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The World Book Day is a day put sideways to support everybody, mainly youthful people, to realize the joy of reading. In this brightness, the telecom company has joined with Lagos State Government to support literacy and make a fit comprehension culture amongst the youth in the state. During the trip to the state-owned library at Isolo, 9mobile pleased students, teachers, and officials of the library, with contributions of books by well-known authors, as well as Chinua Achebe, Cyprian Ekwensi, Mabel Segun, and Jowhor Ile – winner of the 9mobile Prize for Literature 2016. Acting Director, Regulatory & Corporate Affairs, 9mobile, Oluseyi Osunsedo , talking at the donation of the books to Lagos State Library Board, said the profits of book reading on national development are huge, noting that the telecom is promoting a reading society to sustain knowledge acquisition and maintenance in Nigeria, particularly among the youth. Osunsedo further said that, “Education is t...

In those days, artistes were measured traders and marketers since after leaving to the studios to record their songs; they found it hard to also advertise the songs because of the difficult task they faced in the delivery process. Many of them go about the streets just to trade their CDs, making it hard to meet the needed targeted listeners. People like The Remedies, Plantation Boiz, Raskimono, Majek Fashek, Oritz Wiliki, King Waleman and many more didn’t have the luxury of the delivery process young artistes are enjoying today. There were no social media to maintain up with their fans, no Twitter, instagram, Face book, and many more that people enjoy today. They had to get together or journey several miles to meet one on one with their fans. The challenges were enormous. But today, the story has changed for the better and Nigerian entertainers and the Entertainment industry are now linked to the world Let’s not fail to remember comedy shows that help us ease the pressu...

Which one of these can you not do without for a whole day and why? i. Smart Phone ii. Laptop iii. Television

Strategy to entrust concerned and debt-ridden 9mobile to a new investor have undergo massive delay with the court ruling. 9mobile, in the past Etisalat Nigeria, had been put up for sale as a result of its collapse to pay off the $1.2 billion it took few years ago from a consortium of banks in Nigeria for growth of its operations. The shareholders, Afdin Ventures Limited and Dirbia Nigeria Limited, claimed they were not carried along by the firm and asked that their investments in 9mobile worth $43.330 million be returned to them before the process can continue. According to the plaintiffs, they bought shares in Etisalat from Karlington Telecommunications Limited, Premium Telecommunications Holdings NV, and the first and second defendants, through a confidential assignment and should have been carried alongside in the sale of the firm to another investor, advicing the court to stop the use. Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court in Abuja lined that status quo ...

Payment24 is a fuel management solution and mobile app that   allows motorists, small business owners and fleet operators to make payment procedure at the fuel pump has been launched. The app is a global fuel payment system developed in South Africa and will be obtainable to oil companies’ clients on their smart phones, allowing them to pay for fuel at over 600 filling stations across the country. The progress will place the oil company as a guide to way in mobile-based customer ease in Africa, allowing the petroleum firm to get better efficiencies, decrease the danger of losses due to wrong grades of fuel being billed, and eradicate the risks of payment scam or errors at the pump. The app also positions the corporation to enhance its ‘know your clients’ initiatives and lays the basis for mobile-based constancy programmes, promotions and referral programmes. By means of the app, motorists are relocated at the filling station and enter the pump number to support f...

Paradigm Initiative gives out forty seven computer sets to eight secondary schools that have demonstrated interest in practical digital skills training across Nigeria. The beneficiaries include El-Leonora College, Umbrella High School and Soland Int’l School, all based in Ajegunle, Lagos State. Others are Al-fijr International School, Zaifat Secondary School, ECWA Aro Restoration School and Hameedah Secondary School, all based in Kano State. New World Secondary School, Aba, Abia State also get some of the computers. Paradigm Initiative has over the years made a name for itself as a head in digital inclusion labors in the country and the giving of computer systems to schools is part of the organization’s plan. Paradigm Initiative’s Digital Inclusion Program Manager, Tosin Abolaji, says that we just scaled our digital inclusion programme to schools and one of the things we find out is the shortage of computer systems for the training. We are in the course of ide...

An unpaid assistant managing a Twitter account connected with the All Progressives Congress (APC) has illegally seized the handle. The APC Twitter account has become the spotlight of the so-called imposture of distributing fake information about the party on the social networking site. Publicity of APC, Edegbe Odemwingie says in an executive speech that a certain Philip Obin, who was cited as one of the frequent youth volunteers for our party during the 2015 elections, supposedly have power over the Twitter handle. APC claims that efforts have been made to have Obin let go the said Twitter handlle to the party, but efforts made has failed to yield result. According to APC, giving this newest event, the party has no option than to take other lawful actions to pin down Obin from embarrassing the party. The general public is yet reminded that the Twitter handle @APCNigeria is not a Twitter handle of the All Progressives Congress.