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Commerce-focused digital agency OATS Africa has secured a new milestone after becoming the first Nigerian agency partner of Cloudways, the managed cloud hosting platform used by developers and digital agencies around the world. The partnership is the latest step in a journey that started as freelance work and gradually grew into a digital agency building tools and infrastructure for online businesses. From Freelance Beginnings to a Digital Agency OATS Africa started in 2019 as a freelance operation founded by Olaniyan Abdul-Gafar, who began building websites and online stores while studying at the University of Lagos. At the time, the goal…
Microsoft has released an out-of-band hotpatch update, KB5084597, to fix three remote code execution vulnerabilities in the Windows Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) management tool. The update targets Windows 11 Enterprise devices enrolled in the hotpatch program that did not receive the fixes through the standard March 2026 Patch Tuesday cumulative update.The three vulnerabilities are tracked as CVE-2026-25172, CVE-2026-25173, and CVE-2026-26111. All three were addressed in the March 10 Patch Tuesday release for standard Windows 11 devices.How Attackers Can Exploit These RRAS VulnerabilitiesAccording to Microsoft’s advisory, an attacker authenticated on the domain could exploit these flaws by tricking a…
Congo-Brazzaville holds elections Sunday in a vote expected to extend 82-year-old President Denis Sassou Nguesso’s more than four decades in power in the oil-rich central African country. Observers say voter turnout could reach a record low. Six candidates are standing against Sassou Nguesso but the main opposition is divided and largely absent, leaving him set to win another five-year term. The former paratrooper colonel is already one of Africa’s longest-serving leaders, along with Equatorial Guinea’s Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo and Cameroonian President Paul Biya. The president has toured the country during the election campaign, which ended Friday, backed by the…
Maputo — The Mozambican Minister of Communications, Américo Muchanga, has claimed that the the government’s new regulations on telecommunications will not restrict use of the Internet. Speaking in Maputo on Thursday in response to requests for information from members of the Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, Muchanga said the regulations are aimed against cybercrime, and at guaranteeing the security of the state, of institutions and of individuals. Nonetheless, the regulations have been strongly criticized by civil society bodies because they could allow the authorities to shut down the Internet on spurious grounds of “national security’. Various civil society…
Meta Platforms is considering sweeping layoffs that could affect up to 20% of its workforce as the company ramps up spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure. This is according to a Reuters report citing three sources familiar with the matter. The potential job cuts are part of efforts to offset the massive cost of AI investments, including a plan to spend $600 billion on data centres by 2028. Meta has not set a date for the layoffs, and the magnitude has not been finalised. Top executives have recently signalled the plans to other senior leaders at Meta and told them to…
The Central Bank of Nigeria has restricted how often Nigerians can update the phone number linked to their Bank Verification Number (BVN), capping it at once in a lifetime. In a circular issued to banks and other financial institutions on Thursday, the apex bank said the new rules will take effect from May 1, 2026. The restriction is part of new safeguards designed to reduce fraud risks tied to Nigeria’s rapidly growing digital payments ecosystem, where mobile numbers are central to authentication and account recovery. Phone numbers linked to BVNs play a critical role in Nigeria’s banking infrastructure. They are…
Power tool batteries aren’t cheap. A single Ryobi ONE+ 4Ah pack runs around $60–$80, and if you’re building out a full Ryobi ONE+ collection, those costs stack up fast. Most people assume heavy use is what kills batteries early. It isn’t. After years of expanding my own cordless tool setup, I started noticing certain packs fading well before others — and the pattern had nothing to do with how hard I was running them. It came down to three habits that nobody explains when you buy your first cordless drill. None of them are complicated, and fixing them costs nothing.…
By Mainza Katongo Zambia boasts roughly $4.5 billion in foreign reserves, a figure often cited by policymakers as evidence of growing economic stability [1]. Yet for many ordinary citizens, the idea of “economic freedom” still feels distant — something discussed in speeches and policy debates in Lusaka, but rarely experienced in everyday life. A nation, however, is only as strong as the well-being of its people. While Zambia has taken steps to decentralize development through the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) — increasing allocations to K40 million per constituency [2] — the promise of local empowerment means little if citizens cannot…
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