If you have been following the news, you must be aware of Access bank intention to purchase one of Nigeria's biggest retail banker, Diamond bank. At first though, you might have think that of a total absorption of Diamond bank similar to what happened to Skye bank.

If you have this in mind, then it is time to rethink as a press conference held yesterday and reported by News Agency of Nigeria has revealed that the retail bank will remain in operation despite ongoing plans to purchase it.

According to the press briefing, Access bank has successfully conclude the second phase of approval to acquire Diamond bank, the Security and Exchange Commission and Central Bank of Nigeria had Approval by Principle to the bank. The first stag, Mr Mr Victor Etuokwu, Access Bank Executive Director, Personal Banking, called it Pre-order approval which Access bank had consent on already.

The third approval will be given to the bank only after there is a shareholder meeting whose minute must be taken to the court for approval. Etuokwu said that the shareholder meeting will be convene in February and after court approval, the third approval from SEC and CBN will take place in 60 days.

Regarding staff retrenchment, Mr Etuokwu said that there will be a staff retraining to ovoid roles overlapping.

While Diamond bank will remain in business as a separate legal entity, the ATM of both banks will be integrated so that customers can use any of the bank's ATM machine at no extra charges, says Mr Robert Giles, of Diamond Bank.

Access bank shares went up from 5.30 Naira per share in 10th of January 2019 to 5.80 Naira per share on Tuesday 15th of January. Diamond bank share price move up from 1.99 Naira per share to 2.08 Naira per share on the same dates. Read the full news here...

https://nairawired.com.ng/2019/01/year-in-reveiw-paylater-paid-out-13-billion-naira-loans-2018.html

Here are the four new features expected to be in 2023 iPhones. The info was provided by a tipster.

1. Total elimination of screen bezels
2. Sub-display selfie camera
3. Small chin in which the micro speaker is mounted
4. Software upgrade to include Grand Thief Auto 5

Read the full info and see photo: https://www.androidboss.com.ng/2018/10/the-future-how-2023-iphone-modelled.html

Lagos, Nigeria All is set for the second edition of the Hollywood and African Prestigious Awards (HAPAwards) to be held September 30th at the historical Alex Theater in Glendale, California. The event with theme Celebration of African Heritage promises to showcase the best of musical performances and talents while recognizing the achievements of dignitaries and community leaders across the globe.

The HAPAwards is focused on promoting the contributions from different cultures in Africa and around the world to American civilization. The awards strives to enable all of mankind see themselves as one, regardless of race, color or geographical location, all created to live in peace and love.

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Ms. Tina Weisinger, Founder and Executive Producer of the awards, outlined activities for the second anniversary to include an international business forum, the music and fashion night, award show and a star studded after-party celebrations.

Weisinger also noted that the Hollywood and African Prestigious Awards will honor royalties, dignitaries, top celebrities and industry game-changers who have contributed immensely to the advancement in different continents.

The organizers have confirmed multi-talented Hollywood actress, Wendy Raquel Robinson and Chris Attoh from South Africa as hosts for this year. Some honorees for the 2018 edition will include our very own Reverend Mother Esther Abimbola Ajayi; American Star Actor, Todd Bridges; Photography and Music Legend, Lamont McLemore and International Business Entrepreneur, Rasaq Gbadamosi to mention a few.

There will also be performances by soul-singer Angie Stone, the Crenshaw High School Marching Band and a cross section of international dance groups representing different regions from Africa.

Furthermore, the 2018 nominations parades American and African music superstars like Kendrick Lamar, Drake, Cardi B, Wizkid, Davido, Tiwa Savage, CeCe Winans, Diamond Platinum, Fally Ipupa, Jay Z, Bruno Mars, Beyonce, Vanessa Mdee, Mary J Blige and Mz Vee. While the fashion category has Rosie Assoulin, Giambattista Valli, Parker XL and Betty Fashion.

