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Update:: Nigerian-American filmmaker, Chinonye Chukwu, has won herself the Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize for her movie, ‘Clemency.’ Chukwu has emerged the first Black woman to win Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize US Dramatic entry. The filmmaker has also been tipped to direct the adaptation of former Black Panther leader Elaine Brown’s memoir, ‘A Taste of Power’. Deadline reports that Chukwu will work with Alyssa Hill who will adapt the screenplay from the memoir, ‘A Taste of Power: a Black Woman’s Story.’ Chukwu, is a Nigerian-born, Alaskan-raised screenwriter, producer and director, whose works had received several recognition, grants and awards. She joins Desiree Akhavan, Ryan Coogler, Damien Chazelle, Rebecca Miller, and many more many more big names as winning the Grand Jury Prize for their U.S. Dramatic entries.

Update:: There's a viral voice note insisting that people now steal Natural hair of people in the salon and sell it for as high as 450, 000 Naira. Due to recent events, it appears that people who perpetrate diabolical rituals have shifted from stealing female panties to female natural hair Reports say these men are so desperate and there have been a case where even brothers and boyfriends are not left out, they steal and sell panties belonging to their sisters and girlfriends to ritualise for money. Does women's used panties fetch one lots of money? Are these real or stupid superstitious beliefs?! Reports say one of these men buy a bag of female natural hair for as much as 450k and that some salon owners are already in the business of selling to them their unsuspecting customers' hairs.

Update:: A  siamese man has died by electrocution after he used his earpiece while his phone was plugged into the socket. His corpse was found on his bed several hours after he died. Corps have issued a warning about the dangers of cheap chargers after Kritsada Supol was found dead with his Samsung plugged into a power point Supol , 24, appeared to have been listening to music or talking to someone, with the mic section of the earphones resting over his lips. The property owner visited the room in Chonburi, Thailand, on Sunday and found the 24-year-old’s body on the mattress with signs of burning around his ears. Police from the Phan Thong Provincial Police Station in Chonburi, Thailand, arrived and carried the dead body from the property. Police Captain Jaleuk Polthong said police believe that Kritsada was electrocuted while using the earphones and charging his smartphone at the same time. The captain said: ‘”We believe a short circuit caused his death ...

Update:: The Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, said claims made on Monday by the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, that the country's power generation has improved by 100%, is fraudulent. While Fashola claimed that that there has been a 100% rise from 4000 megawatts in 2015 to 8000 megawatts in 2018, TCN, in its latest report, said the highest peak figure of power ever generated is 5,222 megawatts. Both the minister and the Transmission Company gave their statistics on Monday in Abuja, with Fashola insisting, during the visit of the Federation of Construction Industry to his office, that Nigerians now spent less on fuelling of generators and plants because of frequent and improved electricity supply nationwide. The minister also explained that the government was committed to renewing and expanding the Nigerian economy through the provision of critical infrastructure. TCN, in its own figures, showed that peak generation attained on February 3...

Update::  of Imo state, Rochas Okorocha, has raised the alarm over plans by the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Adams Oshiomhole and Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi to alienate him from politics and halt his 2023 presidential ambition. The Imo governor disclosed that the recent political upheaval in his state was sponsored by people outside the state, using politicians from the state to pull him down ahead of 2023. He said: “There is more to the noise you are hearing about the governorship election in Imo, it is not about Uche Nwosu, it is about a plot to stop Okorocha by all means, otherwise why will Adams Oshiomhole and Rotimi Amaechi be interested in who governs Imo. “The calculation is that if Uche Nwosu becomes governor and I go to Senate, I will be a strong force by 2023. The most annoying fact is that they are using our people to pursue that agenda” Okorocha said this while addressing a press conference at the Government Ho...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Tuesday did a referendum to decide whether to suspend its three-month strike or not. The national leaders of the union on Monday directed its zonal coordinators to meet and conduct a referendum. Over 200 members of the University of Ibadan chapter, who attended the congress allegedly voted for the continuation of the strike while a little above 50 voted for the suspension of the strike.

Update:: The federal government is set to finally ban the importation of tomato paste before the end of 2019, the minister of agriculture and natural resources, Audu Ogbeh, has said. Mr. Ogbeh disclosed this during a tour of the Dangote Tomato Processing Plant in Kadawa, Kano State. According to the report, Mr Ogbeh said the ban will encourage massive tomato production. “The federal government has set aside N250 billion through the Central Bank of Nigeria and Bank Agriculture to disburse as soft loans to tomato farmers as part of the Anchor Borrower scheme. “Federal government will continue to encourage Dangote agro-farms and the farmers to grow massive tomatoes in Nigeria and with this kind of outfit, farmers will earn more with better seedlings from the Dangote greenhouse and get better results,” the minister said, according to the report, explaining that $22 billion is spent on tomato paste importation annually. “The farmers will supply to the processor...