* Course Focuses On Digital News Gathering, Verification, Reporting And Publishing On Social Media

By Chinwendu Agoha (Media & Governance Reporter)

The Facebook Journalism Project has partnered with Reuters to launch a free online training program for Journalists, called the Reuters Digital Journalism Course.

MTN clients in Nigeria will be not able to purchase buy on their telephones from 12 PM till 6 am on Sunday, the media transmission organization has said.

By Chinua Albert Okafor @The_RoboRai

A Turkish digital currency trading platform has mysteriously gone offline and its CEO has purportedly disappeared, leaving a large number of financial backers stressed that their assets have been taken.

By JVINN Nwabiani Okafor (Managing Editor/Head, Business & Economy)

Amidst anxiety and public apprehension over the inability to enroll for NIN-SIM Data registration ahead of Tuesday, April 6, 2021, earlier deadline, the Federal Government has extended the deadline given for mobile phone subscribers to link their National Identification Number (NIN) with their SIM registration records till May 6, 2021.

By Micheal Garang (NewsLeader East Africa Bureau Chief, in Nairobi, Kenya)

Something new happened in East Africa's Republic of Kenya, as Nokia and Safaricom launched East Africa's first commercial 5G services.

By JVIN Nwabiani Okafor (Managing Editor) @AuntyJVIN

A KnowBe4 Poll of mobile users across Africa has revealed that awareness of Cyber risk is on the increase, but that convenience overrides risk when it comes to WhatsApp data privacy concerns.

By Chinua Okafor@the_robo_rai

Due to the inauguration day preparations, Facebook updated its Inauguration Day measures to consist of a momentary prohibition on advertisements endorsing weapon accessories and defensive gear “out of an abundance of caution,” the ban is expected to stay through January 22nd and this was revealed via a new blog post by the company on Saturday.

By Chinua Okafor @iam_robo_rai

The messaging app signal has recently added support for group video calls with a maximum of 5 users. The group calls can be initiated by tapping on the video call button located at the top of a supported group chat.

By Chinua Okafor

Have you ever loved to live in a world with no internet well I think you just had your chance to experience it, as we know several services and websites provided by Google as well as YouTube, Gmail, Google Assistant, and Google Docs were offline for around an hour on Monday morning because of a prevalent outage?.

• Another Iphone 12 issue that needs to be resolved.

By Chinua Okafor(Click to follow me)

Say you just got either the new Iphone 12 or Iphone 12 pro I know you feel so excited right? that new phone feeling, but getting a new smartphone can turn out to be lots of work because you now have to spend a frustrating amount of time tweaking settings, permissions and notifications for all your apps. Yes, we know cloud backups are supposed to shorten this process but it doesn’t always record everything, for example, you’ll surely need to double-check that your device’s COVID-19 exposure notifications are still enabled on your new iPhone 12 if you restored from a previous backup. Because they might not be, according to BBC News.

So if you think yours might be affected, you can re-enable exposure notifications in iOS by doing this

Tap the Settings app

select Exposure Notifications

clicking “Turn On Exposure Notifications. “and your good to go.

Some users first encountered problems with the official National Health Service (NHS) contact tracing app in the UK. This happened when some iPhone 12 and 12 Pro users attempted to use the app after restoring a previous iPhone backup, they were gracefully but annoyingly greeted with this error message.Users were greeted with this error

Even though it was discovered that sometimes deleting and re-downloading the app apparently solved the problem by prompting the users to re-enable COVID-19 exposure notifications — the drawback was that it ended up deleting all the locations the users had previously checked into.

Though it is not clear if this issue is exclusive to iPhone 12 models or if restoring backup even on older devices caused this also, — so we suspect the issue might be at a system level rather than with specific apps like NHS.

The exposure notification system was originally announced in April and uses your phone’s Bluetooth to let you know if you’ve come in contact with someone who’s tested positive for COVID-19. If there is any notification it will refer you to up-to-date COVID-19 information online and where you can also conveniently schedule a test for yourself.

So I know what you’re thinking “wow Contact tracing can end COVID-19 sooner than we expected” well technically yes and no you see Contact tracing , whether automatic or conducted manually, is not a magic bullet for managing COVID-19 bursts. But it is one of many steps, together with a robust and available testing program, that can help you find out if you’ve been infected sooner so that you don’t contribute to the spread.

So don’t skimp on Re-enabling these notifications seriously do it now if you can, as this can go a long way – along with the use of face masks and washing your hands regularly to keep you and your family safe from COVID-19.

By Chinua Okafor(Click to follow me)

• A new generation of deep fake bots.
• “Talk about brief nudity”

The Italian Data Protection Authority began an examination of the prevalent use of bots that spawn counterfeit nude images on the  messaging app Telegram.

• Promises To Give Viewers Value For Money

By Chinua Okafor (Infotech Reporter)

After over two years in business limbo due to operational shut down, Telecom Satellite Television (TStv) Africa, will finally return to full business activities with its official re-launch on Thursday October 1st.