Movies like Mudbound, Detroit, Amazing Grace, Virgins in The forest, A Day of Trouble, Wind River, Last Flag Flying, Mon Coeur Saiggne and Deepest Cut also made the film category. The likes of Danielle Brooks, Dwayne Johnson, Princess Adekoya, Tracee Ellis Ross and Anthony Anderson, all got nominated from the world of Comedy.

About HAPAwards:

The Hollywood and African Prestigious Awards honor recipients who globally promote the cultures of Africa and Hollywood and celebrate outstanding achievements by African and Hollywood celebrities, musicians, comedians, sports personalities, community leaders and dignitaries. The Awards platform www.hapawards.com connects talented Africans to the Hollywood Entertainment Industry and proceeds from the event is contributed to assist several communities in Africa and across the United States.

https://www.technologywatch.com.ng/2018/09/second-hollywood-and-african.html

Isun:
How much?

300 US Dollars it will be available starting from August 28

Xiaomi claims that the phone is very affordable despite having a flagship Qualcomm Snapdragon. Below are the specs and photo.

Screen size 6.18" (Corning Gorilla Glass) 82.2% screen to body ratio


Colours Graphite Black, Steel Blue, Rosso Red, (Armoured Edition)


Screen Display IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen


Screen Resolution 1080 by 2246 pixels, (401 PPI density) and 18.7:9 aspect ratio.


Dimensions 155.5 by 75.2 by 8.6 (155.7 by 75.5 by 8.9) (mm)


Weight 182 (187) gram


Android Type Android 8.0 Oreo


SoC Qualcomm Snapdragon 845


CPU Octa-core clocked at 2.8 GHz Kryo 385


GPU Andreno 630


RAM 6/8GB


ROM 64/128/256 GB


External storage Available up to 256GB


Rear Camera 12MP (f/2.0 aperture) + 5MP (f/1.8 aperture, depth sensor) with Dual LED flash


Selfie Camera 20MP, f/2.0 aperture


Battery 4000 (3900) mAh capacity, Quick Charge 3.0


Sensor G-Sensor, Light, fingerprint, compass, Infrared face recognition and Proximity sensor


Connection USB Type C, Bluetooth 5.0 Earpiece port 3.5mm, hybrid dual (standby & Nano) sim card slot, and WiFi


Network 4G/3G/2G


Security Fingerprint scanner


Other Tech Liquid cooling system
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Apple's one Trillion Dollar market value has been highly welcome by so many persons including finance analyst. However, these guy, Ralph Nader is on the opposite direction. Nader early this year criticized Apple of buying back shares of investors. This time, he is giving Apple a suggestion. In a media talk with NPR, Nader point out that Apple CEO should use the capital gains from the increased stock market value for its employees. He taught of increment in wages and salaries as well as pension.

Speaking more on the issue, Nader said that Apple should use the excess fund to increase dividend of investors, involve in more on research and development and seek for methods to improve recycle of old iPhones.

Apple when launching its iPhone promises to sell affordable smartphones but ended up selling luxury, only for the rich class. This year, however, the company plans to launch affordable iPhones as rumors have it. Nader agreed that he doesn't use iPhone or Mac but the pressure faced by Apple staffs especially in China are not comparable to he wage rate, he said such amount is not "a living wage."

Though, Ralph Nader last criticism of Apple, on buying back stocks of shareholders, was not taken serious by the public, it is likely that similar trend may ensure this time.

Read it here: https://www.androidboss.com.ng/2018/08/hello-apple-ralph-nader-wants-you-to-do.html

This notch things have become very common, Google latest flagship smartphone, the Google Pixel 3 was recently unboxed by a tipster with a notch. The unboxing photos he made available shows a deep notch for the Google 2018 flagship smartphone. The Pixel 2 released last year has no display notch, unfortunately. This simply means that the notch is a new comer to Google Pixel family.

Read more here https://www.androidboss.com.ng/2018/08/google-pixel-3-unboxing-photo-reveal-deep-notch.html

Trust22:
Hmmm. Infinix Zero 5 pro came wit 6GB ram n 128GB rom n now zero 6 is coming with lesser storage. That can't be zero6

That's because of the chipset.

lastbaff:

You're right. It's Infinix Hot S3X.

