New Zealand will ban TikTok on all devices with access to its parliament by the end of this month, becoming the latest country to impose an official bar on the popular social media platform owned by a Beijing-based tech conglomerate. Led by the United States, a growing number of Western nations are impo...
The rationing of naira note payments by banks continued across the nation yesterday with customers being paid a maximum of N20,000 each. The payments were made only to those who arrived at the banks in the early hours of the day. But as the day progressed, the payments were reduced to between N5,000 an...
Federal Government College, Ijanikin, Lagos, has emerged as the overall winner of the 2022 edition of the African Coding Competition organised online in November 2022. The AfriCAN Code Challenge is a coding contest that spans African countries and involves young individuals from different walks of life...
THE National Policy on Education recommends the National Certificate in Education, NCE, as the minimum qualification to teach in Nigeria. The NCE is awarded after a three-year course at a College of Education, COE. Polytechnics are established to produce professionals in technical/technological and voca...
Flutterwave has announced that it has received its Electronic Money Issuer and Remittance Licenses from the National Bank of Rwanda. This will help the company expand its operations in East Africa. In a statement yesterday, the company said with these new licenses, in addition to being a Payment Servic...
Five young Iranian ladies who danced to Nigerian Afrobeat singer and rapper, Divine Ikubor, professionally known as Rema’s song ‘Calm Down’ have been allegedly arrested. The video of the five girls went viral on Tuesday for dancing to Rema’s hit song without headscarves. The Times of Israel reported tha...
