Buhari, Twitter open talks on Nigeria ban

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President Muhammadu Buhari, whose deleted tweet led to the suspension of Twitter's operation in Nigeria, has finally agreed for the Nigerian government to engage in talks with the social media firm.

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FG raises team for Nigeria’s 5G spectrum auctions

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The Federal Government has raised an 18-member team to map out plans for Nigeria’s 5G spectrum auctions following, the Senate clearance over public health concerns. The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) took the “major proactive regulatory step” after a Senate investigative hearing that gave 5G technology “a clean bill of health”, Professor Umar Garba Danbatta, Executive […]

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Photos: Buhari, MTN top execs meet as operator visits Nigerian Govt

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Top executives of South Africa’s MTN Group and local subsidiary, MTN Nigeria, last week undertook a three-day visit to top Nigerian government officials that culminated in a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari Friday in Abuja.

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5G: MTN taps OpenRAN as African ‘early adopter’

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MTN Group is becoming an African early adopter of OpenRAN network technology to quickly roll out network services, including 5G, the mobile phone giant says. Among several benefits, OpenRAN will let MTN roll out services like 5G on its legacy network across its African footprints, which includes Nigeria, where it owns the largest mobile phone […]

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Flexound Pulse envelops movie watchers in their own personal sound bubbles

Flexound Augmented Audio has launched the Flexound Pulse, a cinema seating solution that creates a personal sound bubble around movie watchers for the promise of a full-range quality audio experience without the use of external loudspeakers.

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Phoenix guitar takes a modular approach to tone

Last year, we featured an interesting prototype electric six string from Fern Guitars that allowed players to install pickup modules in a host body, without having to break out the soldering iron. Now the Phoenix guitar has launched on Kickstarter.

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Tunneling snake robot takes cues from nature to keep its head in the sand

Robots are great explorers, but one environment that’s tricky for them to navigate is through the ground. Now, engineers at UCSB and Georgia Tech have developed a snake-like robot that uses a range of methods to burrow through soft sand or soil.

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Nigeria: Twitter ban hits N2.46b in daily economic loss

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The Nigeria Twitter ban, which hit N2,464,980,000 ($6million) in daily economic loss following the government shutdown of the social media service, continues as businesses resumed Tuesday after the Democracy Day holiday.

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Nokia X20: Nigerian developers get ‘taste of next Android’

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Nigerian developers and colleagues across Africa now have the opportunity to explore the next steps in Android innovation with the Nokia X20, the phone marker says.

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Huawei donates ICT lab to NCC chief’s alma mater

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Huawei Technologies Company Nigeria Limited, the local unit of Chinese equipment supplier, has donated an ICT lab to the alma mater of the nation’s telecoms regulatory chief.

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