*. The Rollout Of The New Product Is Already an Underway

By Chinua Okafor (ICT Reporter) @the_robo_rai

Nokia's new industry-leading 5G portfolio covers baseband, radio, and massive MIMO antennas offering huge 5G capacity, coverage, and easy deployment; Introduces industry’s lightest massive MIMO units at 17kg enabling simplified deployments and faster time to market; Nokia’s new comprehensive range of products are powered by Nokia’s latest generation of ReefShark chipsets; Nokia’s extended Single RAN accelerates 5G rollouts and cuts overall RAN Total Cost of Ownership.

By Chinua Okafor (ICT Reporter) @The_robo_rai

What do adversaries and threat actors think as they dive deep into your organization’s

Cybercriminals come in many different flavors, but the majority of them are in it for one thing: financial pay-off.

They want the money that comes with offering their tools or services, selling stolen data, extortion like ransomware or plain fraud. And they all have one thing in common – your organization is on their radar. This is why, says Anna Collard, SVP Content Strategy and Evangelist at KnowBe4 Africa it is critical to understand how cyber criminals operate, the tools they use, and the approaches they take to embed robust security within the organization.

* 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.