It looks like MTN will help Nigeria close its budget funding gaps!

According to Nigeria’s Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, MTN has paid N80 billion of the N330 billion fine imposed on it by the Nigerian government for failing to deactivate more than five million unregistered SIM cards. The minister noted that the payment was for this first year and is the first tranche of the total payment.

MTN, Nigeria’s largest mobile operator, was initially fined 5.2 billion dollars (N1.04 trillion) for failing to deactivate more than five million unregistered SIM cards.

The fine on the South Africa-owned company was later reduced to N330 billion.

Nigeria is never tied of running around circles. The Federal Government says it will establish an Information Communication Technology, ICT, University in the first quarter of 2017.

The Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, disclosed this on Monday in Abuja when he featured at the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, Forum.

“By the grace of God, in the next three to six months, we should have established in Nigeria an ICT university which will be first of its kind in Africa”.

But many Nigerians are not singing and dancing because of this new vision. A commentator named Pat in PM Nigeria notes:

What happen to open University established during Obasanjo administration? I think Open University would achieve its purpose better with ICT enhancement and more access to internet by potential students. ICT university without constant power and affordable internet by common man would be counter productive. Every University in this age need to be ICT compliance. What happen to the NITEL/Mtel that suppose to be the principal telecommunications company in Nigeria and and provide wired telecommunications in the country? We expected that company to succeed without constant electricity coupled with corruption which will be very difficult. How will ICT University of a thing be different?

Another Nigerian notes that government can channel the funds into industrial parks where it can provide power which has stifled the capacities of existing universities, says Fantastic.

I am of opinion that the government should be thinking of how to establish industrial parks and make power plant available in each of them. As it is today we don’t have tyre, leather shoes, phone and car battery manufacturing plants in this country and we are consuming them more than the manufacturers. The government should apply to these industries what Obasanjo & Jonathan did to cement industry. We don’t ICT university but industries to create jobs!

Another commentator captures the true minds of Nigerians when it noted that we already have technical universities and do not need an ICT University

These people don’t have idea of what to do to move this country forward. What of ICT department in all universities? The economy is going down and they are still making effort to increase the cost of governance. Do they have ICT university in USA? They are not bothered about Nigerians that are losing jobs on daily basis in Mtn. I think we should also have electricity or power university, election university, university of rice, cement university and road construction university. They will help us to address all these issues we are having in Nigeria. Jonathan was a clueless president but this is clueless government!

Israel is really angry right now. The nation has reportedly suspended working ties with 12 of the UN Security Council countries that voted to pass a resolution urging Israel to halt building settlements on occupied Palestinian land.

These countries affected include Britain, France, Russia, China, Japan, Ukraine, Angola, Egypt, Uruguay, Spain, Senegal and New Zealand.

The US abstained from the  UN vote on Friday.

We just survived the Samsung Galaxy-gate with the phones turning into small firecrackers in users’ pockets. Now the iPhone is extending the party.

If you just bought a new iPhone 7 Plus, congrats. But watch out, there is a problem many users are reporting. It is related to the camera hardware in the phone. Visit this Reddit thread entitled iPhone 7 Plus Cameras are Dying to read teryakiwok:

‘I opened up the camera app only to be met with a black image preview, sometimes I can get an image however it’s either tinted green or purple and was once accompanied by a screen stating ‘Emergency iPhone needs to cool down’ when the handset wasn’t even slightly warm.’

The new updates on macOS and tvOS have some really stunning images.

The Apple TV has new flyover screensavers which are available now, but none from any African city, unfortunately. I think Cape Town and Johannesburg have got some really nice structures if Apple looked hard enough. iDownloadBlog did the work categorizing the new flyovers and extracting direct download links.

If you want to check out the new visuals on Apple TV, you can see the download the additional cityscapes by going to Settings > General > Screensaver.

To check out these new macOS visuals, simply update your operating system, right click on a blank part of your desktop, and choose one of the the new wallpapers.

Some sample images.