MTN takes to unlicensed spectrum for LTE-U trial

MTN has run what it is calling the first trial of LTE-Unlicensed, or LTE-U, technology in Africa. The technology uses the same shared spectrum typically used for Wi-Fi. The mobile operator conducted the trial at its flagship store in Morningside in Sandton, Johannesburg with its long-standing technology provider, Ericsson. The...

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All madrid do is damage football; says ex-barca president

Real Madrid are detrimental to football, according to former Barcelona president Joan Gaspart.  Gaspart was hitting back at claims that Barca have tried to bribe Granada players and officials ahead of their crucial La Liga clash on Sunday.  Barca travel to Granada on the final day of the season leading rivals...

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Nigeria is no longer Africa’s top oil producer

Following attacks on oil installations and facilities in the country, Nigeria’s oil production output has fallen to 20-years low and slipped behind Angola as the continent’s top oil producer. The attacks are the result of a resurgent militancy in Nigeria’s oil rich Niger-Delta region where a new group, called...

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Some allocated oil blocs and there worth

* OML 110 Obe oil field owed by Alhaji Mai Daribe, Cavendish Petroleum with an estimated 500 million barrel of crude oil. * Akpo condensate field awarded to Sapetro Oil owned by Gen Theophilus Damjuma. *OML 112 and OML 117 awarded to AMNI International Petroleum Development Company owned by Colonel Sanni Bello, son-in-law to former Head of State. Gen Abdulsalami Abubakar. *OML 115 also known as Oldwok field and Ebok field awarded to Alhaji Mohammed...

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Niger Delta Avengers threaten to blow up oil blocs belonging to Atiku, Danjuma, Adenuga, others

The Niger Delta Avengers has threatened to blow up the oil blocs of former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Minister of Defence, General Theophilus Danjuma, ex-Minister of Petroleum, Alhaji Riwalnu Lukman, other Northerners and South-Westerners in Niger-Delta region. In an email by its spokesperson, Col Mudoch Agbinibo...

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Rapist, 82, who kept his own daughter as a sex slave for 23 years is freed from prison

I was reading this story on Linda's blog...I was like....damn!!!!.... should this guy really be released this early? Is it not madness?   rape your own blood daughter for 23 yrs? I repeat...23yrs!!!. Some put the blame on the government for releasing him that early... For me, I think that man still needs more time...

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Fuel to officially sell at 145 naira!!

Iba kachikwu confirms the selling of fuel for 145 naira...read from the pic below ...

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Recharge your phone by snapping the recharge card!

Technology rules the world and it is proving so everyday.  Have you had of this application called "snap 2 recharge".... With this application, you can recharge your phone without having to type. All you need to do is to SNAP!!... Primary features of the app includes 1. Recharge mobile phones 2. Check Airtime...

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Buhari Embarrassed By Cameron’s Corruption Comment On Nigeria

The Nigerian Presidency on Tuesday said it found as “embarrassing” a statement credited to the UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, describing Nigeria as a “fantastically corrupt” country. In a statement sent to PREMIUM TIMES by President Muhammadu Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant on Media, Garba Shehu, shortly after the...

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Suicide bomber attacks mosque in Borno

Many were injured after a male suicide bomber blew himself up at a mosque in Sulimanti ward of Maiduguri, the Borno state capital this morning. According to reports, two male suicide bombers arrived the mosque but one of them took off without detonating the bomb strapped on him while the bomb on the other one exploded...

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Ola Driver Arrested for Molesting 23-year-old Belgian woman

In yet another case of alleged molestation in car services in the national capital, an Ola cab driver was apprehended on Sunday after a Belgian national alleged molestation, while she was on her way to C.R. Park yesterday night. DCP (South-east) M. S. Randhawa told ANI that the Ola cab driver, who allegedly molested the...

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