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Update:: In a bid to prevent foreign interference, Facebook has disclosed that it won’t be accepting political advertisements from outside Nigeria. Though Facebook ads are an integral part of the social media campaign for candidates and parties, Facebook said it is rolling out new rules to prevent “foreign interference” around the polls.  Following this new move  which came after Cambridge Analytica obtained the personal data of as many as 87 million users ahead of the 2016 US elections, political ad buyers in countries affected by the new rule must confirm their identity and location and their ads will be archived in an online library for seven years. The new policy also takes effect in Ukraine, where presidential elections will be held in March. In India, where general elections will be held in April, Facebook said it will begin to archive electoral ads in an online library starting February.

Update:: Monday started off with some serious rumors regarding Teyana Taylor and Iman Shumpert.  According to some very fake sources, Teyana and Iman had a threesome (something they've been very open about) and Iman got the other woman pregnant.  The fact that Teyana deleted her Instagram account added more fuel to the fire, but the "Rose In Harlem" singer has responded to the fake news with some words of her own: 1. I’ve never seen/touched that girl in my life. 2. My page is gone because I’m upset at @defjam for not dropping my damn “WTP” video on time, per usual. 3. It’s really sad that lies are entertained so much than the truth. 4. Iman is not dumb he know I’d kill him 😃 End of story. Teyana's statement on the matter has clearly been overlooked since people are seemingly still feeding into the negative headlines. "Everybody will act like they don’t see this part tho," Teyana wrote alongside tweet that states the truth. 

Update:: Resident doctors at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital ( LASUTH ), Ikeja, say they will begin three days warning strike on Jan. 28 over shortage of house officers and resident doctors. Dr Fatai Balogun, President, Association of Resident Doctors (ARD-LASUTH), said at a news conference on Tuesday in Lagos that the strike would be total. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the association had in September 2018 went on an indefinite strike to demand for the replacement of the exited house officers and resident doctors in LASUTH. Balogun said that the strike was suspended based on the promises by the management to replace the exited officers and the affirmation of the approval by the state government. He said that all available means of communication with both the hospital management and government had proved abortive. “This crisis has been a recurring event over the past years without any structured policy put in place to ensure seamless replacement of...

Update:: Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige The Federal Government said it has released N 163 billion to the universities from the Tertiary Education Trust Fund but striking academics are stalling in calling off their strike. Senator Chris Ngige , Minister of Labour and Employment , said this while addressing newsmen after a closed -door reconciliatory meeting with leaders of Academic Staff Union of Universities on Monday in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that the striking lecturers embarked on a strike on November 5 , 2018 , to press home their demands. ASUU demands included some areas of understanding in the implementation of the Memorandum of Action agreed in 2017 . READ ALSO: Those who pulled out of strike will regret it – ASUU Some of these areas include shortfall in salaries of some Federal Universities ’ workers and lecturers, earned allowances , revitalisation projects that were part of the 2009 agreement , among others . According t...

Update:: Zimbabwe’s government exceeded its mandate in ordering an internet blackout during civilian protests last week, a court ruled on Monday, as authorities pressed on with rounding up opposition figures blamed for the unrest. In his interim ruling, High Court Judge Owen Tagu told mobile operators to immediately and unconditionally resume full services. The biggest, Econet Wireless, compiled with the order late on Monday, it said in a message to subscribers. The sporadic blackout began on Tuesday following the start of protests against a rise in fuel prices that turned violent. With evidence growing that the country is slipping back into authoritarian rule, critics of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government had accused it of shutting off the internet to prevent a security clampdown being broadcast to the world. Mnangagwa arrived in Zimbabwe late on Monday after cutting short a foreign trip. There was no immediate comment from the government’s lawyer on whether it ...

Update::  Grande's new album, believed to share the title of her hit single "Thank U, Next," will likely be released in February, the singer revealed Monday (Jan. 21). When a Twitter follower asked Grande to spill some details about the upcoming release, she obliged: "ok i love u hello what would u like to know." Based on the quick Q&A session that followed, the album might be here as soon as Feb. 8 -- and it's fully Ariana Grande, with no features. "Hopefully it releases feb so its the best birthday gift," one fan wrote. Grande's simple "hbd" (happy birthday) response indicated that the album will indeed be available during the month of February. And when another fan wondered "is it feb the 8th !!!!!!!! that’s my 21st sis," the pop star offered a little comment that said a lot: "how convenient." If those not-so-subtle hints about the album release date weren't enough, Grande also responded ...

Update:: Nigeria's President, Muhammadu Buhari will commission a  Post-Graduate Centre of Excellence donated to the University of Nigeria, Enugu, by  the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Thursday, January 24, 2019. The nation's highest financial institution had ealier extended such gestures to the University of Ibadan and Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria UI and ABU. The world-class Post-Graduate School project, according to the CBN, comprises a Faculty building and a hostel, a 497-seater auditorium, four lecture and four tutorial rooms, traditional and e-libraries, a teleconference room and 133-room hostel. Spokesperson of the CBN, Isaac Okorafor, disclosed in a statement that the aim of the Bank, in conceiving the project, was to ensure that students at post-graduate levels in economics, accounting, banking and finance, business administration and statistics study in a serene environment that would stimulate effective learning with a view to building human capacity fo...

