Author: Adewale A.

When it comes to China-based online shopping sites, those selling gadgets should be the biggest in terms of store quantity. Especially in Shenzhen, where the majority of electronic gadget factories are located, you can find online gadget shops doing international business everywhere and Gearbest.com is one of them. Store background Although Gearbest leaves an England-based office address on its official website for contact needs, its major operation centre as well as warehouse facilities should be positioned in Shenzhen. It is, in nature, a Chinese online international store serving global buyers. From the Norton Secured (powered by Verisign) identity verification page.…

All may seems to be well with the website of the News agency of Nigeria (NAN) but during my visitation to the website early hour of today, 10th August, I found a hacking trace on the website. From visiting the home page of the website, there was no sign of hacking but while visiting the website’s multimedia page located at http://www.nannewsnigeria.com/hacked-teamcc-kazi-shaheb, I noticed a message in the browser title bar that indicates thus “Hacked by Team_CC || Kazi Shabeb | NAN”. In the body message of the website, you will notice some jargons. See the screenshot taken at the time of my…

The Access MBA Tour – a leading international business education fair – will take place in Lagos on September 19th at the Eko Suites Hotel, the organiser Advent Group announced today. “Access MBA is designed to bridge the distance between aspiring students and elite business schools from around the world through personalised One-to-One meetings between candidates and school representatives” – Christophe Coutat, Advent Group’s Managing Director, said. The One-to-One meetings are aimed at helping prospective students find a top business programme that corresponds to their abilities and expectations. Interviews are customised for each participant in advance, and qualified attendees are…

Watch the video of the Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari’s Meeting with US President Barack Obama in Washington DC, USA. The video was posted on the Facebook page of the U.S. Embassy Nigeria. Watch now and enjoy the discussion! [fbvideo link=”https://www.facebook.com/usembassynigeria/videos/10153533377954874/” width=”640″ height=”450″ onlyvideo=”1″] What do you think about the discussion?

I am sharing this piece to educate the public about raging Visa Lottery scams. I received the following email informing that I have been selected for the America visa lottery I did not apply for. If you received similar, please handle with caution, most especially if you have applied for the lottery.  Here are some hints to determine if the email is genuine: Check the sender email address. In my case, it was “KCC Visa <lillian@walink.com.tw>”. As you can see the address and extension of the mail. Can Lillian be KCC? Can KCC use walink.com.tw. Taiwanese website to say. Check…

Fellow Nigerians, let me confess that in over 30 years of writing no President has ever reacted directly or positively to my constant admonitions, lamentations or commendations. Rather, most of the time, their aides, cronies and acolytes used to fire darts and barbs at us from every direction. We were called unprintable names that our parents did not give us and by now we are so used to being abused and harassed by those who can never learn useful lessons from the past. You can thus fathom a guess as to how I must have felt when Femi Adesina’s call…

Guinness Nigeria Plc, an integral part of Diageo, has partnered with Concern Universal to pioneer a sustainable method of integrating rural sanitation and hygiene promotion with access to safe water. This novel approach which strengthens the 10 year-old Diageo Water of Life project is being implemented by Concern Universal in 10 communities across three local government areas of Cross River State. Inadequate access to safe water and sanitation, coupled with poor hygiene practices, causes the spread of deadly, yet easily preventable, diseases such as diarrhoea, cholera, and typhoid. In Nigeria, where one quarter of the population practice open defecation, over…

Hi there, Fashion lovers! Its time to open your closet and knock out some valuable space as something big and exciting is coming your way in the next few days and as you all know, When it comes to fashion, Jumia lights the way! From men’s fashion to the perfect ensembles for women, trust Jumia to always deliver. Everything stylish and trendy, you will find on the Jumia website. Need we say ‘Brace up!, what’s coming is massive’. And Don’t say we didn’t warn you. Click here to be the first to know. To keep up with updates, simply follow our social media handles;…

Samsung Engineering Academy, a Public Private Partnership (PPP) initiative between Samsung Electronics and the Lagos State government through the World Bank-supported Lagos Eko Secondary School Education Project, has graduated 53 technicians from the academy. The graduands are expected to deepen the pool of well trained technicians in the country. Speaking at the ceremony, Head, Lagos State Eko Secondary School Project, Mrs Folasade Fasehun, applauded Samsung Electronics West Africa for investing in such a critical initiative that has the potential of empowering beneficiaries to become entrepreneurs. “These students have undergone a full year training programme, which comprises basic, intermediate and advanced…

The unexplored territory of Nigeria’s Used Spare Parts Market Carmudi Nigeria takes a tour of Ladipo Market, Lagos Lagos, Nigeria – According to the 2012 statistics released by the Lagos state government, 67% out of the 1.1 million vehicles that were registered in the State were tokunbo vehicles.  A survey conducted by the Nigeria Federal Road Safety Corps shows that 5% of tokunbo cars sold in Nigeria have either been altered from a right wheel drive to a left wheel drive and over 25% of cars sold as tokunbo have been upgraded from a manual transmission to an automatic transmission.…

