Category: Science & Technology

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WhatsApp ends supporting certain smartphones

October 18, 2016 Business 654

Many smartphones will lose their ability to use the popular cross-platform messaging application known as Whatsapp. The app, which has become useful to Nigerians, has decided to stop supporting some smartphones. Speaking to BBC recently,…

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Smart Machines And The Future Of Jobs

October 10, 2016 Feature Article 701

Since the early 1800s, several waves of technological change have transformed how we work and live. Each new technological marvel — the steam engine, railroad, ocean steamship, telegraph, harvester, automobile, radio, airplane, TV, computer, satellite,…

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NCC says 94m Nigerians used internet in August

October 9, 2016 Latest News 664

The Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) says Internet users on Nigeria’s telecommunications networks rose by 167,819 to 93,591,174 in August 2016. The figure is contained in the commission’s monthly publication “Internet Subscriber Data” obtained by The…

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UNN student invents yam-pounding machine

August 11, 2016 Business 758

Mr Chibuike Ekwueme, a final year student of Agriculture and Bio-resource Engineering at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), has produced a device for food pounding and shopping for N1 million funding to mass produce…