Update:: Many ladies have been more safety-conscious since the upsurge in the level of underwear theft in the country, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. NAN interviewed a cross-section of Lagosians on Monday to find out probable reasons for this menace and safety measures ladies are taking in order not to fall victims. Respondents said perpetrators of the evil act, believed to be internet fraudsters or better known as “Yahoo Boys’’, would stop at nothing to get wealthy overnight. Ngozi Orina, a Clinical official told NAN that women should be more careful and mindful of those they hang out with. “I am a married woman and have no intention of having extra-marital affairs. “But even at that, I am careful with my personal items. “I don’t put my underwear in the public space,’’ she said. Orina, a mother of two, said women, especially young ladies, must not be carried away by flashy things because those things only led to destruction. “This is the time to be very ...

Update:: The world is on course to miss its "best chance" of preventing runaway climate change by ensuring global greenhouse gas emissions peak in 2020, researchers warned Tuesday. Even as Earth is buffeted by superstorms, droughts and flooding made worse by rising seas, and as greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise globally, an analysis by the World Resources Institute showed that current efforts to limit temperature increases are falling well short.

Update:: Russia and Japan's leaders meet for talks in Moscow Tuesday over the disputed island chain that has long prevented a peace treaty to end World War II. But recent rhetoric has dampened hopes of a breakthrough. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit marks the 25th time he and Russian President Vladimir Putin have met since 2013, a reflection of their efforts to build cooperation despite their disagreement over the Kuril islands.

Update:: The Anambra Coordinator, Buhari/Osinbajo Campaign Organization, Sen. Andy Ubah, has promised to mobilise total victory for President Muhammadu Buhari in the state. Uba made the pledge at a meeting with the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in his Uga ward one, Aguata Local Government Area on Monday. “There are a lot of things that the President is doing that the people do not know about, but what we are going to do is to take those good works to the rural people and ensure that they assimilate this.

Update:: Four suspects named by Kenyan authorities as wanted following last week's attack at the the DusitD2 complex in the capital, Nairobi, have surrendered, privately-owned Daily Nation newspaper reports. It said they handed themselves in at a police station in Isiolo, north-east of the capital, Nairobi

Update:: Facebook-owned mobile messaging platform WhatsApp announced Monday it was restricting how many times any given message can be forwarded in an effort to boost privacy and security. In July, WhatsApp rolled out safeguards in India that included limiting the number of users to whom a message can be forwarded. It also ran newspaper ads to raise awareness about fake news. "The forward limit significantly reduced forwarded messages around the world," read a company statement about a test run of the forwarding limit. "Starting today, all users on the latest versions of WhatsApp can now forward to only five chats at once, which will help keep WhatsApp focused on private messaging with close contacts."

Update:: The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and Federal Government (FG) will resume talks today, Monday 21st January 2019. The meeting is coming after the union requested FG to pay at least 50 billion naira to show commitment . This again has raised the hopes of Nigerian Students as they hope the strike will be called off after today’s meeting. THE MEETING IS OVER. SEE OUTCOME BELOW: The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Monday said that it would continue with the ongoing strike unless the Federal Government satisfied their demand on the revitalization. Speaking after the rescheduled meeting with the FG at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment which lasted about four hours, ASUU president, Prof Biodun Ogunyemi, told reporters that the meeting ended with grey areas to be resolved. He said, “We have not suspended the strike, the discussion will continue at a later date. We are going back to our members for further consultation. FG gave us reaction...

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, to end the three-month-old strike by Nigerian university teachers at the ongoing meeting with the teachers. Minister of Labour and Productivity , Chris Ngige Ngige disclosed this in a statement issued during the resumed negotiation with the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, yesterday. The statement by the Assistant Director, Press at the ministry, Rhoda Illiya, said the president told the minister that the strike must be called off at the end of the meeting on Monday. The university lecturers embarked on an indefinite strike on November 4, demanding improved funding of universities and implementation of previous agreements with the government. “Mr President has directed me to pass the night here until all issues that have kept our children away from school are resolved and the strike called off. “The president has also directed me to impress upon you, the im...

Update:: A former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, who is also the presidential candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, has released a list of persons close to President Muhammadu Buhari whom he alleges are corrupt. In the list released Sunday evening by one of his spokespersons, Phrank Shuaibu, Mr Abubakar also called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to deregister the governing APC, which, according to him, ”has metamorphosed from a political party to a nest of corrupt politicians”. The former vice president listed 28 persons that he said have various corruption allegations around them ”but are now close to the President and the APC”. See the full unedited statement/list below Buhari’s Three Almost Four Years Reign, Worst in Nigeria’s History, Says Atiku · Ex-VP : APC Now Safe Heaven For Corrupt Politicians Former Vice President and Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar on Sunday rev...