See specs here....

http://www.nairatechnology.com/infinix-hot-s3x

Okay. Check well. The specifications are different.

Latest leaks revealed a new smartphone from Infinix. The tech company is planning on a launch of the Infinix Zero 6. Last year, Infinix Mobility launches the Infinix Zero 5 and Zero 5 Pro. And this year, the tech giant has launched quite a zillion of phones with quality upgrade when compared to previous year models.

This year, Infinix is introducing a totally new features in the Zero 6 that you cannot find in any Infinix smartphones launched this year. Though, Infinix has introduced the non bezel-like phones this year, this time its coming plans on going further than that. The new upgrade to the Zero 6 is notch technology on the screen. This new feature is mostly found in flagship and very expensive smartphones. Only the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 as well as S9 and S9+ do not use notch tech of all the flagship expected this year.

Infinix Zero 6 and its sister, the Zero 6 Pro may be the first popularly used smartphones in Nigeria to have a notch. Maybe, Tecno will be the next, on its Phantom's flagship expected later on this year. The flagship phone is not all about Notch, of course. Infinix will upgrade the Zero 6 with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 making it the second Infinix smartphone with Qualcomm chipset. The first of its kind is the Infinix S3 launched in the first half of 2018.

As a go to smartphone, a octa core processor clocking at 2.2 GHz speed is to be expected on the Zero 6 and the Zero 6 Pro. Further a GPU of Adreno 512 will power the graphics for the smartphone. To enhance performance, Infinix added 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage. You can also insert an external memory of up to 256GB. The phone is powered by Infinix XOS 3.0 Hummingbird base on Android 8.1 Oreo. More so, you should expect a battery juice of 4500mAh and the battery is expected to be non-removable.

For the display, a FHD+ IPS LCD panel capacitive touchscreen with 16 million colors are expected with a screen size of 6.2 inches. As a result of a Snapdragon 660, a resolution of 2560 by 1440 pixels with 535 PPI is also expected as part of the Infinix Zero 6 display. Approximately, 87 percent screen to body ratio is expected while the aspect ratio is measure as 19:9 making the Zero 6 is truly tiny bezel smartphone.

Read it from here: https://www.androidboss.com.ng/2018/08/infinix-zero-6-coming-with-qualcomm-660-notch-design-august.html

Google just launch he Android 9 Pie today August 7, 2018. The new operating system has new upgrades you can not find in previous Android OS. Some of the upgrades are text magnifier, the non permission of non https links on any Android 9 Pie, new Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning ability among other interesting features for consumers and developers.

The Android 9 Pie has starts rolling out to different smartphones this year. All supported Android One phone will get an update for the new Android OS. Therefore, you should expect Android Pie on Infinix Note 5, Nokia 7 Plus and Xiaomi Mi A2 device as well. Right now all Google Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL are receiving update for the Android Pie.

Information from a forum shows that essential smartphone is also receiving this update. Other smartphones mentioned by Google to receive the Android 9 update are Sony Mobile, Vivo, Oppo and OnePlus. For OnePlus, the OnePlus 6 should receive an update. I don't really know about the OnePlus 5/5T, it is likely it will received an update too, this depends on OnePlus, if their policy permits it.

Compare to Android Oreo, Android 9 Pie has new features than never before. Google confirmed that it partner with tech companies to ensure the success of the Android Pie release. It also claimed that it has been developing this new OS for more than one year. Also, all Android One smartphones should have an update to Android Pie.

Read it from here https://www.androidboss.com.ng/2018/08/these-smartphones-should-receive-android-9-pie-update-2018.html

An Android analyst and chief editor of XDA developer has claimed that the best way to enjoy playing Fortnight game on Android is to play the game either on Razer gaming smartphone or with Samsung Galaxy Note 9; S9 and S9+. And also said that this phones will be the best performing devices in Fortnight Mobile on Android.

