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An Ebute Meta Chief Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday remanded a Lagos banker, Olaoluwa Adejo, in the Ikoyi Prison, for allegedly poisoning and torturing his wife, Maureen, to death.

Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday admitted, albeit jokingly, that he decided to be in company of some state governors in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire for electoral purposes.

The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, on Thursday, said the former Chairman, Pension Reform Task Force, Alhaji Abdulrasheed Maina, did not receive a salary from the government after his disengagement.

The Independent Petroleum Markers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), Lagos State chapter, has accused the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) of undersupplying its members with Premium Motor Spirit.

A Facebook user identified as Glory Anso has shared some shocking photos of a suspected kidnapper who was caught while attempting to abduct four school girls and their mother and was lynched to death by angry mob in Calabar, the Cross River State capital on Wednesday, Owojela’s Blog learnt.

  It was a thing of shock as a 39-year-old man identified as Willie Edward Griffin, has been reportedly arrested for incest and sexual battery of a victim ages 12-17.

  At least 120 youths on Wednesday renounced membership of different cult groups and surrendered their weapons on Wednesday at Imota in Ikorodu area of Lagos State, Owojela’s Blog learnt.

The Nigerian Navy says the aptitude test for the Direct Short Service Course 25 Enlistment Exercise is scheduled to hold in eight centres across the nation on Dec. 2.

 Medical Researchers announced the launch of two big studies in Africa on Thursday to test a new HIV vaccine and a long-acting injectable drug, fuelling hopes for better ways to protect against the virus that causes AIDS.

The bitter taste of jungle justice has been meted out to an alleged burglar who made away with electricity cable in the South-eastern state of Anambra.

 About 800 million global workers will lose their jobs by 2030 and be replaced by robotic automation, a new report from a consultancy has found...Should that scare us now or make us more tech savvy?

 Facebook has temporarily turned off a system that let advertisers choose which ethnic and minority groups saw their ads.

    UK Prime Minister, Theresa May has said Donald Trump was "wrong" to retweet posts from a British far-right group.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has accused the US of seeking to provoke North Korea into stepping up its nuclear missile programme.

Tech giant, Google is being taken to court, accused of collecting the personal data of millions of users, in the first mass legal action of its kind in Britain.

Photo sharing app, Instagram announced this morning that it now has 25 million active business profiles, up from 15 million in July.

The hope of the Government and people of Cross River state took a great step forward as Governor of Cross River State, Prof. Ben Ayade, signed the Bakassi Deep Seaport Transaction Advisory Service Contract with Feedback Infrastructure Consortium, the Transaction Advisers.

Senator Shehu Sani representing Kaduna central has sponsored 20 Islamic scholars and students for three months courses in Sudan.

Kaduna State House of Assembly had on Wednesday passed into law the sum of N216.6billion for 2018 fiscal year, Owojela’s Blog learnt.

Gunmen suspected to be armed robbers on Wednesday evening attacked UBA and First Bank branches in Lapai town, Lapai local government area of Niger state, killing at least two policemen and some other civilians.

The Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) disbursed a total of N4.545 trillion to the federal, states and local governments as allocations between January and September 2017.

The Spanish top football league, La Liga, has revealed its plans to close the gap in revenues between it and the English Premier League, in the next ten years.

Arsenal playmaker, Santi Cazorla, has suffered a fresh setback in a bid to come back from a long-standing Achilles problem, Owojela’s Blog learnt.

Nigerian singer, Harrysong, has called out Delta state governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, over negligence to the increasing rate of communal clashes in the state.

Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have killed a Pastor identified as Oluwafemi Komolafe along the Benin-Ijebu Ode Expressway at Ore in the Odigbo Local Government Area of Ondo State.

The Enugu State Government, yesterday, took delivery of 25 units of 60KVA generating sets procured to replace the aged ones in Enugu metropolis as well as install new ones in the University town of Nsukka.

Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday said there is nothing he can do for anyone who dares the desert and Mediterranean without documents to prove that they are Nigerians.

