Former BUK lecturer, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Wins 2021 Nobel Literature Prize
The Nobel prize in literature has been awarded to the novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, for his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents”. Gurnah grew up on one of the islands of Zanzibar before fleeing persecution and arriving in England as a student in the 1960s. He has published 10...
YouTube Removes R. Kelly’s Channels After Sex Crime Conviction
YouTube has removed two channels of disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly, who was found guilty of some sex crimes last week. YouTube said in statement that two of the singer's channels, RKellyTV and RKellyVevo, have been removed and he will no longer be able to create or own any other YouTube channel. Catalog of his music will however be available on YouTube Music, YouTube’s...
President Buhari’s Official Photographer, Omoboriowo Names World Record Title Holder For Largest Photobook
Bayo Omoboriowo’s photobook, Discover Nigeria, has been approved as Guinness World Record largest photobook. Omoboroiwo, the official photographer to President Muhammadu Buhari, was notified of the groundbreaking feat on Thursday afternoon by Guinness. The news of the epoch-making verification came few hours before the unveiling of the photobook by President Buhari at the closing edition of Nigeria at 60 activities held...
I’m Less Bothered About Money Lost During Recent Outage – Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, says he is less bothered over the financial loss incurred during a seven-hour outage of his platform on Monday. ABN TV reports that many users across the world were stranded when Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, all owned by Zuckerberg, were down. Bloomberg had estimated Zuckerberg’s loss at $7 billion. Along with the drop in stocks of Facebook,...
Facebook Outage Likely Caused By Internal Mistake; Outside Hack Less Likely
Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp went offline for users across the globe, the social media giant said on Monday, as it worked on restoring the services after being hit by one of its longest outages. The disruption, which hit Facebook's platforms minutes before noon, comes a day after a whistleblower accused the firm of repeatedly prioritizing profit over clamping down on...
Woman Beheads Her Husband Over Cheating
Men of the Ghanaian Police have arrested a 27-year-old woman, Rachel Tetteh for allegedly beheading her husband in Eastern Region, Ghana. It was gathered that the incident happened at Tei Glover, a farming Community near Akyem Bosuso in the Fanteakwa South District on Sunday, October 3, 2021. The headless body of her husband, Lartey Daniel, 35, has been deposited at the...
Talibans Hold Rally To Show Strength In Afghanistan Amidts Cheers That Christians, Westerners Have Been Defeated
More than 1,500 Taliban supporters attended a rally on Sunday in a vast field to the north of Kabul, in a show of strength as they consolidate their rule of Afghanistan. The crowd, exclusively men and boys, heard speeches by leading Taliban officials and commanders at Kohdaman township in the hilly outskirts of the capital. The rally was the first of...
France’s Ex-President Sentenced To Jail Over Illegal Campaign Financing
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was sentenced on Thursday to one year in prison for illegal campaign financing in his failed 2012 re-election bid. The judge said Sarkozy could serve the sentence by wearing an electronic bracelet at home. All 13 co-defendants have been found guilty. “Nicolas Sarkozy knew the spending limit,” the judge said. “He knew he shouldn’t exceed it.” According...
Singer R Kelly Convicted In Sex Trafficking Trial
R Kelly faces the possibility of decades in prison for crimes including violating an anti-sex trafficking US law. R&B superstar R Kelly has been convicted in a sex trafficking trial in the United States after decades of avoiding criminal responsibility for numerous allegations of misconduct with young women and children. A jury of seven men and five women on Monday found Kelly, 54,...
More Troubles For Abba Kyari As US Prepares 6,700 Page Documentary Evidence Against Him
Embattled police cop, Abba Kyari’s woes are far from over as the United States Government has gathered over 6,700 pages of documentary evidence and 2,700 electronic files from trial in a $1.1 million fraud case involving him and disgraced fraudster, Ramon Olorunwa Abass a.k.a Hushpuppi. It can be recalled that Kyari entered hot water earlier this year after he was...