Two features in a smartphone are important to enjoy seem-less gaming. The display and performance. Do this two phones provides this? First of all, Razer phone is the best gaming smartphone, so far. This only means Samsung will be a competitor. No doubt about this. Using Razer phone for gaming especially, Fortnight worth it. So despite a lower Qualcomm snapdragon 835 and better RAM of 6GB, it is certain that you will have a wonderful experience while playing Fortnight on Razer phone. The display for Razer Phone 2017 is the specialised IGZO IPS capacitive touchscreen. The phone is 5.7 inches in diagonal for the screen. There is enough bezels, on the front view, giving you enough space for your palm to hold the phone and enjoy your Fortnight game.

For the Samsung Galaxy's flagships. I mean the Galaxy S9/S9+ and the Galaxy Note 9 the performance beats the Razer gaming phone. It uses Qualcomm Flagship Snapdragon 845 and 4GB of RAM. Expect unbeatable speed. For the display, I prefer the Razer phone. But why? Its simply the bezels. While Razer gave enough bezels for my palm to fit in, Samsung do not have bezels. Samsung Galaxy Note 9, S9 and S9+ are fully non bezels premium smartphones. This will make it uncomfortable playing Fortnight game. The display panel for the Note 9 is super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen. Whcih, however, gave the Note 9 an edge.

However, Mishaal Rahman, mentioned earlier believed the Razer Gaming phone and the Galaxy Note 9; S9 and S9 Plus can give you the result high performance while playing Fortnight game. And both smartphones will be powerful for Fortnight game.

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CirocBoi:
The number of states with mtn 4G i can count it with 1 hand, foolish network

Lol. Na waiting MTN talk ni

Two years from now, Nigeria will join the 5G league. 5G has already been spoken of well enough last year. Nokia, Ericson, Samsung, among others have already provided the infrastructure for 5G. MTN Nigeria reported that in two years time, precisely, 2018, Nigeria will use 5G network connectivity.

The Information was provided by Ferdi Moolan, represented by Bayo Adekambi who is he Chief Transformation Officer of MTN, Nigeria.

5G Network has already been tested in South Africa, MTN Headquarter. This is as a result of MTN partnership with Ericson in 2017. During testing, the tech giant, has a result of 20Gbps in less than 5 minutes. This speed is the highest in Africa.

The deployment of 5G will lead to great development in Nigeria especially, in the area of business, health and education.

The CEO of MTN, Ferdi Moolan said that, for this to work, a good economic climate is necessary for Nigerians. He said that tax should be reviewed and government should view telecom infrastructure as national assets. If these are done, it will attract foreign investment in the country

Read it from here https://www.technologywatch.com.ng/2018/07/5g-installed-in-nigeria-2020-mtn.html

Team Capsella was reported to have won the Dogma Africa. The team will go home with a sum of 500 U.S Dollars. They won the award after competing with fourteen teams at the event centre, Ingressive.

Team Capsella happens to be the second team on the list to pitch their product at the final day of the boothcamp, if I can call it so. The first team, KILM want to bring in real time collaboration platform for developers to encourage learning from pair to pair programming. They represent a product name, Dropout.

Team Capsella, won the competition, and was the second team. The team introduce a product, FemChat, a health platform where females can discuss related health issues. Builders, team three, present an app to help companies distributing water to properly track water consumption. Team Four, on the other hand, present an app that will help for easier travelling. Especially, in the process of buying tickets. The team name is Team Bigs.

Team five, Upendo, presented Crowd funding platform with a better verification enabled measures to prevent fraud. Team Six, XX1 create an application for tracking problem related to filth by ensuring awareness of ads. Team seven, however, named 10X, built an app, "Trades By Design," a freelance marketplace for buyers of designs and designers.

For team eight, Alensa, presented Prepster. The platform will learning a fun through games. Team nine, present a platform, Kane, to connect mentors with mentees. Team Ten, Anonymous by name, create an app for book donations. Team eleven, Zen home, created app that can help manage electricity consumption. Team twelve, provides a platform that collect health data offline.

