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Young people who have obtained digital knowledge through Informatics Institute, Kazaure or the various interventions that Mr. Kashifu has developed throughout the State must understand the need to key into these initiatives with a view to taking away ways and methods that such knowledge could be utilised for economic gains.
Many will agree with me that the major identity that qualifies any society to be part of the new world is digitisation and once it is adopted and consolidated upon, such society becomes connected to the world by way of intellectual and economic development.
It is also not news that Jigawa had long identified ICT and digitisation through the initiation of the Galaxy Backbone fibre internet company, as well as the famous Kazaure Informatics. The subject matter of this write up, Mr. Kashifu Inuwa, is well informed about this and can be said to, in a way, be a product of such initiative. Jigawa is today blessed with numerous human resour
WhatsApp virus : Hoax warning resurfaces online in Pakistan
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Social media posts claim that a malicious video titled “Argentina” is circulating on WhatsApp and will hack your phone within 10 seconds. Most of these posts attribute the warning to Pakistan’s National Information Technology Board (NITB). The claim is misleading: the message is a hoax which has previously circulated in several other countries. Online archives show the NITB tweeted a warning about the hoax message on January 11, 2021 but later removed it.
“NITB Cyber Alerts,” reads a Facebook post shared on January 11, 2021 by Facebook page TechRupt, which has more than 100,000 followers.
Multiple social media posts shared in January 2021 claim that a malicious video entitled “Argentina” is circulating on WhatsApp and will hack your phone within 10 seconds. Most of these posts attribute the warning to Pakistan’s National Information Technology Board (NITB). The claim is misleading: the message is a hoax which has previously circulated in several other
How Will Nigerians Spend $451 Million Bitcoin Cryptocurrency in 2021? By Wayan Vota on December 23, 2020
Paxful, a leading peer-to-peer bitcoin marketplace, reports that Nigeria is now has the world’s second largest Bitcoin trading volume. Nigerians have traded 60,215 Bitcoins in the last five years, or more than $566 million USD.
Bitcoin trading volume was already growing at 20% per year. Then 2020 happened and created a 30% trading spike, with over 20,500 coins traded, or $451 million USD in this year alone. Obviously, COVID-19 pandemic response fulled interest in cryptocurrencies. Yet that isn’t the full reason that Paxful reported a 137% increase in new registrations in Nigeria this year.