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Netflix in Nigeria: iRokoTV Boss Jason Njoku Reacts

With the news that on-demand Internet streaming media, Netflix is expanding to Africa, there were assertions that it would end the road for iROKOTv. However, iROKO boss Jason Njoku has penned his opinion on his website. Read here: So here’s me in Paris, cold as cold can be, working with my partners on 2016 plans when a bunch of internet folks starting writing the obituary for iROKO (again). Sigh. What reason this time? Netflix announced they had expanded to 130 countries. This wasn’t a surprise to anyone who actually lives in the streaming universe. The accelerated ti

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House of Bayelsa assembly speaker ‘bombed’

Unknown persons detonated explosives inside the house of Kombowei Benson, speaker of the Bayelsa state house of assembly on Thursday. Asinim Butswat, police public relations officer (PPRO) of the state, confirmed the attack, saying it occurred in the hometown of the lawmaker in Southern Ijaw local government area of the state. Butswat said the police was on the trail of those behind the incident. “On the 7/1/2016, at about 0405hrs, unknown persons detonated an object suspected to be dynamite in the compound of Hon Kombowei Benson, at Korokorosei community,” Butswat said