Tuesday 30 April 2024

New Music Alert: "The Big Dreamzs"

To all lovers of good music and most especially hip/hop rap; I bring you the chosen one - @Thebigdreamzs:

A South African and Nigerian rapper, whose lyrics spear into your soul and voice resounding all day and night and every day.

His latest joints are over digital platform as he fanfares "WE BALLIN NOW" and "RUN YOUR RACE".

He promises to release a new one that is romantic, and I know you don't want to miss on love.


For more of @thebigdreamzs...look them up below:



Yours: Olagunju Success Taiwo - Unicorn Media & Communications - a subsidiary of Unicorn Conglomerate (Pty) Limited.

Friday 19 April 2024

Mobile money transactions in Nigeria jump to N17 trillion in Q1 2024 – NIBSS

Mobile money operators (MMOs) in Nigeria, comprising the likes of OPay, Palmpay, and others, witnessed a surge in transactions in the first quarter of 2024, hitting  N17.2 trillion.

This is according to data released by the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement Systems (NIBSS). The mobile money transactions figure for Q1 2024 represents an 89% year-on-year. growth when compared with the N9.1 trillion transactions recorded in the same period in 2023.

An analysis of the three-month data shows that mobile money transactions maintained steady growth each month. In January, transactions valued at N5.2 trillion were recorded, and by February, mobile money deals shot up to N5.5 trillion, while the figure went up higher to N6.5 trillion in March.



By Samson Akintaro.

Full story at Naira Metrics.

Friday 9 February 2024

‘My father died in the Columbia space shuttle – it felt like Nasa betrayed him’

The first sign was the countdown clock. On Feb 1 2003, nine-year-old Kaycee Anderson was in the crowded bleachers by Florida’s Kennedy Space Centre, watching the seconds tick down towards zero – then start climbing back up again. The perfectly blue sky seemed to highlight the absence of the Columbia space shuttle, due to return to Earth that Saturday morning with her father, Mike, and the six other astronauts on board. Instead of a sonic boom and the orbiter approaching, all of a sudden, “people were on the phone talking in urgent tones, and then they were getting in vans”, Kaycee, now 30, remembers. “That’s when I knew, this isn’t normal.”

Along with her mother, sister and the rest of the astronauts’ families, they were bundled into a van, driven to the Space Centre, and told that the worst had happened. Minutes from when they should have landed to a hero’s welcome, the shuttle had broken up at 190,000ft, sending burning metal and human remains plummeting to the ground in east Texas. The shuttle’s disintegration as it breached the planet’s barrier had been broadcast on live television as the families stood staring at the sky, among the last to know their loved ones’ fate.

Twenty-one years on from flight STS-107, it remains among the worst space disasters in history, charted in painful detail in Columbia: The Space Shuttle That Fell to Earth, a three-part BBC documentary series beginning Monday (Feb 12). By the time of its 28th and final mission, Columbia – dubbed “the world’s greatest electric flying machine” – had spent more time in space than any other shuttle. All the more galling, then, that the incident could have been avoided completely.


By Charlotte Lytton.

Full story at Yahoo News.

Tuesday 6 February 2024

Exclusive: CBN targets six months for recertification of PoS terminals to fight fraud

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) plans to recertify all active POS terminals across the country, two sources familiar with the conversation told TechCabal. Part of that process will include an update to issuing terminal identification numbers (TID) — a unique eight-digit identifier — and collecting information such as BVN and tax identification numbers from POS agents.

“This means you must request TID for each merchant with their details and wait for NIBSS to generate it before they can assign a terminal to that merchant,” one person familiar with the CBN’s plans said. 

Before now, mobile money operators like Opay or Palmpay typically requested TIDs in bulk to assign terminals quickly, but recertification will mean acquirers (banks and mobile money operators) have to register each TID separately. Registration requires the provision of an address, BVN or Tax Identification Number (TIN), business name, and F1 Code of the acquiring bank. 



By Frank Eleanya.

Full story at Tech Cabal.

Monday 5 February 2024

CBN’s 7 action plan to help revive Nigeria’s economy – Cardoso

CBN governor, Olayemi Cardoso
The governor of Central Bank Nigeria (CBN), Olayemi Cardoso, has highlighted some action plans the apex bank wants to embark on in order to help boost the economy.

Cardoso highlighted some of the plans in his first-ever exclusive interview as CBN governor and which was done by Arise Business anchor, Boason Omofaye, on Monday, February 5, 2024.

– According to Cardoso, the eventual stability of the naira will be driven by its ability to address the fundamental issues affecting the economy, bring inflation under control, and promote the growth of Nigerian businesses so that exportation will be greater than consumption.

– Cardoso revealed that the CBN is currently planning strategies to revamp the Bureau de Change segment. He said this is imperative for enhanced efficiency and aims to streamline their numbers for better management as well as supervision.


By James Agberebi.

Full story at The Guardian NG.