Facebook has hosted its first-ever creator workshop in Lagos, Nigeria. The event, which was held on Thursday, brought together over 20 Facebook creators to reinforce the app’s commitment to the region’s creative community. The workshop equipped creators with the knowledge…
An Ethiopian man whose father was murdered during the country’s war has joined a lawsuit filed in Kenya against Meta, accusing Facebook’s parent company of fanning violence and hate speech in Africa. The case filed in the High Court claims…
The Federal Government of Nigeria has announced new measures taken by the owners of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, Meta, to address fake news and disinformation ahead of the 2023 general elections. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed,…
The parent company of Facebook, Meta, has announced it would lay off more than eleven thousand (11,000) employees. A Fox Business report said the development, which emerged on Tuesday, followed a disclosure in a letter Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote…
The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has issued new regulations for Internet platforms to operate in Nigeria. They were contained in a statement signed by NITDA spokesperson, Hadiza Umar, on Monday. Umar explained that the new code was designed…
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has asked Facebook and other social media platforms to stop allowing the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to use their platforms to incite violence and instigate ethnic hatred in Nigeria.…
By Abimbola Abatta Social media users in the country risk at least one-year imprisonment and N2million fine for violating the Copyright Act. This is coming on the heels of the review of the Copyright Act 2004 by the Senate to…
A panel at the ongoing 31st Seminar for Finance Correspondents and Business Editors in Enugu have called on regulators to integrate social media platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp and other social media platforms into Nigerian payments systems. The experts who made…
By Idris Bakare Millions of Nigerians groan as social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp suffered temporary shutdown yesterday. The three famous social media platforms – WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook – stopped functioning on Monday evening. Other products related…
By Idris Bakare All sites have been down for around 45 minutes now, with WhatsApp and Instagram issuing statements telling users to “bear with us”. Shares in Facebook are continuing to slump as its suffers outrages and accusations that it…
