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The National Examination Council(NECO) has been forced to reschedule Paper 1 Computer Studies Practical’s scheduled to take place on Monday 19 October 2020 to November 16. In a statement released by the Head, Information and Public Relations Division, NECO, Azeez Sani, the council blamed the decision on the #ENDSARS protests that blocked the free movement of transport at the entrance gate into Benin City, the Edo state capital. The statement reads: “This is to inform the general public and especially candidates that the National Examinations Council (NECO) has been constrained to reschedule the Paper I Computer Studies Practical’s earlier scheduled to…

Billionaire daughter Florence Ifeoluwa Otedola, popularly known as DJ Cuppy, has finally joined the ongoing #EndSARS protest. The Nigerian Disc Jockey has been anticipating to join the current movement, since she returned to Nigeria from Dubai. Recall that Cuppy had a solo protest 4 days ago, in her house under the rain. She has now stepped out to join the movement after 14 days isolation. “I finally came out to be part of history, I am at Lekki, cause it’s the right thing to do, so let’s go” she said. Watch video below…

The wife of the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Foluke Adeboye, on Sunday October 18, donated snacks to #EndSARS protesters as her contribution to the campaign demanding an end to police brutality and total reform of the Nigerian police The clergywoman shared videos of the snacks on her Instagram page and caption it; ”This morning I woke up early to do something to contribute my own quota to the clamor for reforms across all sectors in Nigeria. I realized that Interdenominational sunday services were going to be held at the major protest venues in Lagos…

The Youths calling for a total overhaul of the Nigeria Police Force have launched an online platform (radio), Soro Soke, according to PUNCH. The channel, through effective and timely communication, is expected to aid the coordination of #EndSARS protests nationwide. When our correspondent tuned in to the station around 1pm on Sunday, programmes and live reports of missing and found #EndSARS protesters were escalated on the radio, https://s4.radio.co/s99d55c85b/listen Songs calling for a reformed Nigeria were also heard on the station. Soro Soke, a Yoruba sentence which translates as ‘Speak Up,’ had last week become a mantra of the #EndSARS campaign after protesters in Lagos…

The Nigerian Army has announced that the newly-launched Exercise Crocodile Smile VI has nothing to do with the ongoing ENDSARS protests across the nation. The Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Sagir Musa, revealed this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja. Musa emphasised that the exercise is a yearly event set out to train officers and men in its efforts to ensure safety and security of Nigeria and its citizens. “It is a yearly exercise in the Army Calendar/Forecast of Events which traditionally holds from October to December of each year. According to Musa, this year’s exercise is scheduled to commence from Oct. 20 to…

Fast rising star, Ilerioluwa Oladimeji better known as Mohbad comes through with another potential hit single tagged “Ponmo Sweet” He features Marlian Music boss, Naira Marley alongside YAGI recording artiste, Lil Kesh to delivers this jam. Watch the video and download the audio below; https://youtu.be/xk4oK0QjlG4 DOWNLOAD MP3

NOBLE ICON with Yakubu Mohammed A.A. Zaura “All I am after is to give back to the society what is due to them. Since my days in school, I so much like to render service to people. As a Kano indigene, I am not happy seeing my state, which remains the centre of commerce, industry and agriculture, but now left with nothing. Youths are only used during electioneering campaigns and dumped afterwards. You see them riding tri-circle all over the metropolis, some are engaged in hooliganism, thuggery and all social vices”

Stand-in skipper Raheem Sterling scored the only goal as Manchester City returned to winning ways in their Premier League encounter with Arsenal. Gunners had opportunities to level but City keeper Ederson denied them with three excellent first-half saves and both David Luiz and Pepe were off target with free-kicks in good positions after the break. Arsenal continues a miserable run of away results against their fellow ‘top six’ members. They have now failed to win in their last 29 such meetings, since success at City in 2015. Watch the highlights https://youtu.be/2_iIzNMASxg

Super Eagles striker Victor Osimhen finished as the most expensive signing of the 2020 summer transfer window following his €71m (£73.2m) move from Lille to Serie A sides Napoli. Osimhen was the striker signing for Napoli and the summer transfer window officially closed with 21-year-old as the top signing. He commanded a transfer fee ahead of top players like Kai Havertz who moved from Bayer Leverkusen to Chelsea for £72m and Authur who joined Juventus from Barcelona in a £66m deal.

Stripe an American e-payment services company has just acquired Paystack–a Nigerian startup–for over $200 million (N76 billion). Stripe is an American financial services and software company, with headquarters in San Francisco, California. The company facilitates online payments and transactions. Stripe primarily offers payment processing software and application programming interfaces for e-commerce. Techcrunch has described Stripe’s acquisition of Paystack as “the biggest startup acquisition to date to come out of Nigeria, as well as Stripe’s biggest acquisition to date anywhere.” Paystack is co-founded by Ezra Olubi and Shola Akinlade, who bonded in university and commenced work on their dream from the school’s noisy…