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Biden rants, ‘Solely press in world that does this’ over shouted questions

Biden rants, ‘Solely press in world that does this’ over shouted questions

President Biden on Tuesday ranted about the White House press corps for their standard — and longtime — practice of shouting questions as reporters were ushered out of an event focused on legal barriers to…

Web baffled by girl showing to carry a iPhone in an 1860 portray

Web baffled by girl showing to carry a iPhone in an 1860 portray

No, the woman in Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller's "The Expected One" is not holding an iPhone. The internet has been bamboozled by a 162-year-old painting where a woman appears to be holding a smartphone. Take a…

Serena Williams’ daughter, Olympia, performs with tampons mistaking for cat toys

Serena Williams’ daughter, Olympia, performs with tampons mistaking for cat toys

Kids sure do have a pur-fect way of entertaining themselves. Serena Williams captured the can’t-help-but-laugh moment her daughter, Olympia, helped herself to her stash of tampons which she thought were “cat toys.” “What is that?”…

JUST IN: Lalong, Akeredolu, APC govs meet in Abuja

JUST IN: Lalong, Akeredolu, APC govs meet in Abuja

The Director General of the Tinubu-Shettima Campaign Council, Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State, is currently meeting with the Governors of the All Progressive Congress. The closed-door meeting, which also has directors of the campaign…

Ughelli: Three lifeless as anti-EFCC protest turns bloody 

Ughelli: Three lifeless as anti-EFCC protest turns bloody 

Three people were on Tuesday shot dead just as over 20 trucks laden with petroleum products and granites were set ablaze by angry youths at Otovwodo, in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta state…

PDP begins presidential rally in Akwa Ibom Monday

PDP begins presidential rally in Akwa Ibom Monday

…Tambuwal promises issue-based campaigns The Director-General of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign, Governor Aminu Tambuwal, has said the PDP standard bearer, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, will begin his campaign next week Monday in…

Expertise can drive financial progress – ex-Secretary, NUC Okebukola 

Expertise can drive financial progress – ex-Secretary, NUC Okebukola 

The former Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, Prof. Peter Okebukola, has identified technology as one of the major key drivers of economic growth for any country. Okebukola noted that the digital environment has…

EFCC arrests Ekiti-based DJ for impersonating artiste, Transportable

EFCC arrests Ekiti-based DJ for impersonating artiste, Transportable

Operatives of the Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have arrested an Ekiti State-based Disc Jockey,  Famotemi Toluwani Timothy, for allegedly impersonating a hip-hop singer, Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as “Portable”. He…

CDC faucets Mass. DPH to determine regional heart to raised forestall infectious illness outbreaks

CDC faucets Mass. DPH to determine regional heart to raised forestall infectious illness outbreaks

Health The Broad Institute and Harvard are among the partners the state will work with at the New England Pathogen Genomics Center of Excellence. Health care workers treat a patient on the COVID-19 ICU floor…

Mysterious ‘Perla,’ now recognized, could also be in authorized jeopardy in migrant case

Mysterious ‘Perla,’ now recognized, could also be in authorized jeopardy in migrant case

Local “The question at hand is who will be the first to haul her before a grand jury?” Immigrants from Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Colombia wait on the sidewalk outside the Migrant Resource Center in San…

Nigerian promoting regulator sues Meta for ₦30 billion over lack of income and violation of legal guidelines

Nigerian promoting regulator sues Meta for ₦30 billion over lack of income and violation of legal guidelines

The Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria (ARCON) has sued Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, alongside its Nigerian public relations agency AT3 Resources at the Federal High court, Abuja Judicial Division. ARCON…

Africa’s enterprise funding to hit $7 billion in 2022

Africa’s enterprise funding to hit $7 billion in 2022

This year, Africa continues to be an outlier in the global investment landscape. The continent closed the first half of 2022 at $3.5 billion, a 133% increase from the first half of the previous year.…