Technology

  Twitter is now back and running after suffering a global outage on Wednesday morning, with thousands of users unable to refresh or load their timeline feeds The users reported the outage on the Down Detector website, a website that ...

  The moment a piece of the sun’s northern pole breaks off has been captured by NASA in a never-before-seen event that has baffled scientists. A video shows a giant filament of plasma, or electrified gas, shooting out from the ...

  13-year-old Nigerian boy gets scholarship to study Civil Engineering abroad after constructing Borno flyover bridge replica with clay soil The creative teenager identified as Musa Sanni became a sensation in 2021 after building the replica of a flyover bridge ...

The US house of representatives has ordered its staff to delete TikTok from any house-issued mobile devices. According to NBC News, an internal memo reveals the house also forbade them from downloading it in the future. The email was said ...

A Dubai hospital, Burjeel Medical City, Abu Dhabi, UAE, has offered to conduct surgery on conjoined twins, Hassana and Hussaina born in Zaria, Kaduna State free of charge. The National Coordinator, Global Initiative for Peace Love and Care (GIPLC), Mr ...

  The tallest woman on the planet has finally taken her first-ever flight after the airline adapted one of its planes so she can fit into it. Rumeysa Gelgi, 24, flew with Turkish Airlines to San Francisco and six seats ...

  With Elon Musk fully takin over twitter, former Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is set to launch, Bluesky another social network app to rival Twitter. In the past 48 hours alone, 30,000 people have signed up for Bluesky. In this ...

  The Founder and former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Twitter, Jack Dorsey has created a new social platform called ‘Bluesky.’ This is coming barely one week after the United States’ richest billionaire, Elon Musk acquired Twitter with a whopping ...

  New Twitter owner Elon Musk said Wednesday that it would be “a few more weeks” before any banned accounts — such as that of former US president Donald Trump — may be restored on the platform. Twitter users have ...

  Elon Musk, a multibillionaire entrepreneur, has disbanded Twitter’s board of directors, the social media firm he recently acquired. He fired all nine members of the board, making him the sole director of the microblogging platform. Earlier on Friday, Musk ...

Elon Musk has completed his $44bn takeover of Twitter, taking control of the company and reportedly firing several top executives, including the chief executive, Parag Agrawal. The world’s richest man tweeted “the bird is freed”, in a reference to Twitter’s ...

  WhatsApp, the popular messaging app, was inaccessible to users in several countries around the world for about two hours on Tuesday morning, including Britain, India, Nigeria and South Korea. The outage started around 3 a.m. Eastern time, according to ...

  The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) on Thursday launched its Digital Certificate platform in Lagos. The Head, National Office (HNO), Mr Patrick Areghan, in his welcome address at the unveiling of the platform, said that the development was to ...

  Elon Musk has said he intends to proceed with his original $54.20 per share offer to acquire Twitter, the social media giant. A letter filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, showed Musk will follow through on ...

Henrik Pedersen, a Danish Climate Change and Environmental Expert has advised Nigerians to embrace electric bicycles to reduce the effect of climate change. The senior consultant and project manager at the NIRAS Group spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). Nigeria is facing ...

  Apple chief executive Tim Cook says there are still “not enough women at the table” at the world’s tech firms – including his own. In an exclusive interview with the BBC, Mr Cook said technology “will not achieve nearly ...

Isah Barde, a 17-year-old secondary school graduate in Kano State, has built a ‘robot’ from scraps, using cartons, pipes, LED, motor, aluminium, among others, as components. Isah intends to study robotics and become an artifical intelligence expert, despite the financial ...

  A UK-based surgeon has helped saved the life of Brazilian twins who were born with fused brains, in what may have been one of the most complex operations in history. Conjoined twins Bernardo and Arthur Lima battled through a ...

  A Tokyo clothing maker has teamed up with veterinarians to create a wearable fan for pets, hoping to attract the anxious owners of dogs – or cats – that cannot shed their fur coats in Japan’s blistering summer weather. ...

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) is changing passengers’ experiences at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja by introducing innovations. Some of the innovations will include; e-tags to ease traffic flow at the toll gate, banning illegal car hire ...

A twitter user has shared the story of how a University dropout, Mustapha Gabibo built locally-made electric buses in Borno state. Other sin the comment section testified to it saying the few buses have started operations in the state. ”He ...

The world’s largest passenger airliner has completed a three-hour flight powered by cooking oil for the first time. A test model of an Airbus A380 ‘superjumbo’ aircraft, which was filled with 27 tonnes of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), took off ...

Chinese Telecoms Giant Huawei Has Been Helping Putin’s Efforts To Stabilise Russia’s Internet Chinese telecoms giant Huawei must be investigated over reports the firm has ‘rushed to Russia’s aid’ after attacks on its internet network. Reports in China say the ...

New Satellite images have shown Russian convoys bearing down on Ukraine as Monday peace talk failed to end the deadly invasion. The alarming images revealed a three-plus-mile convoy of Russian military vehicles snaking toward Kyiv. Hundreds of tanks, mobile artillery, ...

A shipment of terminals from Elon Musk’s satellite internet service Starlink have arrived in Ukraine, according to a top Ukrainian official. Ukrianian vice prime minister Mykhailo Fedorov shared an image of a truckload of Starlink terminals late Monday, writing, “Starlink ...