Read it from here https://www.technologywatch.com.ng/2018/07/team-capsella-female-team-won-figma-ghana-edition.html

tobianthony:
Mention one flagship phone that uses the android one OS from another manufacturer .

Infinix is blaring it like the OS is the best thing since sliced bread and Superman and Batman appearing in the same film .

They will put a premium price on a phone that comes with an OS designed for budget phones in third world countries .

Nokia 7 Plus is Android One. Xiaomi Mi A2 is Android One.

Abiodunspectre:
I guess you have tried Android go edition.

No,

Android One is a trendy word these days. Many phones launched this year are said to be an Android One smartphones. A phone launched this month, Xiaomi Mi A2 and the Lite version, are Android One smartphones. Also, Infinix Mobility launched a smartphone this year and it is an Android One Smartphone. Further, most of Nokia's smartphones usually carries the Android One name and partnership. Android One is a name giving to all Android smartphones that are made in partnership with Google. Such phones majorly used google apps and Artificial Intelligence.

But, Google is known to be the owner of Android operating system, why do they need a partnership with tech companies? Technology companies using Android operating system are free to use whatever apps they wish to install. Some smartphone markers render Google Play Store useless and instead use other Play Store like Mobo Play. Others do not allow for NFC. Phones that do not have NFC pre-installed means it can't utilise the services of Google Pay. You see, there is a need for google partnership with smartphones creators.

Google Android One partnership seems to be the smartest choice for Android phones. Why so! So many benefits. This doesn't claim that smartphones without Android One partnership with Google are not worth using. Here are four points you should note on Google Android One partnership.

The Use of Google Artificial Intelligence.

Enhanced Battery Performance

Smartphones are secured and safe

Phone Storage is Optimized

Read it from here ---> https://www.technologywatch.com.ng/2018/07/four-points-worthy-of-knowing-on-google-android-one-partnership.html

naijacentric:
I wonder where we are headed i know it would be hologram mobile fones las las

Which be hologram again oga

giftedben:
I still preferred Kitkat

Like seriously.

Samsung will be launching its new flagship line up in August, in the Samsung Unpacked event usually hosted in New York, USA. The Samsung Galaxy Note 9 has received a lot of rumours before this day. In fact, it is clear that the phone will be the first Samsung smartphone to use 4000 mAh battery juice. Also, recent leaks revealed the brilliant colours for the Note 9. The lower variant will have come in purple, brown, blue and black shades, while the higher option will have black and blue colours only.

What if the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 worth 500,000 Naira? If you ask me this question, then, I don’t have any reply. At least me I want value for my money. Yes, it possible. Samsung is increasing the higher variant of the Note 9 to 512 internal storage. To benefit from the higher variant a suggested price of 1,300 dollars is sacrificed. This translate to almost 500,000 Naira. At least for a specified period before Apple released its flagship smartphone.

Read it from here. Help my ministry.
https://phonesnaira..com/2018/07/what-if-samsung-galaxy-note-9-worth-500000-naira.html

fotadmowmend:
Nigerian 2g=no network 3g=1.5g, 3.5g=2g, 4g=2.5g

Bro, you talk true. If 5G comes to Nigeria. Data cost will increase.

theunnamed:
I just don't gbadun this one I'm on like I did the others before it

Lol. Abeg, I no understand you oo

Google yesterday released a report showing which Android version is mostly used for the month of June. According to the report Android Nougat is still the most use Android operating system. This simply means that majority of persons using Android smartphone are on phones with Android Nougat OS either the 7.0 version or its updated 7.1 version.

Google carries out this research base on the number of phones used to download applications on Google Play Store. As you can see from the photo provided by Google, Nougat top with 30.8 percent followed by Marshmallow, which is at 23.5 percent. The third most used Android OS in June is the latest Android OS, the Android Oreo. This OS has a population of 12.1 percent.

