One of the latest updates on Instagram, the vanish mode for Instagram chats; has just started rolling out to users. This feature makes messages from your Instagram chat disappear once you have seen them and exit the chat if the vanish mode is turned on. If you check any message on Instagram right now; at the bottom of it you’ll see an instruction – “Swipe up to turn on vanish mode” – if you are on the latest version of the app. Here’s how the vanish mode works on Instagram chats. So, for starters, you need to head over to…
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Some protesters stormed the streets of Katsina demanding the immediate release of abducted students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State on December 13, 2020. Protests on Sunday rocked Kastina State over the abduction of many schoolboys from the Government Science Secondary School, Kankara in the Kankara Local Government Area of the state The protesters, mostly women, demanded the prompt rescue of students abducted by bandits on Friday night. Carrying placards, the protesters went around the school’s premises and some parts of the town conveying various messages. Some of the inscriptions on the placards include: ‘Government must speak out’,…
Google AdSense has decided to retire the most popular and clickable ads unit known as Link Ads from its Ads Format, the Link Ads unit will no longer be available come March 10, 2020. We’ve decided to retire link ads. This is in order to modernize our available ad formats, based on the feedback from users, publishers and advertisers about the Google AdSense ads. Going forward, we’ll be focussing on improving and developing other ad formats to help you grow. What does this mean? From 10-03-2021: You will no longer be able to create link ad units. Your link ad…
At least more than 50 students were said to be missing after gunmen attacked a secondary school in Katsina State, a raid that has led the state government to shut down boarding schools. Gunmen had stormed Government Science Secondary School in Ƙanƙara Local Government Area of the state on Friday night, causing students, teachers, and staff members to flee for their lives. A headcount in the boarding school on Saturday, amid reports that hundreds of them had been abducted, revealed that 54 students are missing, a member of staff at the school told a news media on the condition of…
Subway customers in the UK are receiving scam emails as part of a phishing attack. Users took to social media to complain about the emails; which claim to be an order confirmation from the fast-food chain; and contain links to malware. The emails also use the victims’ names, and appear to come from the chain’s Subcard loyalty scheme. Subway has not said whether its databases have been compromised; or what the source of the scam is. But the firm has acknowledged that there is a problem. A spokesperson for the company said: “We are aware of some disruption to our…
On Friday, Twitter announced the acquisition of Squad, an app that allows you to share your screen and video chat with friends at the same time. The entire team, including co-founders Esther Crawford and Ethan Sutin, will join the company as part of the deal. In a Medium post, Crawford said Twitter plans to leverage her team’s expertise in audio and video. The group is “looking forward to building new formats that allow for fun; meaningful and engaging conversations,” she said. Twitter didn’t disclose the terms of the acquisition; and didn’t say if the agreement included Squad’s tech. “I hope…
Before the Apple App Store launched for the iPhone in 2008, hackers had already created an alternative one. That app store, called Cydia, became the go-to program downloader; for people looking to unlock their phones for international use. Along with another app store called Installer; Cydia’s launch before the original App Store allowed people to write and distribute early apps. As the iPhone advanced, so did the Cydia store, offering customizations to the lock and home screens; such as easily launching the camera, long before Apple began offering its own take on the features. But Apple never officially allowed people…
Xiaomi has launched a new smartwatch called the ‘Mi Watch Lite’. This smartwatch looks the same as the recently launched Redmi Watch; and it also comes with the same features. Xiaomi hasn’t revealed the price and availability details of the Mi Watch Lite yet. The Mi Watch Lite has been listed on Xiaomi’s global website. This means that the Mi Watch Lite is being offered as the global version of the Redmi Watch. It has a square display, and it comes in five colour options of pink, ivory, black, navy blue and olive. There’s no word on the pricing of…
Google, Dell, Intel and a handful of other major tech companies in the IT; and cloud computing industries have banded together to tackle joint problems around security, remote work, and other enterprise issues that have only become more important during the coronavirus pandemic. The consortium these companies have formed is called the Modern Computing Alliance; and its founding members also include Box, Cirtrix, Imprivata, Okta, RingCentral, Slack, VMWare, and Zoom. The Modern Computing Alliance will initially be focused on four areas: performance; security and identity; remote work, productivity, and collaboration; and health care. The goal is to pool knowledge and…
Justice N.I. Buba of the Federal High Court, Enugu, Enugu State, on Thursday, December 10, 2020, committed Dr Isidore Ojukwu Nwankwo to prison for fraud. Nwankwo, former Rector, Enugu Polytechnic, Ndeabor, Ani-Nri, Local Government Area, was prosecuted by the Enugu Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on six-counts charges, bordering on conspiracy and obtaining money under false pretense to the tune of N1,153,700.00 (One Million, One Hundred and Fifty-three Thousand, Seven Hundred Naira), being the amount he obtained by fraud from some students of the school in contravention of Section 1(1)(a) of Advance Fee Fraud and…