TechTalk Tuesday: #EndSARS and Airtel sha (10/20/2020)

TechTalk Tuesday on 20th Oct. 2020

Welcome to the first podcast edition of #TechTalkTuesday for 2020.

SORO SÔKE!

Nigerian Youths arises against Police Brutality in the country with their focus being on the Special Anti-Robbery Squad Officers using the hashtag #EndSARS and protesting around the country until their demands are met.

They are in day 14 as at today, that is a while 2 weeks on the streets.

The Tech industry is also at alert as they have been interventions of different kinds namely:

- #Anonymous took down about four government servers/websites for over 48 hours.

The group tools down Nigeria's Central Bank and Police Force websites and hacked the Twitter account of NBC.

- Volunteers in the #EndSARS protest has set up a toll-free number to help those on the streets with medical supplies, food and other needs:

Here are the details:

Helpline: 017001755

* Press 1 for medical support

* Press 2 for legal help

* Press 3 for Food and supplies

* Press 4, 5 and 6 for mental health emergencies

- On Twitter: Nigerians also have online protesters who never let a minute go by without using the #EndSARS.

Pouncing on any counter tweets.

On Saturday, Twitter was down for about 4 hours, a theory has it that #Jack wanted to verify one of the key players in the protest and mistakenly missed a semi colon in the code😆.

AIRTEL SHA:

At the weekend, Airtel supposedly gave out free #1000 airtime to "all" it's customers as compensation for a poor network service on Friday or thereabout.

But, information reaching us is that, Airtel say "dem no do again"; they are retrieving these airtime from.its users, according to them, it was an error.

The compensation was supposed to be #100 airtime + 100mb.

For us wey don use am finish nkor?😩.

As a way of ending this edition, make una stop to beg #Anonymous to hack DSTV and Banks o. ódi kwá risky.

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