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WhatsApp has been down for more than an hour, and users of the popular Facebook-owned messaging service have turned to Twitter to vent their frustrations and finish off the panic over the Google Docs attack. Unfortunately, it looks like WhatsApp gave up providing useful status reports on when its messaging service is down a few years ago. WhatsApp has more than 1 billion users, and it’s widely used across the world for group chats and as a replacement for SMS in a number of countries. “WhatsApp is down” reports have been constant worldwide for the past hour, and a WhatsApp spokesperson revealed to Reuters the company is aware of the outage and is working to fix it.

There are instances while a few certain actions must not also be notion of, talk less of wearing them out, mainly viewing the present day situation of Nigeria as a country. but then, none of that had been positioned into proper attention. Earlier than now, there have been a two time attempt to boom the statistics charges across all of the telcos running on the country, a move spearheaded with the aid of the Nigerian Communications commission (NCC), but changed into aborted because of certain motives. however, because it couldn’t paintings for all, maybe it may work for one. NTel , a telecommunication company located and working in Nigeria, has increased their data rates with the aid of nothing much less than 25%. The increment affected the limitless plans (monthly, weekly and Lite) provided by the network. Smartphone Unlimited Monthly :  From N10,000 to N12,500 Smartphone Unlimited Weekly : From N3,000 to N3,750 Smartphone Unlimited Lite : From N1,000 to N1,500 weekly. I do have so...

Irate mob at Akowonjo area of a Lagos on Thursday, April 13, went on rampage after a mobile policemen allegedly killed a South African returnee simply identified as Niyi (pictured) The young man was shot dead at Erico Hotel, forcing angry residents to take to the streets. The protesters resorted to violence, vandalising the hotel, shops and vehicles. Most outlets in the neighbourhood have been shut down and houses locked. Heavily armed policemen were deployed to the area to prevent further outbreak of violence. It is not exactly clear what happened, however, media reports said the deceased had issue with a friendover a sum of N5.2m Niyi sent to him in for safekeeping while he was in South Africa. Niyi returned last week and asked for the money only to find out that his friend Santo has spent it. After failed attempts to get the money, he was said to have reported the case to the police. The policemen reportedly told him to alert them once he sighted Santo in the hotel, where he always ...