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The first recreational cannabis to be legally bought in Canada was purchased at midnight on Wednesday (02:30 GMT) on the eastern island of Newfoundland amid queues of hundreds of people. READ MORE HERE Get more World News

Arsenal celebrated their first win since beating Ostersunds last month Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger likened his team to a boxer struggling to get up after a knockdown as they overcame their recent poor form with a 2-0 Europa League win at AC Milan. Arsenal faced a fifth straight defeat … read...

Fiona was groomed into prostitution at 15 and has now won the legal right not to have to tell employers. Read more via BBC – http://ift.tt/2oVOE3x Get More Nigeria Metro News

Ivory Coast’s Murielle Ahoure powered to victory to win gold in the women’s 60m and then explains to the BBC Sport team why she celebrated with an Ireland flag. read more via BBC – http://ift.tt/2tdFYd7 --------------- Get More Nigeria Sports News

A former Ghanaian BBC journalist has opened up on why he left the promising international career to become a drug dealer, commanding over $162,000, an equivalent of GHS728,336 in 1982. Although he was satisfied with his BBC job at the time, Paa Joe Odonkor said his lifestyle was “so big” …...

The bestselling exposé Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by journalist Michael Wolff is about to hit the small screen. According to Hollywood Reporter, Mr Wolff has sold television rights for seven figures. President Trump has condemned the book, which depicts a chaotic administration...

America's witches are more optimistic and casting spell on Donald Trump to see the White House before his four years mandate. BBC reported that at the stroke of midnight on Friday, followers of witchcraft across the US performed a mass spell designed to remove the president from office. A...

British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC has likened President Muhammadu Buhari's absence from Nigeria to that of Big Brother Naija show currently underway in South Africa. In what looks like a booing of Nigerians and their leaders, BBC said: “As Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari was beginning...

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari and the governor of Kano state, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje had conversation during prayer session on Wednesday. BBC Hausa has translated the phone conversation between the two leaders. It was the first time the president's voice has been heard in public since he...

Gambia's President-elect Adama Barrow has told the BBC he will declare himself president on 18 January regardless of President Yahya Jammeh's rejection of the election result. Mr Barrow said his team was preparing for the event despite security concerns: "Our position is very very clear. I'm...

Snap, the parent company of messaging app Snapchat, has filed to list on the US stock market, according to several reports. Based on investments so far, the California-based firm would be worth between $20bn and $25bn (£16bn-£20bn). That would make it the largest US flotation since Chinese...

Jamilah Tangaza, a former BBC journalist and former aide to former FCT minister Bala Mohammed has been declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. EFCC Boss, Ibrahim Magu told BBC Hausa that she was declared wanted following media reports that she had tried to jump...

BringBackOur Girls campaign group has described the news reports of 21 Chibok girls released as an extremely happy news. The group on its social media account said: “We have seen reports of 21 #ChibokGirls released but are yet to confirm. This will be extremely happy news if true. We are...

Terrorist group, Boko Haram has reportedly released about twenty-one of the abducted Chibok school girls to the Nigerian Government. A senior government official in Nigeria has told the BBC that 21 of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram militants are currently with security services...

Facebook has officially entered into the Marketplace feature, in a move that could rival sites like eBay and Craigslist. The new feature will debut in the US, the UK, Australia and New Zealand, BBC quoted the firm having said that in a blog post. The new feature puts Facebook in direct...

Aliko Dangote, Africa's richest man and Nigerian business tycoon cement factory has been attacked by protesters in Ethiopia's Oromia region, the regional government has said in a statement. The protests were in response to the deaths of at least 55 people in a stampede at a religious festival...

Cocaine with worth 50 million euros has been discovered at a Coca-Cola plant in France. The drug, hidden in bags among a delivery of orange juice concentrate, arrived in a container from South America, BBC reported. An investigation is under way in Signes, a village in southern France. The...