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Google to accept naira payment on Play Store

Google has partnered with Verve to make digital transactions on Google Play Store easier for Nigerians. The firm noted that as from Wednesday, Nigerians could now use their Verve cards to make purchases on the Google Play Store. It stated that under its new partnership, Google would process Verve transactions within Nigeria, and the transactions would be undertaken in naira and treated as local…
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How to obtain invite to Meta’s new app, Threads

Giant tech company, Meta, will officially launch its own microblogging app, Threads on Thursday. With the structure of its service, Threads will ultimately serve as a competitor to the popular social media platform, Twitter. The launch comes in the wake of a new feature…
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Google has introduced an artificial intelligence alternative to ChatGPT.

Google has released a new AI-powered chatbot called Bard, which is designed to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Bard is an experimental conversational AI service that is powered by Google’s LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications). LaMDA is a large language model that has been trained on a massive dataset of text and code. This allows Bard to generate text, translate languages, write…
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Airtel's Established Digital Health Insurance Partner

Airtel Nigeria has partnered with AXA Mansard to launch a digital health insurance scheme to provide access to basic health care consultation and minor treatment for customers on the telco’s network. The telco explained that the health bundle will give its customers the…
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Why is Nigeria poor despite its potential?

The Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Adeleke Mamora, has given reasons why Nigeria remains a poor country despite being blessed. The minister, who spoke at a workshop aimed at accelerating small hydropower investments in Nigeria, said the lack of capacity to…
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MTN investors will buy dividend shares at N232.68.

MTN Nigeria has announced the price for its shares per unit under the scrip dividend plan for interested shareholders. In a corporate notice filed with the Nigerian Exchange Limited on Thursday, the firm said that reference share price would be N232.68, which was lower than its share value at the end of trading on Wednesday, which stood at N240 per unit. MTN in March proposed a scrip dividend plan…
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Tech Expert Warns INEC About BVAS, IReV - NCS President

What are your thoughts on the performance of BVAS and IReV during the presidential and National Assembly elections?  The BVAS device in that election performed its role. BVAS is just an accreditation device; it was developed to ensure that only accredited voters can vote…
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FCMB Recommends Nigerian Company for WEF Award

The First City Monument Bank has expressed its delight in Babban Gona, a Nigeria-based high-impact social enterprise, for winning the Schwab Award for Social Entrepreneurship at the World Economic Forum annual meeting which held in Davos, Switzerland. Babban Gona is an…
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TECNO PHANTOM V Fold is a game changer.

PHANTOM V Fold offers a 120Hz flagship dual screen, and a powerful 5-lens photography system for an unparalleled crease-free large-screen experience. Yesterday, TECNO’s premium sub-brand, PHANTOM, launched a new flagship smartphone, the PHANTOM V Fold, marking the brand’s emphatic entrance into the foldable device market. The phone delivers an immersive visual experience through an optimally…
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