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If you aren't from Nigeria, the news of Boko haram attacks in some parts of Nigeria must have hit your airwaves from time to time. While the president of Nigeria love to state that that the terrorist organization has been technically defeated, a lot remains to be seen if these attacks will one day seize to occur. As the President of Nigeria Muhammadu Buhari celebrates another term in office after ousting the former Vice President of Nigeria in the just concluded 2019 elections. It is a time to respect the people's decision and focus on what the Buhari administration has done for Nigerians and what it hopes to do in this coming dispensation. In the space of 4 years, we Nigerians have seen our borders shut to curtail the effect of smuggling from neighboring African countries and the promotion of buying local content over foreign ones. It was a time where 41 items that were draining our foreign reserves were barred from coming into the country, and the promotion of agri...

If you have just experienced the GOTV E48-32 Error on your device, I want to assure you to be calm and stop panicking. It is not the time to start calling their customer care line or start looking for an installer either. Understand that the decoder and cables connected to your device are machines and can sometimes malfunction. Sometimes it is as a result of human activities, at other times, it is not so as we claim. When you experience the GOTV E48-32, the first thing you ought to do is to unplug your GOTV decoder, insert it in your neighbor's device and try to see if it will work with their antenna. If it does, you now have a cable or antenna problem. At this stage, most people have started calling their service centers, but as I said before, it is not the time to panic. The cable used to connect to your GOTV device in Nigeria or Kenya is cooper. Meaning, if it is manhandled roughly, it will break internally without you even knowing. In order not to fall prey to installer...

On February 23rd and March 16th, 2019, National and State elections were held in almost every nook and cranny of Nigeria to elect representatives that will serve for another four years. As harmless as that sounds, it wasn't what we expected that marred the elections and why it was considered as one of the worst elections in the history of this country. It was the continuous effort of the incumbent elected officers to continue holding on to power even to the detriment of people's right and subjection of people's will. In the North was the alleged dollar embezzler Governor Ganduje of Kano State, in the West is the threat of Bola Ahmed Tinubu an APC chieftain and member of the leading party in the country. The last camel that broke the straw back was the subjection of the peoples will in Imo State, the South East of Nigeria, where an incumbent Governor had to be declared the winner of his Senate seat by the electoral officer under duress. To a foreigner outs...

 It is no longer news that in February of this year Nigerians will match in their millions to vote for a credible candidate during the upcoming elections. While we are happy that democracy is continuously growing in this country, we cannot, however, stop to look back at what has been a torrid four years for Nigerians. The Buhari administration came into power when Nigeria was going through the most wicked time of corruption in the country. Campaigning on the change mantra, the Apc decided to tackle corruption in all its ramifications. So far, the challenges before it against corruption has not been an easy one in the past four years. From the house of assembly to the highest court in the land, the Buhari administration has faced countless challenges.  However, it is still left to be seen if they contributed to their downfall. As the general election draws near, millions of people are asking the same questions: are we going to continue being the poverty capital of the...

The West African countries of Ghana and Nigeria have an ongoing rivalry between them akin to that of siblings. From football, to politics, to entertainment, citizens of each country always want to demonstrate their superiority over the other, howbeit not in a hateful or biased manner. It is always more bants than facts. There have been several episodes, of ‘social media wars’ or ‘Twitter Fights’ between citizens of both countries that leaves us all clutching our stomach with laughter. Through it all though, it is obvious that it is all love and sport. In this post, we attempt to give reasons why Nigerians, despite the rivalry with their Ghanian counterparts, should visit the Gold Coast. Just like Nigeria, Ghana is rich in history, mineral resources, culture, tradition and places of interest to see and visit. Many Nigerians do not even know that in Ghana you have Hausa and Fulani speaking people like there are in Nigeria. Cousins   Ghanians are like cousins to Nigeri...

Before 2015, nobody would have known what freelancing was going to become in future for Nigerians until President Buhari was elected into power. The turn of events that followed made it even worse for the present government and today, freelancers in Nigeria are benefiting from it. Oil prices nosedived to an all-time low because Iran came back from sanctions, the market became saturated, and the US started producing its oil. Internally, Nigeria began fighting the Niger-Delta militants who utterly destroyed federal government and individual oil properties in the South-South. Desperate times they say calls for drastic measures. The government with a shortage of Forex and in it's bid to curb the excess demand for Forex by Nigerians decided to ban certain goods and services from accessing Forex and from being imported into the country. This move, furthermore raised inflation prices, and the hunt for dollars became a real deal. Freelancers who earn fo...

  The growth of cyber security has been electrifying these few years, but it didn't come without some measure of worst things as well. For cyber security professionals, building a better defense system becomes a priority as cyber criminals are becoming smarter by the day. Since mobile app came into play , it is no longer a level playing field for both professionals and criminals. 2016 will no doubt remind us of the potential cyber security possess to become a leading force in any economy, likewise, we are hoping our 2018 predictions will be a good bet for it. Legislation to protect our security In the era of IoT, privacy will be a thing of the past as critical data about individual persons and companies will be breached leaving no holds barred. Corporate data like emails of top CEOs can be sold on the black market from an intense data theft. The consequences can be disastrous that is why punitive legislative laws need to be in place to curb that. Digital ...