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Tunde Onakoya is set to break the Guinness World Record for the longest time spent playing chess.

On Thursday, April 18 2024, news that the DJ had been arrested began to swell on social media. She says it's all false.

Davido becomes only the third Nigerian artist to sell out the famous MSG.

These women have continued to build their empires, invest in innovation, and champion important causes.

PDP governors have maintained that the NEC could solely determine the fate of Damagum.

Preliminary investigation revealed that the two suspects were hired by a civilian contractor.

The central preoccupation of Festival of Fire is the blind obedience of outdated made-up rules.

Adams-Aliu said the Nigerian Navy was concerned by the upsurge in cases of stowaways in Nigerian waters.

In the now-deleted tweets, Bello El-Rufai was said to have intimidated the Assembly as he allegedly called for a fight.

Criminal is set for release across the nation on May 31, 2024, marking the directorial debut of Dolapo Adigun.

The Special Adviser to the Governor on Security Matters, CP Fatai Owoseni, has confirmed the demolition of the building.

Ganduje is currently being charged to court by the Kano State government for allegedly receiving bribes amounting to $413,000 and 1.38 billion during his tenure as governor.

The report has also projected a 65% growth in Africas millionaire population in the next decade.

In times of economic difficulty, securing three nutritious meals a day can be a challenge. With rising food prices and stagnant wages, many find it increasingly hard to maintain a balanced diet without breaking the bank.

The former governor is to be produced before the court on April 18 for arraignment.

Tiwa Pever was one of the creators spotlighted in the Meta Creators of Tomorrow campaign this year.

Bello had sought for the enforcement of his fundamental right against the EFCC.

Tinubu stated that Nigerians and domestic businesses are the nations surest transport and security to that glorious destiny of economic prosperity.

The redesign of the logo was spurred by a law passed by the Osun State House of Assembly.

LUTH professor urged Nigerians to donate blood voluntarily to help the country meet the WHOs expected blood needs annually.

The premises of Yahaya Bello's Abuja residence were flooded with several armed security personnel on Wednesday, April 17.

NDYC official stated that there's nothing wrong with engaging non-state actors to secure oil pipelines, in as much as the contract was yielding desired results.

The judge threatened to adjourn the trial indefinitely if Kanu's lawyer insisted that the trial should not continue.

On 'Jiggy Forever,' Young Jonn crafts songs that while enjoyable as a unit are too formulaic to form a compelling listening experience across 16 tracks.

Ganduje is currently being charged to court by the Kano State government for allegedly receiving bribes amounting to $413,000 and 1.38 billion during his tenure as governor.

The association said the demolition was carried out by the Anambra State Physical Planning Board.

The pastor allegedly defiled his daughter by inserting his fingers into her vagina and also by inserting his penis in her mouth.

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The judge threatened to adjourn the trial indefinitely if Kanu's lawyer insisted that the trial should not continue.

Burna Boy was included in the icons section of Time Magazine's top 100 influential people of 2024 list.

It was gathered that the EFCC's presence at Bello's residence contradicted a court injunction issued by the High Court of Justice, Lokoja Division, on February 9, 2024.

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21 Savage is included in Time Magazine's Most Influential People of 2024.

This is how the name 'Yoruba', for the Yoruba people who spoke a similar language, originated.

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Do you need to block your UBA account or ATM card' Check out these easy steps to do so swiftly.

INEC are advised to concentrate on addressing the loopholes observed in the 2023 general election rather than delve into Diaspora voting.

Nigeria's daily fuel consumption is 40 million litres and a foreign exchange rate of 1,300.

The budget is initiated to finance other additional projects as the State finances had reasonably increased.

At the time of reporting, it wasn't clear what the nature of his sickness was.

People saw the girl crying, asked the woman if she is her mother and she said no which drew attention of the crowd who started questioning.

When the charge was eventually interpreted to him in his Yoruba dialect, he denied possessing firearms, saying he was framed.

Having your NIN benefits you and strengthens national security.

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The charges against the Yoruba Nation agitators include treasonable felonies, unlawful association, illegal possession of weapons, and behaviour likely to incite unrest.

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The prosecutor stated that it was the daughter of the late man who discovered the withdrawal and the case was reported at the police station.

The late Senator's burial is scheduled at Osere Muslim Cemetery, Ilorin, at 2:00 pm on Wednesday, April 17.