Other lower version operating system have very low percentage which is less than 40. You can also read the previous months report here. Google report shows must persons still uses smartphone that is powered by Android Nougat. I am among those using Android Nougat smartphone, what about you?

Read it from here
https://phonesnaira..com/2018/07/nougat-most-used-android-os-june-report.html

Simeony007:
Will it spoil Nigerians phones if they use it

No!

tidedroid:
My 4g ntel sim is not faster than my 3g mtn sim,in fact it's f'ing slow.u now want them to bring 5g so that we will be the first country to be achieving 2g speed on 5g network.abeg let them(network providers) improve what they have now rather than rushing to use tech that they are not ready for

Funny you. In fact, them never fit give us better 4G. I wonder when 5G go come Naija.

finsulyman:
I'm using 6G here in India

Your own China is in the multiverse

adeniyi3971:
I won't be in Nigeria by then

Lol! But Nigeria is your country.

The world tech space has been talking of 5G a lot since last year and just right in the second half of 2018, Qualcomm has promised to install 5G network to smartphones. If smartphones start using 5G network, then, you know, super fast speed is now possible, even though 4G is already fast enough.

Qualcomm has created a mmWave antennas which integrates the specifications for 5G network. The mmWave antennas are QTM052 module family and QPM56xx sub-6 GHz RF module. The chipset marker also claimed that it is the first to a fully powered 5G network at 5 Gbps. This new antennas will be integrated into its upcoming chipset which will probably be launched before the this year. The forthcoming chipset will replaced the latest flagship chipset of Qualcomm Snapdragon 845.

Installing 5G on mobile phones is a great deal. Telecommunication company will need to gear up their game to meet this current need. However, in undeveloped countries, like Nigeria, having a 5G network on smartphones is a big deal as most of the wireless carriers are yet to integrate 4G network. However, one of the middle-level smartphones launched this year has already incorporated this 4G network on it as well as other smartphones.

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Guys this stuff is no 419 or MMM things. Its real and internationally recognized. In fact, other African countries are buying into it. More so, the model was gotten from Developed countries like the USA.

Idrismusty97:
Isn't this like what a normal banks does? only without the risks of "Running away with your money".

With the publicity all over twitter, I don't think you should worry yourself with the risk you mentioned. Again this guys have gone wide. They received more than 1 million dollars recently as equity fund from investors.

Piggybank mobile app is a saving platform that helps its customers save. Economist believes that Savings equals investment. If people save their will be enough money to invest. For instance, if you can save a million Naira, that is enough to begin a business that will break even. Aside this, when you save, you can have money for various expenditures. Including unforeseen events and important items like buying a car, organizing your marriage or building a house. Piggybank is providing this opportunity for Nigerians as well as Africans to achieve their dreams by saving their hard earn money until it is needed.

The word Piggybank.ng, if it is looked at in the Nigeria context, is a container (kolo) which is used to save money for a time until it is needed. As a Nigeria, personally, I have used this kind of stuff to save money to buy stuffs during my secondary school days and so is many other Nigerians. This kind of service is what this financial technology company, Piggybank.ng is doing in Nigeria and it is the first of its kinds in Nigeria. PiggyBank.ng App can be downloaded on Play Stores. The App is free to download and free to sign up. You can also sign up via their website.

How does Piggybank.ng works?

After signing up on Piggybank.ng, you will need to fill in certain amount of money you want to save. You can save on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. The money will be automatically deducted from your bank account as you have requested. You have the option of saving manually with the quick save option. You can save any amount you want in this section. Further, you can lock up certain amount of cash on “savelock” option. If you do this for 1000 days, you will receive 34 percent interest rate upfront. That means, the interest will be added to your “savelock” cash immediately, and not until the completion of the 1000 days. The 34 percent interest rate amount to 12.41 percent per year.

PiggyBank.ng encourages discipline. So, you’re not expected to withdraw your money except on the date you choose or any of PiggyBank.ng four default withdrawer days in a year. If you need to withdraw cash urgently before the due dates then you must pay five percent breaking fees.

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