Rapid economic growth and its sustainability as well as the empowerment of the citizenry, which are indices of national development, have continued to elude Nigeria because of the lip service being paid to science and technology. This was part of the submissions of Maj-Gen. Ishola Williams (rtd) in his lecture entitled “Leadership, Followership, Development and [...]
Some young Nigerians are gearing up to use BlackBerries, mobile phones and social networking services such as Twitter and Facebook to monitor polls in January, in an effort to stamp out electoral fraud. Previous polls in Nigeria have been so marred by ballot-stuffing and voter intimidation that election observers deemed them not to be credible. [...]
Facebook today said it has fixed the bug that allowed a spamming worm to automatically post messages to users’ walls earlier this week. The flaw was the second in the past week that let spammers flood the service with messages promoting scams. Last week, Facebook quashed a different bug in its photo upload service that [...]
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We’ve all received e-mails from deposed Nigerian princes asking for help in getting lots of money out of their country. But that’s just one of several scams that made Panda Security’s list of the most frequent online cons of a decade. As 2010 starts to wind down, the security vendor on Thursday unveiled its rankings [...]
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Google has officially acquired the visual search engine and this was even confirmed by the company’s CEO and founder Munjal Shah via Like.com’s homepage Google Acquires Like.com Visual Search and Image Comparision Engine Though the terms of the deal were not really divulged, you can bet it’s a big one. Maybe around $100 million up? [...]
