC moves to save 4,000 jobs

Latest tech news as to save over 4,000 jobs and asset striping of Etisalat my its bankers over $1.2 billion, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) are intervening in the crisis.


In a statement on Friday, the CVN said, the move is necessary to prevent job losses and asset stripping. Experts say, if Etislat is grounded, the impact on the telecoms industry and the economy will be huge.

A consortium of 13 Nigerian Banks had a syndicated loan of

Great News, See Current Megawatt Power Generation Increases in Nigeria as Electricity Supply Improves

 

Latest gist has it that the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has transmitted about 3,810 megawatts of electricity generated on Sept.8 by the generation companies to the 11 distribution companies.

Report as the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Nigerian Electricity System Operator (SO) announced this on its website on Thursday.

According to its operational report for Sept. 8, the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI) indicates that the power sector hit a peak generation of 3,810.5 megawatts and

Obasanjo Blames IOCs for Contributing to Power Crisis

The ex-President, Cheif Olusegun Obasanjo, has revealed that the refusal of international oil companies (IOCS) to convert gas to power contributed to the deteriorated state of electricity in the country.

Report has it that Obasanjo, who, spoke at a high-level session on “Africa’s, Energy: What’s the New Deal?”, at the ongoing 2016 annual meetings of

In News As Engine Manufacture Begins Soon, Says Innoson Motors

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Tech news has it that the Chairman of Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing Company Limited, Chief Innocent Chukwuma yesterday said the company will, in the next five years, commence local manufacture of vehicle engine to acheive 100 per cent local content in the auto industry.

Currently, the firm is doing 60 per cent local content with the assembling of vehicle parts and the purchase of vehicle engines from foreign markets.

He reiterated the comapny’s determination to make Nigeria one of the 20 top world‘s industrialised nations by 2020.

Speaking while he led the management team of the company to the

Mysterious Force, Discover Hidden Galaxies

The Mysterious Force, Discover Hidden Galaxies - Hundreds of hidden nearby galaxies have been studied for the first time, shedding light on a mysterious gravitational anomaly dubbed the Great Attractor.

Despite being just 250 million light years from Earth – very close in astronomical terms – the new galaxies had been hidden from view until now by our own galaxy, the Milky Way, a statement by the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research said.

The discovery was contained in a study published on Tuesday by the ICRAR.

Using CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope equipped with an innovative receiver, an international team of scientists were able to see through the stars and dust

Latest Gist As Nigerian University Student Builds Touchless Phone From Scratch

The latest gist review how A final year University of Benin student, Omijie Osas, has invented an amazing technology. 

We gathered that An inspiring video demo which he released online shows how a phone can be operated completely by a finger 2cm above the screen. The phone was built with locally available parts. "I'm working hard on adding lots of cool features and improvements in the lab, this is just a tip of

How To Root And Change IMEI Of Tecno Camon and Infinix Hot 2

Information is power and when we lack it we parish to an extent, so that the main primary reason of  publishing this article for you to know as this article you are about to read to learn  presents a new and simpler method of rooting the most recent Android phones running the Lollipop 5.0/1 or Kit kat. You can use this method to root your Tecno Camon, Infinix Hot 2, Gionee M2 mini or Innjoo phones. The benefits of rooting your phone include enjoying some free tweaks and BIS free browsing on MTN, Glo and Etisalat. This article also features a very simple method of changing your IMEI using Chamelephon app in just two steps.
This method is useful in any case you have a stubborn MTK phone that has issues with

Frustration Fills The Air As Customers Storm MTN Offices

Thousands of MTN subscribers rushed to various MTN offices across the nation after receiving a text message that alerted them of a possible disconnection from the network today according to a directive by NCC.

NigerianEye findings revealed that the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) asked operators of the Global System for Mobile communication to deactivate all unregistered subscriber identity modules (SIMs), prompting subscribers of the MTN networks to storm offices of the network in a last minute rush to register their mobile lines.

Customers waiting to be registered at the MTN office in Yaba, Lagos

Also, subscribers who didn’t properly register their lines might suffer the same fate going by the directive of NCC

When NigerianEye.com visited some offices of the network provider, subscribers were seen occupying every available space. Inside of the offices were full to the brim and the queue stretched to outside of the offices.

Customers waiting to be registered at the MTN office in Yaba, Lagos

Read as this information has it that NCC on August 18, 2015 said about 38.78 million lines were either unregistered or improperly registered. Out of these defective mobile numbers that belong to four network operators, about 10.7 million have been blocked.

The 10.7 million people, whose lines have been barred from either making or receiving calls, would need to regularize their details before they could be able to use the lines.

There are indications that after the expiration of the deadline set by NCC, 28.61 million more lines would be blocked.

