Facebook proposes feature to ‘nudge’ teens away from harmful content

A Facebook executive said Sunday that the company would introduce new measures on its apps to prompt teens away from harmful content, as U.S lawmakers scrutinize how Facebook and subsidiaries…

Subscribers still experiencing downtime should restart their phones -MTN

MTN Nigeria Communications Plc has advised its subscribers to restart their phones if they are still experiencing a downtime. The mobile network operator made this known in a Facebook post…

BREAKING: MTN subscribers lament service outage

Some MTN customers are currently experiencing service outage and are unable to connect with loved ones and business associates in parts of the country, ugamatv has learnt. Our correspondent gathered that the…

Facebook BATTLES with another global outage

Facebook on Friday said users around the world again had problems accessing its services for hours due to a tweak of its system, just days after a massive outage caused…

Ban a win-win for Nigeria and Twitter, says presidential aide

A presidential aide, Tolu Ogunlesi, has said the Twitter ban is a win-win for both the government and the US-based social media company. Ogunlesi who is part of a team…

NCC disqualifies Nigerians below 18 from getting SIM

The Nigerian Communications Commission has disqualified anyone below the age of 18 from registering and owning a Subscriber Identity Module in Nigeria. This is according to the draft copy of…

Nigerians dominate as Facebook announces 2021 CAP winners

Facebook has announced winners of the 2021 Facebook Community Accelerator Programme, highlighting the 13 Facebook community leaders from Nigeria, South Africa, and Kenya who will receive training, mentorship and up…

Airtel Africa plans to take out Nigerian minority shareholders

Airtel Africa Plc is in the verge of buying out Nigerian minority shareholders stake in the company. The company has already disclosed this plan to the Nigerian Exchange Limited, NGX…

Facebook blames seven-hour outage on ‘faulty configuration change’

Social media powerhouse and Silicon Valley tech giant on Monday night blamed a record seven-hour outage on a “faulty configuration change” on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic. Facebook…

BREAKING: Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp down

WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook are currently down for many users. The three apps – which are all owned by Facebook, and run on shared infrastructure – all completely stopped working…