BitX, a leading international Bitcoin company, has strengthened their position as the leading Bitcoin player in Africa by launching in Nigeria, Africa’s largest consumer market. BitX CEO, Marcus Swanepoel, commented: “We are very excited to launch a broad suite of Bitcoin products and services to the Nigerian market, all with the view of making it easier for Nigerian consumers and businesses to buy, sell, store and transact in Bitcoin.” For the first time, Nigerians will now be able to buy or sell bitcoin instantly using Nigerian naira using the mobile BitX Wallet on iOS and Android, trade Bitcoin on the…

While Windows 10 is due to be released next month, Microsoft has released an amazing guide for the developers. Experts Jerry Nixon and Andy Wigley, of the Developer’s Guide to Windows 10 Preview take an in-depth look at the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) and show you how Windows capabilities and social integration can help you create amazing experiences on devices running Windows 10, including phones, tablets, PCs, and even (coming soon) Xbox! Jerry and Andy offer demo-rich Windows 10 goodness, explore cool new features, and share practical guidance. Each module lasts about 30 minutes, so you can check out the…

The Dakar Rally is one of the most famous motor races in the world. Since its inception in 1978, the rally has attracted participants and fans from all over the world. Despite the inclusion of “rally” in the name, the Dakar Rally is actually an off-road endurance race. It is something that is actually known as “rally raid” rather than a truly conventional rally. Drivers inflict themselves to far more treacherous terrain – crossing dunes, mud, camel grass, and rocks can all be expected on the route – than a normal rally. This means that these guys compete in off-road…

Technology translates into increased efficiency and productivity, cost reductions, and the effective management and storage of data. Over the last 20 years, many business and economic sectors have enjoyed the extraordinary benefits that stem from technological advances in their production processes, as well as in their marketing and analytics. As expected, the private sector was the first one to adapt to the fresh advent of technology, but the public sector is quickly catching up. Federal agencies and institutions tend to be the first to implement new technologies and software, but state and local institutions are quickly catching up as well. State…

MTN Foundation, the corporate social investment vehicle of leading ICT company in Nigeria, MTN, has joined Oracle, a company that engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in the data center, to give further ICT training to select MTNF scholars. The collaboration will see two projects come to fruition: a bursary funded by Oracle for one student to attend the CERN openlab Summer School in Switzerland, and plans to train up to 2,000 MTNF scholars in database design and SQL and Java programming skills. “At MTN, we believe that education is pivotal to the growth of…

The world is changing faster than we ever imagined some decades ago. The increased penetration of technology across the globe especially through mobile phone has changed the way we live and work. Like never before the adoption of mobile phones has enhanced in many ways, economic and social activity on the continent of Africa and Nigeria in particular. A recent study shows that 90 percent of access to the internet in Nigeria is done via mobile devices. In view of this development, and motivated by the need to help Nigerians stay in touch with new opportunities through the internet, Nigeria’s…

The selected site will receive a $10,000 grant for the advancement of apheresis education and research LAKEWOOD, Colo. May 7 , 2015 (BUSINESS WIRE/ME NewsWire)– Terumo BCT, a global medical device manufacturing company, is seeking applications from around the world for a $10,000 grant to further the practice and positive impact of therapeutic apheresis. The Terumo BCT 2015 Advancing Apheresis Award is for clinicians, physicians and operators who are leaders in the practice of therapeutic apheresis and cell collections. The deadline for applications is 4 September 2015. KEY FACTS: To apply for the award or learn more about it, go to TERUMOBCT.COM/advancingapheresis The…

HOUSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE/ ME NewsWire)– Frontera Resources Corporation (AIM: FRR), an independent international oil and gas exploration and production company, today announces a milestone at its gas operations in Georgia. Since commencing gas production operations in April 2014 from the Mtsare Khevi Gas Complex, located within the Sagarejo District of its eastern Georgia, Block 12 contract area, Frontera has successfully marked one year of gas production operations. Over the past year, Frontera’s installation of a 14-kilometer network of gathering, processing and pipeline transportation facilities culminated in the initiation of gas production operations from the Company’s ongoing drilling operations. Continuous gas sales…

COLOMBES, France. May 6, 2015 (BUSINESS WIRE/ME NewsWire) Oberthur Technologies (OT), a world leader in digital security solutions for the mobility space today announced the strengthening of its long-standing partnership with Swedbank with a 6-year renewal contract to provide Sweden, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania with payment cards, personalization and Smart Services. Since 2009, OT has been the sole supplier of Swedbank, in order to support the bank in its objective to strengthen and broaden its card programs, in the countries where Swedbank operates and issues payment cards. For the next six years, OT will provide all Swedbank’s contact and dual…

Demonstration of an Ultra HD TV transmission from an SES satellite at 19.2 degrees East using existing DVB UHD Phase 1 specifications and BBC Research & Development’s High Dynamic Range (HDR) technology directly to a Samsung SUHD TV. BBC R&D’s Hybrid Gamma (HDR) technology enables simultaneous delivery of Standard Dynamic Range to existing UHD TVs and High Dynamic Range to new generation UHD TVs from the same content payload. Samsung SUHD TVs represent the next generation of consumer display technology, fully equipped to receive the next generation of premium audio visual content. The CAS-protected UHD TV transmission is received directly…