The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, has suspended the Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Mounir Gwarzo.

The value of one bitcoin has gone past $10,000. The prediction was right.. The virtual currency reached the benchmark for the first time, just days after it passed $9,000.

  Apple has pushed out an update to fix a major security hole in its Mac operating system, admitting it “stumbled” with its latest software, Owojela’s Blog learnt.

  Half of children aged 11 and 12 have a social media profile, despite most platforms' minimum age being 13, a study from regulator Ofcom suggests. And it may seem true.. Children's charity the NSPCC called on the government to act on the issue of under-age profiles.

Amazon’s AWS cloud computing division today announced a new database service that will make it easier and cheaper to quickly launch relational databases that don’t need to process data continuously. Aurora Serverless, which, unsurprisingly, was built on top of AWS’s existing Aurora database system, is basically the database equivalent of a serverless, event-driven compute platform.

Facebook has always been about friends, but now it’s seeking a broader purposegiuess what its cooking... So today, Facebook is lending a hand with what it does best: social connections, APIs, and money.

In a battle with Google, Apple and Microsoft for dominance in speech recognition and natural language processing, Amazon announced a new translation service as part of its Amazon Web Services (AWS) extravaganza.

  It’s fun as YouTube is adding Stories. The popular format introduced by Snapchat, then adopted by Instagram, Skype, Facebook, Messenger and even some dating apps, is now making its way to YouTube as a new feature the company is calling “Reels.”

Following several ‘save our soul’ messages from Nigerian migrants stranded in Libya, the Federal Government has responded to the maltreatment of its citizen in the country.

The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP), has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to, without further delay, sack everyone involved in the recall and reinstatement of former Chairman of the Presidential Taskforce on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina.

Top Nigerian music star,Tuface Idibia has lamented the slave trade currently going on in Libya.

A heart-felt video has emerged online; showing how Africans are being tortured in the ongoing slave trade in Libya.

  Governor Bindow Jibrilla of Adamawa has again vowed not to dump the All Progressives Congress (APC).

A male student of the Cross River State College of Health Technology, (COTECH) has been bathed with hot water mixed with pepper and salt in the institution in Biase local government area of Cross River State.

The Nigerian government on Tuesday amended the criminal charges it preferred against Senator Isah Misau before an Abuja High Court at Maitama by increasing the counts from five to seven.

Femi Fani-Kayode, former Aviation Minister, on Tuesday called on African leaders to condemn the modern slave trade in Libya.

Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter Onnoghen has dismissed reports of bias in the recommendation of 14 Appeal Court judges for approval.

Private equity giant Thoma Bravo has agreed today to buy Barracuda Networks in a take-private deal that’s valued at $1.6 billion. The company was offered $27.55 per share, about 16% above Friday’s close.

Microsoft Office is now available for Google Chromebook users through the Google Play Store – a notable addition, given the two companies offer competing products in terms of office productivity software. Neither Google nor Microsoft are making a formal announcement about the Office applications’ arrival on Chromebooks.

Reliam, a company that provides managed services for businesses that want somebody else to manage their public cloud deployments on platforms like AWS and Microsoft Azure, today announced that it has raised a $17 million funding round from Boston’s Great Hill Partners. Reliam says that Great Hill has reserved a full $75 million to fund additional acquisitions and growth.

It's worth remembering, as the leaves change color and the air begins to chill, that sooner or later most of us are hammered by a winter virus. We just got it done sooner than most, in the forests of Germany's Schwabian Alps, from an unlikely assailant.

Honda has issued a recall for just under 807,000 Honda Odysseys from the 2011 to 2017 model years, as well as a stop-sale on Odysseys from those model years. The reason is that the second-row outboard seats, which can be positioned closer together or farther apart, might not properly latch when being installed in one of the positions.

Jeff Bezos is the world’s newest $100-billion mogul. The Amazon.com Inc. founder’s fortune is up $2.4 billion (U.S.) to $100.3 billion, as the online retailer’s shares jumped more than 2 per cent on optimism for Black Friday sales.