The repentant female terrorists have lamented that they lack suitors, and nobody is approaching them for marriage.

The EFCC arrested him this week on charges that he mutilated the naira at an event in Eko Hotel.

The court's decision means Ganduje's position as the national chairman of the APC is invalid.

Brymo takes to his Instagram story to resume his beef with Burna Boy.

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The Kayode Kasum-directed movie joins the ranks of Nollywood blockbuster hits with a powerful opening of 50.4 million in five days.

The Kayode Kasum-directed movie joins the ranks of Nollywood blockbuster hits with a powerful opening of 50.4 million in five days.

Unavailable' becomes Davido's fourth song to reach 100 million views on YouTube

The incident he is being charged for allegedly occurred on February 13, 2024, at Eko Hotel.

This comes after the EFCC arrested Pascal Okechukwu, the popular influencer also known as Cubana Chief Priest for mutilating the naira.

The suspects arrest is sequel to his alleged possession, and transacting in counterfeited Naira notes.

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What's causing the massive flooding in Dubai

Cubana Chief Priest becomes the second celebrity to be charged to court after Bobrisky, who is currently serving a jail term in Ikoyi Prison.

Wike stated that the FCT Administration is working to ensure all satellite towns felt the impact of the government.

Seyi Vibez's 'NAHAMciaga' EP is the most streamed project in Nigeria for the first quarter of the year.

He stated that the reduced price of diesel is a welcome development that would help businesses to thrive in current economic challenges in the country.

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TurnTable Charts has published the first quarter report for 2024.

Cloves and rosemary water can make your hair longer than you can ever imagine.

The EFCC recently said its investigation and prosecution of naira abusers will focus only on new cases of such infractions.

Dangote said the price reduction is expected to have a ripple effect on all the spheres of the economy and reduce the ballooning inflation rate.

The symposium will explore the pressing security challenges in the region.

The enforcement also continued throughout the entire city centre, after two weeks of sensitisation.

Passers-by who saw the suspects body rained curses on him for being responsible for the poor supply of electricity in their areas.

Dele Alake says the immediate suspension of the activities was necessary to enable the ministry to verify the authenticity of the documents.

The school will open its doors in September for parents who have already paid the 2 million application fee and Nigerians are not finding it funny.

Cubana Chief Priest will be arraigned before Justice Kehinde Ogundare of the Federal High Court, Lagos.

Iran recently launched an attack in retaliation for an airstrike on its embassy compound in Damascus on April 1 attributed to Israel.

Internet subscriptions in Nigeria have increased marginally, from 159,034,717 in August 2023 to 160,171,125 in September 2023.

The movie, by Bolanle Austen Peter, stars Joke Silva, Kehinde Bankole, and Adunni Ade.

Infotech Headlines Today
[Fri-19-Apr-2024]

5 reasons to buy AirPods Max over Bose 700 NC - Pocket Lint

5 things to know about ANC - Pocket Lint

8 questions that tell you everything you need to know about the bitcoin halving - Techpoint

A look at Salad, which pays gamers in Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cards to rent their GPUs remotely to AI companies, including those making AI-generated porn (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media) - Techmeme

A US jury finds Avraham Eisenberg, a crypto trader who stole $110M on the Mango Markets exchange in 2022, guilty of fraud despite his "code is law" claim (Crystal Kim/Axios) - Techmeme

Acer Broadens Chromebook Horizons: Introducing the New Model - Itnewsafrica

Acer's $400 Chromebook Plus 514 has up to 512GB of storage - Pocket Lint

Almost a quarter of kids aged 5-7 have smartphones - BBC

Apple brings AirPlay to select hotels - Pocket Lint

Apple removes WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China, saying it was ordered to do so by China's cyberspace officials citing national security concerns (Raffaele Huang/Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme

Apple says it was ordered it to remove WhatsApp and Threads from China App Store - Engadget

Blizzard takes aim at Overwatch 2 console cheaters - Engadget

Boeing Aims To Bring Flying Cars To Asia By 2030 - Slashdot

Can AI Be the Catalyst for Financial Inclusion in Africa - Itnewsafrica

Can TikTok's owner afford to lose its killer app - BBC

Canal+ increases MultiChoice stake to 40.8% - Techcabal

Colorado Bill Aims To Protect Consumer Brain Data - Slashdot

Cops Can Force Suspect To Unlock Phone With Thumbprint, US Court Rules - Slashdot