NCC said that affected phone lines were deactivated due to improper registration details which include zero facial information, poor finger prints and

Hackers hit Sony and Microsoft Xbox console

The online gaming networks for Sony’s PlayStation and Microsoft’s Xbox consoles — hot gifts this Christmas — went dark in what hackers said was a coordinated attack.

The disruption started Christmas Day and went into Friday, PlayStation and Xbox said on their Twitter feeds, adding that they were working to restore service.

A subsequent message posted to the Xbox status page early Friday upgraded service to “limited” — a sign that support teams were making inroads in fixing the problem.

A new Twitter user going by the name “Lizard Squad” took credit for the disruption, claiming it had the “nation on strings.”

The name is the same used by a group of hackers that has targeted Sony in the past, though it was not possible to verify the Twitter account’s authenticity. The account did not return request for comment and only became active Wednesday.

Sony this month was hit by a sophisticated hacking attack that stole massive amounts of data from its servers. The US has blamed North Korea for the attack, with the hermit state seen as

APPLE: The Last Of The Hand-Built Vintage Computer Sells For £230,000

The machine, hand-built by Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak, still works. When the Apple 1 launched, it marked the true beginning of the home computing era.

The last Apple 1 computer known to have been personally sold by Steve Jobs from his parents' garage in 1976 has sold at auction in London for £230,000 (N65,626,944.09).


The machine, hand-built by Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak, still works. When the Apple 1 launched, it marked the true beginning of the home computing era.

To build the first prototype, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak sold his HP calculator (then a hi-tech luxury) for $500. 

Jobs famously sold his VW van for $250.

Apple 1 paved the way for the PC era – despite having a mere 8k of memory and being able to show only a few characters on screen.

Kenya To Develop Silicon Savannah - Africa's City Of Dreams

What if there were a city where big ideas become real, where traffic jams are obsolete, where women and men develop futuristic technologies together, where natural and urban ecosystems coexist in a high-tech hospital and a cheetah sanctuary, where rich and poor are lifted together? 

Dr. Catherine Nyaki Adeya says that city is being built, now, on the outskirts of Kenya's capital of Nairobi – a metropolis known less for its many attributes than for gridlock and congestion and crime. 

The idea of Konza – spearheaded under former President Mwai Kibaki and developed by the administration of his successor, President Uhuru Kenyatta – can be seen as a kind of 'do-over', a city of the future built from scratch.

Pistorius brother was suspected of wiping phone data after killing

Police suspected the brother of Oscar Pistorius of wiping data from the Olympian’s phone in the days after he killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, a South African radio station claimed on Thursday.

Investigators believed Carl Pistorius synchronised his computer with his brother’s iPhone, wiping out the entire call history and all WhatsApp messages, according to an investigation by Eyewitness News (EWN).

Police “considered charging him with defeating the ends of justice but ultimately declined to proceed with a case against him,” EWN said.

It also revealed that Oscar Pistorius spoke to an ex-girlfriend, Jenna Edkins, just minutes before he came home to Steenkamp on the fateful night of February 14, 2013.

Edkins, who dated the runner on and off for several years, was stored in his phone under the pseudonym “Babyshoes”.

'Selfies' Frowned Upon, But Technology Is Transforming The Hajj

Technological advances and design engineering at the mosques of Mecca and Medina are promising a safer and more comfortable Hajj experience this year as 2 million Islamic faithful converge on Saudi Arabia.

But much to the dismay of tradition-bound Muslim clerics, a proliferation of smartphones among those affluent enough to make the journey has also encouraged young pilgrims to snap photos of themselves kissing the Mosque's black stone or taking self portraits with other sacred venues in the background.

"Selfie fever has taken pilgrims and visitors to the two holy mosques by storm in recent days, much to the chagrin of scholars and other pilgrims who condemn such ‘touristy behavior,’" the News observed in an article on the new penchant for documenting the ritual expected of observant Muslims at least once in their lives if they can afford it.

Obama names Google Vice President as new technology officer

US President Barack Obama on Thursday named Google vice president Megan Smith as his new chief technology officer, charged with unleashing the power of data and computers inside the fusty world of government.

Smith fronted Google’s acquisition of major platforms including Google Earth, Google Maps and Picasa, and has been active in gay, lesbian and trans-sexual rights, a key social policy goal for many members of the Obama administration.

“Megan has spent her career leading talented teams and taking cutting-edge technology and innovation initiatives from concept to design to deployment,” Obama said in a blog post on the White House web site. Continue...

International criticism trails Bride Price app

A Lagos-based digital agency, Anakle, has come under criticism, internationally, over the creation of an online game application, Bride Price.


The application, described by the creators as “a joke and all there is to it,” has gone viral, with over two million views since its release on May 25, 2014.