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- 1 Mar 2016
Wikimedia Calls on Nigerians to Write Wikipedia Articles.
Wikipedia has come a long way since it was established in January 15, 2001. At first, the founder of the encyclopedia, Jimmy Wales wondered if the project will survive. The first version of Wikipedia…
- 29 Feb 2016
You Don't Need to be Professor to Edit Wikipedia -- Olatunde Isaac
Wikipedia, the world largest encyclopedia was established on 15th January 2001 by Jimmy Wales with the vision to create a digital encyclopedia that is based on a model of openly editable content. The…
- 24 Oct 2013
Airtel, Wikimedia Foundation Partner Offer Subscribers Free Access to Wikipedia
Airtel, and the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that operates Wikipedia, on Thursday announced a strategic partnership to provide Airtel’s customers access to the knowledge and information…
- 13 Sept 2017
Wikipedia Partners WUGN to Increase Nigerian Women Visibility Online
Wikipedia, the world largest encyclopedia says it will increase Nigerian women visibility on the internet through its affiliate, Wikimedia Nigeria. Mr Olaniyan Olushola, President, Wikimedia User…
- 28 Oct 2025
Musk Launches Grokipedia to Rival Wikipedia
Elon Musk’s company xAI has launched Grokipedia to compete with online encyclopedia Wikipedia, which he has accused of ideological bias. Elon Musk The site dubbed version 0.1 had more than 885,000…
- 23 Jun 2026
Wikipedia Founder Warns AI Still Makes Too Many Mistakes to Be Trusted
Wikipedia co-founder, Jimmy Wales, has said the online encyclopedia will not allow artificial intelligence (AI) systems to directly edit articles on its platform due to concerns over the reliability…
- 6 Nov 2018
Cashless Society: Is Nigeria Winning
By Adeniyi Ogunfowoke Technology is forcing both developed and emerging economies to innovate. The cashless society is one such innovation. Cashless society according to Wikipedia…
- 6 Dec 2016
5 Reasons Nigeria Has Turned Dumping Ground for eWastes
Wikipedia describes electronic waste or e-waste as discarded electrical or electronic devices. It added that they are used electronics which are destined for reuse, resale, salvage, recycling or…
- 31 Jul 2021
Rachael Oniga, Veteran Nollywood Actress is Dead
Racheal Oniga, popular Nollywood actress, is dead. She was 64 year-old. Rachael Oniga The movie star reported died from covid-19 complications. According to Wikipedia, Oniga originally from…
- 25 Jun 2026
ICFJ, Wikimedia Honour Nigerian, African Journalists for Outstanding Reporting
International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), in partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation, has named three African journalists as recipients of the 2026 Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards, with two…
- 23 Nov 2018
WikiMaster App Unveils New JAMB Exam Preparation Portal
An online portal that will help students prepare for JAMB Examinations called WikiMaster App has unveiled. The new portal built for Nigeria and West Africa Students who are preparing for Jamb exams…
- 6 Jul 2022
Meta’s AI Machine Translation Research Helps Break Language Barriers
Meta has announced that it has built and open sourced ‘No Language Left Behind’ NLLB-200, a single AI model that is the first to translate across 200 different languages, including 55 African…
- 25 Mar 2015
Google, Facebook Build “Digital Prisons” in Nigeria, Others with Internet Freebies
Google and Facebook are at the forefront of a scramble to win over new African Internet users, offering freebies they say give a leg-up to the poor but which critics argue is a plan to lock in…
- 22 Oct 2015
GoMyWay.com Unleashes Carpooling, Traffic Solution in Lagos
GoMyWay, a ride-sharing marketplace connecting passengers with ride owners going along the same route, said it has secured over $100,000 funding from investors to develop carpooling infrastructure…
- 30 Jan 2016
5 Simple Instagram Marketing Ideas
Instagram is all about pictures. Models, gourmet businesses and a few others have taken advantage of this visual-inspired social media platform to grow their brands. With Instagram, one can increase…
- 18 Feb 2016
5 Foolproof to Retain Webcam Privacy
‎It is a known fact that anything that is connected to the internet can be compromised. Hackers always clasp their hands in excitement when they see a loophole which they can take advantage of.…
- 9 Mar 2016
Focus Softnet Launches 75% Price Cut To Assist SMEs, Others Fix ERP Challenges
Focus Softnet Nigeria Limited has launched a whopping 75% price cut, aimed at helping Small and Medium Enterprises (SME), and multinationals leverage her ERP solutions to deepen their resource…
- 11 Mar 2016
Tips to Protect your iPhone
The iPhone is arguably the most sophisticated phone in the world. It is stylish, innovative and avant-garde. The more iPhone’s are widely used, the more hackers manipulate ways to attack this…
- 29 May 2016
WesternMall Will Curb eCommerce Related Phishing eMails- Idehen
WesternMall, an e-commerce platform with fondness for bridging the gap existing in person to person (P2P) e-commerce and also business to business (B2B) trading between Nigeria and the rest of the…
- 3 Jun 2016
Data Sovereignty Key To ‘Local’ Data Center Growth, CyberSecurity- ATCON
Association of telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) has identified proactive data sovereignty policy framework as sine qua non for cyber and national security drives. Mr. Olusola Teniola,…
- 29 Jun 2016
Deloitte/LBS Business Insights Forum Due for Launch
Deloitte, notable for providing industry-leading audit, consulting, tax, and advisory services to many of the world's most admired brands and Lagos Business School (LBS), the graduate business school…
- 30 Jun 2016
Opportunities and Challenges of eVoting in Nigeria
Option A4 was a simple, perhaps, a funny electoral system – voters stood in a single file and together with the electoral officer they counted 1, 2, 3, 4 and kept counting to the end of the line. At…
- 27 Jul 2016
5 Reasons Nigerian Travellers Should Play Pokémon Go
Pokémon Go fever is catching almost everyone including Nigerians. Even though the game is yet to be released in Nigeria, tech geeks have found ways to download the game using APK. Currently, the game…
- 18 Sept 2016
Top 10 Tools Offering Free Plagiarism Detection
Plagiarism considered as academic dishonesty is the "wrongful appropriation" and "stealing and publication" of another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions" and the representation of…
- 29 Nov 2016
Recession: Nigerians Besiege MMM Website
Inspite warnings by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mavrodi Mundial Movement (MMM) scheme has won several hearts across Nigerians, no thanks to the recession. МММ was a Russian company that…
- 19 Jan 2017
3D Printing to Disrupt Selected Manufacturing Techniques- DHL
DHL in its Trend Report, ‘3D Printing and the Future of Supply Chains,’ said that 3D printing will disrupt selected manufacturing techniques. 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing (AM),…
- 27 Dec 2016
Whistleblowing- a Way to Go for Nigeria?
The Minister of Finance recently announced incentives for whistleblowers as one of the strategies of combating corruption. Since the announcement, the social media has been agog with reactions…
- 12 Jan 2017
Top 5 Tech Trends to Watch In 2017
Technology is one of the most dynamic industries in the world. It keeps changing and improving at a geometric sequence. So, expect ground-breaking innovation and changes in technology this year. So,…
- 16 Jan 2017
5 Interesting Facts About Artificial Intelligence
The next big thing in the technology world is artificial intelligence (AI). Big tech organisations like Apple and Google are aggressively investing in AI. Google has been partnering Oxford University…
- 17 Feb 2017
NCC to Tighten Noose on Call Refiling, Masking & Sim-Box Fraud
Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) said it has zero tolerance for ‘Communications Fraud’ in the market. Communications Fraud entails the use of telecommunications products or services…