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- 29 Jul 2025
Yahoo Mail Halts Free Storage Service, Caps at 20GB
Yahoo Mail has announced a major shift in its storage policy, slashing the free email storage cap to 20GB and rolling out a new subscription model starting at $1.99 per month for 100GB. The change,…
- 30 Nov 2009
Glo Offers Prepaid Blackberry Subscribers free Yahoo mail access
Subscribers of Glo Mobile’s prepaid Blackberry service can now access their internet mails on Yahoo portal free of charge. The development makes Glo the only network in Nigeria offering…
- 16 Feb 2022
FG Outlaws Use of Gmail, Yahoo Mail for Official Business
Isa Pantami, minister of communications and digital economy, has said that the federal government has outlawed the use of generic internet domains for official purposes. Pantami said this on…
- 16 Oct 2016
Yahoo Restores Email Forwarding Service
Yahoo earlier this month turned off the ability to forward users’ email to an outside account. This followed the revelation in late September of a data breach that may have revealed data to hackers…
- 31 Aug 2018
FG to Ban Gmail, Others for Official Work, Mulls .ng
Use of private e-mail networks like Gmail, Yahoo and others will soon be officially banned for all government use, in a renewed security ethos designed to permeate through all tiers of government and…
- 19 Jun 2026
FG Bans Use of Gmail, Other Personal Emails for Civil Service Operations
Federal government has banned the use of personal email accounts, such as Gmail, Yahoo Mail, or Hotmail, for official public-sector transactions, mandating that civil servants transition to a secure,…
- 8 Jan 2016
Report Questions Security of Free e-mail Services
The security and reliability of the most popular free e-mail services, including Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo and FastMail, are lacking. This is according to a recent study conducted by High-Tech Bridge:…
- 8 Dec 2008
Nokia Transforms Internet Experience with N97 Mobile Computer
Nokia has said it is building a world where we can always connect to our friends and loved ones, where we can know what they are doing, where they are and how they are feeling. A world where we can…
- 6 Feb 2012
Banks, Internet Firms Fight Spam
Some of the world's biggest Internet companies and financial services firms have developed a new approach to fighting e-mail spam that they hope will reduce online scams. Facebook, Google and…
- 5 May 2016
Hacker Trades 272m Passwords for Social Media Likes
Security researchers find a hacker bragging online that he'd amassed a mountain of passwords. And he didn't want much in return for them. At least, that's the message coming from a hacker who…
- 2 May 2021
Paradigm Initiative Launches 'Ripoti' a Platform for African Citizens to Call Out Digital Rights Violations
Paradigm Initiative, PIN, has launched ‘Ripoti’, a groundbreaking platform geared towards the protection of digital rights of all African citizens. The platform’s aim is to fight the worrying trend…
- 20 Jul 2020
Experts Seek More Investments in Cloud Computing to Drive Adoption
Experts in the field of technology have called for fresh investments to drive the adoption of cloud computing in Nigeria. This is even as they stressed that Cloud computing has the potential to…
- 23 Sept 2016
Yahoo: 500m Users’ Data Stolen
Yahoo said that "state-sponsored" hackers stole data on about 500 million users in what could be the largest publicly disclosed cyber-breach in history. The breach included swathes of personal…
- 31 Mar 2016
Windows 10 Now Runs On 270m Active Devices
Microsoft's flagship, Windows 10 innovations, deliver more personal computing and opportunities for developers as it now runs on 270 million active devices. Windows 10 was designed to deliver…
- 6 May 2013
Cloud Computing is Future of Business Development – Layo Ajayi
Olufunlayo Ajayi is the country manager of Oracle Corporation in Nigeria, part of the an American multinational computer technology corporation. In the last three years of her stewardship, Ajayi’s…
- 19 Jan 2009
Financial E-mail Spam Soars
Financial scammers’ activities seem to be increasing in spite of effort by stakeholders in the e-payment sector of the economy to educate people on their antis. Last week, some scammers sent…
- 24 Nov 2008
Internet Activities in Nigeria: Ethics and Best Practice
The Internet is those set of networks or machines that uses the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol suite (TCP/IP), connected through gateways and sharing a common name and address (RFC…
- 25 Jul 2016
Yahoo Era Coming to End with $4.8Bn Acquisition by Verizon
Yahoo’s days an independent company has come to an end with Verizon agreed to pay $4.83 billion for its acquisition, the companies said on Monday. The sale completes Yahoo's evolution from…
- 16 Mar 2014
States, Local Govts. Get August Deadline on .ng
State governments’ ministries and parastatals as well as local governments in the country have till August this year to host their websites on the country’s top level domain name .ng, in a bid to…
- 23 Mar 2016
Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Others Publish New Email Security Standard
Engineers from some of the world\'s largest email service providers have gathered to improve the security of email traffic traversing the Internet. Devised by engineers from Google, Microsoft,…
- 28 Mar 2016
Microsoft Meets Private Equity over Yahoo Deal
Microsoft Corp executives are in early talks with potential Yahoo Inc investors about contributing to financing to buy the troubled Internet company, a person familiar with the situation said. …
- 7 Jan 2014
Gileadbalm Group Mulls Gtext e-Commerce Platform
Gileadbalm Group, an Innovative IT solutions company domiciled in Nigeria has perfected plans to launch ‘Gtext.com.ng’ platform for the benefits of online savvy buyers in the country. Speaking to…
- 13 Nov 2008
Nigeria is Ripe for Institute of Cybercrime Monitoring-Uwaje
Dr. Chris Uwaje, is president of Global Network for Cyber Solutions (Organisers of the Conference) and first vice president of the Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON). He is also…
- 30 Aug 2013
Microsoft to Officially Launch MSN Portal in Nigeria
Microsoft Nigeria is on top of plans to officially launch its flagship MSN portal for Nigeria, Nigeria CommunicationsWeek can report. The portal, although already live is scheduled to be commissioned…
- 26 Jan 2009
Managing and Maximizing your Business Website
It is a common feature in Nigeria to see businesses not having websites, the ones that have do not maintain them. Your business website is a representation of your entire business on the World Wide…
- 20 May 2019
ABCON Urges Members to Activate Official emails and Shun Yahoo, Gmail
Association of Bureaux De Change Operators of Nigeria (ABCON) has enjoined all Bureuaux de Change (BDCs) licensed by Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to create or activate over 4,000 official/ corporate…
- 5 May 2018
Nigeria's Internet Fraudsters Focus on Corporate e-mail - Report
West Africa's infamous Internet scammers have shifted their targets from impersonations of online love interests, princes and US soldiers to hijacking corporate e-mails, costing businesses hundreds…
- 10 Nov 2009
Cyber Crime Fight Must Be Fought with Technology –Kola
Kola Olugbodi is the managing director of Background Check International, the arrowhead of the background screening industry in Nigeria and also one of the foremost African members of the National…
- 19 Jul 2010
Towards a Cybercrime Free Society
Nigerians world over are perceived by the international community as criminals, no thanks to the activities of cyber criminals in the country. The nefarious acts of these scammers in no little way…
- 13 Jul 2010
Towards a Cybercrime Free Society
Nigerians world over are perceived by the international community as criminals, no thanks to the activities of cyber criminals in the country. The nefarious acts of these scammers in no little way…