Crypto Trader Eisenberg Convicted of Fraud in $110 Million Mango Markets Scheme - Slashdot

Digital marketing software company Ibotta closes up 17% at $103.25 per share in its trading debut, after raising ~$577.3M in an IPO priced above marketed range (Bloomberg) - Techmeme

EFCC deems Binance executive a flight risk, halts bail request - Techpoint

eTranzact says consumer-focused products are its future revenue driver - Techcabal

Feds Hit Coding Boot Camp With Big Fine For Allegedly Conning Students - Slashdot

Fintech CRED secures in-principle approval for payment aggregator license - Techcrunch

Frontier Communications Shuts Down Systems After Cyberattack - Slashdot

Google says it will consolidate teams that focus on building AI models across Research and DeepMind, and move its Responsible AI teams in Research to DeepMind (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters) - Techmeme

Hackers Target Middle East Governments with Evasive "CR4T" Backdoor - Hackers News

How to use AirPlay during your next hotel stay - Pocket Lint

Hugging Face releases a benchmark for testing generative AI on health tasks - Techcrunch

Internal draft: UK's ICO says Google's Privacy Sandbox falls short and leaves gaps that can be exploited to undermine privacy of users who should be anonymous (Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme

Internet users are getting younger; now the UK is weighing up if AI can help protect them - Techcrunch

It took 20 years for Children of the Sun to become an overnight success - Engadget

Latest news for students sitting for JAMB from April 19 to 29 2024 - Techcabal

Meta AI allows you to create images on WhatsApp - Techpoint

Meta AI Gets New Features, Expands Into More Countries - TechCity

Meta claims both Llama 3 models beat similarly sized models like Gemini, Mistral, and Claude 3 on certain benchmarks; humans marked Llama 3 higher than GPT-3.5 (Emilia David/The Verge) - Techmeme

Meta cuts the price of the base 128GB Quest 2 from $249 to $199, its second permanent price cut in four months, after a drop from $299 to $249 in January (Kris Holt/Engadget) - Techmeme

Meta Is Adding Real-Time AI Image Generation To WhatsApp - Slashdot

Meta Is Already Training a More Powerful Successor to Llama 3 - Wired

Meta's Quest 2 will now only cost you $199 - Pocket Lint

Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that creates a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview (Ryan Morrison/Tom's Guide) - Techmeme

My 5 favorite hidden iPad features - Pocket Lint

NASA Confirms Where the Space Junk That Hit a Florida House Came From - Wired

Netflix Blows Past Earnings Estimates As Subscribers Jump 16% - Slashdot

Netflix is done telling us how many people use Netflix - Engadget

Netflix profits soar after password crackdown - BBC

Netflix reports Q1 revenue up 15% YoY to $9.37B, vs. $9.28B est., paid users up 16% YoY to 269.6M, vs. 264.2M est., and net income $2.3B, up from $1.3B YoY (Sarah Whitten/CNBC) - Techmeme

Netflix won't report subscriber numbers or Average Revenue per Membership starting in Q1 2025, saying time spent is its "best proxy for customer satisfaction" (Todd Spangler/Variety) - Techmeme

Northrop Grumman Working With SpaceX On US Spy Satellite System - Slashdot

Nothing Ear vs Nothing Ear (a): Which bud is for you - Pocket Lint

Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on Llama 3, buying H100 GPUs for Reels, AGI, energy constraints, dangers of open source, the metaverse, Meta's custom silicon, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast) - Techmeme

Reddit Is Taking Over Google - Slashdot

Roborock S8 MaxV Ultra review: A smart cleaner - Pocket Lint

Short-form video app Triller is merging with Hong Kong financial services company AGBA; Triller shareholders will own 80% of the combined company valued at $4B (Daniel Tencer/Music Business Worldwide) - Techmeme

Software Glitch Saw Aussie Casino Give Away Millions In Cash - Slashdot

Sophos researchers find "crude", cheap ransomware tools being sold on the dark web, enabling inexperienced freelancers to easily launch attacks (James Reddick/The Record) - Techmeme

Surprise: Taylor Swift is joining Threads on the day her new album drops - Engadget

TechCabal Daily ' Wema Bank unlists seven fintechs - Techcabal

The bill that could ban TikTok is barreling ahead - Engadget