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BusinessNewsNigeriaMeta deletes 63,000 Facebook accounts of ‘Yahoo Boys’

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)July 25, 2024

The US-based firm ‘Meta’ has removed 63,000 ‘Yahoo Boys’ Facebook accounts belonging to Nigerians suspected to be engaging in financial sextortion. ‘Yahoo Boys’ is a term for describing Internet scams in Nigeria. The firm in a statement on Wednesday, titled, Combating Financial Sextortion Scams From Nigeria’, said the removal of the 63,000 is a punitive measure against criminal activities. “We’ve banned Yahoo Boys under Meta’s Dangerous Organizations and Individuals Policy, one of our strictest policies...

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NewsWhatsApp launches private broadcast service ‘Channels’ in 150 countries

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)September 14, 2023

Meta has announced the launch of its ‘Channels’ feature for broadcast messages on WhatsApp in 150 countries globally. The feature was launched on Wednesday, according to a Facebook post by Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s CEO “Today we are starting to roll out WhatsApp channels globally and adding thousands of new channels that people can follow in WhatsApp,” the post read. WhatsApp Channels is a new private way for users to get updates from people and organisations...

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NewsWhatsApp rolls out video messaging features

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)July 30, 2023

WhatsApp users can now record and share short personal videos of up to 60 seconds directly in WhatsApp chats, Meta says. The new feature was announced last Thursday. Meta said the video messaging feature builds on their voice message feature, allowing users to send short personal videos directly in chats. “Video messages are a real-time way to respond to chats with whatever you want to say and show in 60 seconds,” Meta’s said. “We think...

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NewsNigeriaMusk accuses Zuckerberg of stealing Twitter’s intellectual property

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)July 8, 2023

Following the launch of Threads, a social media platform that has been dubbed ‘Twitter killer’, Elon Musk has accused Meta of trade secret theft through the hiring of ‘dozens’ of former Twitter employees. Threads, an Instagram-linked platform, went live on Wednesday evening with 30 million user sign-ups less than 24 hours after launching. The app’s concept bears similarities to Twitter’s core functionality, where users can reply to and conversationally build upon existing tweets. Meta’s CEO,...

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BusinessNewsNigeriaMeta to launch Twitter’s rival app, Threads on Thursday

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)July 4, 2023

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, plans to launch a Twitter-rivalling micro-blogging app called Threads on Thursday, July 6. Already, Threads is available for pre-order on the Apple app store. “Threads is where communities come together to discuss everything from the topics you care about today to what’ll be trending tomorrow,” the description on the app store reads. Described as “Instagram’s text-based conversation app”, Threads has a similar appearance to Twitter. This...

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NewsNigeriaDrama as pastor attempts to heal a mad woman

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)May 14, 2023

A drama ensued when a pastor tried to heal a mentally deranged woman in the streets of Lagos State. In the video, the pastor was determined to make the woman regain her senses but his efforts were strongly rebuffed by her. As the pastor prayed, the woman kept on hauling insults at him to the amazement of onlookers. The scene captured on camera and shared on TikTok happened at Oyingbo market in Lagos. Read how...

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BusinessTwitter gets a new CEO as Musk steps down in six weeks

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)May 14, 2023

A few hours after announcing that he has hired an unidentified new Chief Executive Officer, CEO, for Twitter, Elon Musk has revealed the identity of the incoming Twitter boss. Musk announced Linda Yaccarino, NBCUniversal’s head of advertising, as his successor on Friday, confirming reports by various United States media that Yaccarino will take up the position as reported by The West African Pilot News. His tweet reads, “I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as...

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BusinessNewsNigeriaElon Musk to step down as Twitter’s CEO, keeps successor’s identity secret

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)May 12, 2023

Micro-blogging platform Twitter will get a new Chief Executive Officer, CEO, in six weeks, Elon Musk says. In a tweet on Thursday, Musk announced that he has hired a new CEO to replace him as the ‘Chief Twit’, a pseudonym he took following his $44 billion acquisition of the social media platform on October 27, 2022, to reflect his new status. Musk says he will become Twitter’s executive chairman and chief technology officer when the...

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NewsNigeriaTwitter reinstates blue ticks of accounts with over 1M followers

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)April 23, 2023

Some Nigerian celebrities who lost their verification badges for failure to subscribe to Twitter Blue have gotten their blue ticks back, leaving many wondering about the reason for the restoration. Twitter’s Chief Executive, Elon Musk introduced a paid verification policy for the micro-blogging platform which took effect on Thursday, April 20. Consequently, many high-profile users who were hesitant to subscribe to the new service lost their blue badges, which is a mark of the authenticity...

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NewsNigeria60-year-old woman’s transformation four months after moving to UK surprises netizens

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)January 22, 2023

“The moment you take off from Lagos Airport your skin changes” is one of the reactions on a TikTok video that showed how a woman in her 60’s who has spent only four months in the United Kingdom became unrecognisable. In the before and after photos, the woman looked old and sickly before leaving Nigeria and appeared healthier and younger after getting away from all the suffering in Nigeria for four months. The clip lends...

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