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Samsung's new Galaxy Note 10 line is ditching its headphone jack. After years of being one of the last true holdouts, it seems that not even the mighty Samsung could continue to prolong the inevitable death of the beloved port.... Read more via CNET – https://ift.tt/2MUCiFk Get more World News

Facebook is prepping the launch of a “news tab” that could see media outlets paid millions of dollars in exchange for their content. News of the plan first appeared in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday and was later confirmed by Facebook to Digital Trends, though the social … Read more...

Importation of palm oil into the country gulped $1.4bn (about N504bn) in the past five years, investigation has shown. Global import data from the United States Department of Agriculture indicate that Nigeria imported a total of 2.04 million tonnes of palm oil between 2014 and the first few...

Tekno has kept tongues wagging for the past week, after a now-viral video of him in a transparent van with dancers hit the internet. We all wondered what it was all about, and it turns out it was the music video for his new song with Zlatan, "Agege".... via Konbini Nigeria –...

Sonia Morales is getting all the support she needs from women on social media. Recall that the socialite took to her Instagram yesterday to announce that her marriage to actor IK Ogbonna, which produced 4-year-old son Ace, had come to an end. “I, Sonia, am officially and fully out of marriage...

He was handed a two year jail term for trying to abduct a two year old child….. An Ejigbo Magistrate Court has sentenced Mr Emmanuel Ikrangubek to two years imprisonment with hard labour for kidnapping a two-year-old boy, Yusuf Badru, at his parents’ residence in Lagos. The Prosecutor, ASP...

Director-General of Progressive Governors Forum, Salihu Lukman, has again blamed National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, for the diminishing fortunes of the party. In a four-page letter to Oshiomhole entitled: “APC: Appeal for Reconciliation,” Lukman said as...

Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, former Presidents Dr Goodluck Jonathan, Olusegun Obasanjo and former Head of State, Gen Abdulsalami Abubakar have advocated concerted action against the spread of cancer in the country. The nation’s leaders spoke on Thursday at the official launch of the...

Briyai Frankland, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)’s resident electoral commissioner in Cross River, has resigned to contest in the November 2019 governorship election in Bayelsa state. Frankland, at a send-forth party at the electoral commission’s Calabar office... Read...

Alhaji Bature Sambo, the 2019 election campaign coordinator of President Buhari in Zamfara State defected to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) alongside other top members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state on Thursday August 8. Speaking at the "defection" ceremony held at...

Nnewi—The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, yesterday, alleged that since the rejection of RUGA, and National Life Stock Programmes, NLSP, by the people of South-East, the All Progressives Congress, APC-led Federal Government of President Muhammadu Buhari has been supporting unprovoked attacks...

Neymar's transfer to Real Madrid has taken another twist as reports claim Spanish giants want Gareth Bale included in £250million transfer of Neymar. According to reports from Brazil, Real chiefs are in Paris discussing with Paris Saint-Germain officials over possible mega move...

The Governor of Abia State, Okezie Ikpeazu, on Thursday said that the armed security personnel, who allegedly shot and killed a commercial motorcyclist in a community near Aba, had been arrested.... Read more via P.M. News – https://ift.tt/2ZKmTLB Get More Nigeria Metro News

A woman suspected of forcefully feeding her teenage stepdaughter on food mixed with her menstrual blood has been remanded for two weeks at Kauga prison in Mukono District. The accused, Annet Namata, was first arrested in June but went into hiding after securing a police bond. … Read more...

Six people were injured when their plane crashed minutes after take-off in Mafia, eastern Tanzania. The Rufiji Special Police Zone Commander, Mr Onesmo Lyanga said the six were taken to Mafia District Hospital for treatment.... Read more via Daily MonitorHome – https://ift.tt/2MQwUU2 Get...

In Kenya, school girls who have reached puberty will now receive free sanitary towels from the government, a new law aimed at minimising absenteeism and putting them at par with their male counterparts says. The Basic Education Amendment Act places the responsibility of providing free, …...

Proceedings at Homa Bay County Assembly in Kenya were temporarily suspended on Wednesday afternoon after one member farted during a heated debate. It was a hot afternoon and most members were flapping pieces of papers to cool themselves. For about ten minutes, members of the … Read more via...

A report Friday will show the U.K. economy stagnated last quarter, according to a Bloomberg survey of economists. Such a reading would be in line with the Bank of England’s prediction and represent Britain’s worst quarter since the economy shrank in 2012.... Read more via Bloomberg –...

Prosecutors in Brazil said Thursday they agree with a police finding that there is not enough evidence to prove rape allegations against Neymar and have asked a judge to close the case. “What happened between four walls is impossible to know, we have her word against his,” prosecutor Flavia...

The proportion of Indian sex workers with HIV/AIDS declined over four years to 2017, more use condoms than ever before and funding to control the disease … Read more via “sexual health” – Google News – https://ift.tt/2MQx5yC Get more World News