Popular video sharing platform, Instagram, has announced an increase in the length of videos posted by users on its platform. Instagram users can now post a 60-second video on their timelines as against 15 seconds it used to be in the past. Also, the social networking website announced the return of multi-clip video, which makes…
An airplane belonging to the Egyptian Air has been seized mid-air by a man suspected to be a terrorist. It was said that the passenger has a suicide explosive on him. Multiple reports say about 60 persons are on board the plane. According to media reports, the Airbus A320 was forced to land at Larnaca…
Eighty-nine members of Boko Haram insurgents have been sentenced to death by a Cameroonian military court for their role in various attacks in the north of the country. Boko Haram is a militant group from Nigeria and has been terrorising inhabitants of communities in the north-eastern part of Nigeria and bordering towns in Cameroon. It…
President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, has told his country military in Syria to leave the war-torn country. Putin informed a meeting on Monday at the Kremlin that the pullout of the main part of the Russian forces would start on Tuesday. However, the Russian leader disclosed that Russia’s Hmeimim airbase and the its port at…
An attack that occurred at a beach in Ivory Coast has left about 16 fun-seekers dead. The ugly incident took place on Sunday evening. Fourteen civilians and two soldiers died after heavily armed gunmen attacked a beach resort at Grand Bassam, about 40km Abidjan. The attackers fired on beach-goers at the popular resort, which boasts…
27 Killed, 125 Wounded In Turkey’s Blast No fewer than 27 people were killed when a bomb-laden vehicle exploded on Sunday evening in the Turkish capital, Ankara. Officials of the country said about 125 persons were wounded in the centrally located Kizilay neighbourhood, near a major transport hub. It was reported that the explosion set…
The man credited to have invented the email, Ray Tomlinson, has died. Tomlinson is also the man to have created the use of the @ sign now used in email addresses. Reports say Tomlinson died of an apparent heart attack on Saturday, March 5, 2016 in the United States of America. The US-based computer programmer…
The death of daughter of late American songstress, Whitney Houston, Bobbi Kristina Brown, shook many because it was not long after her mum’s demise that she joined her. After being found face-down and unresponsive in a bathtub in her suburban Atlanta town home on January 31, 2015, the 22-year-old daughter of Bobby Brown breathed her…
From the way things are gearing up, Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump may eventually win their respective party tickets in the forthcoming presidential election in the United States of America this year. Both Clinton and Trump won big on the Super Tuesday for the GOP nomination. While the former First Lady won in seven states…
Momentum is gradually gathering for the World’s biggest Communications Forum in Davos, Switzerland, from March 8-9, 2016. Communication professionals, CEOs, representatives of ministries, global media practitioners and some of the world’s most influential PR and marketing communications personalities will get together to discuss the key trends in the field of global communications at the WCF…