One week after the demise of popular Nigerian actor, Rich Oganiru, the Nigeria movie industry has lost another popular Nollywood actress, Doris Chima who has died after a long-fought battle with cancer. Chima was a founding member of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) and a former vice-chairperson of the Lagos branch of AGN. From […]
The HP Probook laptop is one of HP’s series of business laptops. The Probook 470 G5 is the sixth iteration in a series of business-minded notebooks. This notebook is designed to suit professionals who are always on the go and some of its hardware components include a high-performance eight-generation Intel processor, long-lasting battery, among others. […]
THE Nigerian High Commission in London, United Kingdom (UK), has been shut after officials tested positive for COVID-19. According to the letter from the High Commission, the closure will last 10 days, beginning from Thursday, when the strains of the deadly disease were detected in the diplomats. The embassy did not name the concerned officials […]
It’s 2021, and yet transferring your chat history on WhatsApp when switching platforms has mostly been impossible to do, that is until now. Yesterday, during Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked event, the Facebook-owned cross chat platform announced that it’s finally letting users who jump between Android and iOS bring their messages and attachments along with them. The company […]
The Federal Government has said it plans to lift the over two-month ban on the social networking site, Twitter, as it had reached an agreement with Twitter in most areas of misunderstanding. One such being the agreement to set of a Nigerian office in 2022. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, disclosed this […]
Like his father, Mohammed Fawehinmi was a lawyer and human rights advocate. Mohammed Fawehinmi, the son of late human rights advocate, Gani Fawehinmi, is dead. Mohammed’s death was confirmed by the minister of state for labour, Festus Keyamo, who worked as a lawyer in Mr Fawehinmi’s law chamber. “My brother, friend and son of my […]
Following on from news of merger talks last month, NortonLifeLock has confirmed that it is buying Avast in a deal that values the Czech-based and London stock exchange listed firm at up to $8.6bn (£6.2bn). In a joint statement the companies say that the combined business will serve more than 500 million cybersecurity customers, including around 40 million direct […]
To help address the ongoing problems with the so-called PrintNightmare vulnerability (CVE-2021-34527), Microsoft has announced a change to the default behavior of the Point and Print feature in Windows. The change has been delivered via the KB5005033 and KB5005031 update and means that in order to install printer drivers, users will have to have administrative privileges. This […]
The All Progressives Congress in Adamawa State has announced the suspension of the APC Caretaker Chairman, Yola South Local Government, Suleiman Adamu over holding a ‘wrong and unfortunate’ meeting where the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari, (Retd.), was the subject of “repugnant innuendos, abuse and the ill-will of members who wished him death from coronavirus.” […]
Back in 2018, multiple big tech firms such as Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and Google teamed up to launch the open source Data Transfer Project (DTP). Its aim is to make it easier for customers to transfer their data across services and platforms. To that end, Facebook announced tools – such as Transfer Your Information (TYI) – that make it […]