Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan is facing a crisis within his party centered around his assumed intention to run for another term in the 2015 election. His critics say it would violate an unwritten rule that power should rotate between the largely…
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At least 22 people were killed in a raid in restive central Nigeria on Thursday, locals said, in the second such attack in the area this week. Gunmen opened fire in the predominantly Muslim village of Mavo in the Wase local government area of Plateau…
Game developer CCP Games confirmed yesterday that its much-anticipated and technically-impressive space combat game, EVE: Valkyrie is releasing as an actual, buyable product. More specifically, it will release as an Oculus Rift exclusive at the headset…
There’s no question about the world-changing potential for Google Glass, and the barrage of imitative wearables sure to follow. But a new report from VentureBeat published yesterday reveals that Glass is currently being tested for use in the field…
Confirming a rumor from just a couple of days ago, Sony has confirmed in a press release today that the rumors are true – the company will indeed be selling off its existing PC business citing “drastic changes in the global PC industry.” As expected…
It seems that the next Nexus tablet from Google won’t be made by current partner Asus if a new report out of Asia is accurate. A post on Focus Taiwan cites Chinese newspaper the Commercial Times, which says that HTC has been awarded the contract to…
We greenies are very careful about making claims about climate change in any particular location. Global warming is global; the rising temperatures referred to in the scientific literature are averaged out worldwide. Additionally, we really don’t…
Mega-retailer Amazon has purchased Irvine, California-based game developer Double Helix Games, the company confirmed today. The news broke hours ago, as reported in a post on GameInformer. The acquisition adds further credence to rumors that the company…
It may be hard to believe it, but Twitter only took itself public a mere three months ago. Yet in that time period, Twitter has performed quite well, taking its initial IPO stock price from $38 all the way up to its opening price of $67 this morning…
$100M “Project Lucy” Initiative Heralds New Era of Data-Driven Development LAGOS, Nigeria and NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb. 6, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — IBM (NYSE: IBM) has launched a 10-year initiative to bring Watson and other cognitive systems to Africa in a…
Nigeria’s secret police said on Thursday that it was holding a former militant leader from the oil-rich Niger delta, in the latest crackdown on potential trouble before elections next year. Presidential and parliamentary polls are scheduled for February…
Tens of thousands of people in Nigeria are missing out on vital services because of conflict, with the areas where Boko Haram operates worst affected, the Red Cross said on Thursday. The ICRC said it had helped some 40,000 people hit by the Islamist…
Scientists on Tuesday said they could fill a blank in the history of Central Africa’s pygmies, whose past is one of the most elusive of any community in the world. At a key period in the human odyssey, these hunter-gatherer tribes shunned interbreeding…
If you are a developer, then you know that integrating shipping into an e-commerce site can be a huge pain in the neck. Many of the major carriers like FedEx and UPS use complex APIs like SOAP and XML that many developers say are difficult to work…
Sony’s PC unit has never been a huge performer, and today news is erupting from reliable Asian business publication Nikkei that the Japanese giant is planning on selling off its PC business. According to today’s report, Sony has been in talks with…
LONDON, Feb. 4, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Reportbuyer.com just published a new market research report: Analysis of the Nigerian Patient Monitor Market Urbanisation is the Key Market Growth Driver This research service provides an analysis of patient monitors…
Gunmen killed about 30 people in an early morning raid on two villages in central Nigeria, witnesses said on Tuesday, in the latest violence to hit the region. The police in Plateau state, which has been hit by repeated communal violence, confirmed…
FiftyThree, which makes the award-winning sketchbook app called Paper, is “ripping” into Facebook for naming its new storytelling app “Paper.” In a blog post on FiftyThree’s site today, the company asked Facebook to change the name of their…
The newest trend in tech? Cross-licensing patent agreements, it seems, as Google and Cisco have announced such a deal, hot on the heels of last week’s news of similar agreements between Google and Samsung, and Twitter and IBM. Cisco published a press…
Samsung will be holding its latest Unpacked event at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain on February 24. It’s widely expected that Samsung will introduce the Galaxy S5 at this event, which may end up being released in April. We’ll be at…