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MTN Nigeria is gearing for a 4G LTE network rollout in selected cities by July 2016, following the acquisition of LTE-suitable frequencies in the 800MHz band earlier this year via the takeover of CDMA network operator Visafone Communications.

Ethiopia has launched the construction of a blood transfusion centre to cater for approximately 26 million people.

News of a dangerous new android application, that takes the photos of unsuspecting phone owners, and prevents their access to the phone by locking it and demanding ransom before unlocking the device, has been making the rounds.

London became the first major Western capital to elect a Muslim mayor on Friday as Labour claimed victory for its candidate Sadiq Khan despite setbacks elsewhere in Britain for the main national opposition party.

YouTube plans to launch a service that streams cable television channels to viewers over the Internet for the price of a subscription, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday.

Former high-ranking officials Luis Bedoya and Sergio Jadue were on Friday banned for life from all football-related activities by the adjudicatory chamber of FIFA’s independent Ethics Committee.

Microsoft has accepted an invitation from the UN Security Council to address a special debate next week on counter-terrorism and confronting “digital terror”, UN diplomats said.

Apple has lost a trademark fight in china, meaning a firm which sells handbags and other leather goods can continue to use the name “IPHONE”.

Cameroon international Patrick Ekeng died after he collapsed during a match with Dinamo Bucharest in the Romanian capital on Friday, doctors said. He was 26.

Leicester have announced they will hold their Premier League title parade on Monday, May 16.

After maintaining Real Madrid’s push for a La Liga and UEFA Champions League double, Cristiano Ronaldo has reiterated his desire for Zinedine Zidane to stay as coach.

Afeni Shakur, the mother of rap legend, Tupac Shakur, has died aged 69. A former member of the Black Panther died from a possible cardiac arrest at her home in California, according to reports.

Nigeria lost about $15 billion to fraudulent and corrupt practices in security equipment spending during the last administration of Goodluck Jonathan, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said.

Donald Trump is confident he can knock rival Ted Cruz out of the Republican presidential race by winning Tuesday's primary in Indianapolis and recent polls shows that might just happen.

Tupac Shakur’s £100million estate could be thrown into chaos after the death of his mum. Afeni Shakur passed away on Tuesday aged 69 and a cause of death has not yet been released.

Leicester City could make £150 million as the result of their Premier League title success, according to analysis by sports data and marketing firm Repucom.

Nigerian billionaire Femi Otedola has lost more than $400 million of his personal fortune over the last 9 weeks as the stock price of Forte Oil, the Nigerian-listed energy behemoth he controls, shed off 43.5% in value within that period.

Scientists have found that Zika virus could affect 20 per cent of infected pregnant women’s babies even as they have deployed Genetically Modified (GM) mosquitoes to help fight disease by shortening its lifespan.

Facebook Inc is developing a stand-alone camera app, similar to disappearing photo app Snapchat, to increase user engagement, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

Microsoft is forcing people to use its Bing search engine with the Cortana digital assistant in Windows 10. Every search done this way will also be piped only through its recently released Edge browser.

Australian entrepreneur Craig Wright has publicly identified himself as Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto. His admission follows years of speculation about who came up with the original ideas underlying the digital cash system.

Dubai-based Emirates Vacation Club (EVC) has allegedly scammed about 2,000 Nigerians through dubious investment.

Earlier this year, a 10-year-old — who is not even old enough to sign up on Facebook — impressed Mark Zuckerberg by hacking Instagram, the photo-sharing application owned by Facebook.

The English Football Association (FA) has charged Manchester United midfielder Marouane Fellaini and Leicester defender Robert Huth with violent conduct after an incident in the 1-1 draw between the two sides at Old Trafford on Sunday.

Atletico Madrid reached their second Champions League final in three years by edging past Bayern Munich on away goals in a pulsating semi-final.

Parents of a young boy born with a total of 31 digits – 15 fingers and 16 toes – have appealed for help. Little Hong Hong was born in China three months ago with an extreme form of polydactylism.

During Alphabet’s first earnings call, Google CEO Sundar Pichai commented that as of this month, Gmail now officially has one billion monthly active users.

