Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos this week has sold more than $3.1 billion worth of shares in his company; according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission compiled by OpenInsider. The deals were essential for a prearranged 10b5-1 exchanging arrangement, as indicated by the filings. Earlier this year, Bezos sold more than $4.1 billion worth of offers in the organization. The business this week bring his absolute money out in 2020 to marginally more than $7.2 billion up until now. He actually possesses in excess of 54 million offers; worth more than $170 billion, making him the most extravagant individual…
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WhatsApp on Thursday announced the launch of disappearing messages. This feature has been in testing since last year. As the name suggests; this feature will automatically delete messages from chats once the time limit reaches. WhatsApp has set the time limit for disappearing messages to seven days. This means that messages sent will disappear from the chat after seven days since they were sent. Both users in a WhatsApp chat have the option enable/disable disappearing messages. For group chats, only the admin will have control over disappearing messages. The feature will take effect only once it’s turned on, and older…
BlackBerry owners had known it was coming for six months. TCL, which had been making Android phones under the BlackBerry name since 2017, was out; “no longer selling BlackBerry-branded mobile devices”. Then, just 12 days before the deadline and the latest in a long line of blows to BB phone fans, in steps Texas tech company Onward Mobility with promises of a new 5G Android BlackBerry in 2021. “I want more information to be released on the new BlackBerry,” Redditor petiteging posted on the r/blackberry subreddit a few weeks later. “I’m dying to know more; been a user for 10…
The House of Representatives Committee on Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) as agreed that operatives of the corps will begin to bear arms to curtail the excesses of road some users in the country. The Chairman of the committee, Mr Akinfolarin Mayowa, said this during the corps’ 2020 budget performance and 2021 budget defence, on Thursday, November 5, in Abuja. He said that the 1992 Act of FRSC allowed the corps to bear arms, adding, however, that this had yet to be implemented. The chairman said it was necessary that the laws of the land were obeyed to allow the…
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has set up a four-man fact-finding team to visit Oyigbo in Rivers State over reports of killings in the area. This was contained in a statement issued by the NBA President, Olumide Akpata on Thursday, November 5. This comes in the wake of reports of Nigerian soldiers going from house to house searching for Igbo youths. Allegedly, many of them have been killed and several others subject to various degrees of abuse and maltreatment. The development in Oyigbo is said to have followed attacks on security operatives during the EndSARS protest crisis, which Rivers State…
The Federal Government (FG), on Wednesday, November 4, has denied reports making the rounds that a no-fly list of “hundreds of Nigerians” the government suspects of promoting the #EndSARS protest has been compiled. This rebuttal by the FG came in the wake of online reports which alleged that Rauf Aregbesola, the Minister of Interior, was responsible for the list. This was denied in a series of tweets on Tuesday by Aregbesola who said it was fake news. “The Ministry of Interior did not, has not; and will not generate any no-fly list. Ignore fake news please!” the FG ministry tweeted.…
Google Project Zero team is well-known for discovering vulnerabilities and bugs in Google’s own software as well as that developed by other companies. Its methodology involves identifying security flaws in software and privately reporting them to vendors, giving them 90 days to fix them before public disclosure. Depending upon the complexity of the fix required, it sometimes also offers additional days in the form of a grace period. In specific scenarios, companies may even be given less than the standard 90 days to fix issues before Google publicly announces them. Over the past couple of years, the team has revealed…
It has been reported that soldiers deployed in the streets of Beere in Ibadan, Oyo State; to curb the #EndSARS protests by the Nigerian Army have been caught on camera; flogging a woman for what they termed ‘indecent dressing’. This Nigerian Army personnel, who were chanting ‘#EndSARS’, also shaved the heads of some youths said to be wearing improper hairstyles. In a video that has since gone viral, a young lady wearing a spaghetti-strapped dress; and orange-coloured hairstyle is made to sit on the bare floor at a filling station; while a soldier whips her buttocks. The lady begs the…
Aregbesola reveals reason behind rejection of new prisoners by correctional facilities The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola on Tuesday, November 3, explained the reason correctional centres in the country had been rejecting new suspects sent to them by the police. According to Aregbesola, the authorities of the centres were doing so; because the process of sending the suspects to them did not follow COVID-19 protocols. The Infostride gathered that correctional facilities have rejected many suspects sent to them by the police. The situation has left people with different speculations. However, speaking after defending his Ministry’s 2021 budget proposal before the…
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, on Tuesday, November 3, said that 1,590 suspects have been arrested across the country in respect of the #EndSars protest which turned violent after it was hijacked by hoodlums. Adamu said this while addressing police officers and newsmen at the Lagos State Command Headquarters, Ikeja, during a courtesy visit to burnt police formations and injured police officers in Lagos. The IGP commended his officers for showing professionalism during the protest by showing restraint and not engaging the protesters violently. “When they campaigned against SARS they came up with five demands and after about…