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Google, arguably one of the most influential companies on the planet, is 20 years old. Like many of the American tech giants, it was started in 1998 in a garage by two friends Larry Page and Sergey Brin and has evolved into a company that defines how we … Read more via HuffPost UK –...

Not getting enough exercise is a global problem. Around the world, at least 1.4 billion adults are putting themselves at risk for chronic disease because of their low levels of physical activity, according to a new World Health Organisation report published in the Lancet Global Health...

Instagram has added personalized emoji shortcuts to its app, placing your most used emoji above your keyboard when you begin to comment on a post. The new feature was widely rolled out on Thursday, but it has been in public testing since May on both Android and iOS. … Read more via The...

This week, Apple warned the Trump administration that tariffs going into effect against China will raise the cost of many of its products. President Donald Trump responded with a tweet suggesting that Apple build its products in the U.S. instead of China. Unfortunately, it’s not that simple. …...

Since dropping his surprise ten studio album Kamikaze last Thursday, Eminem has set his sights on his critics with the first visual off the new album for the track ‘Fall’. Directed By James Larese, the video begins with a montage of Eminem reading scathing reviews of his last album Revival on...

Tennis players past and present have rallied behind Serena Williams after she claimed the sport was riddled by sexism following an extraordinary on-court tirade at an umpire during the US Open women’s final. The 23-time grand slam winner said she was fighting for the future rights of women …...

A Michigan woman is crediting a series of selfies she took one morning with helping to save her life after she noticed she was suffering from symptoms of a stroke. Juanita Branch, 63, … Read more via Fox News – https://ift.tt/2MQx6DG Get More Nigeria Metro News

Men, it turned out, claimed an average of 14 sexual partners over their lifetime, while women reported only seven. The people surveyed were between the ages of 16 and 74. The investigators claim that such studies are an important part of human sexuality research and in assessing the risk …...

Global health Vaccines Against H.I.V., Malaria and Tuberculosis Unlikely, Study Says Unless the $3 billion spent annually on research triples, the world may not be able to invent vaccines or rapid cures for many ills of the poor. An experimental vaccine against the AIDS virus in … Read more...

The Kwara State Action Committee on HIV and AIDS (KWASACA) said it has so far recorded no fewer than 432 children infected with HIV/AIDS between January and June in the state.... Read more via Vanguard News – https://ift.tt/2wVDXld Get More Nigeria Metro News

IGBO community in Oyo State has been thrown into crisis following emergence of parallel executives after two separate elections to fill various positions in the union.... Read more via Vanguard News – https://ift.tt/2wUr5ew Get More Nigeria Metro News

Police in Lagos have uncovered a den of kidnappers at Irepodun Street, Egan Igando and arrested the Chief Priestess and custodian of Ifa shrine, Aminat Karimu Ajibola, 60, and her two sons, Akeem Bashiru, 32 and Ojo Solomon, 26. The three suspects and family members, who … Read more via...

The governor of Sokoto state, Rt. Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has called on religious leaders in the country to stand firmly as a bulwark against vices such as corruption, kidnapping and shedding of innocent blood by not only exposing perpetrators but sanctioning those within … Read more via...

The Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption (PACAC) has explained why it is shifting the war against corruption in the country from politically exposed persons to multinationals. According to the Executive Secretary of PACAC, Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, Africa and indeed Nigeria losses...

After the show is indeed the afterparty as Martell Cognac hosted winners and guests of the 2018 AMVCA to a star-studded afterparty which attracted the movers and shakers of the entertainment industry. Famed for creating unsuspected new encounters and new experiences, Martell Cognac fed the...

Barely 24 hours after tweeting his plans to build schools in every country in Africa, Nigerian singer, Ayo Balogun, popularly known as Wizkid, has taken down the post..... via Sahara Reporters – https://ift.tt/2NwoB00 Get more Nigeria Entertainment News

Some youths in Okitipupa, Ondo State, under the aegis of Bring Back Our Light, say the people of their area may not participate in the 2019 general elections if electricity supply was not restored in their communities. In a statement issued by the Convener, Mr Olumide Akinrinlola, in … Read...

The Special Task Force (STF) in Plateau has lost three of its personnel in the conflict between herders and natives of Barkin-Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State. Confirming the incident, yesterday, in Jos, the Special Task Force Commander, Major General Augustine Chris Agundu said …...

Hindi Livinus, Yola Comrade Rodney Nathan, Chairman of Nigerian Union of Teachers, Adamawa State, says the state government has not yet cancelled its plans to employ additional 1,500 teachers into the state universal basic education board. This is just as he also disclosed that over 26,000...

Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, Leader of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), has endorsed Mrs Bianca Ojukwu’s bid to contest the Anambra South Senatorial election in 2019. NAN reports that Uwazuruike endorsed Bianca’s aspiration when Bianca, wife of late Dim...