Nigeria news today headlines : Thursday 3rd September 2020
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Apple’s Clash With Fortnite Creator Rouses German Regulator
Apple Inc.’s clash with Epic Games is being followed with “great interest” amid concerns over a duopoly in the app store market, Germany’s antitrust chief Andreas Mundt said on Wednesday. The case highlights that app stores pose competition issues that regulators are only beginning to recognize, Mundt told reporters at the annual press conference of …
India Parliament Panel To Grill Facebook Over Anti-Muslim Posts
An Indian parliamentary committee is to grill Facebook representatives on after the social media giant was accused of bias and not acting against anti-Muslim posts on its platform. Facebook is under scrutiny after a series of reports by the United States-based Wall Street Journal (WSJ) showed the company ignored anti-Muslim hate speeches by governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) …
Flash Floods Kill 24 In Pakistan
At least 24 people were killed, while more than 30 others injured in flash floods and landslides in northern and northwest Pakistan over the last 24 hours, officials and local media reported on Wednesday. Massive rains and flash floods hit several districts of northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province that borders neighboring Afghanistan, killing at least 20 …
Acer Announces New Swift 5, Swift 3 With Intel Tiger Lake
After a whole lot of teasing, Intel announced its 11th-generation mobile processors today. Codenamed Tiger Lake, that means that its time for OEMs to show off their new wares with the new CPUs. For Acer, that includes the Swift 5 (SF514-55), the Swift 3 (SF313-53), and the Swift 3 (SF314-59). The new Swift 5 is …
E2%80%92john-m-olin-medal/ Carol Burns Receives ACS Francis P. Garvan‒John M. Olin Medal
Carol Burns, executive officer for the Deputy Director for Science, Technology & Engineering at Los Alamos National Laboratory, was selected as the recipient of the 2021 American Chemical Society’s (ACS) Francis P. Garvan‒John M. Olin Medal. This national award recognizes distinguished service in the field of chemistry by female chemists. “Carol has been a leader …
T-Mobile Adds Faster Midband 5G Coverage To More Than 80 New Cities, Towns
T-Mobile on Wednesday announced a much wider rollout of its 2.5GHz midband 5G coverage, adding 81 new cities and towns to a total list of 90 markets throughout the US. Midband 5G is much faster and more appropriately fitting of the 5G moniker than the type of low-band 5G we’ve seen from AT&T and T-Mobile and more …
NIH To Boost National COVID-19 Testing Capacity
The National Institutes of Health today announced $129.3 million in scale-up and manufacturing support for a new set of COVID-19 testing technologies as part of its Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) initiative. NIH is awarding contracts to nine companies for technologies that include portable point-of-care tests for immediate results and high-throughput laboratories that can return results …
MFS Africa Drives Cheaper African Remittances With PaySii
MFS Africa is the most interconnected payments platform in Africa and operates the largest digital payments hub on the continent, connecting to over 200m mobile wallets across 35 African countries. It offers its partners unparalleled reach for scale across the continent. Money transfer companies can leverage the ubiquity of mobile wallets as a safe, convenient, …
Nigeria To Investigate Pay-TV Companies Over Subscription Fees Hike
The Nigerian Government said it has opened an investigation on the increase in subscription charges for pay-TV in the country on its citizens.Nigeria’s Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) chief executive officer Babatunde Irukera in a statement said the investigation was in response to announcements by operators of different Pay-TV platforms in the country. …
Lagos Gives Tank Farm Operators One Week To Regulate Facilities
The Lagos State Government has given Tank Farm Operators one week to commence the process of regularising their facilities by filling the application for Planning Permit. This directive was given by the Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Dr. Idris Salako at a meeting with Tank Farm Operators at Alausa, Ikeja on Tuesday. The …
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