The 27-year-old star is planning to take legal action if her X-rated tape with former fiancé Tyga ends up on a porn website, according to US gossip website TMZ on Monday. The hip-hope model and her ex filmed themsevles having sex when they were engaged…

Khloe Kardashian has ended her relationship with Caitlyn Jenner… The reality beauty has decided she wants nothing more to do with the transgender star after she sent her “insane, aggressive text messages” over an interview she had given to the press.

A judge in Colorado has sentenced a woman to 100 years in prison for cutting an eight-month-old baby from a stranger’s womb with kitchen knives, local media reported.

                                Mohammed Balarabe The Board of Directors of Fidelity Bank Plc has appointed the Executive Director, North, Alhaji Mohammed Balarabe, as the Acting Managing Director/Chief Executive of the bank with immediate effect subject to regulatory approval.

A Brazilian judge issued an order Monday blocking the popular WhatsApp smartphone messaging application nationwide, the second such shut-down in six months.

According to World Bank Group’s ‘Doing Business Report’, it’s harder to do business in Nigeria now than it was a year ago, in 2015. The report revealed that although Nigeria climbed higher on the ease of doing business ladder, actual implementation and carrying out of business has irrespective of the rating become harder.

Tottenham Hotspur manager, Mauricio Pochettino, has said he is disappointed to be out of the title race, but proud of his players. Spurs needed to win at Chelsea on Monday, but ended up drawing 2-2 despite being two goals up at the end of the first half.

Record-breaking David De Gea became the first Manchester United player to win the Sir Matt Busby Player of the Year award for three years in a row when he triumphed again on Monday night.

A teenage boy in India has died after erroneously shooting himself in the head while taking a selfie. The 15-year-old boy identified as Ramandeep Singh was taking a selfie while posing with his father's .32 caliber pistol on Friday evening when he accidentally pulled the trigger.

The first United States cruise ship in nearly 40 years to set sail for Cuba has docked in Havana harbour with more than 700 passengers on board.

The Korea Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) on Friday said the third case of the Zika virus was detected in South Korea from a man having traveled to the Philippines.

A teenager’s being sued over claims she was using Snapchat at the wheel as she crashed, leaving a man brain damaged.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Thursday put its seventh satellite India Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS)-1G into the orbit, officials said. “April 28, 2016: PSLV-C33 successfully launches IRNSS-1G, a message displayed on the website of ISRO, reads.

Computer viruses have infected PCs used at a German nuclear power plant. The viruses were found on office computers and in a system used to model the movement of nuclear fuel rods.

Leicester forward Jamie Vardy has been voted the 2016 Footballer of the Year by the Football Writers’ Association. The England international topped the poll of 290 journalists with 36 per cent of the vote, a clear winner ahead of team-mates Riyad Mahrez and N’Golo Kante.

Chelsea needed some stardust from Eden Hazard to hold Tottenham Hotspurs at Stamford bridge and effectively win the league for Leicester city.

Cristiano Ronaldo completed Monday’s training session with Real Madrid as he stepped up his bid to be fit for Wednesday’s Champions League semifinal second leg against Manchester City.

Apple has reported its first drop in revenue in 13 years after the tech giant sold 10 million fewer iPhones in the first three months of this year than during the same quarter a year ago.

Email addresses and passwords belonging to more than seven millions users of the Minecraft site Lifeboat are reportedly being hawked around sites that trade in stolen data.

Snapchat’s users watch 10 billion videos per day, according to a report from Bloomberg. That is 2 billion more than the most recent numbers reported by Facebook, which were made public back in November.

Opposition parties in South Africa want the country’s leader President Jacob Zuma to resign following the High Court judgment which reinstated 783 corruption and fraud charges against him.

The mum-of-two has reportedly called time on their eight-year marriage amid claims the Man United legend, 42, has been flirting with other women Ryan Giggs could lose half of his £40million fortune in a divorce settlement with wife Stacey.

Five hundred people were arrested in Germany after violent clashes broke out, authorities said. More than 1,000 people were protesting Saturday in Stuttgart, where Alternative for Germany, a far-right political party, is holding a two-day conference over the weekend.