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Beware: How Hackers Unlock, Steal Vehicles + How to Protect Yours

May 17, 2022 ADEOLA YUSUF

The Nigerian Communications Commission has revealed that hackers now unlock vehicles for purpose of stealing and other vices, saying the new trend also offers hackers the opportunity to make away with the cars. According to the NCC, the ongoing cyber-vulnerability allows a nearby hacker to unlock vehicles, start their engines wirelessly and make away with cars. READ ALSO: How to Escape Poverty, Personal Financial Problem, Expert Gives Practical Tips Tesla makes first shipment of cars from reopened Shanghai plant – media BREAKING: Nigeria Slashes Customs Duty On Tokunbo Vehicles Nigeria’s…

Meet Ifeoma Uddoh, SelectUSA Tech Pitch Contest Winner

May 10, 2022 ADEOLA YUSUF

How the Shecluded founder who got selected for a google black founders program last year, qualified for a complimentary ticket to attend the annual SelectUSA Investment Summit in Washington Nigerian Fintech entrepreneur, Ifeoma Uddoh, has won this year’s SelectUSA Tech Nigeria Pitch Competition. Platforms Africa reports that the feat hashqualified her for a complimentary ticket to attend the annual SelectUSA Investment Summit in Washington from 26-29 June. Uddoh, 2021 Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) alumna, is the founder of Shecluded, a fintech startup bridging financial inclusion gap among women of…

MTN, Airtel, Glo, 9mobile To Slam 40% Tariffs Hike On Nigerians

May 5, 2022 ADEOLA YUSUF

N100 recharge card, data to now worth N60 Telecommunication Operators of Nigeria, ALTON have recommended an upward adjustment in call and SMS tariffs to cushion the increasing cost of operation in Nigeria. Making the proposal in a letter to the Nigerian Communications Commission, the association lamented that the cost of doing business in the country had risen by 40 per cent. The association claimed that the telecommunications industry had been financially harmed by an economic downturn that occured in 2020 and the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. READ ALSO: MTN Loses 1.3…

World Richest Man, Elon Musk, Buys Twitter For $44bn

April 26, 2022April 26, 2022 ADEOLA YUSUF

The CEO of Tesla Motors has eventually bought microblogging company, Twitter, for a whopping $44 billion dollars Twitter confirmed it will sell the Company for $44 billion dollars to the CEO of Tesla Motors, Elon Musk on Monday. READ ALSO Elon Musk Stakes $2.9bn, Becomes Twitter’s Top Shareholder Twitter Ready To Sell Firm To World Richest Man, Elon Musk Nigeria lifts ‘Use Twitter, Go to Jail” Order on Citizens Elon Musk said “Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where…

Twitter Ready To Sell Firm To World Richest Man, Elon Musk

April 25, 2022April 26, 2022 ADEOLA YUSUF

World richest man and Chief Executive Officer of Tesla motors, Elon Musk, is on the verge of buying Twitter. The microblogging site confirmed that its representatives are in talks to sell the company to Musk. Platforms Africa reports quoting New York Times that the 11-member board was negotiating with Musk into the early hours of Monday over his unsolicited bid to buy the company, after he began lining up $46.5 billion in financing for the offer last week. READ ALSO; Nigeria lifts ‘Use Twitter, Go to Jail” Order on Citizens…

Broken, 420, S3x, GNOC, 28 Slangs Teens Use To Outsmart Parents Decoded

April 24, 2022March 29, 2023 ADEOLA YUSUF

“Your teenage children know far more than you think. And if you think parenting is still the same as what our parents did, You will fail.” Here is what to know about their new slangs, the meaning and what to do With the incessant cases of crimes by minors and parenting failures rocking the society, Platforms Africa, in continuation of its solution journalism, decoded some slangs that children with internet enabled-phones use to communicate with one-another keeping their parents in the dark. To all the Parents, since the children…

What To Know About Blockchain, Emerging Technology for Business Prosperity

April 24, 2022 ADEOLA YUSUF

Platforms Africa chronicles the brainstorming session of the NCC, Stakeholders on Blockchain’s Benefits to the Nigeria’s economy and why every unbusiness-minded individuals and entities may soon be left behind The DLT, such as Blockchain, DAG; Hashgraph; Holochain; Tempo (Radix), is a digital system for recording transactions of assets at multiple places simultaneously, Platforms Africa has gathered. The key features of DLT include:immutability (once written, it is extremely difficult to alter), and peer-to-peer sharing, in the sense that ledger is shared among peers while there is no central ownership. And,…

How To Use Google To Monitor, Protect Your Children’s Internet Activities

April 20, 2022April 20, 2022 ADEOLA YUSUF

14 steps to monitor and protect your children who use iPhones, Android and other internet-enabled phones From Anywhere It is no longer news as everyone has in one way or the other heard about or seen the viral leaked sex video of the teenage Chrisland Secondary school girl. The news broke when the video which is said to have been hidden from public for about two months surfaced on the internet. It is said that the incident occurred since two months ago but the school authority had kept it out…

Teams Stemlab, Rocket: Meet FSI/FUTMinna Hackathon Winners

April 14, 2022 ADEOLA YUSUF

Participants were drawn from 21 universities across the country, Executive Director, FSI, Aituaz Kola-Oladejo, says in a statement sent to Platforms Africa Winners have emerged in the final round of the ‘IncludeMe’ virtual Hackathon competition, the FSI/FUTMinna innovation challenge, which was held on Tuesday, April 12, 2022. Platforms Africa reports that Team Stemlab defeated nine other contestants to emerge victorious, carting home a grand prize of N1.5 million while the 1st runner-up, Team Rocket, went away with a whopping N1 million and Team EarNest came third, earning N750, 000.…

Nigerian Journalist Aaron Ukodie’s Daughter Graduates From Jo’burg Varsity

April 14, 2022April 14, 2022 ADEOLA YUSUF

Proud father, a prominent IT editor, pens emotional tribute, reveals how he struggled to raise thousands of dollars to send two daughters to Lee University, Cleveland, U.S., and University of Johannesburg and how Bernice’s educational journey almost ended halfway Bernice, daughter of a Nigerian Journalist and author, Aaron Ukodie, has graduated From the University of Johannesburg. Platforms Africa reports that Bernice, a graduate of Accountancy, is the second daughter after her sister, Sharon, graduated from Lee University, Cleveland, U.S., to have finished from a University abroad. READ ALSO: Top…